...and bad artwork!
Posted on 12/08/2008 5:58:43 PM PST by ricks_place
I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US. I have never seen black helicopters hovering in the sky above Montana. But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.
A “world government” would involve much more than co-operation between nations. It would be an entity with state-like characteristics, backed by a body of laws. The European Union has already set up a continental government for 27 countries, which could be a model. The EU has a supreme court, a currency, thousands of pages of law, a large civil service and the ability to deploy military force.
So could the European model go global? There are three reasons for thinking that it might.
First, it is increasingly clear that the most difficult issues facing national governments are international in nature: there is global warming, a global financial crisis and a “global war on terror”.
Second, it could be done. The transport and communications revolutions have shrunk the world so that, as Geoffrey Blainey, an eminent Australian historian, has written: “For the first time in human history, world government of some sort is now possible.” Mr Blainey foresees an attempt to form a world government at some point in the next two centuries, which is an unusually long time horizon for the average newspaper column.
But – the third point – a change in the political atmosphere suggests that “global governance” could come much sooner than that. The financial crisis and climate change are pushing national governments towards global solutions, even in countries such as China and the US that are traditionally fierce guardians of national sovereignty.
Barack Obama, America’s president-in-waiting, does not share the Bush administration’s disdain for international agreements and treaties...
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...and bad artwork!
it’s the season of lunacy.
depressing. things like this really get me down because the American people are simply not educated well enough at this point to understand what is wrong with this. Reminds me of the socialized medicine. I expect people will think it is a wonderful idea whose time has finally come.
The minute the blue helmet guys roll into my town, I hope our local population see them as being foreign invaders, and treat them accordingly.
I don’t think it’s that big.
When the Euros screamed panic it was not necessarily directed at world government,
but America making laws and regulations that would inhibit the breakdown in derivatives and other things they heavily invest in America.
I still suspect the Euros and Arabs laid down the law to Bush,
“If you do not use public assets to prop up our American investments, we will stop financing your fiscal deficits.”
No other country is doing anything as broad as the US, and then there are the stories of banks not wanting the money, but Paulson urging it.
Bush, in a compromised position for his “prosperity,” now gone, built on borrowing. Paulson, in a compromised position because he was a derivatives guy.
Now Obama is bringing in the same Goldman Sachs-types in too.
The REAL problem is that so many, such as the editorial writer, consider the people's desire to be governed locally to be a "problem". He is admitting that the only way the one-worlders are going to reach their goal is if they are able to shove it down our throats.
Bump for later
Just proves the Bible was right about its prophesies thousands of years ago. One world government, the mark, the antichrist, etc. All coming true.
So I say, see to the Lord’s business, look up, your salvation cometh from on high, not Obama’s one world government.
Prayer and salvation is in order. However, as long as I reside on Earth I will fight even if it is futile.
John / Billybob
Do any of these world government types not understand that a government strong enough to govern the world will also be strong enough to subjugate the entire human race with no possibility of escape (except for divine)? It’s a delusion for sure, similar to the delusion that an all-powerful national government can somehow right all wrongs.
uuuummm... NO!!!
A model allows a look at an idea in 3-D so to speak, and if one is reasonably honest, the bullshit component becomes inescapable. A 'model' doesn't necessarily mean 'an example'. Let Europe do the modeling. Or the Soviet Union. Imperial Japan, Pan-Arabism, Pan Africanism, etc have all been tried and all crashed and burned. Bad models. We have been there to put the pieces back together. If The United States allows itself to be sucked into this, the world is doomed. Who will be left to declare the model invalid and fix the damage?
As soon as they start trying to make me pay a tax to the UN, I am in for the Revolution!
True, and you know the Books of Daniel, Isiah, Matthew, and The Revelations) all point toward that it WILL happen, its our imperative as Christians, Americans, believers in Federalism, to oppose this as long as we can!
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/obamas-845-billion-secret-he-never-talks-about-this-why/3343804643
Three decades ago I read histories concerning the centuries following the birth of Christ, known as late antiquity. This is about Rome during the 1st to 5th centuries AD, and three things firmly stood out in my mind.
The Roman government first taxed its middle class merchants - the baker, the potter, the butcher, the weaver - into extinction by the middle of the 2nd cent; 80% of the population on the Italian peninsula were non-Romans by the end of the 3rd cent; and those who could financially do so withdrew to land-holdings in the coutryside, to escape and survive the collapse of Roman civilization. Average citizens, just like today, were powerless to stop what was happening.
I want people to keep something in mind after reading the above: we are NOT like Rome. We have a mobile social structure that defies - repeatedly - the “status quo”, something Romans were abosolutely fanatical about maintaining, even going so far as to execute those who invented improvements! Imagine killing off all inventors! What a tragic waste of talent, and a sure killer of their future prospects.
However there are other places in this world where the above descriptions sound familiar and can be applied. Like parts of Europe, like Africa, like Venezuala, and like Cuba. We’re different - we just have to muster up the will.
INTREP
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