On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 20:24:02 -0400, Kevin Gowen
<kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets
inscribed:

>Michael Cash wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 04:59:11 +0800, "Sryn" <sryn@yahoo.DELETETHIS.com>
>> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>> 
>> 
>>>"Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message 
>>>news:2tg3c2F1uuvaqU22@uni-berlin.de...
>>>
>>>>Eric Takabayashi wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I'm not sure you've had the chance to
>>>>>elaborate on this before: if the UN is not
>>>>>legitimate,
>>>>
>>>>Well, I don't know what you mean by "not legitimate". It clearly exists,
>>>>but it has no executive, legislative, or compulsory judiciary power.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>what would you have instead, and
>>>>>to serve what purpose?
>>>>
>>>>I've talked about this before. I would have an organization of which
>>>>only democratic states could be members. No security council, and no
>>>>pretending to be a world government.
>>>>
>>>>- Kevin
>>>
>>>Is there any teeth in that?
>> 
>> 
>> Since there are no teeth in the UN, we would be no worse off.
>> 
>> Kevin, it may be time to trot out my old post showing what constitutes
>> a majority in a world government.
>
>Bring it on!
>
>- Kevin


Here 'tis, from March 2002:


Mainly for Eric, but I'm sure Kevin will have fun with this too
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Please choose the more palatable of the two following hypothetical
scenarios:

Number One
135 million people (about 2% of the world's population) govern the
rest of the people in the world.

Number Two
6 nations (about 2% of the world's nations) govern the rest of the
nations in the world.


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Using the numbers from http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/idbrank.pl
(just for shits and giggles and because it was the easiest to find)
and assuming that each of the  227 countries and regions listed there
would be a part of our World Government...

I find that were we to base representation on "one member, one vote"
then the 135 million people of the least populated 114 (50% plus 1)
would constitute a majority. Should they form a bloc, you would have 2
percent of the world's population calling the shots for everybody.

If we seat representatives proportionally to each country or region's
population, then the top 6 nations would have a majority of the votes.
Two percent of the member states could call the shots for the other
98%.

What conclusion can be drawn from this? For one, obviously the people
who bitch about America wielding power far out of proportion to its
(roughly) 5% share of the world's population are being unreasonable
and entirely out of line. I have demonstrated that decisions for the
entire world can be made by a mere 2% of the world's population.
America exceeds that threshold by 250%, clearly establishing ample
authority for doing as it damned well pleases. There has never been a
more clear mandate.





--

Michael Cash

"I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in lieu of
a high school transcript."

                                Dr. Howard Sprague
                                Dean of Admissions
                                Mount Pilot College