I have no objection to a "world government" in theory, but it would have to be a firmly restricted Constitutional-type government.

Unfortunately, all the current viable candidates for "world government," like the United Nations, are morally corrupt and firmly planted in the field of socialism and other forms of oppressive collectivism. Unless someone comes up with something better, I will not be a "one-worlder."

In the late 1700s I would not have been an advocate of a "United" states either if the only proposal had involved an emperor.

It is beginning to look like the United States may end up being the world policeman, but although it sure beats the Worldwide Communist Hegemony, I don't trust our leaders that much farther.

The science fiction government I liked the best was the robot policemen concept on "The Day The Earth Stood Still."

KLAATU: "I am leaving soon and you will forgive me if I speak bluntly. The Universe grows smaller every day -- and the threat of aggression by any group -- anywhere -- can no longer be tolerated.

There must be security for all -- or no one is secure . . . This does not mean giving up any freedom except the freedom to act irresponsibly. Your ancestors knew this when they made laws to govern themselves -- and hired policemen to enforce them.



We of the other planets have long accepted this principle. We have an organization for the mutual protection of all planets -- and for the complete elimination of aggression. A sort of United Nations on the Planetary level . . . The test of any such higher authority, of course, is the police force that supports it. For our policemen, we created a race of robots.

Their function is to patrol the planets -- in space ships like this one -- and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression we have given them absolute power over us.

At the first sign of violence they act automatically against the aggressor. And the penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk.

The result is that we live in peace, without arms or armies, secure in the knowledge that we are free from aggression and war -- free to pursue more profitable enterprises.

We do not pretend to have achieved perfection -- but we do have a system -- and it works."

Go ahead, punk. Make my day.

Unfortunately, we have no analog of an emotionless, utterly rational robot police force, a government that is content to restrict itself to the only true function of a government: protecting its citizens from aggression. A government of men almost inevitably attempts to accrue numberless additional powers until the control over the citizen's every activity is absolute.

It is interesting that it is recognized in the movie that laws and agreements are useless unless one has the force to back them up.