As Lao-Tse said, when some of his students said he should be made Emperor of China...I do not wish to become a sacrificial lamb prepared for the slaughter! I would sooner remain a spiritual searcher, and a free man living a quiet life, than ever consider becoming PM in this country or any other. :-) (And I'd probably be lousy at it anyway...not my kind of thing at all...)

As to how we do it...well, by stages. A bit at a time. We have to establish an international system of law that is enforced not by superpowers, but by collective and equal representation from all nations. To do that, we have to gradually disarm the superpowers...and the smaller powers as well...otherwise they will simply defy that law and rule by strength, as is presently being done. The USA has defied the World Court, and blocked the UN by using its veto, whenever they did not rule as the USA desired them to...in other words, when the trained dog does not do its tricks properly on command, kick it or withhold its food until it gets back into line. (Check Chomsky's article for specific examples of that.)

Rule by terror is the rule of a despot, not a democrat. Saddam Hussein rules inside Iraq by terror...the USA rules (unofficially) in most areas of the world by a combination of terror, economic blackmail, and bribery. Americans don't see it that way, but the Third World does. Talk to them about it and see.

Some things may happen soon, on a worldwide basis, which will render all this theorizing inconsequential and change everything...but, then again, they may not happen ...so I would consider it irresponsible to make any definite predictions at this point. We shall see.

I do know that the way the system is set up right now, anyone who really tries to change it and has the ghost of a chance of actually doing so will end up either dead or discredited and removed from his position of power in short order.

This democracy people boast of is only skin deep...but it's still better than no democracy at all, and don't think I don't know it!

The fact is, we are all in the same boat, whether we are Canadians or Americans, and it's getting pretty leaky at this point. I'd keep a life preserver handy if I were you.

- LH