| Baha'i Conference Promotes World Parliament | | Print | |
| Written by Joe Wolverton, II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thursday, 05 November 2009 02:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The keynote presentation was delivered by Andreas Bummel, the Chairman of the Committee for a Democratic United Nations, a Berlin-based NGO that, according to its website, seeks "to facilitate a cosmopolitan orientation of society, an improvement of international relations and the establishment of global democracy and global rule of law." Specifically, in order to achieve this goal the Committee advocates the establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly. Not unexpectedly, one of the most notable supporters of this movement is former United Nations Secretary-General Boutrous Boutrous-Ghali. In Bummel’s fascist fantasy (and that of many equally delusional globalists), the UN Parliamentary Assembly would be directly elected by all the citizens of the world and would serve as a world governing body with supreme legislative power. In reverential tones, Bummel stressed the “spiritual dimension” of his plans. “The establishment of a UN Parliamentary Assembly would represent a changed consciousness. For the first time in human history such a body would establish a direct political connection between every human being and the planet,” he gushed. Other presentations followed Bummel and mimicked its preposterous proposals. One such speech was delivered by Jean-Francis Billion, a council member of the UN’s New York City neighbor, the World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy. The predecessor of this conglomerate outfit was founded in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1947 for the purpose of “the establishment of a global federal system of strengthened and democratized global institutions with plenary constitutional power accountable to the citizens of the world and a division of international authority among separate global agencies.” Recently, they have fought for the creation of an International Criminal Court and a standing United Nations Armed Force. The Baha’i organizers reminded those in attendance that Bahaullah, the founder of the Baha’i Faith, predicted a series of joyous and momentous changes in the political, social, and spiritual life of the world. He affirmed that the happy and welcome results of such a revolution would include the formation of a one-world government, the election of a world parliament, a binding world constitution, and an armed global police force. As citizens of the United States of America, through our elected representatives, we have ordained and established the Constitution of the United States and have enshrined it as the “supreme law of the land” (Article VI). No organization may of its own volition contravene this protection. What we must fear, however, is the deliberate yet surreptitious enervation of the Constitution and the subsequent surrender of our sacred liberties by way of international treaties that according to that same section become the law of the land, as well. Our solemn and nondelegable responsibility is to unwaveringly hold accountable any of our elected representatives that votes to ratify any treaty obligating the United States or any of its several states or citizens thereof to submit to any extra-constitutional authority.
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Jordan
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... Any treaty that violates the Constitution is null and void - read http://www.unwatch.com/treaties.html |
Jordan
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... Not only do we have to hold our elected representatives accountable for ratifying unconstitutional treaties, but we can also overturn unconstitutional treaties through legislation by Congress - read same article: http://www.unwatch.com/treaties.html |
Larry
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Please read the actual proposal Nowhere in the proposal presented at www.unpacampaign.org is there anything about "one-world" government with "supreme legislative power". Rather the initiative is about giving citizens, not just countries, a voice at the United Nations. The Parliamentary Assembly would begin as an advisory body and as it proved its worth, accrue co-decision powers beginning with a say in the choice of the UN Secretary General and the UN budget. As for the US Constitution, please re-read your Federalist Papers. It is all about whether 13 separate sovereignties should yield some powers for better relations among themselves and for the common good. This is the issue played out today on a global scale when climate change, international crime, pandemics and weapons of mass destruction threaten the world. The difference is that in the 1770's, America was a revolutionary society fighting an authoritarian power and inspiring the world with its example. Today as the dominant military power with economic privileges, let us hope the U.S. does not play the role of King George, trying to snuff out the expression of democracy breaking out in the colonies. |
Bill
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Democratic planetary federation cannot be equated with fascism The objections you raise to the proposals for a planetary and democratically elected federation calls it "fascist." This would be equivalent to the 50 states calling our federal republic "fascist" because there is a coordinating federal authority. The Baha'i view of international federal governance is that it will come into being because it is the will of God. It is also the will of God that the righs of earth's nations shall be safeguarded in such a federation. It should, in fact, be based on the U.S. modoel. While you may disdain th vision of Baha'u'llah, you do not know who he is. Until you investigate his teachings and understand what he has revealed for humanity, your comments can only be seen as dismissal based on fear of world dictatotrship. Baha'is would no more want this than you would. After all, Baha'is are being actively persecuted under oppressive regimes in countries like Iran. |
Simon
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Bah'ai and Democracy This is only to be expected from the Ba'hai. As Paul Belien, has argued the problem with Islam is essentially that it is a political religion, with which is meant that it is sees everything through the looking-glass of force and authority, and recognizes the intrusive coercive body (state, in this case) as an intrinsic and most prominent face of the religion. The Ba'hai faith is Islam in its theological and philosophical roots, with certain universalist and modern collectivist ideas--much as pure democracy is a modern version of the all-intrusive tyrannies that have existed in the past--that are a veneer to all the underlying tyranny and despotism. As re: Democarcy and voice worldwide: when disparate groups are pooled into a vote...all persons eligible to vote are voting on one policy for all of them that shall be enforced. The larger the democracy territorially and culturally, the more likely it is that different groups have different desires--as such the vote will be about what monolithic solution shall be enforced on everyone. It will be oppressive inevitably, as the will of one living thousands of miles away shall be enfored monolithically worldwide. Instead of invading with arms and enforcing by sheer force of numbers, it shall be done by proxy through the parlimentary system. |
escosesrojo
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Democracy and Baha'i Everywhere right now criminal groups have different desires within nation states and oppose the imposition of law on their activities. These groups find the government oppressive. After having nearly committed suicide in two world wars, Europe now embraces pan-European identity as necessary for its future economic and political growth. War between the members of the European Union is a nightmare from the past that will not be repeated. After having nearly sundered itself in its ruinous Civil War, the United States has grown in stature and provides to all a powerful example of how disparate groups of people can join together in common cause to build a nation. In many nations there are still those who hold on to limited loyalties of region, clan, tribe, complexion, or religion. But these limited loyalties are the root cause of dissension and discord in those lands. These are diseases, not remedies. One of the blessings of our time is DNA analysis which abundantly identifies all people as the members of one species. This growing knowledge of human interconnectedness is a paradigm for the political realm as well. When anarchy occurs within a person's body, we call it cancer. The current anarchy of several hundred separate nation states must gradually give way to finding our way to global governance, not a global tyranny, but a global state in which people will no longer suffer the scourge of war, and given this, their freedom will advance the course of human civilization beyond our ken. The nation state is not the ultimate stage of human organization any more than were the tribe, the clan, or city state. This is what the Baha'i Faith teaches about global governance under law. If the Baha'i Faith is "an all-intrusive tyranny," why should its basic law include the abolition of holy war, the annulment of notions of uncleanliness of non-believers, the abrogation of priesthood and clergy, and freedom of conscience? |
concord
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no compulsion, but open invitation When European states set about establishing the EU, theer was no compulsion, but an open invitation. Baha'is are not planning to bring about a world government, a universal language or an international economy on moral basis. They keep clear of all political action and say that humanity will suffer until such measures have been adopted. They are also saying that religion has to be used as a source of unity and not of discrimination, and that it is a religious move to do do away with religion, if it becomes a sourse of conflict, but that unless and until humanity is united on spiritual basis, and religious strife is abandonned, no political system will function properly. So they concentrate their efforts on spiritual education and on whatever can become a source of harmony. Nothing fascist about all that, is there? |
