From: nancyk@bga.com (Nancy K)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.politics.democrats.d,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.politics.perot
Subject: Why Not World Government?
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 02:13:55 GMT
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WHY NOT WORLD GOVERNMENT?
by William F. Jasper
World peace through world government and world law. It is an ancient
idea that has fastened itself mightily on the minds of men in many
ages. Never before, however, has our human race been so close to
inaugurating this utopian "ideal", to establishing and empowering
government on a planetary scale.
But our planet and our age have had more than passing acquaintance
with utopias empowered. And without exception, the promises of the
utopian dream have yielded to dystopian nightmares. The tens of
millions of victims of Lenin, Fidel, Pol Pot, Amin, Lumumba, Qhadaffi,
Khomeini, and dozens of other utopic despots cry out to us. They warn
us against the utopian siren call. They warn us of the fundamental
truth embodied in George Washington's definition of government:
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like
fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
World government, of course, would necessitate WORLDWIDE force ---
unprecedented power on a global scale. Make no mistake about it, that
is what the advocates of "an empowered United Nations" are really
after. And what is most disturbing is that they have very nearly
succeeded in grasping hold of this power, without most inhabitants of
this planet having the slightest idea of what is being planned for
them.
CALL FOR WORLD GOVERNMENT
Since World War II, calls for world government and an end to national
sovereignty have proliferated, usually emanating from individuals
associated with organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations
(CFR) and the World Federalist Association (WFA). Below are but a few
of many examples that could be cited.
* In 1950, a "Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution" authored by
CFR globalists Robert M. Hutchins, Rexford G. Tugwell, and others was
introduced in Congress by Senator Glen Taylor (D-ID). The submitted
World Constitution declared that "iniquity and war inseparably spring
from the competitive anarchy of the national states; that therefore
the age of nations must end." It held as well that nations must
"surrender their arms" to the proposed "Federal Republic of the
World."
* In 1960, Rhodes Scholar Walt Whitman Rostow (CFR) claimed that
urgent imperatives "argue strongly for movement in the direction of
federalized world organization under effective international law" and
for "effective international control of military power." The real
world problem, said Rostow, is "national sovereignty", and "it is
therefore an American interest to see an end to nationhood as it has
been historically defined." Incredibly, Rostow was given a top spot
in the Kennedy State Department.
* In 1961, the Kennedy State Department brought forth an official
policy entitled "Freedom from War: The United States Program for
General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World (Department of
State Publication 7277)". This amazing document proposed a plan of
"progressive controlled disarmament" in which all national armaments,
including those of the United States, would be transferred to the
United Nations". This disarmament "would proceed to a point where no
state would have the military power to challenge the progressively
strengthened U.N. Peace Force."
* On Earth Day, April 22, 1970, Norman Cousins (CFR), the long-time
president of the United World Federalists (now the World Federalist
Association), proclaimed, "Humanity needs world order. The fully
sovereign nation is incapable of dealing with the poisoning of the
environment... The management of the planet...requires a world
government."
FAST FORWARD 25 YEARS
The appeals for world government muiltiplied with the approach of the
UN's 50th anniversary in 1995.
* In a June 22, 1993 letter on White House stationery to the World
Federalist Association, President Bill Clinton congratulated the WFA
on awarding the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award to the
president's longtime friend and No. 2 State Department appointee,
Strobe Talbot (CFR). Clinton's letter boasted, "Norman Cousins (CFR)
worked for world peace and world government... Best wishes... for
future success."
* In the World Bank's 1994 Human Development Report, an essay by
Nobel Prize-winning economist Jan Tinbergen, entitled "Global
Governance for the 21st Century," declares: "Mankind's problems can
no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is a
World Government." And this government, says he, should be empowered
with a "World Police" and a program for "the redistribution of world
income."
UNLIMITED POWER KILLS
The real problem we face, however, is that these appeals and proposals
are now being implemented through United Nations treaties and
conventions which are establishing "supranational institutions" with
REAL power and force. Lord Acton's famous dictum that "Power tends to
corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely" is a sobering truism
acknowledged by all intelligent people. To this maxim should be added
what we might call the Rummel Corollary: "Power kills and absolute
Power kills absolutely." R.J. Rummel, a professor of political science
at the University of Hawaii, has spent the past eight years of his
life in an intensive study of a very grim but important phenomenon of
our century: genocide and government mass murder, or what he calls
"democide". He has thus far produced four powerful and harrowing
books, the latest volume being, "Death by Government" (Transaction,
1994). "The more power a government has," notes Dr. Rummel, "the more
it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite
and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. The more constrained the
power of governments, the more power is diffused, checked and
balanced, the less it will aggress on others and commit democide."
One graph in his newest book lists the top 15 of "this century's
megamurderers -- those states killing in cold blood, aside from
warfare, 1 million or more men, women and children." The bloodiest of
those criminal regimes -- the USSR and Red China -- were not only
invited into the United Nations, but were given special status on the
UN Security Council!
The UN could (and does) accommodate these megamurderers because "the
rule of law," in UN terms, is radically, fundamentally different from
the "rule of law" as understood by the American Founding Fathers and
as embodied in our Constitution. Whereas the U.S. Constitution is
rooted in the traditional Western and Judeo-Christian legal concepts
fo divine law and natural law which circumscribe the limits of
government power and posit individual God-given rights which it is
government's duty to protect, the United Nations Charter is based in
the framework of positivist legal theory which virtually guarantees
unrestrained, despotic government.
All of its empty platitudes about "peace," "justice," "law," and
"human rights" notwithstanding, the UN is a lawless organization made
up largely of criminal regimes pursuing a malevolent, tyrannical
agenda. A global, regimented police state under the UN would mean a
grim existence -- if, that is, you are one of the "lucky" ones ALLOWED
TO EXIST. One sure thing Dr. Rummel's research points up with
unmistakable clarity is this: "Power will achieve its murderous
potential." Ponder for a moment then this mind-numbing summary of
already "realized" potential:
In total, during the first eighty-eight years of this century, almost
170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten,
tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to
death; buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed, or killed in any other of
the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless
citizens and foreigners. The dead could conceivably be nearly 360
million people. It is as though our species has been devastated by a
modern Black Plague. And indeed it has, but a plague of Power, not of
germs.
Surely the human mind cannot even begin to conceive the enormity of
the global slaughter that would certainly accompany the "Plague of
Power" issuing from a world government under any entity other than God
Himself.
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Nancy K
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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty,
are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite
elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the
despotism was of their own making?
- Herbert Spencer
The New Toryism, 1884