Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!lanl-a!unm-ivax!cliff From: cliff@unm-ivax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: World Government Message-ID: <516@unm-ivax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Jul-83 00:17:19 EDT Article-I.D.: unm-ivax.516 Posted: Wed Jul 6 00:17:19 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jul-83 17:17:37 EDT Lines: 26 I am interested in designing a world government that would encourage alternate governments under it. I picture a simple design (the implementation will be intricate, but I may be nuclear rubble before I get a chance to work on it). A major premise behind my vision is each participating country would not prevent emmigration in any way between other participating countries Immigration could be limited in any way the governing body of a particular country wishes. It would be hard to have one country imprisoning people for victimless crimes if another country would be happy to allow the ``criminals'' to imigrate w/o completing their sentance. Hopefully there would be no countries that would relish importing murderers, but if there were, and everyone in the country had the option to leave, there would be a place for the hardened criminals to kill each other in peace. I hope that teaser will get people conversing about the concept of a Meta-government that will encourage evolution in governments. I believe that a country will prosper in direct proportion to the support of individual rights. I hope to live in the day that will make our current practices look like barbarism from a dark age. --Cliff [Matthews] ...ucbvax!lbl-csam!lanl-a!unm-ivax!cliff