Roosevelt Also Fights For The Good Of The World

    President Wilson’s Fourteen Points contained 2 points that were a public statement of a United States foreign policy that would continue throughout the 20th century. In point 14, Wilson wanted a “general association of nations” with “specific covenants” for “affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike”. In point 3, he called for “The removal of all economic barriers and the establishment of the equality of trade conditions among all nations.” This policy was not a national policy but the policy of a government giving itself the role of an international government. Washington was out to organize the world into a united community of nations. President Wilson, exhausted and sick,travelled by train all over the United States in 1919 wearing himself out making speech after speech to try to gain popular support for his League of Nations. He knew as did other world leaders that there would be another world war, worse than the First World War, if no  worldwide force was instituted to pacify warlike nation-states. The American Senate voted against the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles. President Wilson died in 1924 having tried and failed to set up in a preliminary form a united states of the world. However, the Second World War gave a new American president, Franklin Roosevelt, the chance to again try to organize the world for good. The organization of the nations of the world into a worldwide community was impossible in 1919  because  large parts of the world were ruled as territories of European imperialist nations. Roosevelt saw a chance to fight the new war for a moral purpose. The British Empire and the American states agreed at the Conference of Placentia in Newfoundland in 1941 to the Atlantic Charter. Winston Churchill understood the goal of the charter to be the defeat of Fascism and the restoration of the sovereignty of occupied states. Franklin Roosevelt understood the charter differently. He understood the alliance as a chance to put an end to worldwide imperialism and to establish new nations worldwide. Roosevelt told Churchill, “I can’t believe that we can fight a war against fascist slavery and at the same time not work to free people all over the world from a backward colonial policy. The peace cannot include any continued despotism...Equality of peoples involves the utmost freedom of competitive trade.” Roosevelt was thus restating early in the alliance Wilsonian principles of free peoples and free trade worldwide. He told his son Elliot, “I’ve tried to make it clear to Winston (Churchill) - and the others- that, while we’re their allies and in it to victory by their side, they must never get the idea that we’re in it just to help them hang on to the archaic, medieval Empire ideas...Great Britain signed the Atlantic Charter. I hope they realize the United States Government means to make them live up to it.” The Soviet union of 15 states and the American union of 48 states were happy to be allied with the British Empire in the worldwide war to destroy fascism but they were both also the enemies of worldwide imperialism and both had already organized parts of the world into unions of states.

Daniel McNeill’s play,The Body Is A Legal Drug, will have 7 performances during the Midtown International Theater Festival in New York in July and August at the Davenport Theatre 354 West 45th Street. 212-956-0948.

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Loving the one your’re with can come back to haunt you. A new comedy about

finding your true identity.

Performances: July 18 2:30 pm. July 20 6:30 pm. July 24 6:30 pm. July 26 7:00 pm. July 28 8:30 pm. July 31 8:00 pm. August 2 3:30 pm.

Putin Thinks It's Odd

Putin of Russia found it “odd” that the American Federal Government’s justice department arrested 7 people in Zurich, Switzerland ahead of a FIFA meeting accusing them of corruption in matters relating to worldwide football contracts. It is “odd” but what else but a central government of a worldwide union of states is in a position to prevent worldwide corruption? It is precisely the lack of such an interstate power that allowed corrupt officials of the FIFA to steal so much money. Welcome to the world of the future, Mr Putin. We are either going to give some sovereign powers to a global government, like the one in Washington, to police global corruption or it will get worse. As for now, the corrupt nation-state governments of the globe are doing nothing against global corruption. Oh, by the way, the Federal Government in Washington DC has limited sovereign powers, is not a state, and it is a de facto world government.

Daniel McNeill’s play,The Body Is A Legal Drug, will have 7 performances during the Midtown International Theater Festival in New York in July and August at the Davenport Theatre 354 West 45th Street. 212-956-0948.

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Loving the one your’re with can come back to haunt you. A new comedy about

finding your true identity.

Performances: July 18 2:30 pm. July 20 6:30 pm. July 24 6:30 pm. July 26 7:00 pm. July 28 8:30 pm. July 31 8:00 pm. August 2 3:30 pm.

The Three Stages Of American History

   The three stages of American history are perfectly clear: interstate union up to Lincoln, nationalism from Lincoln until the assassination of Kennedy in 1963, then internationalism. The American states have always remained sovereign and Washington has always steadily increased its power, but the states have never been like other states in the world because they are not fully sovereign and Washington has never been a state. The emphasis in each stage is what counts not the shifting balance of power between the  governments local, state and central. The most important fixed element of the union’s unity is that Washington has always been an interstate government with limited sovereign powers and this made it easy to fashion and refashion itself in each of the three stages, especially during the last and present stage when it became an international government.

   The third stage arrived at the end of the Cold War in 1962. The postwar conflict between the US and Russia forced Washington and Moscow to try to take control of the world. The US exported its corporations globally and destabilized any government that did not support a capitalistic economy. Russia exported technical and monetary help to puppet states under its power or to states willing to fight against US interference and become communist. The two opposing systems were unions of states tightly controlled politically by a central power. The US Congress gave Washington dictatorial powers in matters of national security by the National Security Act of  1947. Moscow continued dictatorial rule with new dictators following Stalin’s successful one-man rule. The two unions of states reinforced each others central power at home by their worldwide fight  against each other for influence and by their military superiority to all other governments globally with their enormous quantities of nuclear arms. Each worldwide system justified its opposite worldwide system and each secured its power internally and in the world by constantly building up its armed forces.

Then came the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. It made a huge crack in the global security that the opposition of two great powers caused by showing the world that Washington and Moscow were unwilling to fight a hot war. It was the end of the Cold War but nonetheless each side rushed headlong ahead to continue it. They succeeded in keeping it going up until 1991 even though the American economic system and the globalization of industry and commerce promoted by Washington was completely outpacing the Russian communist system. In 1991 Moscow broke up its union of 15 sovereign states. The world was left with the union of fifty American states combined with the de facto union of the states worldwide supported and influenced by Washington. Washington was an international government, the only one.

Daniel McNeill’s play,The Body Is A Legal Drug, will have 7 performances during the Midtown International Theater Festival in New York in July and August at the Davenport Theatre 354 West 45th Street. 212-956-0948.

Loving the one you’re with can come back to haunt you. A new comedy about finding your true identity.
tickets $20.00 : https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/27845Performances: July 18 2:30 pm. July 20 6:30 pm. July 24 6:30 pm. July 26 7:00 pm. July 28 8:30 pm. July 31 8:00 pm. August 2 3:30 pm.

For The Good Of The World

   By the time of the Spanish-American war in 1898, the Federal Government had carved out for itself the role of governing nationally mainly by interfering occasionally in the operations of American state governments. But by then, using its exclusive powers over diplomacy and war, it had already interfered in the affairs of foreign states 103 times and used military force against Argentina, Nicaragua, Japan, Uruguay, Angola, China and Hawaii. The war with Spain made Washington seem like no more than a new junior member of the imperialist gang when it gained from Spain control of Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico. But it released the three from its control as quickly as possible and contented itself with being free to interfere with them internally either with aggressive diplomacy or military action. The world began to understand at the beginning of the 20th century that Washington at the head of a union of states about to reach 48 had enormous power. However the power was feared by states worldwide. Everyone believed that the interference of Washington in the internal affairs of foreign states could only be bad. Its interference in the affairs of its own states had rarely been bad and usually had been very good. But In a time of rough and ready worldwide imperialism no state did anything good for a weaker state. Anyone in international diplomatic circles at that time would have been openly laughed at who suggested that Washington’s power might one day be used for the good of the world. Until President Wilson began the military training of more than 4 million Americans to stop European nation-states from slaughtering their young men in the First World War. Until he said in a speech in Baltimore on April 6 1918, “Force, Force to the utmost, Force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant Force which shall make Right the law of the world and cast every selfish dominion down in the dust”. Until he proposed at the peace conference in Versailles, France in 1919 his Fourteen Points and the creation of a League of Nations, a united states of the world. No one laughed at President Woodrow Wilson when he used American power for the good of the world.

Daniel McNeill’s play,The Body Is A Legal Drug, will have 7 performances during the Midtown International Theater Festival in New York in July and August at the Davenport Theatre 354 West 45th Street. 212-956-0948.

tickets $20.00 : https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/27845

Loving the one your’re with can come back to haunt you. A new comedy about

finding your true identity.

Performances: July 18 2:30 pm. July 20 6:30 pm. July 24 6:30 pm. July 26 7:00 pm. July 28 8:30 pm. July 31 8:00 pm. August 2 3:30 pm.

President Wilson's United States Of The World

  In 1918, a man who was the head of a government that was not a state decided that the American political system could be used as a model for a world union of states. He dashed bravely ahead with his idea eager to put in operation a new worldwide organization of all the states and empires on earth that would make another world war in the future impossible. Woodrow Wilson, a democrat elected president in 1912, actively and passionately used American power for worldwide good. When war broke out in Europe in 1914, he worked as forcefully as he could to keep America out of it. Instead of rushing into the war on the side of England and France against Germany, he stuck to his pacifist principles and using American diplomatic channels, tried to get the three powers to negotiate an end to the war rather than to continue fighting. When the German navy’s  submarine warfare became intolerable and forced him to declare war on Germany, on January 8 1918 he argued before Congress that he was fighting the war for a moral purpose and he outlined 14 points that he believed, if accepted by governments worldwide, would end all wars and establish peace and goodness universally. His American union of states had given their central government control over interstate commerce and had removed all economic barriers between their states establishing an equality of trade conditions. President Wilson wanted this principle to become universal among all states in the world for in Point 3 he called for “The removal of all economic barriers and the establishment of equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance”. In other words, he was proposing one principle of what we advocate, a united states of the world with open borders for free trade worldwide just as free trade existed in the United States. Of course such a world economic union would not work unless all states worldwide agreed to no longer wage war on one another. The American states had agreed to unite to make war impossible among one another and so President Wilson with the peaceful condition of America in mind proposed an association of states to guarantee the political independence of every state worldwide. His Point 14 said, “A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.”  The League of Nations that he wanted did not mean that every state worldwide would become a state in the American union of states. Yet he was proposing a worldwide union. The president of the United States had the courage to call for a united states of the world! What other model could he have used for the good future organization of the world except the one that had worked so well in his own union of states?

Daniel McNeill’s play,The Body Is A Legal Drug, will have 7 performances during the Midtown International Theater Festival in New York in July and August at the Davenport Theatre 354 West 45th Street. 212-956-0948.

The famous writer, Nathan Mauer, married four times to women, marries a man but behavior  in his macho past disrupts his happy new identity. A comedy about the difficulties of living with any identity permanently.

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Performances: July 18 2:30 pm. July 20 6:00 pm. July 24 6:00 pm. July 26 7:00 pm. July 28 8:00 pm. July 31 8:00 pm. August 2 3:30 pm.

 

Sovereignty Without Full Sovereignty

   We propose that the Federal Government become both de facto and de jure an international government by admitting to our union any nation in the world that wishes to be an American state. But the Washington government does not need to transform itself to become such a government because it was established in 1787 with the character, powers and duties of an international government. The Constitution does not give it a location in any state nor full sovereignty to rule Americans. The 13 original states did not give up their sovereignty. Instead they transferred some of their sovereign powers to a central government that was not a state. Nations in the world should today ask themselves if they need the powers that the original 13 American states gave up. Does a state anywhere in the world need the power to make war if as an American state its borders would be guarded by the American military? Does a state need the expense of representing itself worldwide diplomatically if it would be represented by the American Department of State? The 13 original states gave Washington full sovereignty over war and diplomacy because it strengthened them and they gave up no other sovereign powers absolutely. Washington gained the power to regulate commerce among the states which freed all commerce among them and benefited them all. Would a state today accept to join our union and enjoy free trade including the free movement of its citizens to at least 50 other states of a worldwide union? It would not lose anything economically and gain a new world of opportunities for its people. The 13 original states prospered from their new revolutionary political and economic union. 37 new states joined the union and it flourished offering freedom and economic opportunities to millions of immigrants from all over the world. Why would any state anywhere not be willing to join such a successful revolution? What real freedom do their citizens gain by letting some leader rule  with full sovereign power over them and their national wealth? The 13 original American states gave Washington’s Supreme Court the power to review all laws passed by all the many governments of the union and declare them illegal if they were judged in violation of universal human rights guaranteed by the Constitution. Would citizens of any state in the world be against gaining the right to challenge in their state and federal courts laws passed in violation of their basic human rights? Washington was set up in 1787 not to rule states but to protect them from war and to strengthen a union of states designed to give free men governing their own state and their own affairs as much prosperity as possible. Washington had an international character and structure from its beginning and it needs now to get rid for the sake of the world of as many of its national duties as possible.

Daniel McNeill’s play,The Body Is A Legal Drug, will have 7 performances during the Midtown International Theater Festival in New York in July at the Davenport Theatre 354 West 45th Street. 212-956-0948.

The famous writer, Nathan Mauer, married four times to women, marries a man but behavior  in his macho past disrupts his happy new identity. A comedy about the difficulties of living with any identity permanently.

tickets $20.00 : https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/27845

    

Washington As A Civitas Dei

   Everyone believes that democracy is the best form of government and that everyone should live in a democratic state. But the terrible disruptions of civil peace going on all over the globe demand more than democratic governments with democratic leaders. We need holy democratic leaders, saintly leaders, men who will not take any action with the power voted to them by their fellow citizens unless it is good, honest, pure, moral and in the best interest of all. Down with all leaders who are merely pragmatic! We need leaders who really believe that every human being has universal rights that must be supported and respected and that humanity possesses a divine purpose for living on earth. It is an illusion to believe that because the bourgeoisie took control of states in the 19th century and used governments exclusively to make laws to support their selfish economic goals that humanity is condemned forever to suffer dominated by greedy and selfish leaders who never consult the grace to do good that God put in their soul. Peoples in the past created communities inspired by their sense of the divine. Ancient Egypt was a divine empire. Ancient philosophers believed the business of governing was a divine vocation. Moses's laws tried to make moral goodness the basis of his community. Saint Augustine in his great book, The City Of God, the Civitas Dei, claims that in world history two states exist side by side, the civitas dei and the civitas terrena, the heavenly city of God composed of the good and the earthly city composed of the unredeemed. Nation-states in our time do have nasty, difficult, practical problems to deal with but that should never be an excuse for leaders acting corruptly and immorally. A government like our government in Washington with its trillions of dollars in revenue and its freedom as a central government from the day-to-day tasks of state governments should never act selfishly and immorally. Washington should become in our 21st century a central world international government of a worldwide union of states with saintly leaders gathered from all over our globe promoting with their great power Saint Augustine’s civitas dei.

Daniel McNeill’s play,The Body Is A Legal Drug, will have one more performance during the Midtown International Theater Festival in New York on Aug. 2 at the Davenport Theatre 354 West 45th Street. 212-956-0948.

The famous writer, Nathan Mauer, married four times to women, marries a man but behavior  in his macho past disrupts his happy new identity. A comedy about the difficulties of living with any identity permanently.

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History's Burden Lightened

    In Hegel’s great work, The Philosophy Of History, the German philosopher not only claims that world history has a divine purpose but also that the divine development going on is perfectly rational. Absolute Spirit expresses itself throughout history in a variety of forms. The universal aim of spirit at work in history is human freedom. The oriental world knew only the freedom of one man, as for example the pharaoh in Egypt. The Greek and Roman world knew only the freedom of some men, since slavery was instituted. The Protestant Germanic states of Hegel’s time, the early nineteenth century, finally realize the freedom of all. “The essential being,” Hegel wrote, “is the union of the subjective with the rational will: it is the moral whole, the state, which is that form of reality in which the individual has and enjoys his freedom.” Since Hegel’s time, states in Europe providing a form for the realization of their citizens’ freedom have also been forced tragically to provide armies as a vehicle for their citizens to kill citizens from foreign states in grand battles and two world wars. The history of Europe after Hegel showed clearly that if Absolute Spirit was going to produce human freedom it would have to take some form other than the European nation-state. Hegel  looked beyond the political realities of his time to America. He suggested that the full burden of history’s march towards humanity’s freedom could not be born by Europe alone. “America is therefore the land of the future,” he wrote in The Philosophy Of History, “where in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the world’s history will reveal itself.” American political experience agrees completely with Hegel’s notion that only the state can be the form where freedom can and should be exercised. But American experience also proves that the freedom of all individuals can not be exercised fully in a state that possesses full national sovereignty. A fully sovereign state always puts full power and full freedom in the hands of a minority of its citizens. Such power can be reduced and spread around throughout a population to free all citizens only if the political power of a state is not absolute. A state can be “the moral whole” and “that form of reality in which the individual has and enjoys his freedom” without being a fully sovereign state if it can become a member state of a just union of states with a central government  with the legal power clearly stated in a Constitution to force states to support freedom for all their citizens. The American Federal Government has already lightened history’s burden by assuming some of the sovereign power of 50 states but it has not lessened their sovereign power to govern themselves democratically and provide for their citizens a moral whole where they can live freely.

Daniel McNeill’s play,The Body Is A Legal Drug, will have 7 performances during the Midtown International Theater Festival in New York in July at the Davenport Theatre 354 West 45th Street. 212-956-0948.

The famous writer, Nathan Mauer, married four times to women, marries a man but behavior  in his macho past disrupts his happy new identity. A comedy about the difficulties of living with any identity permanently.

tickets $20.00 : https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/27845

Unable To Think Globally

    When England created the first industrial revolution in the 17th century, it carried with it a global movement of the English all over the world creating their empire. The English became a global people and their people thought globally. When America created in the 19th and 20th centuries across the American continent a massive explosion of advanced industrial development, it also carried with it a global movement of Americans all over the world. Why is it then that we Americans are unable to realize that we are a global people and are unable, it seems, to think globally? Is it possible that we can not understand that our language is studied and spoken in every country on earth and that our corporations, our technologies, our diplomats and our military are vitally active in all nations globally creating radically new universal social practices? Worse still, we seem incapable of mentally reconstructing American history and coming to the conclusion, the only one possible, that our union of states was not created by our founding fathers with the intention of establishing a nation. Yet it is a current belief among us that we are “a nation” and this “nation” is “the leader of the free world”. The truth has little to do with such abstract constructions. We are not a nation and because each of our 50 states are freer and more democratic than most nations on earth there is a real basis for our having tried our best for a hundred years to make the rest of the world free also. Our political system is the most advanced and the best and the most radical and the happiest that humanity has ever erected on our globe. I guess we do not think globally because we are afraid that giving humanity the keys to our brave new system would disrupt too radically our huge happy homeland. The English created a worldwide system and were forced to dismantle it. The Russians created a union of 15 states and then broke it up. I suppose thinking of our union of 50 states stretching from Florida to Alaska 4000 miles away as a nation is a way we Americans have stumbled upon to break up our union of states mentally. We want to be a nation like everyone else when we should be trying globally to make everyone else’s nation a member state of our prosperous union.

Daniel McNeill’s play,The Body Is A Legal Drug, will have 7 performances during the Midtown International Theater Festival in New York in July at the Davenport Theatre 354 West 45th Street. 212-956-0948.

The famous writer, Nathan Mauer, married four times to women, marries a man but behavior  in his macho past disrupts his happy new identity. A comedy about the difficulties of living with any identity permanently.

tickets $20.00 : https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/27845