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No need to send the Treaty to the Senate for ratification or abide by the
Constitution when you are an aspiring dictator-the only thing you have to do
is see how much you can get away with before somebody questions the legality
of a particular "law" you want to pass. It seems as if our "elected" officials
have given Bill carte blanche. Gavin.
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TRACKSIDE (c)
by John D'Aloia Jr.
The page one headline might read "Congress Fiddles
While Constitution Burns;" the sports page headline
might be "Clinton Scores on End-Around." Taking
advantage of the natural limits on how many different
topics people can keep track of at once, and of the lack
of Congressional leadership, President Clinton has
initiated another grab for control over society. How? On
November 12, the United States signed the Kyoto
Climate Control Treaty. Nothing wrong with signing a
treaty - it is a presidential prerogative. What is wrong is
that without sending the treaty to the Senate for
ratification, the President has begun its implementation.
His action contemptuously ignores the Constitution, a
unanimous Senate resolution that condemned the treaty
as drafted (the treaty is based on junk-science; the
treaty's provisions force economic misery on this
country,) and laws enacted which prohibit spending any
money on implementing it. While Congress's attention is
fixated on the impeachment inquiry regarding his
admitted perjury, the President is usurping Congress's
duties and is, in effect, ruling by decree. Meanwhile, our
elected representatives go to great lengths to don
blinders, refusing to consider all the ways in which
President Clinton has abused the power of his office and
has shredded the Constitution. I can understand the
socialists in Congress not wanting to affirm that the
Constitution limits the power of the President. An
all-powerful presidency fits nicely into their dreams of
absolute power. The Republicans, on the other hand, if
they really believed their campaign rhetoric calling for a
return to a constitutional government, should be yelling to
the high heavens - but, with limited exceptions, they are
not. Why? Could it be that they also do not want to
curtail the President's actions because if they should get
hold of the office, they want the same power?
And how is the President implementing the Kyoto
Treaty, a treaty that imposes significant costs on
American society? Easy. Dollars are being handed out to
the alphabet-soup agencies for projects that further the
treaty's goal. Private companies can be forced to
implement treaty dictates as provisions of settlement
agreements in environmental lawsuits or as provisions of
environmental permits. Another way is to invoke the
Law of Unintended Consequences and stretch existing
laws beyond the intent of the authors. The control of
carbon dioxide emissions, a natural result of the burning
of fossil fuels, is a central feature of the Kyoto Treaty.
Carbon dioxide is not now classified as a hazardous air
pollutant. Already, EPA has started talking about
classifying it, and controlling it, as a hazardous air
pollutant under the Clean Air Act, thus carrying out the
intent of the Kyoto Treaty. By controlling carbon dioxide
emissions, the statists gain control over society, the
economy, and our nation's standard of living. As noted
before, this line of thinking, carried to the extreme
reaches of the bureaucratic mind, will result in requiring
everyone to have a breathing permit, for we all, with
every breath, emit carbon dioxide. And taking it even
further, such permits could become the population
control measure of some "1984" future society. You
cannot have more than one child; two will produce too
much carbon dioxide.
Is the administration concerned about the laws that
prohibit any dollars being spent on implementing the
treaty? Of course not - the laws are blithely ignored with
the firm knowledge that Congress has not the backbone
to call them on it and that very few people have the
resources to turn to the courts to stop the President from
doing whatever he wants.
And sadly, Khrushchev's words about the U.S. selling
the rope to hang itself have come into play. In spite of
the President's refusal to submit the treaty for ratification
and the laws against funding treaty implication,
Congressional leadership caved in to the President at the
end of the last session and gave him $200 million of your
tax dollars to fund the World Bank's Global
Environmental Facility. The GEF is nothing more than a
dark green slush fund which channels dollars to radical
environmental groups the world over, and is used, as is
so common with such organizations, to lobby
government for more dollars and more power. Bribery is
another use of the fund. Argentine officials report that the
administration is offering them assistance from the fund in
exchange for Argentina's concessions on the Kyoto
Treaty.
See you Trackside.
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