In December, President Obama will attend the Copenhagen Climate Conference. This conference was established to enact a treaty to deal with "climate change."

"This treaty is very frightening to me," said Frank Roche, candidate for Congress from North Carolina's 4th District. "It will set up a global unelected government that will have enforcement power over our economy and our environment, and it is based on an assumption (global warming) that is increasingly being debunked."

The Treaty will set up the Copenhagen Climate Facility, which will be the governing body for the Treaty. This governing body will regulate the Treaty members through monetary and regulatory requirements, to enforce the provisions of the Treaty. The Treaty will mandate that carbon emissions be at 1990 levels by the year 2020 and at 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.

"Such strict carbon emissions requirements will severely weaken the economy of the United States," declared Roche. "If we cannot meet these requirements we would be forced to pay fines up to 2% of our Gross Domestic Product each year. To even contemplate handing our wealth, and therefore our strength, over to a non-elected international governing body is completely anti-American," he continued.

The Copenhagen Climate Facility would set up an extensive international bureaucracy to enforce the Treaty. A signatory nation to the Treaty cannot pull out unless every other nation signing agrees. A U.S. government elected in the future could not withdraw from this Treaty, because nations getting largesse from the U.S. would not agree to allow our country to pull out. The wording of the Treaty also would supersede our own Constitution, making it irrelevant to the CCF.

"The most frustrating part about all of this, " Roche pointed out, "is that even if these standards are met, climate change will not be noticeably affected." Roche went on to add, "As more and more scientific evidence is gathered, the case for man-made global warming gets weaker and weaker."

"I encourage all concerned citizens to learn about this treaty, and in the next few weeks, to let your voice be heard," Frank Roche said. "Call and fax the White House and beg President Obama to protect America. On his inauguration day, he made an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. If he signs this treaty, he will be breaking that oath with one stroke of a pen."

The Treaty, if signed by the President, would still have to be ratified by 2/3 of the United States Senate. "If the Treaty is signed, then our work is cut out for us," Roche acknowledged. "We will need to bombard our Senators to vote against ratification, and we will need to spread the word to all our friends in other states to do the same thing. Our very liberty and way of life depends on keeping the United States out of the Copenhagen Climate Treaty".

Frank Roche is a trained economist with an investment banking background. He is the Republican candidate facing David Price in North Carolina's 4th District.

Contact: Frank Roche fxr3464@yahoo.com

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