Obama's Zoning the ocean

[Littlejoe]

President Barack Obama has an ambitious plan for Washington bureaucrats to take command of the oceans—and with it control over much of the nation’s energy, fisheries, even recreation in a move described by lawmakers as the ultimate power grab to zone the seas.

The massive undertaking also includes control over key inland waterways and rivers that reach hundreds of miles upstream, and began with little fanfare when Obama signed an executive order in 2010 to protect the aquatic environment.

This is pure administrative fiat,” said Sen. David Vitter (R –La.). “It’s very troubling.”

“This is purely a unilateral administrative action with no real congressional input or oversight,” Vitter said. “I think it clearly threatens to have a big impact on a lot of industry, starting with energy, oil and gas, and fishing.”


Zoning the ocean - HUMAN EVENTS

[Robert]

*edited by poster: overreaction on my part*

[Littlejoe]

Don't know much about it ,they had a big segment on it on the Fox news Sean Hannity show last night,with Judge Napoltano ..If anyone who seen the show,or knows more than me,please let us know...They said it would eventually include the great lakes if its allowed to go through..


here's an article from usa today...Bill Flores.

http://content.usatoday.com/topics/a...83lboD1wzcuG/1


http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-...nd-great-lakes

[mattfivefour]

Robert, I think this refers only to the territorial waters in the oceans along American coastlines. The zoning would be for the purposes of controlling what can be done in certain parts of them— including imposing catch limits, controlling resource exploration, mining the non-renewal resources, etc ... much of which is already done in a more blanket yet ad hoc fashion. Seen from one perspective, it is a responsible step in the protection of an important source of very valuable resources. Seen from another perspective, it does have the potential for a huge expansion of federal powers. All legislation can be viewed from those two perspectives and neither should be ignored. Of course those who fear government always want us to view everything proposed by government from the latter point of view only. It serves their purpose. On the other hand, government always wants us to view things from the former point of view only. It serves their purpose. But we must view everything from BOTH. Indeed, in a democracy the two possible viewpoints of any legislation are always in that tension and must be viewed as such and from an educated and balanced perspective.

Here, for the record, is the preamble to this executive order #13547.

Executive Order 13547 --Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Purpose. The ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes provide jobs, food, energy resources, ecological services, recreation, and tourism opportunities, and play critical roles in our Nation's transportation, economy, and trade, as well as the global mobility of our Armed Forces and the maintenance of international peace and security. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and resulting environmental crisis is a stark reminder of how vulnerable our marine environments are, and how much communities and the Nation rely on healthy and resilient ocean and coastal ecosystems. America's stewardship of the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes is intrinsically linked to environmental sustainability, human health and well-being, national prosperity, adaptation to climate and other environmental changes, social justice, international diplomacy, and national and homeland security.
This order adopts the recommendations of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, except where otherwise provided in this order, and directs executive agencies to implement those recommendations under the guidance of a National Ocean Council. Based on those recommendations, this order establishes a national policy to ensure the protection, maintenance, and restoration of the health of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems and resources, enhance the sustainability of ocean and coastal economies, preserve our maritime heritage, support sustainable uses and access, provide for adaptive management to enhance our understanding of and capacity to respond to climate change and ocean acidification, and coordinate with our national security and foreign policy interests.
This order also provides for the development of coastal and marine spatial plans that build upon and improve existing Federal, State, tribal, local, and regional decisionmaking and planning processes. These regional plans will enable a more integrated, comprehensive, ecosystem-based, flexible, and proactive approach to planning and managing sustainable multiple uses across sectors and improve the conservation of the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes.
Sec. 2. Policy. (a) To achieve an America whose stewardship ensures that the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes are healthy and resilient, safe and productive, and understood and treasured so as to promote the well-being, prosperity, and security of present and future generations, it is the policy of the United States to:

• (i) protect, maintain, and restore the health and biological diversity of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems and resources;
• (ii) improve the resiliency of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems, communities, and economies;
• (iii) bolster the conservation and sustainable uses of land in ways that will improve the health of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems;
• (iv) use the best available science and knowledge to inform decisions affecting the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes, and enhance humanity's capacity to understand, respond, and adapt to a changing global environment;
• (v) support sustainable, safe, secure, and productive access to, and uses of the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes;
• (vi) respect and preserve our Nation's maritime heritage, including our social, cultural, recreational, and historical values;
• (vii) exercise rights and jurisdiction and perform duties in accordance with applicable international law, including respect for and preservation of navigational rights and freedoms, which are essential for the global economy and international peace and security;
• (viii) increase scientific understanding of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems as part of the global interconnected systems of air, land, ice, and water, including their relationships to humans and their activities;
• (ix) improve our understanding and awareness of changing environmental conditions, trends, and their causes, and of human activities taking place in ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes waters; and
• (x) foster a public understanding of the value of the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes to build a foundation for improved stewardship.

(b) The United States shall promote this policy by:

• (i) ensuring a comprehensive and collaborative framework for the stewardship of the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes that facilitates cohesive actions across the Federal Government, as well as participation of State, tribal, and local authorities, regional governance structures, nongovernmental organizations, the public, and the private sector;
• (ii) cooperating and exercising leadership at the international level;
• (iii) pursuing the United States' accession to the Law of the Sea Convention; and
• (iv) supporting ocean stewardship in a fiscally responsible manner.

[Robert]

My apologies then to Littlejoe; when I read the article, it seemed as if it was stating that Obama wanted to control the entirety of the oceans.

I will amend my original reply; thanks bro, And Littlejoe: please forgive me. My intent is not to hound for FUD, but to try to keep an "even keel" when it concerns prophecy and the end times. Sometimes I skew too much to the side of caution in my stance. :(

[soundingthealarm]

My apologies then to Littlejoe; when I read the article, it seemed as if it was stating that Obama wanted to control the entirety of the oceans.

I will amend my original reply; thanks bro, And Littlejoe: please forgive me. My intent is not to hound for FUD, but to try to keep an "even keel" when it concerns prophecy and the end times. Sometimes I skew too much to the side of caution in my stance. :(

I so appreciate that on RF because we do NOT want to be like the Grocery Store Isle of proclaiming every conspiratorial news flash, but rather there is PLENTY of rock solid screaming fulfillments of Bible Prophecy taking place that will align with Scripture as to insure NO DOUBT what is happening and who is THE LORD!!!

FUD is a DUD < Bible is Reliable

[Meg]

I so appreciate that on RF because we do NOT want to be like the Grocery Store Isle of proclaiming every conspiratorial news flash, but rather there is PLENTY of rock solid screaming fulfillments of Bible Prophecy taking place that will align with Scripture as to insure NO DOUBT what is happening and who is THE LORD!!!

FUD is a DUD < Bible is Reliable

AMEN!!

[Littlejoe]

My apologies then to Littlejoe; when I read the article, it seemed as if it was stating that Obama wanted to control the entirety of the oceans.

I will amend my original reply; thanks bro, And Littlejoe: please forgive me. My intent is not to hound for FUD, but to try to keep an "even keel" when it concerns prophecy and the end times. Sometimes I skew too much to the side of caution in my stance. :(

Hey no problem.We don't need to say something that we can't back up.We lose crediablity in the christian world...I really didn't know much about it until a year ago.I heard it being talked about,then lately on Hannity Fox show and O'Riely's been tallking alot about it then i seen the article im like wow!!What it is ,is were giving more of our sovereingty over to the World Government UN..Were good..

[Littlejoe]

The plan was previously a pet project of Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, whose ocean-zoning scheme was partnered with a globalist group that also aimed to hand over U.S. oceans to U.N. governance.The executive order is to be based on the recommendations of Obama’s Interagency Ocean Policy Taskforce, created in 2010 also by executive order.

The entire third section of the report recommends that the U.S. join the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Convention.

States the report:

The Task Force strongly and unanimously supports United States accession to the Convention on the Law of the Sea and ratification of its 1994 Implementing Agreement. The Law of the Sea Convention is the bedrock legal instrument governing activities on, over and under the world’s oceans.CGS is a member organization and supporter of the World Federalist Movement, which openly seeks a one-world government. The World Federalist Movement considers the CGS to be its U.S. branch.


The movement brings together organizations and individuals that support the establishment of a global federal system of strengthened and democratized global institutions with plenary constitutional power accountable to the citizens of the world and a division of international authority among separate global agencies.

The movement’s headquarters are located near the U.N. building in New York City. A second office is near the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.

The locations are significant, since the movement heavily promotes the U.N. and is the coordinator of various international projects, such as the Coalition for the International Criminal Court and the Responsibility to Protect military doctrine. That doctrine formed the basis of Obama’s justification last year to launch NATO airstrikes in Libya.

[Littlejoe]

Here is a letter writen by U.S Congresswoman Kay Granger....

An Executive Order You Should Know About..


Weekly Enewsletter: An Executive Order You Should Know About | Congresswoman Kay Granger


With all that is going in Washington these days some things don’t make the news the way they should. Fourteen days ago President Obama issued an Executive Order that you should know about. This order gives an unprecedented level of authority to the President and the federal government to take over all the fundamental parts of our economy - in the name of national security - in times of national emergency.

It is still unclear why this order was signed now, and what the consequences are for our nation – especially during times of peace. This type of Martial Law imposes a government takeover on U.S. citizens that is typically reserved for national emergencies, not in a time of relative peace.

[mattfivefour]

Here is a letter writen by U.S Congresswoman Kay Granger....

An Executive Order You Should Know About..


Weekly Enewsletter: An Executive Order You Should Know About | Congresswoman Kay Granger


With all that is going in Washington these days some things don’t make the news the way they should. Fourteen days ago President Obama issued an Executive Order that you should know about. This order gives an unprecedented level of authority to the President and the federal government to take over all the fundamental parts of our economy - in the name of national security - in times of national emergency.

It is still unclear why this order was signed now, and what the consequences are for our nation – especially during times of peace. This type of Martial Law imposes a government takeover on U.S. citizens that is typically reserved for national emergencies, not in a time of relative peace.

Brother, this EO has already been dealt with at length on this forum. As Sean Osborne pointed out in an excellent post a few weeks ago, this EO is merely updating the language of the existing EO to reflect new government departments and different departmental responsibilities. Nothing particularly to be concerned about.

[Littlejoe]

Brother, this EO has already been dealt with at length on this forum. As Sean Osborne pointed out in an excellent post a few weeks ago, this EO is merely updating the language of the existing EO to reflect new government departments and different departmental responsibilities. Nothing particularly to be concerned about.

Sorry guess i didn't see that one from Sean...

[GlennO]

Coming in late

accession

[ak-sesh-uhn]  
[FONT=verdana]ac·ces·sion

   [ak-sesh-uhn] Show IPA
noun1.the act of coming into the possession of a right, title, office,etc.: accession to the throne.

2.an increase by something added: an accession of territory.

3.something added: a list of accessions to the college library.

4.Law . addition to property by growth or improvement.

5.consent; agreement; approval: accession to a demand.

6.International Law . formal acceptance of a treaty,international convention, or other agreement between states.

7.the act of coming near; approach.

8.an attack or onset, as of a disease.

I also saw reference to the UN Law Of Sea Treaty (LOST)As far as I know the Senate nix'ed that.


I do not trust Our President....My trust is in my KING

[Carl]

What it all boils down to is that the evil one is working overtime in his rebellion against God. Through out history every thing good/bad/indifferent decay into advantage for the rebellious one.

It does seem that our current batch of leaders/appointed and voted in seem to be out doing themselves with decisions affecting us and contrary to the Constitution all with no regard for us.

Things are shaping up nicely for Jesus Return to rescue us from the world's system and the evil ones plans.