Liberty Maven

I don’t exactly know how I feel about all this talk of a “New World Order”, or a world government.  Typically it’s discussed in the context of a mass conspiracy.  Personally, I have a low regard for such theories, mainly because they presuppose that the architects behind these conspiracies are incredibly brilliant and devious.  They would have to be, wouldn’t they?  If they mastermined economic collapses and planned and/or faked terrorist attacks, they would have to plan very carefully, and make sure that the unlimited amount of variables involved are just right in order to make it all work out.  But I think that’s giving these villains way too much credit.  I personally think it’s much more likely that the events that occur aren’t part of a mass conspiracy, but that those who do desire such a thing as a “world government” will naturally use such events as opportunities to seize more power, and, since governments are naturally inclined toward grabbing more and more power all the time, such a thing is very much in their comfort zone when opportunities rise.

In The Advocates for Self Government‘s most recent Liberator Online, James W. Harris brings up the subject since Gideon Rachman wrote in The Financial Times that “for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible” and then goes on to discuss how the European Union has doing their part to attempt to unify that part of the world, and how he feels it could easily be used as a model for the whole world.

“A ‘world government’ would involve much more than cooperation between nations,” Rachman says. “It would be an entity with state-like characteristics, backed by a body of laws. The European Union [EU] has already set up a continental government for 27 countries, which could be a model. The EU has a supreme court, a currency, thousands of pages of law, a large civil service and the ability to deploy military force.”

A world government, Rachman stresses, could not be created democratically, because we ignorant unwashed masses, lacking the wisdom and foresight of those who rule us, mostly hate the idea.

“Even in the EU — the heartland of law-based international government — the idea remains unpopular. The EU has suffered a series of humiliating defeats in referendums, when plans for ‘ever closer union’ have been referred to the voters.

“In general, the Union has progressed fastest when far-reaching deals have been agreed by technocrats and politicians — and then pushed through without direct reference to the voters.

“International governance tends to be effective, only when it is anti-democratic.”

I find all this talk nauseating, but interesting nonetheless.  Read the whole of Harris’ article at The Advocates for Self Government.