Reclaim Our Canal in Panama
A Petition to Reclaim Our Panama Canal!
A petition to Congress.
We The People protest the illegal transfer of the Panama Canal and encourage you to support reclaiming the Panama Canal as United States territory. Indeed, irregularities in both the language and ratification process of the 1977 Carter-Torrijos treaties, which initiated the transfer, render them null and void. And there are obvious national security reasons why we should not have allowed this illegal transfer that effectively gives control of the Canal to Red China. Historic and legal justification that declares the treaties null and void, is amply demonstrated by the text of the resolution itself.
However, we apprise you of the following points:
• The transfer of the U.S.-built canal to the government of Panama represents a grave threat to U.S. national security, because:
1) In 1997, Panama secretly turned over the American-built port facility at Balboa, which controls shipping on the Pacific side, and at Cristobal, which controls shipping on the Atlantic side, to Hutchison Whampoa of Hong Kong — a company controlled by the Red Chinese government. Our leaders are also turning over Rodman Naval Station, Howard Air Force Base, and other important military facilities to Panama, which has given Hutchison an option on these bases.
2) The above actions prompted Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, USN (Ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to state: "This means that very soon we could see Communist China in control of one of the world’s most strategic waterways in our own backyard."
• As stated in the former H. J. Res. 77: "[I]n their respective instruments of ratification, the United States and Panama did not agree to the same text of the treaties, and, in fact, each party stipulated to conditions that are in fundamental conflict with, and mutually exclusive of, the demands of the other…," thus rendering the 1977 treaties between the U.S. and Panama invalid.
• Despite this invalidity, the executive branch of our government proceeded nonetheless to turn over both the Canal and other strategic facilities in the Canal Zone to the government of Panama. We must reclaim the Panama Canal!
• The 1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty between the United States and Panama — which gave the U.S. sovereignty in perpetuity over the Canal and the Canal Zone — has never been properly terminated and is, therefore, still legally in force.
We The People of the United States, do hereby petition you, as a member of Congress, to use every effort to reclaim the Panama Canal. And, furthermore, we petition you to use the powers of Congress to insist that the Executive branch of government conform to the Constitution, the law, and the will of Congress in this matter by reclaiming the Panama Canal as United States territory.
A petition to Congress.
We The People protest the illegal transfer of the Panama Canal and encourage you to support reclaiming the Panama Canal as United States territory. Indeed, irregularities in both the language and ratification process of the 1977 Carter-Torrijos treaties, which initiated the transfer, render them null and void. And there are obvious national security reasons why we should not have allowed this illegal transfer that effectively gives control of the Canal to Red China. Historic and legal justification that declares the treaties null and void, is amply demonstrated by the text of the resolution itself.
However, we apprise you of the following points:
• The transfer of the U.S.-built canal to the government of Panama represents a grave threat to U.S. national security, because:
1) In 1997, Panama secretly turned over the American-built port facility at Balboa, which controls shipping on the Pacific side, and at Cristobal, which controls shipping on the Atlantic side, to Hutchison Whampoa of Hong Kong — a company controlled by the Red Chinese government. Our leaders are also turning over Rodman Naval Station, Howard Air Force Base, and other important military facilities to Panama, which has given Hutchison an option on these bases.
2) The above actions prompted Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, USN (Ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to state: "This means that very soon we could see Communist China in control of one of the world’s most strategic waterways in our own backyard."
• As stated in the former H. J. Res. 77: "[I]n their respective instruments of ratification, the United States and Panama did not agree to the same text of the treaties, and, in fact, each party stipulated to conditions that are in fundamental conflict with, and mutually exclusive of, the demands of the other…," thus rendering the 1977 treaties between the U.S. and Panama invalid.
• Despite this invalidity, the executive branch of our government proceeded nonetheless to turn over both the Canal and other strategic facilities in the Canal Zone to the government of Panama. We must reclaim the Panama Canal!
• The 1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty between the United States and Panama — which gave the U.S. sovereignty in perpetuity over the Canal and the Canal Zone — has never been properly terminated and is, therefore, still legally in force.
We The People of the United States, do hereby petition you, as a member of Congress, to use every effort to reclaim the Panama Canal. And, furthermore, we petition you to use the powers of Congress to insist that the Executive branch of government conform to the Constitution, the law, and the will of Congress in this matter by reclaiming the Panama Canal as United States territory.
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