Posted on 12/21/2009 3:11:49 AM PST by Abundy
Money Quote:
The dangerous idea that the democratic accountability of national governments should simply be dispensed with in favour of "global agreements" reached after closed negotiations between world leaders never, so far as I recall, entered into the arena of public discussion. Except in the United States, where it became a very contentious talking point, the US still holding firmly to the 18th-century idea that power should lie with the will of the people
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
That’s because the commentary has already been freeped for a few hours. It was posted earlier. ...very interesting piece, though, and good for reposting.
That might have been true 14 months ago, but not now.
Not to fear—the One world people only want to punish the West whom they blame for all of their self-induced problems. They do not wish to give up any of their rights. Will China give up control? Never? Will Russia? Iran? Mexico? Brazil? The US might be guilted into accepting this but the rest of the world will not. The use of Guilt will not go that far—once it starts to pinch pocket books it will be discarded like Esperanto.
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