Comments on: Bush and the Socialist “Law of the Sea Treaty” http://archive.mises.org/6666/bush-and-the-socialist-law-of-the-sea-treaty/ Proceeding Ever More Boldly Against Evil Wed, 22 May 2013 12:12:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: The Maine Stuff « Just Above Sunset http://archive.mises.org/6666/bush-and-the-socialist-law-of-the-sea-treaty/comment-page-1/#comment-688219 The Maine Stuff « Just Above Sunset Thu, 13 May 2010 08:18:47 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/archives/006666.asp#comment-688219 [...] And there’s not much to say about it. Austrian Economics is kind of Adam Smith wholly-unregulated laissez-faire the-market-always-knows-best stuff on steroids – the hero is Ludwig von Mises and it’s rather arcane. It’s a bit of an insider thing. The same goes for the Law of the Sea Treaty stuff – the international agreement on what are territorial waters and what are international waters and who gets to claim what. The Ludwig von Mises Institute (“Proceeding Evermore More Boldly against Evil”) sees this UN agreement as an attempt at One World Government and the beginning of the end of America’s right to claim sovereignty over anything at all. They hated that Bush liked having rules like this. [...]

]]> By: Berin Szoka http://archive.mises.org/6666/bush-and-the-socialist-law-of-the-sea-treaty/comment-page-1/#comment-120750 Berin Szoka Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:48:25 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/archives/006666.asp#comment-120750 The Administration is pushing the treaty for two reasons. Most immediately, they likely view this as an opportunity to placate the internationalists. But the Administration has consistently supported ratification because they have accepted the Navy’s arguments that ratification is necessary. The Navy supports ratification because of some combination of two factors: (i) they believe, incorrectly, that the U.S. will gain some substantive advantage in navigation rights by signing the Treaty over the rights the U.S. currently enjoys, having followed all of the Treaty except the communist/socialist resource appropriation provisions since the 1980s and (ii) they believe that ratification will give them some tactical advantage over the State Department inside the U.S. government in jockeying over naval exercises.

]]> By: TokyoTom http://archive.mises.org/6666/bush-and-the-socialist-law-of-the-sea-treaty/comment-page-1/#comment-120114 TokyoTom Wed, 23 May 2007 19:04:05 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/archives/006666.asp#comment-120114 Stephan, any insight into the motivations of the Buh Administration in resubmitting the treaty?

I largely agree with Bandow’s criticisms of it.

]]> By: Anthony Gregory http://archive.mises.org/6666/bush-and-the-socialist-law-of-the-sea-treaty/comment-page-1/#comment-120109 Anthony Gregory Wed, 23 May 2007 18:22:26 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/archives/006666.asp#comment-120109 Is “I hate Bush” an intelligent and civil comment?

]]> By: aip http://archive.mises.org/6666/bush-and-the-socialist-law-of-the-sea-treaty/comment-page-1/#comment-120055 aip Wed, 23 May 2007 09:24:20 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/archives/006666.asp#comment-120055 Ancap island

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis_island_project

http://wikimapia.org/#y=10994614&x=-65375862&z=13&l=0&m=a&v=2

]]> By: Nat http://archive.mises.org/6666/bush-and-the-socialist-law-of-the-sea-treaty/comment-page-1/#comment-119989 Nat Wed, 23 May 2007 02:48:07 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/archives/006666.asp#comment-119989 Bruce,

Are there any senators who are NOT soocialists? I’d seriously like to know.

]]> By: Bruce http://archive.mises.org/6666/bush-and-the-socialist-law-of-the-sea-treaty/comment-page-1/#comment-119898 Bruce Tue, 22 May 2007 11:49:58 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/archives/006666.asp#comment-119898 Given that the socialists constitute a majority in the Senate, I can’t imagine that august body would do anything but ratify it.

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