At 08:40 PM 11/30/95 +0000, attila wrote:
<attila sez> but WTO is also accumulating a rather larger bureaucracy and is challeng Uncle Sam on severl major unilateral actions. [...] and it will be by the WTOs and world courts, or the Rockefeller NWO --read UN, and UN troops in America.
This is excessively paranoid: The main threat to freedom is still internal, rather than external. The major expansion of WTO power came because of the notorious corruption and one sidedness of American courts judging disputes between foreign and American businessmen. Since WTO courts do not have WTO gunmen this amounts to a major separation of judicial and executive power, thus though it is a centralizing move, it is also a move that favors liberty an the rule of law. Of course the first stages in centralization always do, at first, favor liberty and the rule of law as they restrain corrupt and lawless local powers. Later, much later, the centralized power becomes a greater threat to liberty than those local authorities that it restrained. That stage is still a long way down the track, and very likely the modern nation state will collapse first. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com