Sociologist Lester Ward theorized that governments were created by power-seeking individuals who cleverly sold themselves as protectors of the peace. Any government thereby having fastened itself upon society then proceeded to turn the people into subjects and restrict their liberty. Protection remains the number one specious government claim. Liberty remains the number one casualty of government.

The world’s peoples who suffered through two world wars in the 20th century were afforded neither protection nor liberty. We now remain under the threat of further destruction from even more powerful weapons.

To restrain the individual states, the U.N. was instituted. Building upon it, global power-seekers now want a world government. Protection, world peace, progress and prosperity are the lures, especially if such a government would encompass the end of weapons of mass destruction held by the existing national governments.

But nothing prevents a world government, should it be instituted, from doing what all governments have always done, which is to turn people into subjects and restrict their liberties, while at the same time failing to supply the promised protection. Being a monopolist government run by technocrats, the worst tyranny imaginable would result.

The answer to the insecurities generated by weapons of mass destruction and other evils of national governments therefore is not world government. It is a bottoms-up restructuring of governments by the world’s peoples. If this is not done, we are looking at twin evils like international warfare and global government.

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