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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: AMERICAN LAND SOVEREIGNTY PROTECTION ACT
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>
>Don't know how many of you may have watched this debate, it was very good!
>Here are some excerpts from it:
>
>AMERICAN LAND SOVEREIGNTY PROTECTION ACT
> (House of Representatives - October 07, 1997)
>
>Mr. PETERSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for
>yielding.
>
>I have been a part of the legislative process for 20 years, and I want to
>sincerely
>say to my colleagues, the American public deserves a more upright and
>honest
>statement of the facts. I urge my colleagues tomorrow to read the record
>that
>has been created here tonight. I want to tell my colleagues, it is far from
>the truth.
> To make such outlandish statements that the sovereignty act is to take
>away
>the protection of public lands so people can take advantage of them is not
>true.
>
>The American public had very little to say, if anything, at the local
>level, at the
>State level and at the national level about the biosphere program. It was
>created
>by administrations with no legislative oversight and no legislative funding
>and no
>legislative input. There is great concern among people around this country
>that
>decisions are going to be made in the future and are currently being made
>by
>world people, people from around the world, and they do not want America
>governed that way, they want America governed by Americans at the local
>level,
>at the State level and at the national level. And for my colleagues on the
>other
>side to make these statements that have been made, and I mean this
>sincerely,
>they owe the American public an apology because they have talked about
>everything but the truth.
>
>We heard about this being overreaching and so damaging. We had others call
>it crazy, trivial nonsense, and we had other ones saying it was all done by
>local
>community requests. The American public want to understand world
>agreements,
>and they have a right to. They want to understand international commitments
>that
>our Government makes, and they have a right to.
>
>In conclusion, those who want to deprive the average American, those who
>want to deprive the American citizens from having the right to understand
>what
>biospheres are about, having the right to react to their local government
>or their
>Congress, whether they agree or disagree, and they may agree, but give them
>
>the right. When it is not to be publicly debated, people think we have
>something
>to hide when they do not have a shot, they do not have a bite of the apple.
>
>That is what America is all about. We cannot have too much sunshine, we
>cannot have too much people participation.
>
>People in America are concerned about the proposal of world government
>and other countries making decisions in this country, and generally in a
>huge
>percentage they are opposed to that, and we should be sensitive to that
>for the long run of this country, because most other countries do not
>really
>care about the future of America, but Americans do, and they should have
>the right to understand clearly every agreement, every international
>commitment that is done, and it should be done in the sunshine, and that
> is what this whole bill is about, not the rhetoric we heard a few moments
>ago.
>
>Earlier, Mr. Riggs said:
>
>So that the real problem we have here, I believe, is that we become a party
>to these international land designations. I am glad we are having the
>opportunity to debate it here now, maybe expose this issue to the
>American people, but by becoming a party to these international land
>designations, made again by some faceless international council, a lot
>of us are concerned that the United States of America, the sovereign
>United States of America, may be indirectly agreeing to terms of
>international
>treaties, such as the Convention on Biodiversity, to which the United
>States
>is not a party and which the United States Senate has refused to ratify.
>
>
>Mrs. CHENOWETH. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Alaska
> [Mr. Young] for yielding me the time.
>
>I just want to say that the United States Supreme Court has addressed
>this issue in a very, very interesting case,Fong Yue Ting versus United
>States,
>where that highest court in the land wrote:
>
>To preserve this Nation's independence and give security against foreign
>aggression and encroachment constitute the very highest duty of every
>nation, and to attain these ends, nearly all other considerations are to
>be subordinated. It matters not in what form such aggression and
>encroachment come.
>
>I believe the Supreme Court understands what we are dealing with.
>
>Furthermore, I just want to wind my comments up by saying that
>George Washington, in a letter dated October 9, 1795, wrote:
>
>My ardent desire is, and my aim has been, to comply strictly with
>all engagements, foreign and domestic; but to keep the United
>States free from political connections with every other country,
>to see them independent of all and under the influence of none,
>is my ardent desire.
>
>I share that. While I believe in a strong and vigorous trade policy,
>the sovereignty of the United States of America is so very important,
>and the protection of private property rights must be protected.
>
>
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