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In article <1992Aug12.001838.14325@news.unomaha.edu> trajan@cwis.unomaha.edu (Stephen McIntyre) writes:
>goykhman_a@apollo.hp.com  writes:
>> In article <1992Aug11.145521.29060@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> bunker@physun.physics.mcmaster.ca (Alex Bunker) writes:
>>     Do you realize that if the New World Order takes hold,
>>     there will be no place to hide?
>
>Why would you have to hide?  Are you breaking any laws or something
>     that would make you want to hide?

I hope that is meant to be sarcastic.  One of the reasons small oppresive
governments like that of Eastern Germany, Czecheslovokia, Poland and
the USSR fell is because there was an example of a prosperous, happy,
and *freer* society right next door.

China may well be too big to fall, simply because no nation would open
its borders sufficiently wide with respect to China to absorb its
dissatisfied citizens.  Those citizens which escaped communist Eastern
Europe during the Cold War often kept in touch with those they left behind,
telling them the truth about conditions outside Soviet Tyranny.

Another argument against the World Government:

 1)  The US has never had a serious challenge to its sovereignity, so
we really don't have personal experience with how it feels.  Think of
how Mexico felt about the US kidnapping its citizens to try them in the
US.

2)  Even if started with the best of intentions, the World Government
could easily become oppresive, especially as there is no suitable
entity to act as a check against it.

3)  What government form will you choose?  That form is intricitly tied
to national and cultural identity.  Some states/nations/religions/cultures
believe authority comes from the Mandate of Heaven and so have a very
different notion of the "loyal opposition", and legitimate challenge to
authority from US.

4)  The World Gov't could easily violate either our Bill of Rights, or
other Nations Bills simply by declaring its own version to be of a
higher priority.  For a long despairing chuckle, read the complete
 
list of Human Rights supposedly guaranteed by the UN charter.  Lets see,
right to a vacation with pay, right to a 'decent' standard of living,

>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Stephen @Trajan


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