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Date Posted: 22:38:04 09/20/02 Fri
Author: Grumpy�
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Subject: Re: No, probably not.
In reply to: Normal 's message, "Re: No, probably not." on 22:22:18 09/20/02 Fri

If one world government is inevitable, I can defend our having a large say in the form and functions of that government, but I cannot defend it being a purely American enterprise "for their own good".

I dislike the notion of a homogenous world, one governed by a central authority, however benevolent. It strikes me as being asked to substitute poi for potroast and potatoes. The corruption, greed, and above all competitiveness of the American model doesn't seem to be a model likely to promote long-term stability, and the lingering effects of history on the disparate regions of the world would be evidenced in any legislation and regulatory results from such a central source; it would be all to easy for a manipulative "leader" to persuade yesterday's "lesser nations" of their newfound importance, and the desirability of imposing draconian redistributions of wealth and wealth-generating facilities, and to then manipulate the losers in such a process to agree to rigid regulation of the winners, as a form of revenge. It would be all too easy for a downward spiral to ensue, which would result in a dictatorship that Rome could only dream of.

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Re: No, probably not. -- Noraml, 23:45:17 09/20/02 Fri
- Re: No, probably not. -- Donk, 17:19:46 09/22/02 Sun
  - There's just too much going on to keep track of it all. -- Normal, 00:31:36 09/24/02 Tue