Dole Prunes Presidentby William T. Holmes,
I support Senator Bob Dole's efforts to repeal the Emergency Powers Act. My research indicates that the United States has been under martial law at least since FDR amended the Trading With The Enemy Act. Every president since has invented or extended a "national emergency" in order to maintain their power and that of the executive agencies. It's time to limit Presidents to the declaration of martial law only in the event of an insurrection or an actual assault on the United States. Then we can dust off the Constitution and use it-our contract with the feds-to limit government to the protection of persons and their property. While I appreciate the good intentions of those who advocate a world government, some of the greatest evils have been perpetrated with the best of intentions. Concentrations of power such as those embodied by governments and religions are generally the cause or means of massive harm. It's better to devolve government and limit it to the protection of persons and their property, than to expand government to another hierarchical level. At least now we can flee to other countries. Under a world government turned tyrannical, we would have no place to go. When an individual or business with unlimited liability makes a mistake, the damage is localized. It is a lesson painfully learned by the individual or stockholders. When a world government makes a mistake, the consequences can be catastrophic for all humans and perhaps all life. When governments make mistakes, the damage is wide-spread and involves many innocents. Studying nature has taught me that diversity is far more important than unity. Sameness begets stagnation and the inability to adapt to the ever-changing environment on this Earth. Just as plants and animals must compete to assure the survival of life on this planet, so must businesses compete to assure the survival of a viable economy with free trade and the division of labor it enables. Just as businesses must compete, so should governments compete, evolve and adapt to the chang-ing requirements of geographically dispersed and culturally different people. A one- world government would have no competitor. I view with trepidation the one-worlders and others who seek solutions in government and its ability to compel others, rather than solve problems (usually caused by government) by voluntarily cooperating with others. Concentrations of power will always be perverted to benefit a minority to the disadvantage of the majority. In seeking security by establishing a world government, they may enslave us all.
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