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To: SirRealist who wrote (15153)	12/30/2001 7:05:22 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

SirR, no contradiction. If people give the UN limited power, that is the power it has. In the same way that the USA federal government doesn't have unlimited power, a revamped UN could have highly circumscribed power. But within it's rules, it could conduct forceful action against illegal actions. So, it could have teeth in the form of armed police and military, wearing their blue hats. I don't see why that would mean there would have to be a socialist [meaning state ownership of means of production] UN or that people have to be told how to wear their seat belts, whether they can smoke dope or cigarettes, what clothes to wear and how their houses need to be designed. The central point is protection of people and their property from others. People generally seem to have great difficulty separating 'telling people how to run their lives' from 'stopping them attacking other people and their property'. In both instances, the UN would be telling people what they can't do, but the essential difference is that the UN's job is to tell people that they cannot attack other people. It's very simple really. There are grey areas of statistical risk, such as whether people have the right to bear arms, chemical weapons, nuclear bombs and doomsday machines or whether they should be allowed to drive at 100 kph through pedestrian shopping areas. But those can generally be managed in a reasonable way without smothering people. Libertarian studies available here: libertarianz.org.nz It's a very simple philosophy. It's a bit like "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". "Thou shalt not steal". At present, the world is run like a feuding feudal system of medieval England with serfs and constant war, conquest and theft. Mqurice