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Why I am opposed to a One-World Government by Michael Rivero There is nothing new about one-world rule.
From a political and economic point of view, ruling the world means
controlling everything one can reach that is worth controlling.
Alexander the Great conquered the whole world that he could reach, and
the treatment of those he conquered serves as a model for the realities
of life under a world dictatorship. Rome also conquered pretty much the whole
world that it was aware of (until it hit Germania). Life was pretty good
if you happened to live in the capital city within walking distance of
the Colloseum and the Circus Maximus, but everywhere else life was made
harsh by Roman rule, else there would have been no need for legions
located across the empire to stamp out rebellions by the tax-weary
populace. All conquerors like to boast that they are a benefit to the
conquered, but common sense and history shows this to be a self-serving
lie. Whether you are Caesar or Hitler, if you use military might to
force your way of life on another, then the people being forced clearly
do not agree that the way of life of the conquerors is a blessing. One-world rule is great for the rulers, but
terrible for the ruled. My opposition to a One-World Government is based
on two arguments, one obvious, and one subtle. The obvious argument against a One-World
Government is that while the New World Order groupies imagine a
One-World Government with a benevolent Santa Claus in charge, the
reality is that power will attract the very sort of people who should
not have it, who will do anything to get it, and therefore once they
have it, will do anything with it. Human history proves that as soon as we are
all slaves to a One-World Government, it is inevitable that this
government will fall into the hands of another Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot,
or Torquemada. No purported safeguards can prevent that from happening.
Hitler was elected by the German people, and our own recent history
proves that elections can be rigged by powerful individuals or agencies.
Past genocidal monsters were stopped
because the nations they ruled, however powerful, were only one out of
many. Those other nations were then able to band together to stop the
single monster, as was the case in World War II. What happens if a One-World Government
falls into the hands of another Hitler? The people of the world would be
no more able to stop a new Hitler than the people of Germany were able
to stop the first one. Imagine the world today if Hitler had won WW II.
That is the world which MUST sooner or later come to exist, cannot help
but come to exist, under a One-World Government. That danger alone, of
the creation of a one-world dictatorship waiting to be plucked as a
prize by the most ruthless cutthroat the species can breed, is alone
reason to abandon the suggestion of a One-World Government. The second reason to avoid a One-World
Government is a bit more subtle. The creation of such a One-World
Government pre-supposes that the very structure of such a government is
the best of all possible systems under which people could be ruled. But
every system ever created assumes that they are the best possible
system. The Egyptians believed that. So did the Romans. So did the
Confederacy. And the rulers of such systems, being the beneficiaries,
worked hard to preserve those systems and to crush out examples of
alternative systems that might actually be better ones. The process by which one social system
replaces others is a process of evolution. Under a One-World Government,
such social evolution would stop. There would be no tolerance for
alternative systems, no experimentation with new social orders, no
possibility of recovery from socio-political trends detrimental to the
people. The political structure of the New World Order would be no more
tolerant of alternatives than are the two established parties of the
United States, the Republicans and the Democrats (which are in reality
two faces of the same oligarchy). It is impossible to claim that the perfect
socio-political system has been found, yet the establishment of a
One-World Government is founded on the very assumption that it is the
perfect socio-political system, and that therefore no corner of the
world should be allowed to rule themselves with a different system. Michael
Rivero
is in charge of the website whatreallyhappened.com This article was published in the Oct.-Nov.-December, 2002 issue of “Michael”. |