Imagine what would have happened if no journalists had been on hand to notify the world of such earthshaking events as Pearl Harbor Day, the Kennedy assassination or Neil Armstrong’s "one small step."

Picture how different our world might be if war correspondents had been deported from Vietnam or Richard Nixon had shut down the Washington Post before its first Watergate exclusive.

So how is it that virtually every major media outlet could miss one of the biggest stories of the 21^st…or for that matter…any century? We’re referring to the US Senate’s accidental ratification of the 1994 UN Convention to Combat Desertfication.

This international environmental treaty turns control of 70 percent of the American land mass over to the United Nations. We have allowed these international criminals and their stooges in the US Senate to steal the property rights of huge parcels of publicly and privately held property. Now, the UN will be setting the course for land use on this continent and the US government will be forced by treaty to enforce international policy.

How could such a savagely un-American tragedy pass through the US Senate? It quite literally happened while no one was looking. Those wishing to empower the largest land grab in world history did so through pure deceit. They buried provisions of the UN treaty deep within the pages of 34 additional treaties that allegedly had nothing to do with the UN or betrayal of property ownership rights. Few senators even knew they were there.

There was no debate. On October 18^th, those in favor simply raised their hands. No one bothered to record the vote. And this act of treachery cannot be overturned for at least three years.

Probably no one in this country will get mad or do anything to protest this outrageous sell out until they discover they can’t chop down trees on their property…or turn pasture land into subdivisions or grow crops on land that once was devoted to raising sheep.

Slowly, the word will leak out but by then, it will be too late. Angry Americans may well wish to hold their elected officials to account. But by that time, the final court of appeals may well be the World Court at the Hague and American sovereignty will be only a cherished memory.

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