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Re: Re: IP: Editorial: Apocalypse Soon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Roach)
Sat Oct 9 17:58:45 1999
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Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 16:00:22 -0500
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From: Sean Roach <roach_s@mail.intplsrv.net>
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At 12:20 PM 10/8/99 -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote:
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>Then again the opposite may take place. If things got nasty enough
>once the dust settled we could wind up with a single world
>government with the surviving populace thanking them for it. After
>all if there is only one government then there is no need for WMD's.
>
>
>I am not advocating this. As much as I dislike the actions of the
>current (and previous) US governments, I am in no rush to have a
>billion chinamen telling me how to live my life either.
>
That would be worse. Then there would be no shore to get off on when
the ship started sinking.
Granted, my knowledge of US and UN policies and history is very
splotchy, but it looks to me like the UN is a close approximation of
what the US was 200 years ago. Now, the US uses its powers of
taxation and regulation of interstate commerce to force the states to
enact the laws which the constitution forbids the US from passing
directly. Manditory 55MPH and guns near schools being two examples
which stick out in my mind. The former was based on funding, which
incidentally stems from taxes, that the latter, unless I'm mistaken,
was caused by interstate commerce regulation.
As it is, with a few problems already in place with banking, that
have been brought up here, you can still, supposedly, leave this
country if you do not agree with it any longer and decide that the
freedom that you would have on your own outweighs the security that
you enjoy being under the nuclear umbrella of the US. If such an
event were to occur, the argument of defense would be near
meaningless. One might actually be safer lying low on a private
man-made island in international waters than being one of several
million citizens of a particulary hated country.
I suspect that if there were a mass exodus as was joked about when
willie took office, it would not be long before such emigration was
deemed illegal to protect the security of the nation as a whole.
Sean Roach
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