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Thread #48038   Message #721678
Posted By: Lonesome EJ
02-Jun-02 - 02:24 PM
Thread Name: Anti-Conscription Movement
Subject: RE: Anti-Conscription Movement
Guest, I know I'm beating a dead horse here, but "transform" to what? Are you suggesting Communism as a replacement for the "corporate/capitalist" model? And what sort of governmental entity will implement it? Or is the answer good-natured anarchism?

Regarding the United Nations, I believe that as a forum for discussion of differences and as a vehicle for such things as disaster relief, it is of great value. What I am saying is that it has never achieved the level of an independent world government able to intervene objectively in wars and crises, or to make laws that it is able to enforce. Its involvement in situations like the Balkan Genocides in Croatia and Kosovo are impowered by massive US support. And I will not deny that if the US objects to a ruling, it will simply ignore it and do as it wishes. This is your model for a unifying world government? Not without major overhaul.