If some poor state in Africa applied to the American Congress and was admitted to the American union, the fifty-first state would immediately be a part of an advanced political and judicial system that would revolutionize its governmental structures. But there would not be some massive overnight change. Its state government would still be its state government. Its army would become its state police or its soldiers could join the US army. The US Department of State in Washington would make known to all states worldwide that the new state is an American state. The new state would be safe from any military invasion from without and free from corruption and dictatorship from within. Its banks would join the Federal Reserve banking system and loan money with security and sophistication using advanced banking principles. Naturally some enemies of our union’s expansion will say that this is nothing more than a new form of the old imperialism. Let them say it but the new state will be open for business ready to receive capital and investments from businessmen from all the states in the world. What corporation or business would be afraid to invest in the new American state with its currency now converted to the dollar and its economy totally secured by the military, political and economic power of Washington? And what kind of imperialism is it if citizens from the new state would be free to work and live and vote and be educated or run for office in any of fifty-one states worldwide? The people of the poor “colonized” state  would elect two senators for the Senate in Washington and several congressmen for the House of Representatives in Washington. How many men or women in colonized African states were elected to the Parliament in London and traveled to London to vote for laws for the British Empire? How stupid it is to say that a new wondrous burst of freedom for a poor state is but a new form of imperialism! It’s a new superior form of political and economic organization that some states in the world need desperately. But since some will use one word like imperialism to describe a complicated process, we will also describe the daring adventure of the poor African state too with one word, one closer to the truth, freedom.
Daniel McNeill
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