Re: world democracy vs. the fiction of sovereignty

I'm for going the other way - more compartmentalization of power, less 
centralization - take away the federal power to raise income taxes, an army 
and a secret service
our constitution says powers not delegated to the center belong to the states.
i submit that powers abused are powers abandoned by right, and must revert 
to their original owners
maybe the usa needed a strong center when it was little, but washington is 
now the enemy
no war without respect for international law and without the approval of 
state legislatures

a global government would play right into the hands of the "new world 
order" clique,
dominated by megabucks - we're almost there already!
it would also mean the end of diversity
indeed, we are all in the same boat, but keeping compartments separate is 
the basic
design principle that keeps any ship worthy against shipwreck.
the usa is now foundering on the rocks of fascist centralism....

under a loose confederation, bush would not be commander in chief today!
the militias of half the states might be under al gore's command!
it would be a defense union, collaborating only in case of a real attack,
(something that has never been) -
constitutionally forbidden to wage wars of aggression


At 11:03 11.2.03 -0500, you wrote:
> If the world were to hold a plebiscite today, it would overwhelming vote
> against the US war on Iraq.  I think we should demand world democracy
> (as one of the principle for a new world-system).  I think we should
> point out, with the looming war as an example, that real state
> sovereignty has always been a fiction anyway, and that this is most
> clearly stated by Bush officials who claim that it is the "sovereign
> right" of the US to deny the "sovereign rights" of Iraq.
>
> Elson Boles
> Assistant Professor
> Dept. of Sociology
> Saginaw Valley State University
> University Center
> Saginaw MI, 48710