> Security Council must be abolished
> RE: U.N. marks death camp liberation
> "With calls of `never again,' the United Nations General Assembly
> commemorated the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death
> camps ..." — this is sheer hypocrisy.
> The U.N. could have prevented the genocide of more than 800,000 people
> in Rwanda. (The U.N. was alerted well in advance of the planned
> massive killings of the minority Tutsis.) In the case of Bosnia, the
> U.N. not only failed at preventing the genocide of more than 200,000
> Bosnians, but played a part in guaranteeing it.
> The permanent members of the U.N. Security Council consistently
> rejected calls by the tremendous majority of the U.N. General Assembly
> to allow the government of Bosnia-Herzegovina to defend its people
> from genocide. Actually, this stance by the U.N. Security Council went
> totally against its own U.N. article 51 which gives every U.N. member
> state the right to self-defence. Bosnia, which was a sovereign U.N.
> member state, was denied that right.
> If the U.N. is to play an effective role in preventing current and
> future crimes against humanity then it has to be radically reformed.
> The reform is simple — the U.N. Security Council must be abolished, so
> that the U.N. is not controlled by the hegemonic powers of the five
> permanent member nations.
> All paramount power should be accorded to the U.N. General Assembly so
> that the U.N. can address the issues and take the appropriate and
> effective action by a more or less global consensus.
> Zeshan Shahbaz
Moving in some kind of national direction would certainly help. As
DeTocqueville pointed out true federations never work, not even when
the members share common values.
But shifting to a national world government is impossible considering
there no single *esprit general* of UN members.
The same problem is even more obvious in Henry George's arguments
against ownership of land / geo resources. Economic justice would
require every land owner on the planet to pay a tax equal to the full
rental value of his land to a world government for redistribution on a
per head basis.
Anyone care to try to sell global Georgism to low population / high
resource countries like Russia or Saudi Arabia?
Bret Cahill
The U. S. Constitution "should be hailed as the greatest breakthrough
in political science of the age."
-- DeTocqueville "The Federal Constitution" (1833)
"Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil
society . . . "
-- Madison _The Federalist_ (1783)
