Law of the Seas Treaty (LOST) Needs to Get Lost: Both Houses Should Reject Treaty Immediately

The Law of the Seas Treaty (LOST) is an abomination in it's current form and should be rejected by the United States, not ratified.

The only things this treaty should address are piracy, war, salvage rights, emergency protocols on the high seas, and establishment of territorial waters.

If the U.N. wants to have treaties on protecting the oceans, preventing pollution, demilitarization of the high seas, placing all undersea mining operations under U.N. control, taxation, making the U.S. pay for the entire treaty (as the current version does), and giving the U.N. the right of eminent domain to give new technology to enemy countries, then the U.N. should draw up separate treaties and present them to members, not bind them into an over-broad LOST agreement.

And the fact that the world expects the US to pay for the treaty is ludicrous! The Senate needs to throw this treaty out the nearest window without a signature on it.