01-10-2003, 04:50
The very first U.N. Resolution, approved by just two Nations, in that Day's Minuscule international Body, is today an Embarrassment to this Modern and August Forum of Nations. We, the Senate and People of Socratonesia, call for its Repeal.
We speak, of course, of the Resolution entitled in terms Crude and Propagandistic, "Fight the Axis of Evil" -- words which are Lies and Worse, words which perpetuate Fear and Terror among Nations. In a Time when each Nation has greater Problems, from Crime to Economic Duress to the Public Health, the incitement of baseless Rumors of War is Treacherous indeed.
Read this Mockery of a Resolution here -- a Relic of By-gone Days where Nation played Terrorist to the Nations -- and see for Yourselves: http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/page=UN_past_resolutions
The costs of Military Build-up are Immense, to the Economies of the World and to our Polities and Peoples as well. To the Economist, the creation of Weapons beyond reasonable Bound is a Money-Pit, into which Wealth is sunk never to be Recover'd. (True, a Mothball'd War-ship may become a Millionaire Eccentric's Yacht; yet Millionaire Eccentrics may commission their Own Yachts.) To the True Lover of his Country, the beating of War-drums and the Clinking of Coin into the hand of the Arms-Merchant is ever accompanied by the wailing of Babies unprovided-for.
The Funds expended upon a single Missile might be diverted within the Public Sphere of a Liberal or Socialist Nation to pay for Schools or Hospitals, or in a Conservative or Libertarian one returned to the Economy as a Tax-Cut. Even the Fashions of costum'd and perfum'd Kings and Queens are better Serv'd to pronounce Faires and flowery (and Expensive) Royal Weddings, than to add a crude and clanking Main Battle Tank to an already Hideously Unneeded Armory.
We of Socratonesia do not ask that all Nations set down Arms forever, as if to Join in a Peaceable Song of Fluttery Love and Affection. We are not Dimwits. We simply Ask, in our Resolution "Repeal the Axis of Evil", that the United Nations Itself set aside ridiculous Fears and the Language of Ignorant War-Propaganda, and let us all stand down from an uncalled-for Escalation of Arms.
Our Proposed Resolution, which stands now before the Delegates awaiting Approval, is brief and Succinct. It reads as follows:
Description: WHEREAS the Doctrine of the "Axis of Evil" has been found Fraudulent and Lacking as an interpretation of the State of the World; and
WHEREAS the Build-up of excessive Armament is a Burden to the world's Economies, which withdraws funds from both the Private Sphere of Business and the Tax-payer, as well as from more productive Government Projects, and channels them into the creation of surplus Tools of Destruction;
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED THAT:
The United Nations Resolution "Fight the Axis of Evil" shall be Repealed and Rescinded in its Entirety.
Brother and Sister Nations, the People of Socratonesia request your Support for this Resolution. Delegates, we ask your Approval that it may go before the Nations Assembled to demonstrate that the U.N. of Today is better than it once Was.
We speak, of course, of the Resolution entitled in terms Crude and Propagandistic, "Fight the Axis of Evil" -- words which are Lies and Worse, words which perpetuate Fear and Terror among Nations. In a Time when each Nation has greater Problems, from Crime to Economic Duress to the Public Health, the incitement of baseless Rumors of War is Treacherous indeed.
Read this Mockery of a Resolution here -- a Relic of By-gone Days where Nation played Terrorist to the Nations -- and see for Yourselves: http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/page=UN_past_resolutions
The costs of Military Build-up are Immense, to the Economies of the World and to our Polities and Peoples as well. To the Economist, the creation of Weapons beyond reasonable Bound is a Money-Pit, into which Wealth is sunk never to be Recover'd. (True, a Mothball'd War-ship may become a Millionaire Eccentric's Yacht; yet Millionaire Eccentrics may commission their Own Yachts.) To the True Lover of his Country, the beating of War-drums and the Clinking of Coin into the hand of the Arms-Merchant is ever accompanied by the wailing of Babies unprovided-for.
The Funds expended upon a single Missile might be diverted within the Public Sphere of a Liberal or Socialist Nation to pay for Schools or Hospitals, or in a Conservative or Libertarian one returned to the Economy as a Tax-Cut. Even the Fashions of costum'd and perfum'd Kings and Queens are better Serv'd to pronounce Faires and flowery (and Expensive) Royal Weddings, than to add a crude and clanking Main Battle Tank to an already Hideously Unneeded Armory.
We of Socratonesia do not ask that all Nations set down Arms forever, as if to Join in a Peaceable Song of Fluttery Love and Affection. We are not Dimwits. We simply Ask, in our Resolution "Repeal the Axis of Evil", that the United Nations Itself set aside ridiculous Fears and the Language of Ignorant War-Propaganda, and let us all stand down from an uncalled-for Escalation of Arms.
Our Proposed Resolution, which stands now before the Delegates awaiting Approval, is brief and Succinct. It reads as follows:
Description: WHEREAS the Doctrine of the "Axis of Evil" has been found Fraudulent and Lacking as an interpretation of the State of the World; and
WHEREAS the Build-up of excessive Armament is a Burden to the world's Economies, which withdraws funds from both the Private Sphere of Business and the Tax-payer, as well as from more productive Government Projects, and channels them into the creation of surplus Tools of Destruction;
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED THAT:
The United Nations Resolution "Fight the Axis of Evil" shall be Repealed and Rescinded in its Entirety.
Brother and Sister Nations, the People of Socratonesia request your Support for this Resolution. Delegates, we ask your Approval that it may go before the Nations Assembled to demonstrate that the U.N. of Today is better than it once Was.