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ab> Alex Bunker

ab> GEE! come on I am only talking of long term goals values and priorities.
ab> Obviously we need to line up a complex federal system with many levels of
ab> power enschrined in a constitution with guarentees of reginal autonimy etc
ab> etc etc all I am talking about is having a global legislature that is
ab> democratically elected by global universal sufferage that has an army and
ab> the power to enfore human rights across the planet.  

  What happens when such an army decides to violate human rights? How does 
  one get billions of people to agree on anything? How does one introduce 
  democracy to the majority of the world's peoples who have no idea what it
  requires? You can't just say "Now you can vote for your leaders" and leave
  it at that. How do you plan to eliminate dictatorships? Doesn't the idea
  of "regional autonomy" lead to conflict? If there's no war, why do we need
  an army?

ab> The means of escape from a democratically elected government is through 
ab> VOTING not MOVING by the way.

  Incredibly naive. Americans of Japanese descent voted in the years before
  WWII, but that didn't protect them. What happens when a democratic govern-
  ment becomes a dictatorship, a la Weimar Germany? 

  I think the whole "world government" idea is a crock.


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