This is my official political statement. I do not recognize any national, state, provincial, or territorial government. I recognize only one world government consisting of all politicians. I also recognize only one people - the citizens of the world. I recognize no national, state, provincial, or territorial borders. I do, however, recognize the belief in these borders and governments held by the majority of world citizens and politicians, but I do not concur with this belief. As it stands at present, I do not wish or intend to disrupt the political and social order of the world solely on the basis of this statement, but I do believe that, in virtue of the glaring disproportionality in numbers between the people of the world and its politicians, an overthrowing of the world government by the people and the establishment of a new one by the people and for the people is easily attainable.
If you can get those unaware people off of their couches, away from their new plasma screen w/ their new X-box 360. Especially in America, we are content doing nothing, letting our freedoms get slowly taken away. Let's think about new smoking bans. I understand why smoking is banned in restaurants and other places, but outside? I recently quit smoking, but it was MY choice to stop, not based only on someone telling me, "Hey, you can't smoke on this campus, so put out your cigarettes and get healthier!" So many people are saying how much healthier our campus will be, but at what cost? Our personal freedom? What would happen if the campus banned all fast food, b/c obesity is such a crisis and the food is unhealthy. This would affect many more people and then they would start to care. Until one's personal freedoms are affected, there will be major apathy towards the loss of another's freedom. As I said, once it happens to you, then you might care- but will it be too late by then? Peace and love
Hi hc, haven't talked to you in a while. How's life treating you? Thanks for your comments - I can relate.
A world gov't vs. hundreds of factions (aka national gov'ts)? I'm not sure which is the lesser of two evils, but I'm leaning towards a world gov't would be better in some ways. We would no longer have border disputes as pissing contests for countries, which seem like one country thinks "We'll move 1,000 soldiers to get more territory b/c it is our "god given right (doesn't matter what god)" while the opposing country thinks "They're taking our "God given land." Then the dispute can become somewhat religious in nature, such as the Iraqi occupation when Bush stated that "God" was on our side, while I'm sure Islamic radicals believed "Allah" was supporting them. News flash, they are the same god, different names, so why would this god chose one side over another? Also, I think if we saw ourselves as planet Earth citizens, it would end some of the bullshit patriotism that fascists tend to take advantage over. The idea that a god is on our side b/c of where we are born is pretty ridiculous. So is the notion that we are better than another nation or our citizens matter more than another countries. I found it ironic that our justification for war w/ Afghanistan and Iraq was the deaths of innocent civilians, when many, many more citizens of these two countries would be killed by our invasions. So is a few thousand American (and other nationalities) civilian deaths more important than the deaths of Afghani & Iraqi civilians? What makes our American lives more valuable, and how are these deaths more significant than the number of our soldiers killed, which now is greater than the death toll of 9/11? These are questions we have to ask ourselves; I know a world gov't would have its negatives too, as perfection in gov't is laughable, but is it better than what we have today? Are we willing to say that "we" as Americans are equal to "others," who happen to live in another geographic region? Peace and love
A world government would leads to oddles and noodles of corruption, thousands of miles of red tape. National government as it is barely respond to their people as it is, let alone one that has to respond to 6 1/2 billion people. The needs of people in say Maine vs Kansas are different enough as it is, vs a global government trying to balance the needs of say Taiwan vs Nigeria. Not to mention the thousands of militant independence movement it would cause to sprout up. Plus balance of power, in our federal system here look how the really small states(North Dakota and South Dakota for example) get ignored, can you imagine what would happen to countries like Denmark, Costa Rica, Estonia, Mongolia, ect, they'd have near no say in the government.
A world government is exactly what the powerful and ruthless people who run this planet want. They want a global system to enslave the population, and they are on the fast track to achieving that goal. The same people who are pushing for this world government are the same people who have been behind the funding of both sides of all wars for the past several centuries, and especially the last century, to condition the public that we need a world government to end all wars. This is the reason they gave the people for establishing the United Nations, which was designed to become the world government under the New World Order. World governance will be the product of tyrants, not peace-loving people who cherish freedom.
I think any gov't, national or world, would have corruption. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Peace and love
I would never want a world government. Even if there was a would government, I'd still always consider myself as Canadian, not as "Worldian". The UN IMO is the closest thing to a world government as it stands now, and I can't stand the UN.
agreed. I have hope we'll realize the lack of a real need for any government in the future. for the present time, the smaller it is the less damage it can do.
