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Re: how to overcome competition among nation states?
John BUNZL
Wednesday, 9 April 2003
(* Our WP should not include politicians. This people I hate them (.) I
suggest to the NGO working in social development, to be our priority *)
Dear Zita NYIRENDA,
I heartily share your distaste for politicians! However, whatever kind of
people a future WP may or may not consist of, if we are to actually * reach
* a WP we are obliged to work with the people currently in control, however
much we may dislike or despise them. This is because, as I have previously
pointed out, a WP cannot have any power unless that power is first conferred
upon it by existing politicians and governments. For to try to create one
without ensuring that power is conferred upon it would be merely to create a
PWTS (Powerless World Talking Shop) and not a WP.
That is why people around the world need to bring existing politicians and
governments around the world to cooperate with one another to implement the
will of the people. The International Simultaneous Policy Organisation
(ISPO) http://www.simpol.org is a growing association of citizens
world-wide who use their votes in a new, co-ordinated and effective way to
drive all nations to co-operate in solving our planetary crisis.
Transnational citizen action is vital because global markets and
corporations so comprehensively overpower individual nations that no
politician dares make the first move to solve global problems for fear of
competitive disadvantage.
ISPO overcomes this paralysis by bringing all nations to adopt in
principle - and then to simultaneously implement - the Simultaneous Policy
(SP), a range of democratically selected regulations to bring about economic
justice, environmental security and peace around the world.
By adopting SP, ISPO's members pledge to vote in future elections for * any
* political party or candidate - within reason - that also adopts SP. As
more and more citizens act in this way, politicians will adopt it too if
they wish to remain in office. Adopting SP involves no risk because
simultaneous implementation removes everyone's fear of first-mover
disadvantage. SP thus transcends party politics by providing a powerful tool
for citizens to drive politicians and governments to deliver the measures
our world so desperately needs.
In this way, Zita, instead of being * abused * by politicians, we can
instead turn the tables and start to * use * politicians to bring them
finally to do what * We, the People * (and NGOs) want them to do! In this
way, we can succeed in forcing them to do many things, including to confer
power and legitimacy on a WP which this forum is presently discussing.
Without existing politicians and governments, however, unfortunately we can
do nothing.
With best wishes
John Bunzl - Director
ISPO
WP21 Alliance Forum on a World Parliament for the 21st Century
E-mail : world-parl@forums.alliance21.org
Fax 1 717 264 5036
Information, inscriptions, désinscriptions: germa@alliance21.org
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