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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand August 2, 1973 The Utah Independent Page 3 READERS OUTLOOK METRO NEWS Continued from page 2 World Courts To Try American Lawsuits U.S. PLIGHT by Jo Hindman In a bold move, advocates of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), commonly! known as the World Court, propose to subject Americans to, Dear Editor: "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious, but it cannot sruvive treason from within.-Aenemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers, rustling through the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A global is less He spent his life in desperate efforts to resuscitate the dying state in attempts to rouse, by word and example, the history amendment, . Our tower of Babel Vice-Preside- nt Youve A Right To Know not even have the consolation of knowing that he would transmit to a foreign and unimaginable nation in an incredibly distant future the torch that is now flickering out in our hands. JOHN R.RARICK U.S. Representative Kill Congressional 27-ye- ar must pray as though everything depended on God, and work as though everything depended on ourselves. And we must hope that despite the odds, there is yet left in our nation enough moral integrity and intelligence for a desperate and victorious effort. Sincerely, Dorothy Walden Desert Hot Springs, Cal. Continued on page 4 District Louisiana The Seabed Treaty: Legalized Sometimes our plight seems of the High Seas more hopeless than Rome's. Piracy Rome was confronted by no John R. Raick, U.S. Repr. of Soviet Union, Soviet China, Louisiana The biggest international Soviet Cuba, and 50 other Soviet in the possessions. Her traitors, though power-gra- b over United Nations is of the seeking personal power history and her, were not so audacious being pulled off with the her to as to bankrupt depraved approval and support of the finance an alien and President of the United States international conspiracy. and with the advice and consent Neither did she have the many of both Houses of Congress. It is a power-gra- b so gigantic tentacles of the Great at that it will pour millions of Conspiracy which right here home reach into every facet of dollars in independent revenue our lives, from the unborn to the into the U.N. treasury annually of the earths , and bring 70 dying. Cicero's reward was a life ot surface under an international anxiety, painful humiliation, and regime" run by the U.N. a death .made more bitter by It is a power-gra- b that will give take But can we failure. and U.N. the utter the "emerging comfort in two things: first, there nations", who call the shots in are tens of thousands of the General Assembly, Americans who, alert and economic control over the informed, are giving their all to largest deposits of strategic save this country from becoming minerals in the world. Yet few Americans know of a puppet in a one world of as the Seabed Treaty and the threat government; and second, now at least, the people as a it poses to this country's industry, whole have not sunk to the territory and sovereignty. This is and because the mass media has seen depth of insanity the fit to ignore this critical subject. which to degradation Romans had sunk while Cicero COMMON HERITAGE OF was yet alive. MANKIND, U.S. POLICY We Jo Hindman . appeal to the ICJ rather than to the Supreme Court of the United importance, that the foreign countries have raised no States. Matters have proceeded to questions. But Cranston-Ta- ft such an extent that steps are laid want the United States to force out to accomplish the transition !the issues, drag the matters into from an American court system the World Court to give it to a global one: in recording the something to do. In all its quarter senatorial remarks regarding the century history, ICJ has handled five implementing resolutions less than 40 cases. Only two cases (S.Res.74 through 78) presented are before it now. Court proposals to the U.S. Senate jointly by Senators Cranston and Taft, the are by no means new. The government printer made a pushes are made regularly in typographical change, more a Congress. But it took S.Res. 76 of prophesy than an error. On page the current series to update the S3759 middle column. whole mess. Described as "the Congressional Record 3173, nuts and bolts resolution,". tbe the sentence reads, "The legislation actually contains tMfli the President should principle involved in this text which in proposing amendments revolution is consistent with use to the United Nations Charter administration policy ." To be sure , Richard Nixon as and to the ICJ statute. The amendment would in 1959, and charter Secretary of State Wm. P. Rogers permit "regional organizations" in 1970 both endorsed the World .to request opinions from the ICJ. Court. Cranston of course meant The statutory amendment would "resolution and not revolution establish a system of regional when referring to S.Res.75 courts. In the United ' States, that which stymies a reasonable of original alternative possible in would createincourts Presidential the international disputes between jurisdiction Standard federal Ten Regions sovereign nations, an agreed would which appeal, not to the independent, sovereign third party to negotiate between the U.S. U.S. Supreme Court, but to the World Court (ICJ). opposing parties. Cranston-Ta- ft Without precise mention of want the World Court to be the the I Connally amendment or of third party. world citizenship, S.Res,77 and To give the Court power, each nation by recognition yields 78 open the Court to individuals some of its sovereignty to the .and permit the U.N. Security World Court. The United States Council to refer disputes to the qualified its acceptance of the ICJ. As to the authors of the global compulsory jurisdiction of the ' Court by inserting the Connally series: Robert Taft, Jr. (Ohio) stance amendment. By imposing that revealed his condition, the U.S.A. reserves during the nationwide Nations hearings which the right to decide which, if any, of its domestic cases will be sent paved the way for admittance of Red China to the U.N. to the World Court. Alan Cranston (Calif.) revealed Cranston-Ta- ft dredged up the inner workings of his twenty eight (28) dormant cases the (S.Res.74) involving a number of philosophy by packaging which barren atolls and uninhabited global juridical proposals seafowl excrement to islands, including former guano range from world citizenship. drops, in the Caribbean Sea and Why do voters return such the Pacific Ocean. The issues are of such negligible, perhaps zero performers to public office? , their fatuous optimism and invincible apathy or timidity. He i to urge: Pro-Wor- ld decent people of Rome from did and individuals, as world citizens, to to be feared." So said M. Tullius Cicero, one of the worlds greatest men. It was his fate (as it is ours) to live during one of the decisive and terrible periods of human also law, t oj bypassneutralize the Connallyj n murderer home-grow- n regime from licensing undersea exploration for oil, natural gas and minerals are "to be used for international community purposes, particularly economic assistance to developing The countries. regime, envisioned by .President Nixon, would consist of 12 members from developing countries, 6 from the most industrialized nations, 2 from landlocked or d states, and a Tribunal of from 5 to 9 judges to be elected by the Council. The "common heritage of mankind" philosophy is merely a thinly veiled rehash of the Marxist notion that men and nations are, by their mere existence, entitled to a part of the wealth produced by other men and nations. This is utter nonsense. As a noted columnist . said recently, "the seabed isn't shelf-locke- the 'common heritage of mankind any more than Saudi Arabian oil belongs to all Arab nations, it is ludicrous to assert that landlocked But ludicrous as it may sound, this is the policy that the U.S. government has adopted and is pursuing with your tax money. The House has already gone on record supporting the Since 1970, when the President President ' s position on April 2 announced his "new oceans by a vote of 303 to 52. The Senate policy," this country has been Foreign Relations Committee on following a course which June 25 favorably reported a declares that the "resources of similar resolution. the seabed beyond a ... depth of AN INDEPENDENT SOURCE OF 200 meters (218.8 years)... as the UN REVENUE What is it about the seabed corfimon heritage of mankind." The President's policy went on to that attracts the United Nations and the emerging say that the governing of the seabed and the nations which control the high seas, world body? Besides the beyond territorial limits, should be placed In the hands of "an obvious oil and natural gas international regime" under.the reserves that lie on the ocean direction of the United Nations. bottom, vast mineral deposits Revenues produced by the Continued OnjPage 14 one-worlde- rs one-wor- ld pro-Unit- ed Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. Napoleon The mm Independent Salt Lake City, Utah The Utah Independent is published by the Utah Independent each Tuesday at 2459 Major Street, Salt Lake City,. Utah 84115. Yearly subscription rate is $6.00 per year by surface mail in the United States. Second Class Postage Paid at Sand change of address forms and cormpondanco to 2459 Major , Salt Lake City, Utah 841 1 5 Utah's Largest and Fastest- - Growing Subscription Weekly |