Who Wants a One-World Government?

Factual Questions
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This question occurred to me while reading this thread, in which the OP asks for specifics about an impending one-world government, complete with black helicopters and daughter-raping UN soldiers.

Has any group or demographic ever come out in support of a one-world government? Has anyone ever seriously suggested that unifying the world under a single legislative body is even remotely possible within our lifetimes? It’s a plausible idea, looking thousands of years in the future to a time when world culture is far more homogenous. But who has suggested that it’s possible now, and that it would be good thing?

Note that I posted this in General Questions, not Great Debates, because essentially, I’m looking for cites here, though anecdotes are welcome.

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It’s certainly far from impossible. Who would have thought, sixty years ago, that France and Germany would send members to the same parliament? Who’s to say that before I die I won’t elect my first MWP?

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It’s possible, but certainly not a good idea, IMO. Still, the original question stands: who actually thinks that a One-World Government would work?

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[mental religious hijack]

Sorry, but if you don’t know then you may find it interesting that… the antichrist will be into one-world government in a big way. And currency, etc. It’s a kind of reverse Babel thing. It’s also why many folks round my way are twitchy about the Euro, although if you ask me the Euro will just be… well, the Euro. There’ll be plenty wrong with it without blaming the devil.
I’m not worried though. I have a Friend who’s promised to sort it out. ;j

But then… I don’t suppose that’s what you were looking for…

[/mental religious hijack]

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I’m aware of the role the OWG plays in the fears of fundamentalist Christians and Michigan militias. What I’m asking is if anyone has ever seriously advocated that such a OWG would be a good thing? I’m not talking about wishy-washy debating bodies like the UN or the EU, I mean an organization with at least the same power over an individual’s life as, say, the American government.

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Most people who talk about a One World Government these days are talking about a totalitarian One World Government, to which almost everyone except the people in charge of it (Napoleon? Genghis Khan? Alexander?)

I’d have no problem with a democratic (or if you like, democratic republic) world government. In fact, I think it would make more sense than splitting people up into 170+ national governments.

I’d be in favor of a democratic world government. (but I don’t think it could happen for a very long time, unless the Independence Day Aliens show up)

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Oops. That should read: “…except the people in charge of it (<snip>) would oppose it.”

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The World Federalist Association promotes the idea of a world federal state.

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There’s also the United Planetary Federation (apparently AKA or FKA the Unified Peace Foundation), which despite a rather Trekkie feel is apparently an actual non-profit group world government group.

[Monty Python]And now for something completely different![/Monty Python]

And don’t forget the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who wants an “automatic theocracy to rule the world”.

The subject of world government also came up on a Christian Reconstructionist e-mail list I was lurking on. There seemed to be a general consensus that the idea of some sort of a decentralized world federal government wouldn’t necessarily be a bad idea per se, once Calvinistic Christian commonwealths implementing Old Testament law had been universally established. (According to the late Reconstructionist author David Chilton, “The Christian goal for the world is the universal development of Biblical theocratic republics, in which every area of life is redeemed and placed under the lordship of Jesus Christ and the rule of God’s law” – Paradise Restored: A Biblical Theology of Dominion)

So we seem to have a variety of world governments to choose from here.

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It’s kinda like extending the world alliances even further. Can’t see it happening in our lifetimes though.

The Kyoto Protocol is a worldly government thing. (If USA decides to join in )

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This may be a dense semantics question, but why would it be called a One-World Government rather than a One-Government World? Or maybe one World Government?

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Isn’t the ultimate goal of free-traders the establishment of one set of rules regarding business? It’s already been done in most of Europe, NAFTA is slowly expanding, and other areas are looking towards eliminating export/import restrictions.

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a one world government gives too much power to our leaders.

'nuff said.

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And a sixth-of-the-world (China, India, population-wise) or quarter-of-the-world (the U.S., GDP-wise) government doesn’t? Where does one draw the line?

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Besides, we won’t be able to join the United Federation of Planets until we have one world government. And we all have to wear the same clothes, too.

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I want a Twelve-World Government.

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In Great Debates.

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This just reinforces my conviction against it. I just don’t look good in jumpsuits.

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Not to mention we’d all have to get prosthetic surgery to make our noses and foreheads look different from any other planets, preferably in a goofy looking way.

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Venus is a world and Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Pluto plus the others are too, so I propose: Federated Nations on Earth or United States of the Earth which would of course be called the USE