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By Roger Kimball

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2008-08-24 08:08:47

If the liberal socialists want to be “fair,” then all the rich ones need do is “send a check to the Department of the Treasury.” That check can be in any amount they wish to make it to assuage their “guilt.” There is no rule, no law, no policy, no regulation, that prohibits or inhibits them writing their “guilt checks.”
Now, just how many of those checks have we seen, or does anyone expect us to ‘ever’ see?
The word NONE comes to mind.
The national service idea reminds me of the “brown-shirts’ idea that lead one nation into chaos. Mandatory or compulsory national service under the guise of “service” which these guys want, is not like anything we expect it to be. It will be a failure & will lead to something I think could be dangerous.
As for the “punishment aspects or the atonement white men are to pay, or that America is to pay, for “misdeeds, etc., what we have here is a political philosophy trying to undermine other political philosophies by relegating the latter to that of criminal, while maintaining the former is “all good, decent, and ‘fair.’”
Assigning “blame” to all white men, is simply idiotic. That’s like blaming all black men for rape or drug additions. Its like blaming all Mexicans for laziness & social services abuses.
Trying to find someone to blame is merely another attempt by one group to gain advantage over others so they can control them. If liberal socialists think this method will last more than a year or two, they are truly fool’s. No one is going to buy into collective guilt & penance for past transgressions someone has decided they committed.
And America, like every other nation on the planet, has made mistakes, but in the end her goods far exceed any bads her detractors can conjure up.
The one world government idea also sucks. In America and many other nations on the planet, we have large governments that make mistakes. It takes awhile in some cases, but we eventually correct those mistakes.
Imagine if you can one government, huge, gargantuan really, issuing orders & controlling armies & law enforcement. Imagine trying to get that body to admit its errors & correct them. If you think for even a nano second that would happen, I have some ocean front coastal property in New Mexico I want to sell you!
We may have many nations making many mistakes in the name of their peoples. But at least we have nations that can correct their mistakes. In a one world government, even mentioning the government made a mistake will get you jailed or dead!
We have enough problems dealing with the huge bureaucracies we have here in America that the government has established. Why would we have an unelected international government body, whose bureaucratic side would dwarf even America’s bureaucracies?
DHS failed New Orleans. Now, imagine a one world government bureaucracy, which by necessity will be unelected appointed bureaucrats, responding to such catastrophes?
We will be better off with a planet that has over 190 individual national governments that respond to the peoples of those nations who elect them. One world order, means, despotism on a global scale. The UN represents what such a despotic organization a one world government would become.