I agree Gina. The current trends in the UN won't lead to peace. They are just confiscatory bureaucratic authoritarians in sheep's clothing, bleating about international law. There is no international law with any ethical foundations.
That's because the UN is a structure giving preferential power to a cabal of people who by hook or by crook get to run the countries which happened to form the boss structures in the UN.
It is still very much jungle rules out there. People universally want civilisation, but have different ideas about what that means.
The main ideological problem for the 21st century is still the idea that the individual is the servant of the state, the collective, the priesthood and their body and other property is for the bosses to confiscate and dispose of. Human cannibalism remains the order of the day. A lot of people quite rightly fear having that ideology rampant everywhere on eart. They prefer the jungle.
I like the idea of civilisation and a Federal system of international law and constitutional strictures. Which will require boundaries to be defined, disputes resolved and lots of stuff.
It could start small, with 3 little countries forming one [an Axis of Civilisation to counter the Axis of Evil, Matrix of Malevolence and Boss of the Jungle]. Others could join as they comply with constitutional requirements. Some might never join. Fine.
Or, it could start with a reconstitution of the existing United Nations.
The jungle is bad, but Big Brother is worse.
Individual freedom and property rights remains the key. Governments universally despise individuals, hence the need for a constitution for freedom and property, not tax, redistribution, laws 'for your own good', and subjugation to those who would be King.
We are a long way from that, even in the land of the free and home of the brave. Do people really feel free? Do they really feel brave? Bluster and bullying are not bravery. There's more to freedom than choosing which freeway to take and which diner to get fat at. Around the world, governments are burying our freedom in a million rules, regulations, laws, promulgations and restrictions as they grow and grow, like Topsy. Or is it Jack and The Beanstalk?
But with all our Big Brother stuff, I far prefer living here [New Zealand] than under the yoke of Islam with daily Head Hackings and stonings to death of women. It seems Moslems prefer it here too - there are crowds arriving.
By the way, why on earth don't women get serious about not being able to walk on streets alone at night and feel safe? Why do they tolerate the Nigerian woman being stoned to death or even threatened with it [for having a baby without being married]?
They bleat on here about equal pay, which they get. They are living under terror, constantly every day and with a real and serious threat, yet grannies get searched by airport security for nail clippers. There is a clear and present danger being ignored. Everyone cowers indoors in the dark or hides in their cars.
Weapons of mass destruction are no more dangerous than weapons of individual destruction. Whether being nuked in Hiroshima, falling from Windows on the World or being Kylie Jones being knifed to death on the way home from work at 6pm by Taffy Hotene is terrifying. I think I'd prefer to fall than being knifed - the horror of human malevolence adds a nightmare layer to simple natural physics of collapse [albeit initiated by an act of malevolence].
It would be easy to stop terrorism. Transfer the fear to the terrorists. Taffy didn't care. He knew he'd go back to gaol, from where he was stupidly released a few weeks earlier, with meals, accommodation, Sky tv, buddies, all mod cons.
If the woman might be a decoy, with his face subsequently appearing on a dog food can, with him inside, he'd be a bit more circumspect about attacking a woman or child.
Most people with children fear for their lives if they roam the countryside or streets alone [I mean young children]. Women in the 'free' west, fear for their lives and don't casually go roaming the countryside or streets without worrying about their security.
Terrorism begins at home.
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