Financial Times Calls For A World Government

[Orwellian_Ghost]

And now for a world government

By Gideon Rachman

Published: December 8 2008 19:13 | Last updated: December 8 2008 19:13

James Ferguson



I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US. I have never seen black helicopters hovering in the sky above Montana. But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.

A “world government” would involve much more than co-operation between nations. It would be an entity with state-like characteristics, backed by a body of laws. The European Union 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.

So could the European model go global? There are three reasons for thinking that it might.

First, it is increasingly clear that the most difficult issues facing national governments are international in nature: there is global warming, a global financial crisis and a “global war on terror”.

Second, it could be done. The transport and communications revolutions have shrunk the world so that, as Geoffrey Blainey, an eminent Australian historian, has written: “For the first time in human history, world government of some sort is now possible.” Mr Blainey foresees an attempt to form a world government at some point in the next two centuries, which is an unusually long time horizon for the average newspaper column.

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7a03e5b6-c541-11dd-b516-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1

[RB TexLa]

1. We defiantly need more regional political unions

edited to add: And they need to have more power over the national central banks or have one regional central bank for the union.

[razorman]

2. The only way a world government would be a good idea is if I am in charge.

[Skidmore]

3. Wow! That should get the "endtimers" going!

[HereSince1628]

4. Wow! JEB BUSH COULD RULE THE WORLD!!!!!

thus fulfilling the fascist dreams of his grandfather.

The great thing about a world government is that it would end wars between nations. All conflicts would simply become civil war.
Unfortunately, it wouldn't end the dying in conflicts.

[originalpckelly]

5. Nations serve as a division of power, if anything the US Gov. is too big.

[arcadian]

6. World Government = more and more people with less representation.

There isn't a system that is up for that challenge. I predict the opposite actually happening, fractionalization.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Comrades! They have finally come to see The Light! Let us sing together!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcXNXKtu8z4&feature=related

[Marrah_G]

8. A world government only sounds good if it is a form of government we like

Imagine a world government based on the laws of say .... China, Russia, Saudia Arabia, Iran, India, Pakistan, etc.

[Zuni]

9. a world government sounds like a nightmare

it would be too powerful to control

[Javaman]

10. a world government, like communism, works great on paper or as in scifi; on star trek. nt

[DireStrike]

11. It has to be done eventually to control multinationals.

The only question is, how do we do it without giving up everything of value in individual states?