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Re:Founder of Blackwater's Drive to Build a Private Air Force by cm2187 on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @05:10AM (#11486782)
The concepts of police, laws, courts are concepts that make sense within a country. There seems to be a drive toward treating the world as a sort of country where universals laws, courts and police have some authority globally, usually dictated and controlled by the permanent members of the UN security council.

I do not think this is practical or even desirable.

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Re:Founder of Blackwater's Drive to Build a Private Air Force by kuschku on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @06:19AM (#11487006)
When people in Germany get their bank accounts seized by the FBI because they bought Cuban Cigars from a shop in Denmark, and it's justified with "US Embargo of Cuba", it becomes easily noticeable that it's not the laws of the UN governing the world.

Instead, more and more, the US is trying to become a world government, with 6.7 billion people affected by their choices, indirectly taxed by their choices (US corps replacing local companies and transporting the profit out of the country), without any representation.

This is a very unbalanced situation, and is just asking for a revolution. Which will end up making life worse for almost everyone.

We need a fair world government if we want to do these things, and that means representation of all people.

Obviously, the US, which would lose the most from this, objects.

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Re:Founder of Blackwater's Drive to Build a Private Air Force by vmorgulis on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @09:17AM (#11487843)
> When people in Germany get their bank accounts seized by the FBI because they bought Cuban Cigars from a shop in Denmark, and it's justified with "US Embargo of Cuba", it becomes easily noticeable that it's not the laws of the UN governing the world.

Or the weakness of those countries towards US that can be explained by recent history.

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Re:Founder of Blackwater's Drive to Build a Private Air Force by cm2187 on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @06:25AM (#11487025)
That's actually I meant by permanent member of the UN security council. A club of 5 members which list will never be revised and who aspire to rule the world.
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Re:Founder of Blackwater's Drive to Build a Private Air Force by vmorgulis on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @09:11AM (#11487809)
> A club of 5 members which list will never be revised and who aspire to rule the world.

Until next war.

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Re:Founder of Blackwater's Drive to Build a Private Air Force by cm2187 on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @09:43AM (#11488041)
Cockroaches will rule the world after the next world war...
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Re:Founder of Blackwater's Drive to Build a Private Air Force by vmorgulis on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @10:27AM (#11488435)
Or apes ;-)
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