We’re being invaded, call 1-911!

December 19, 2009 | Posted by Paul Wolborsky

When the Iraqi Tribunal finally put Saddam Hussein on trial, he yelled out

“I am the legally-elected President of Iraq, I do not recognize your authority”.

Defiant, and fruitless, for he was tried and hanged for ordering the executions of Shiite men after their failed revolt following the 1st Gulf War.

But he had a point.

It was true in the last millenium, and still true today. National Sovereignty is the top level of law. There is no Global authority. The UN claims certain powers over countries, but it’s power is backed up by economic, and then military cooperation between many countries.

Which is the reason why genocides and world-wide Human Rights violations run rampant throughout the world, and the UN, which was formed to protect Human Rights has been able only to put a few people on trial after the fact.

The fact is, a strongman or party can come to power in a country, and legalize every form of assault on human dignity – genocide, oppression, slavery, rape, torture. Laws can be amended to turn elections into formalities. And what can anyone do about it?

If a Country’s misbehavior affects its neighbors, the UN can impose economic sanctions. If a country invades its neighbors, a group of countries can join together and go to war. Sanctions and War have been the only way the UN can check rogue nations, and they seldom work. And if a Rogue country is savvy enough to not offend its neighbors, it can murder, rape, enslave, steal the worldly belongings from any group within its borders unencumbered by world opinion or outrage, if there is even outrage – like Darfur. What could we do about it? Sanctions and War.

Darfur. North Korea Death Camps. Laws executing gays in Uganda and Rwanda. Hutus and Tutsis. Iran’s crackdown on protestors and Nuclear ambitions. The Taliban and their Nuclear ambitions. Albinos in the Congo. Women in the Congo. Apes in the Congo. Heck, every living thing in the Congo. This is a big list.

And Saddam was hung on the basis of a system of laws put into effect after he committed his crimes.

Sanctions and War is not enough. We need a World Police. Under their watchful eye, Saddam wouldn’t have been able to violate every tenet of Human dignity so openly, and may have gone on into old age living in spendor like an old Mafiosi, a few bodies buried, but not the wholesale jubilee of evil we watched for 30 years.

But a World Police requires nations to give up a piece of their sovereignty. Could you imagine our President preparing to give a speech to the Nation about why we invaded Canada when a group of men in suits enter the White House and arrest him? Would Americans allow that, even if the President invaded because he owned a lumber company and we coveted Canadian trees?

How could that be possible? The UN sponsored numerous treaties that signatories signed in order to join. When you join the UN, you, a country, gets the benefit of numerous free programs for education, disease-control, low-cost loans, emergency food, military protection in case your neighbor invades you. But aside from sanctions and war, you lose no sovereignty.

But it’s on the right track. A country will give up a little piece of sovereignty to a global body that is useful. But what would really get buy-in if there is an economic boon.

And what would be an economic boon compelling enough to get Countries to sign an iron-clad treaty to protect the human rights of its inhabitants?

Access to Space. Space by international treaty is open to all. But if a global body like the UN gets police power, it can be given the ability to give and take access. Whether by rocket or Space Elevator. When Space Elevators are in operation, the Global Body can offer discounts, and all the assistance needed, and berths in orbit, and transit between Elevator and berths. It could even build a giant version of the ISS for use by countries that cannot afford their own structures in Space. This would be a tremendously valuable resource, tapping into solar energy, building habitats, production, research and development, mining asteroids.

Space is the key to the beginnings of a Global Gov’t, which has problems of its own. But Human Rights would not be one of them.