Preparing The People Of Our Global Village For The Coming of Our New World

The Real World New World project is about changing the world for the better and making it more successful to people. The project proposes to do this by changing human government and changing human mindset; thus changing human behavior and human life to the better. We begin with human government because government can either affirm or deny and violate the human right to religious freedom.

The project began after the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center by Islamic terrorists. This attack awakened the sleeping giant and raised dome deep questions.  What is the generic nature of religion? What is the generic nature of the human species? Is it possible for humans to create a leadership of world order that was humanitarian, constructively proactive and preventative of this kind of catastrophe? The project is a pondering of those questions and an invitation to others to ponder these questions.

The 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center occurred in a particular social and historical context. We live in a world in which communication systems, transportation systems and economic systems have become increasingly global. Within minutes, if not seconds, visual and auditory information can be sent from anywhere to anywhere in the world by telecommunications technologies. Within a day or two anyone can be from anywhere to anywhere in the world by air travel. Within minutes, if not seconds, money can be transferred from nation to nation through the electronic transfer of money.

In my apartment in the U.S.A. I have some furniture that was made in other nations in modern times. Some of the clothes that I wear were outsourced and made in other nations by laborers who are citizens of these other nations. Some of the food I eat daily was grown in other nations. The dental floss I use after eating was made in other nations. The airplanes I travel on were probably outsourced for maintenance and repairs in other nations. American airplanes are now being routinely outsourced for maintenance and repairs in other nations. The laborers who work on the planes are being supervised by American supervisors. When I call my Internet server about my website, I dial a telephone number in America. The person who answers the phone is in Bulgaria. He is a citizen of Bulgaria. He speaks English. He logs on to my account and on to my website. We discuss our business from America to Bulgaria, from Bulgaria back to America, in the here and now. I think these kind of experiences are fairly common for Americans.

In short, we have become internationalized. We have become globalized. We are a global village. That’s not going to happen in the future. That’s here and now in the real world.

When we examine the behavior of the Islamic terrorists, we find that they make excellent use of the high tech facilities of our global village. They use the Internet to create websites and send e-mail and instant messages from nation to nation. They make excellent use of the Arab TV media to send their tapes for propoganda purposes, for recruitment purposes, and for terroristic purposes. They make excellent use of the telephone to call from nation to nation. They are creative in their destructiveness. On occasion they will use the cell phone as triggers to trigger explosions. The terrorists make excellent use of the international banking system, the electronic transfer of money, to collect money and to send money for their terrorist operations. The terrorists make excellent use of the airplane. They fly from nation to nation to participate in terrorist training camps. They fly from nation to nation to stay in safe houses with small cells of other potential terrorists.

Whereas the Islamic terrorists make excellent use of the high tech facilities of our global village, they do not feel that they belong in and to our global village. They do not identify themselves as citizens of the world; citizens of our global village; our home sweet home. They see their neighbors in the global village as their enemies who want to annihilate them socio-economically, and existentially in terms of their identity, self esteem, core beliefs, and way of life.

They are narrow in their tribal attitude. They even see their fellow brother and sister Muslims who happen to have been born into other subgroups of Islam as their enemies who want to annihilate them socio-economically, existentially in terms of their identity and self esteem and physically.

If you happen to born a Sunni or a Shiite or a Kurdish Muslim in Iraq, then you know that the members of the out-group are out to annihilate you. Either you get them first or they will get you. That’s their mentality.

Meanwhile, the state of our global village is quite active, and in some ways quite positive pre 9/11 and post 9/11.

We find some international cooperation, exchanges and sharing in science and medicine and in the arts. We find various forms of international exchange activities and programs; some government initiated and some privately initiated. Through the years there has been the Peace Corps. Doctors Without Borders perform miraculous work for pennies per patient in India, in Africa, in Mexico. Don’t forget that the 9/11 terrorists studied jet flying in American flight schools in southern Florida. At the time of 9/11 the Bin Laden family had established a scholarship fund at Harvard University for Islamic studies. There are international employment agencies that were used pre 9/11, and continue to be used by Americans post 9/11. Volumes can be written about the various kinds of international exchange activities and programs. There has been some international cooperation in the exploration of outer space. There has been some international cooperation in emergency response to natural disasters, like major earthquakes and tsunamis, and some man made disasters too. International terrorism necessitates international cooperation.

Ditto for the prevention of pandemic spread of illness, like AIDS and Bird Flu, from nation to nation. It necessitates a world organization to deal with this. There is such a world organization: The WHO (World Health Organization).

There are nations in our global village that refuse to do the research on illness in their nation, and share the research findings with the WHO, enabling the WHO to do what is good for all the people in our global village who want to continue to live.

The WHO seems powerless to make these nations comply because of the sovereignty of nations precedent in current international law. The necessity for such a world organization, I think, is obvious.

Ditto for the man made pollutions of the world. When governments of nations or groups within nations pollute the air and water, it will affect the lives of people in neighboring nations. In come cases, it will affect the lives of people in all nations. We are all in the same boat. There is a need in our global village for an independent world organization to deal with this.

Ditto for the control of weapons of mass destruction of all kinds.

Ditto for the establishment of quality control of products exported from nation to nation that could be injurious to people, or products and practices people travel from nation to nation to purchase that could be injurious to people. There is a need in our global village for a world organization to deal with this.

Ditto for the prevention of smuggling of drugs and other contraband, like arms and people. People are being smuggled from nation to nation and used for forced labor or slave labor. Sometimes these people are promised good jobs in other nations. Sometimes people cross borders for socio-economic and/or other survival reasons. They become used for forced labor or slave labor. This is still going on in our global village. It is a form of terrorism. It needs to be dealt with.

Ditto for the use of the Internet to create identity fraud and identity theft. Most of this seems to be coming from Nigeria. The Internet has also been used to create other crimes of human abuse, e.g., child abuse.

There is an international crime investigating law enforcement organizations in our global village: Interpol.

Interpol is located in Lyon, France. The current director of Interpol is an American citizen. Interpol is staffed by crime investigating law enforcement officers from various nations of our global village. 186 nations and their law enforcement organizations now have an affiliation with Interpol. That’s most of the nations in our global village. Interpol is prohibited from interfering with any of the laws and lawful behavior within nations.

Interpol could be the precursor to a much better funded, more comprehensive, even better coordinated crime investigating law enforcement organization for our global village in the future.

There are legal international commercial activities, trading and investing, which take place daily in our global village. This was at a high pitch before 9/11 and continues to be at a high pitch post 9/11. We find McDonalds in Russia, in China, and in the Middle East. Toyota has ten factories in the U.S.A. There have been some international business mergers, e.g., the merger of Chrysler with the German automaker Daimler. Then Daimler decided it wanted to sell Chrysler. There have been some limited free trade agreements between nation e.g., NAFTA; the free trade agreement America has with its neighbors to the North and South.

America, and other nations too, can become protectionistic and isolationistic in reference to particular commodities, e.g., steel. America will raise its tariffs on steel very high to protect the American steel industry and American steel workers. The result is that other nations will retaliate. Other nations will raise their tariffs very high on commodities America wants to export to their nations. There is a need in our global village for a world organization to mediate these trade wars.

Why can’t there be a free trade agreement between all the nations of our global village?

Then there is the issue of piracy; the issue of copyright violations. Business people within a nation will buy American products. Then they reproduce these products; often with inferior quality. They sell their reproduced products within their own nation. They export these products to other nations, including back to the U.S.A. They sell these products within the U.S.A. illegally at a much cheaper price in competition with the original American manufacturer of the product.

This is piracy; violation of copy right laws. There is a need in our global village for a world organization to deal with piracy.

There is such a world organization in our global village: The WTO (World Trade Organization).

The WTO does have a code of ethics for international trading. The WTO does have a judicial and appellate division within its organization. The WTO now has 150 official member nations that are affiliated with the WTO, and 20 nations affiliated with the WTO are said to have observer status. 170 nations now have some form of affiliation with the WTO. That’s most of the nations in our global village. The WTO does have the power to place economic sanctions. The WTO can increase the tariffs on all of a nation’s exports up to twenty-seven and a half percent.

There are other important international conflicts and potential international crises currently in our global village. These are two current examples: Who owns the floor of the ocean at the North Pole and the oil therein? Is it Russia or America or Canada or Denmark? Russia has already placed a flag at the bottom of the ocean at the North Pole, proclaiming that it owns the floor of the ocean at the North Pole. Does America have the right to place anti-missile missile systems in other nations, like Poland and the Czech Republic with the consent of these nations and the dissent of other nations.

If you log on to the Internet, and do a search, you will find that there is now more than 200,000 individual world organizations that deal with one or another important issues in our global village. There is the World Court that has tried leaders of nations for crimes against humanity. There is the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The IMF boils out bankrupt nations with millions of dollars. The IMF also lends financial expertise to these nations; enabling these nations to do better financially in the future. There is the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council, and the agencies within the United Nations, e.g., the agencies concerned with peace keeping, inspection for weapons of mass destruction and the funding of children’s education internationally.

Outside of the U.N. there are more than 200,000 individual world organizations concerned with one or another important issues in our global village. There is an international organization concerned with telecommunication issues. There is an international organization concerned with the sending of postal mail from nation to nation. There is an international organization concerned with the human rights of prisoners (Amnesty International).

In addition to all of these individual international organizations, there are also international meetings, for example, the G8 Summit; The periodic meetings of the leaders of industrialized nations. From time to time there are also regional meetings. Nations from a particular region of our global village will send their representatives to deal with problems facing their region. Regional meetings have been recommended by the Baker Hamilton Commission for the Middle East. Regional meetings seem to have been helpful in dealing with North Korea’s nuclear build up.

All of these individual international organizations and international meetings have no formal organizational relationship to each other.

What I’m leading to is the creation of a democratic federal government of the United Nations of the world; a Democratic New World government for our global village.

If you think this is a way out idea, I’m pleased to remind you that 27 nations have already come together to form the European Union.

The EU has its own currency; the Euro. The Euro is often worth more than the American dollar in our global village. One of the member nations of the EU, the United Kingdom, has been our strongest ally both in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The idea of a democratic new world government is not that new.

The idea of a democratic new world government is also not that new in that the relationship between the federal government of the U.S.A. and the individual states of the U.S.A. could be used as a model for creating the relationship between the democratic new world government and the individual nations of our global village.

The democratic new world government will have a constitution. It will have an elected chief executive. Before the elections, there will be debates. Hopefully, these debates will be genuinely free debates. Upon election, the chief executive will choose a cabinet. The tenure of the chief executive will be limited to a maximum of two four year terms. There will be an elected legislative branch of world government, and there will be a judicial branch of world government; a world supreme court, lower world courts, and a world appellate division.

The democratic new world government, like all democracies, will be founded on two core values.

The first core value will be a creator given bill of human rights beginning with first amendment rights: freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom to protest our government as individuals or in groups. These first amendment rights are not and cannot be given by government. Government can affirm these rights. Government can deny and violate these rights. Government cannot give these rights because government consists of people. People cannot give other people first amendment rights unless these rights have become corrupted.

First amendment rights are given to us by our creator by virtue or being born a human being on earth. The very essence of first amendment rights is equality. Each person in our global village is born with equal human rights. No person can acquire more first amendment rights than any other person; no matter who they are or what they do unless these rights have become corrupted.

It goes without saying. I’m going to say it anyway. No person has the right to use their first amendment rights to threaten the life or the liberty of other people. I’m not going into issues related to the strict scrutiny test here.

Let’s assume that first amendment rights are being actualized in a positive and genuine way, then the exercise of these rights will inevitably lead to the emergence of individual differences. Say or write your last name, individual differences will appear in your own family. When people free speak, they free speak from different funds of life experiences. They free speak from different constitutional bases. Therefore, the exercise of free speech will inevitably lead to the emergence of individual differences.

These individual differences constitute the ontological basis of the second core value upon which all democracies are founded: the core value of checks and balances; the absence of single faction domination of the government; the value of diversity.

The value of diversity refers to the absence of any single faction domination of the government: political party, political branch of government, or religion. Even though a particular religion may be held by an overwhelming majority of the population, any single faction domination of the government is anathema to the core value of checks and balances. It doesn’t matter what kind of single faction domination it is. It could be racial. It could be ideological. It could be industrial or corporate. It could be military, or it could be what President Dwight Eisenhower called “The Military Industrial Complex” faction. Any single faction domination of the government is anathema to the core value of checks and balances.

Can there exist and co-exist, under the auspices of a democratic new world government, a nation (or nations) that is governed solely by Islamic theocracy; a nation that is governed solely in accordance with Islamic law? For example, In Afghanistan, before the American attack, the penalty under Islamic law for conversion from Islam to anything else was death. There was no possible defense.

Can such a nation exist and co-exist under the auspices of a democratic new world government? The answer is: Yes.

However, the democratic new world government can set conditions for its existence and co-existence. These conditions are three: (1) anyone can enter this nation freely, without coercion, at any time, for any reason, including for inspection purposes. By inspection I mean observation and study. No person has the right to enter any nation for the purpose of subverting the laws of that nation; (2) anyone can leave this nation freely without coercion or punishment, at any time, for any reason, unless they have become criminal within this nation; (3) this nation or groups within this nation will not attack or try to hurt people of other nations who hold alternative values.

These are the three conditions for what I call the realization of the paradox of liberty, and the value of diversity.

Osama Bin Laden gave two publicly stated reasons for why he initiated the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. Both reasons were socio-economic.

The first reason was that he believed America was not doing all it could and should to help the Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank. The second reason was that he believed Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, was being used as a gas station for America. I’m not going into arguments for and against the truth of these claims here.

Let’s rather focus on what happened after 9/11: the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq and the upgrading of American homeland security.

This has already cost the American taxpayer over a trillion dollars, a conservative estimate. Years later we are still paying monetarily for 9/11. That’s not all. Look at what has been paid in terms of loss of human life, permanent human injuries, destruction of human property, and the change in the quality of American life. We are less open. This is evident at airports and in our national consciousness. America as a nation has paid and is paying an enormous price for 9/11.

Can you imagine a democratic new world government that was constructively proactive and took even a fraction of a trillion dollars; went into Gaza and the West Bank, built homes, hospitals, businesses, shopping malls, schools, universities, transportation systems, theaters, sports arenas, movie houses, art galleries, libraries, playgrounds, parks. Give the Palestinian people a decent life socioeconomically. This could have been done for under a trillion dollars. I believe 9/11 could have been prevented.

In addition to socio-economic upgrading, we need to invest relatively small amounts of money (in the hundred of thousands of dollars, rather than the hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars). Pay the militant teachers of Islam to dialogue and debate with the non militant teachers of Islam publically within their own religious group as they define it.

Record these dialogues and debates on film and sound tracks and sent them around the world through the mass medias, through the Islamic Mosques, religious schools and the universities of the world.

I would like to return our focus on the relationship between the federal government of the U.S.A. and the individual states of the U.S.A. We note that no state in the continental U.S.A. is stronger economically and militarily than the federal government of the U.S.A. No state in the continental U.S.A. can declare war on other states of the U.S.A. or declare war on other nations or states within other nations of our global village.

This is a constitutional power of the chief executive of the U.S.A. with the consent of the legislative branch of the federal government of the U.S.A.

Thus, it could be in the relationship between the democratic new world government and the individual nations of our global village.

I believe there is a necessity in our world for economic and military parity between nations. All nations must share, proportionately, to what they have, some of their economic and military strength with the democratic new world government. At the same time, there needs to be layers of safety and security measures in place for the individual nations. This will require hundreds of experts to work out, in detail, the relationship between the democratic new world government and the individual nations of our global village.

America, or any other nation, can no longer be chief police officer, judge, jury, jailer, and executioner in the world and at the same time be one nation, among the other nations of our global village, under the auspices of our democratic new world government, with liberty and justice for all.

When it comes to matters such as international terrorism, the resolution of international conflicts and crises, the distribution of scarce or precious resources, e.g., oil, the prevention of pandemic spread of illness from nation to nation, the control over the man made pollutions of the world, dealing with major regional and national catastrophes, the control of weapons of mass destruction of all kinds, the establishment of quality control of products that are exported from nation to nation, the criminal investigation and law enforcement of human abuse, human exploitation, and crimes against the humanity of people, then I believe there is a need in our global village for a democratic new world government that transcends and supercedes the sovereignty of individual nations, and at the same time contributes to the sovereignty of individual nations.

The first order of business for our new world government would be to insure safety and security for the people of our global village; safety and security for individual nations, individual states within nations, individual groups within states, and individuals within groups.

I believe America, being the strongest democracy economically and militarily, has a mission in the world to lead the other nations to the creation of a democratic new world government.

Any democracy which assumes this leadership role must first be or become a socio-economic classless society.

In a socio-economic class society, money can buy free speech; money talks.

When money talks, first amendment rights must in some ways either be compromised or negated actually or potentially. Consequently, the second core value upon which all democracies are founded, the core value of checks and balances, must also be compromised or negated actually or potentially.

No democracy can lead the world to the creation of a democratic new world government with a lie.

President Bush, in his speech to the nation, and again in his state of the union address, both delivered in January 2007, proposed that the Iraqi government share the revenues from the sale of Iraqi oil equally with each Iraqi citizen. This proposal comes from a president who has given tens of billions of dollars in tax breaks to billionaires and millionaires who didn’t need it.

I believe President Bush’s proposal to the Iraqi government for the Iraqi people portends the socio-economic future of our global village.

The best form of giving to people is for people to have their own.

I want to speak briefly about the so called problem of illegal immigration. America is said to have about 12 million illegal immigrants. Most come here to work and make some money. They are willing to take jobs Americans don’t want to do. After meeting their financial goal, many return to their nation of origin. In relation to these illegal immigrants there develops a class of criminals who, for a price, will help the illegals cross borders, and create illegal documents for the illegals to establish some kind of legitimacy for the illegals. Other nations too are increasingly having a so called problem of illegal immigration. I’ m not going into arguments for and against the illegals here.

Let’s rather resume our focus on the relationship between the federal government of the U.S.A. and the individual states of the U.S.A.

Assume that I was born in any state in the continental U.S.A. I was in fact born in New York State. I can go to any other state in the continental U.S.A. to live, to work, to study, to play.

I’m not considered an illegal immigrant. I don’t lose any of my rights as a citizen of the U.S.A. I can always return to New York State to live, if I want to. I don’t even need a passport.

Thus, it can be as citizens of our global village travel from nation to nation under a democratic new world government. Once our democratic new world government distributes the work and wealth of nations appropriately, there will be less need for illegal immigration.

More than one third of the citizens of the U.S.A., that’s more than 100 million people, are said to originate from other nations. Many come from Hispanic and Asian nations. We have here in America, among the citizens of the U.S.A., a microcosm of the united nations of our global village.

Candidates for the presidency of the U.S.A. now travel to other nations, like the United Kingdome and China, to collect money for their campaigns from Americans who live and work in these other nations, and from citizens of these other nations who have an interest in contributing to their campaigns.

Governors of American states, and mayors of American cities now make routine pilgrimages to other nations to meet with their counterparts. They take with them an entourage of bankers and other trade and investment specialists to stimulate economic growth and development within their own nations and between their nations.

We live in a world of telecommunication technologies. These technologies will become even better in the future. We will be able to conference and to chat with people in other nations daily, if we want to.

They will be able to see and hear us. We will be able to see and hear them. Our language will be translated into their languages. Their languages will be translated into our language. We will be able to share our thoughts and feelings and our faiths daily with people in other nations.

It will lead to a new meaning for the exercise of first amendment rights in our global village. It will lead to a new consciousness of our commonalities and our individualities internationally.

People will begin to identify themselves primarily as citizens of the World; Citizens of our global village; our home sweet home.

Children will be brought up pledging their allegiance and singing their anthems, not only to the nation they happened to be born into, not only to the particular religious group they happened to born into, but also to their global village; their home sweet home.

Ideally, our democratic new world government and all the people of our global village will be concerned with the actualization of the uniqueness of each person and group of people in our global village by doing and creating work which facilitates the actualization of this uniqueness. Ideally, all the citizens of our global village, now identifying themselves as Citizens of our World, will want to do their very best to contribute, in their own way, to the wellness and the welfare of our global village, our home sweet home.