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About Nancy Salvato
Nancy Salvato is the President and Director of
Education and the Constitutional Literacy Program for
Basics Project,
a non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) research and educational
project whose mission is to re-introduce the American public to
the basic elements of our constitutional heritage while
providing non-partisan, fact-based information on relevant
socio-political issues important to our country, specifically
the threats of aggressive Islamofascism and the American Fifth
Column. She serves as a Senior Editor for The New Media Journal.
She is also a staff writer, for the New Media Alliance, Inc., a
non-profit 501(c)(3) coalition of writers and grass-roots media
outlets. She received her BA in history from Loyola University
and her M.Ed. in Early Childhood Education from National-Louis
University. She is certified to teach in grades K-9 and 6-12 and
as a teacher has worked with students in preschool, 1st, 5th,
6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 11th and 12th grades. She has also worked as
an adjunct instructor at the graduate school level. She
continues to augment her education and areas of expertise in the
style of Abraham Lincoln. |
Recent Articles
Circumnavigating the Rule of Law
In Just 100 Days
Defining Article 2,
Section 1 in Context
A Constitutionally Illiterate Congressional Leadership
Natural Born Citizens
Impoverishment, Elitism & Apathy
An
Alternative to Impending Doom
Effective "Tools" in Education
Houston, We Have a Problem
Letting the Evidence Speak for Itself
The Right to Defend Sovereignty
Undermining Our Sovereignty from Without & Within
Risking Our
Nation’s Sovereignty
True
Patriots Put Country First
The Oath of a Citizen
The
Constitution, Two Candidates & An Election
Article II,
Section 1: Just Words |
Nancy Salvato, Senior Editor
Circumnavigating the Rule of Law
May 27, 2009
The last I heard, the United
States was not a signatory to the Law of the Sea Convention. Yet back in
1996, under President Clinton, we became signatories to an agreement
with the Commonwealth of the Bahamas "concerning a cooperative Shiprider
and Overflight Drug Interdiction Program for Joint Operations,” known as
the 1996 Shiprider Agreement.
"Based on the principles of international law, respect for the sovereign
equality of States and in full respect of the principle of the right of
freedom of navigation consistent with the 1982 Law of the Sea
Convention,”
this agreement was superseded by a more comprehensive agreement in
2004.
Ten years after this initial agreement ,the United States Coast Guard
and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police implemented an experimental
"Shiprider" program designed to thwart a potential high profile
terrorist attack during the Super Bowl, an anticipated launch from a
maritime vessel on the Detroit River, outside Detroit.
According to an article
in Law and technology resources for legal professionals, the
Agreement Making Process follows these rules:
▪ Secretary of State authorizes negotiation
▪ U.S. representatives negotiate
▪ Agree on terms, and upon authorization of Secretary of State, sign
agreement
▪ Three types of agreements
▪ Agreement enters into force
▪ President transmits agreement to Congress (pursuant to Case-Zablocki
Act)
Fast forward just a few weeks ago to Department of Homeland Security
Secretary Janet Napolitano’s
controversial remarks, in which "she suggested the 9-11 terrorists
entered the U.S. through Canada,” and has since rescinded yet maintains
"other terror suspects have crossed south over the border.”
Today, it was announced that Secretary of Homeland Security Napolitano
signed a Shiprider Agreement with Canada.
The National Post reported one week earlier Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton’s comments that our northern border is "too porous" and
[since 9/11] "we have been working with our friends in Canada to try to
harden that border,” and that "our Department of Homeland Security will
continue to do so."
Just six months ago,
The UN Council issued a resolution calling on "States and regional
organizations fighting piracy to conclude agreements with countries,
especially in the region, willing to take custody of pirates to put
their own law enforcement officials on board as "ship riders" to
prosecute detained suspects.”
Convenient? Opportunistic? It seems to be the norm for this
administration to follow a "One-World” mindset. Yes, It can be argued
that the Bush Administration implemented such a measure in order to
thwart a potential terrorist attack, but it can also be debated that
this was a response to an imminent threat. In peacetime, the Obama
Administration uses every possible means to implement policy that
circumvents the legislative branch of government, those officials
elected to represent our interests and instead moves to take its place
as one of the cogs in the new world order by trading away our nation’s
sovereignty... |
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