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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (147698)	11/19/2005 1:30:54 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

Despite the huge concentration of power and money in Washington DC, which would be a United Nations headquarters if the rest of the world disappeared, Americans are against a much less monstrous UN than they have for their own Big Brother. <It certainly sounds nothing like the US Constitution, which concentrates a great deal of power in Washington, the more decentralized Articles of Confederation having been found insufficient.> How come Americans [far from all of course] are so rabidly against a New United Nations when they have basically built an even more intrusive one in their federalist headquarters. States in the USA are lap-dogs of the feds. Yet Americans are okay with that. <And it certainly sounds nothing like any UN or EU that has ever existed, or is ever likely to exist.> Don't confuse the present with the future. In 1989 not many people were expecting the USSR to disappear soon. Sometimes things reach a cusp and the trend flips to something quite different. For example, Austria, the home of the 1000 Year Reich is now, a short time later, holding prisoner a "holocaust denier" which seems to me a ridiculous crime. Heresy is back in fashion and the Inquisition is on. Holocaust denying is quite a switcheroo from the going rules a few decades ago in Austria. What seems permanent in human affairs can turn on a dime. Look at China after Deng turned loose the black and white cats to catch mice. Check out their population problems. Give them two decades and they'll start to worry about a collapsing population. Singapore hoped to catch up to Sri Lanka a few decades ago. Now, they don't. One day a rooster, the next a feather duster. Mqurice