The Commentary magazine website has posted an interesting article from its March issue authored by John Bolton, who served as the United States Representative to the United Nations during 2005-2006.  The article reviews a report published in September 2008 entitled, A Plan for Action, which carries the subtitle, “A New Era of International Cooperation for a Changed World:  2009, 2010, and Beyond.”  The thesis of the report can be pretty much summed up by a sentence from its Executive Summary:  “International cooperation today must be built on the principle of responsible sovereignty, or the notion that sovereignty entails obligations and duties toward other states as well as to one’s own citizens.”  It is interesting to note that A Plan for Action appeared not long after a May 2008 paper published by the Council on Foreign Relations, which dealt with many of the same issues.  Coincidentally, one of the three authors of A Plan for Action, Carlos Pascual, is a CFR member.

As Mr. Bolton points out in his critique, “There is no question, however, that the ideas advanced in A Plan for Action have become mainstays in the liberal vision of the future of American foreign policy.  That is what makes A Plan for Action especially interesting, and especially worrisome.”  It is worrisome, because its authors view the European Union as a model worth emulating.  And a statement from the official communiqué at the conclusion of the recent G20 summit in London reinforces that concern:  "We believe that the only sure foundation for sustainable globalization and rising prosperity for all is an open world economy based on market principles, effective regulation, and strong global institutions."

The global power elites view national sovereignty as some quaint, old-fashioned notion that has been overtaken by the complexity of our modern world.  They view the political and economic ideas relating to free markets, private property, and limited government as being adequate for the relatively simple conditions of the 19th century, but not for a more advanced global civilization.  It is important to understand and debunk this fallacy that we need “effective regulation, and strong global institutions,” because it leads directly to socialistic planning and a collectivist world government.

Imagine the simplest situation, which would be a society populated by two individuals.  Could anyone honestly think that Person A would be competent enough to determine what Person B should do with his time, how he should act, etc.?  Now imagine a society populated by a hundred people.  Would Person A be competent enough to control all of their creative actions?  Now imagine a society populated by hundreds of millions of individuals, such as the United States.  If one were to suggest that one person, or even a committee of so-called “experts,” would be competent enough to manage their lives and their billions of associations and exchanges, any rational observer would consider that suggestion to be absurd.

Hence, it is obvious that the more complex a society, the more certain it is that governmental control will retard productive effort.  And it logically follows that, the more complex a society, the more we should rely on the self-adapting processes of individuals acting freely, liberated from the coercive influence of government.  In the end, it should be intuitively obvious that “global institutions” cannot accurately anticipate, let alone intelligently control, every aspect of human activity everywhere on the planet.  And yet, that is precisely what the global power elites expect us to believe.  That collectivist mindset must be resisted, if we are to retain what rights and freedoms we still possess.
 

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Ray7749 said:

	... No one should listen to anything that the Zionist racist retard Bolton has to say. Its exactly him and his like that need to be run out of America.
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Common Sense Revisited Get your free download of Common Sense Revisited by clicking on the banner below.Common Sense presented common sense arguments to refute the predominant theory of sovereignty for the Western world. .....Paine made the case for individual sovereignty, declaring that all powers of government were derived from the individuals who created the government. His arguments were so clearly stated that anyone could understand that individual sovereignty was the natural order, based on self evident, eternal truths. .... To say his small pamphlet struck a chord with the colonials would be the understatement of the millenium. The first edition of 50,000 copies sold out in a day. The second printing also sold out in a day. http://www.commonsenserevisited.org/cmd.php?af=867325

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