We vet a plumber or electrician, before letting them do work for us, but our politicians don’t have to meet any significant requirements to hold office?
Not likely there will be a world government anytime soon that will “hold American values sacred”. That sounds more like the US owning the rest of the world.
I guffaw in Donna Campbell’s general direction. As the Vox article states, “The status is typically welcomed by governments, including that of the US, for its economic benefits. An estimate by one consulting group suggests the designation, if properly promoted by tourism groups, could generate over $100 million in economic activity by bringing in more domestic and international tourists willing to spend cash locally.”
This is what happens when you elect a nitwit to office … or allow them to walk among regular folks without their medication. Hats off to ya, State Senator Campbell!
“World Heritge Site”, “Wilderness”, “National Monument”, “National Park”, are all phrases that get the right-wing-steal the public land and resources folks all bent out of shape. When they can’t steal from the taxpayers, it’s regarded by them as a terrible loss. Anything that draws attention to these lands, which can increase tremendously their actual cash value to the public, and not their private/corporate interests, is a horror.
BTW: I"m more ticked off because our new passports have THREE quotations referencing “God” in them. As a Buddhist by nature, not a “bible thumper”, but with a faith, not by any means “atheist”, this offends me, and the Constitution, which btw nowhere mentions “God”, only the freedom to worship, or NOT, as you choose, free of harrassment or coersion to others’ beliefs.
Especially regarding international travel, especially to “non-Christian” nations, like well, Japan for example, not just “Muslim” countries, this is a serious detirment to our freedoms, to travel unharrassed for example.
“World Heritage Site” designation causes no such problem or intrusion into our freedoms and rights.
It’s the “world government” coming to take our wimin mindset. Or it could be that the legislator is the result of “home schooling” or it could be that the person is an idiot. The UN has an agency called UNESCO which sometimes declares a location in a given country a “World Heritage Site”. It has no enforcement or expropriation authority, and there have already been a number of other sites in the US which have been so designated without the guys in the blue helmets being sent in to seize the government.
In actuality, the bible states quite clearly that when Christ comes back (and he WILL come back) he will establish his own government over the entire earth!
And for your further information, if you actually bother to read the words of Christ and Paul in the new testament, such a government would be far more liberal than any in history. From the standpoint of economics it would be the fulfillment of the true Communist manifesto “From each according to his ability, and to each according ot his need.”
And there will be no rich nor poor. Just as there once was in the very early church of the Book of The Acts of the Apostles, just after Christ left this Earth for the first time. The economic portion of this early Christian church was such that if you were so wealthy that you had extra property (not your own home, as the Christians then met in such homes) you sold your excess property, and donated the money to the disciples and apostles of the church. They in turn, being the most honest people in history, as they actually walked with the Lord when he was here in the flesh, and therefore served God and their fellow man, and not just mammon, then distributed such funds so that all Christians of that time had ample for their physical needs. A small idea of just what a world government run directly by God and Christ could be like!
The only difference between pure Communism and such a government is that it would be run directly by the loving Lord of Life himself, and not some uncaring state run by the wealthy for only the wealthy. Personally, I look very much forward to such, as just perhaps the true potential of humanity might just finally be realized.!!
“[American values] are for individual freedom, not ownership”
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Oh, I dunno, as a non-American on this site, I just had to laugh and cry. Folks still believe in this exceptionalism poppycock? What fools. Then again, this guy seems to believe in the End Times nonsense, too. *shrug
Dtroutma about 9 years ago
Yep, gon’na’ steal all our good stuff with heritage sites! HAR! It only upsets those who DO want to rip off our most valuable sites for their profits.
superposition about 9 years ago
We vet a plumber or electrician, before letting them do work for us, but our politicians don’t have to meet any significant requirements to hold office?
Theodore E. Lind Premium Member about 9 years ago
Not likely there will be a world government anytime soon that will “hold American values sacred”. That sounds more like the US owning the rest of the world.
woodwork about 9 years ago
try reading Daniel 2:44 and Matthew 6
Cerabooge about 9 years ago
HA HA HA!
Have you MET our corporatist elite?
socalvillaguy Premium Member about 9 years ago
I guffaw in Donna Campbell’s general direction. As the Vox article states, “The status is typically welcomed by governments, including that of the US, for its economic benefits. An estimate by one consulting group suggests the designation, if properly promoted by tourism groups, could generate over $100 million in economic activity by bringing in more domestic and international tourists willing to spend cash locally.”
This is what happens when you elect a nitwit to office … or allow them to walk among regular folks without their medication. Hats off to ya, State Senator Campbell!
BaltoBill about 9 years ago
Really? Pray tell us what “are values are”?
Dtroutma about 9 years ago
“World Heritge Site”, “Wilderness”, “National Monument”, “National Park”, are all phrases that get the right-wing-steal the public land and resources folks all bent out of shape. When they can’t steal from the taxpayers, it’s regarded by them as a terrible loss. Anything that draws attention to these lands, which can increase tremendously their actual cash value to the public, and not their private/corporate interests, is a horror.
BTW: I"m more ticked off because our new passports have THREE quotations referencing “God” in them. As a Buddhist by nature, not a “bible thumper”, but with a faith, not by any means “atheist”, this offends me, and the Constitution, which btw nowhere mentions “God”, only the freedom to worship, or NOT, as you choose, free of harrassment or coersion to others’ beliefs.
Especially regarding international travel, especially to “non-Christian” nations, like well, Japan for example, not just “Muslim” countries, this is a serious detirment to our freedoms, to travel unharrassed for example.
“World Heritage Site” designation causes no such problem or intrusion into our freedoms and rights.
Spyderred about 9 years ago
It’s the “world government” coming to take our wimin mindset. Or it could be that the legislator is the result of “home schooling” or it could be that the person is an idiot. The UN has an agency called UNESCO which sometimes declares a location in a given country a “World Heritage Site”. It has no enforcement or expropriation authority, and there have already been a number of other sites in the US which have been so designated without the guys in the blue helmets being sent in to seize the government.
frodo1008 about 9 years ago
In actuality, the bible states quite clearly that when Christ comes back (and he WILL come back) he will establish his own government over the entire earth!
And for your further information, if you actually bother to read the words of Christ and Paul in the new testament, such a government would be far more liberal than any in history. From the standpoint of economics it would be the fulfillment of the true Communist manifesto “From each according to his ability, and to each according ot his need.”
And there will be no rich nor poor. Just as there once was in the very early church of the Book of The Acts of the Apostles, just after Christ left this Earth for the first time. The economic portion of this early Christian church was such that if you were so wealthy that you had extra property (not your own home, as the Christians then met in such homes) you sold your excess property, and donated the money to the disciples and apostles of the church. They in turn, being the most honest people in history, as they actually walked with the Lord when he was here in the flesh, and therefore served God and their fellow man, and not just mammon, then distributed such funds so that all Christians of that time had ample for their physical needs. A small idea of just what a world government run directly by God and Christ could be like!
The only difference between pure Communism and such a government is that it would be run directly by the loving Lord of Life himself, and not some uncaring state run by the wealthy for only the wealthy. Personally, I look very much forward to such, as just perhaps the true potential of humanity might just finally be realized.!!
OmqR-IV.0 about 9 years ago
“[American values] are for individual freedom, not ownership”
….
Oh, I dunno, as a non-American on this site, I just had to laugh and cry. Folks still believe in this exceptionalism poppycock? What fools. Then again, this guy seems to believe in the End Times nonsense, too. *shrug