A New Kind of World War

   The last  two world wars were about protecting states from penetration by foreign armies. Even in peacetime, borders of states in the past were protected by customs officials and by tariffs from the entrance of foreign goods and peoples. Peoples are now leaving states because of military attacks from within and because of failed attempts to create conditions for prosperity by walking across borders to states where they can live and work in peace with political freedom.. At the same time, terrorists are crossing the borders of powerful  and wealthy states and murdering citizens with modern arms and explosives made easily available by postmodern global internet communications and technologies. No system is now in place worldwide to help make states safer from bloody internal attacks. Even a powerful state like France. attacked brutally from within, is seeking help from other states to aid its search for safety within its borders. A permanent aid available to  all states from outside their borders is necessary for the internal safety and prosperity of their citizens in the new kind of world war now being fought.

  States as they now exist must continue to exist because it is only within a state, whether as an immigrant or a native, that people can develop themselves freely to their full human potential. I propose as a model for states seeking internal safety and prosperity my state, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the 50 sovereign states of the United States. It ratified the American Constitution in 1790 that outlines the sovereign powers granted by it and 12 other independent states to the Federal Government now located between the states of Maryland and Virginia in a district not located in any state called The District of Columbia. My state gave up absolutely its sovereign power to make war and to conduct diplomacy but it gave up absolutely no other sovereign power. It has been governed democratically for 225 years and has prospered greatly because democracy is the form of government that the American Constitution orders the government in Washington to assure to every state of our union (Article IV, Section 4). Gangsters and corrupt politicians  prey on every state government globally but those who prey on my state are taken to trial and put in jail by a power beyond our state borders, the Federal Department of Justice in Washington DC. I am free to cross state borders at will and to live and work in any of the 49 other states of our union with the same political rights I enjoy in Massachusetts. I have two citizenships, one federal, one state, two judicial systems, one federal, one state, two democratic governments that I send representatives to, one federal, one state, two police systems, one federal, one state. My state government in Boston does 90 percent of government business in Massachusetts, my government in Washington about 10 percent. A modern independent state facing new types of dangers from within should consider giving up a portion of its sovereignty and allow a powerful foreign agency to reinforce its police, judicial and financial institutions with the police, judicial and financial institutions of a central government like the one in Washington in the District of Columbia that is not a state and is not located in any state.

  To fight the new kind of world war that the enemies of civilized societies have declared, states must unite to remain secure states. The model of the United States  is the only good working model we have for a future worldwide union of states. The American union can easily expand to transform itself to a united states of the world because the American Constitution gives Congress the power to admit new states (Article IV, Section 3).

Daniel McNeill

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