U.N. urges foreign fishing fleets to halt "ocean grabbing"

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6. That would freak out the right. An international organization "making a it a law and enforcing it"

is one of their recurring nightmares. To them national sovereignty trumps all else.

Witness the platform of the Texas GOP. It includes:

We support the withdrawal of the United States from the United Nations;

Adopted by the UN in 1982, we still oppose the Law of the Sea Treaty;

We unequivocally oppose the United States Senate’s ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

United Nations Agenda 21 -The Republican Party of Texas should expose all United Nations Agenda 21 treaty policies and its supporting organizations, agreements and contracts. We oppose implementation of the UN Agenda 21 Program which was adopted at the Earth Summit Conference in 1992 purporting to promote a comprehensive program of sustainable development projects, nationally, regionally and locally.

Cap and Trade – We oppose Cap and Trade (“Cap and Tax”).

International Organizations – We support U.S. withdrawal from the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and the World Bank.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/texasgop_pre/assets/original/2012Platform_Final.pdf

Much of their anger is directed at the UN and its various bodies and treaties, but they view almost any international organization with "teeth" ("enforce it&quot as a threat to national sovereignty.