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Across
Frontiers - Spring 2003
Letters
from the members
Dear
Professor Philip and Eli Isely,
1.
Many thanks for your Congratulations to me in the e-mail message
from Oct.09.02. And thanks for sending the magazine Across
Frontiers of Sept.2002 to professor Cheng Fu Hu and me. We
have a pleasure to work together to work together with you
to achieve our common goal for humanity.
China is one of the biggest countries with the largest population
in the world.. The good or bad status of activities on protecting
earth in China will influence the world environment greatly.
Because of the backward education cause in the past 1960’s-1970’s
of China , the Chinese people’s culture level are lower
and lack of awareness of protecting earth. We shall bear the
hard burden of education and propagation for the philosophy
of ONLY ONE EARTH.
Yet, we meantime face the difficult position of being short
on funds, owing to the long-term planning economy of our country.
The limited salary only maintain our basic life daily. In
order to acquire the funds for supporting our activities ,
we hope to explore the business of Solar Panels both for electricity
and for heating/cooling, or the business of T-shirt and tops
in your proposal stated in the magazine ACROSS FRONTIERS of
January-February 2001 issue.
How to cooperate with ? What is the best methods of performance?
We would really like to listen to you.
2. When we settle the problem of funds , we shall undertake
a research of globalization philosophy in Chinese people through
the investigation with form of questionnaires, cooperating
with the students and teachers in the universities, with the
young people around 45 years old, working in the various fields,
we shall complete a paper on opinion trends of globalization
from young Chinese people.
3.We shall establish a working group in China to propagate
“One Government for the whole Earth”, under The
Constitution of the federation of Earth”, and train young
people . So we need the formal study and training course from
you. Your kind instruction will be highly appreciated.
Yours Faithfully
Yao Ying
A letter from Mr. Ivan Lesley
Re:
Enquiring Information on World Government
Dear Sir,
I
am writing into your office regarding the subject stated above.
Much have been heard about the World Government, Global Finance
and so forth. There is still confusion in the local part of
some part of the developing countries. Papua New Guinea is
one of these countries.
As
an educationist, I still do not fully understand what the
world leaders are discussing and where they are taking us
into. What I know is to fight for the right of my country
from the great influence from Western world.
With
the total enrollment of 410 students and staff strength of
12, I am unable to precisely tell them the true information
about the role and function of the New World Government. Thus
I am really urging you to assist me provide some informative
materials that I could use to inform them after I know it
myself.
Your
assistance is highly valued as a vital aid to tell the students,
staff members, the local people and the rest of my own people
in the District, Province and the nation as a whole.
Thank
you for your understanding and co-operation.
Yours
faithfully
Mr. Ivan Lesley
Headteacher
From
Dr. Roger Kotila to Mr. Jiri Polak
Dear
Jiri Polak,
I am afraid that your argument against “speculating “about
a world parliament will delay us in getting what we now urgently
need to “save-the world”. WE CAN NO LONGER WAIT
.World anarchy and weapons of mass destruction will require
noting less than a democratic world federation. Einstein and
others knew this. Otherwise, the nations will never disarm.
The world must unite.
Please, read “Rationale for Worlds Constituent Assembly”
written by Philip Isely, Secretary General of the World Constitution
and Parliament Association, which is highly relevant to current
discussion. This brilliantly written document was the prelude
to the drafting of the Constitution for the Federation of
Earth , now presented for ratification around the world.
WCPA has correctly anticipated the future dangers not only
of war and weapons of mass destruction, but also the ecological
crises and human rights issues such as poverty and authoritarianism.
They therefore proceeded to write a world constitution with
a world parliament, realizing that the United Nations Charter
was inadequate and therefore the UN would continue to fail
miserably all too often in solving critical world problems.
For you to argue now that we should wait to change the structure
of the world system is sheer madness if not suicidal (in my
opinion), and will bring us more of the inadequate and to
weak tools activists already have to deal with crisis after
crisis… while the corrupt nations (“bought and paid
for”)
and megacorporations/investment banks laugh at us.
Rob Wheeler and I are in complete agreement on the Urgent
need to begin building a democratic world parliament. Our
goals are similar : To have a vehicle which might actually
be able to give us peace, environmental sanity, and human
rights for all. And a new world system (world parliament)
is the only practical way that might be able to be effective,
We must unite. We must do this.
Rob Wheeler and I differ on strategy : I feel strongly that
we should immediately begin using the
CONSTITUTION FOR THE FEDERATION OF EARTH ( aka “Earth
Constitution) developed over a 30 year period by WCPA with
worldwide participation from men and women, from rich and
poor. I feel that more “world constituent assemblies”
will delay establishing an emerging democratic earth federation
which is needed NOW.
Nevertheless,
many top activists , Like Rob, feel that it is important to
go through this ( world constituent) process perhaps to help
build support and stimulate thinking. In this case, developing
the –“e-parliament” tool may prove be a god
idea.
One way or the other, I urge to study WCPA’s work since
they have gone through this process, been endorsed over the
years by at least a dozen Nobel prize winners and other notables,
and their successful efforts can save us years and years of
valuable time.
I have encouraged Rob to help develop the “Peoples Assembly”
since the CONSTITUTION FOR THE FEDERATION OF EARTH calls for
a “House of Peoples” consisting of up to 1000 districts.
Those
of us who have finally acknowledged that a (democratic) world
federation is indispensable to reach our goals for peace and
disarmament( environmental health and human rights), must
push forward now before it really does become “too late”.
WE CAN’T WAIT NO LONGER.
Welcome
to the Earth Federation,
Roger Kotila , Ph.D.
ratifier of the CONSTITUTION FOR THE FEDERATION OF EARTH
A
letter from Doug Everingham to GPAforum
For over 50 years I have supported the goal of democratic
constitutional world federation to regulate international
anarchy. I have supported Philip Isely and other pioneers
in producing and promoting the Constitution for Federation
of Earth (CFE) after an unmatched series of global conferences.
I’ve supported GREN; their campaign to seek global ratification
and commitment to global elections. The net score of national
governments ratifying remains, I think, at nul. Therefore
I support what Dr. Roger Kotila sees (since “we can’t
wait any longer”) as “waiting” to change the
structure of the world and “ delaying” the federal
democracy goal by holding other sorts of constituent assemblies.
Such calls for immediate cure and discouragement to interim
measures has been, I think, a major discouragement of voters
and governments to embrace CFE. Far from delaying CFE ; building
grass roots support among NGO’s and UN organs is more
likely to gather support of voters and political parties.
People I speak to fear more of the inhumanity of government,
especially big government, overwhelming UN organs as well
as NGO’s. They fear, I think, than what looks like insistence
by Dr. Kotila and some WCPA-alone-first advocates for immediate
acceptance of a detailed (55page) Constitution and 11 world
“legislative Acts” (as at Jan 1988). Rob Wheeler
and I may have different priorities , but it is counter-productive
to label anyone’s priorities wrong because they are different.
In fact common sense suggests all avenues of persuasion ought
to be encouraged and seen as support, not delay en route to
the common goal.
I know existing persistent and relatively democratic federations
did not arise from WCPA-style detailed cut and dried constitutions
prepared without early involvement of existing (such as Swiss,
Australian, North American) confederating component administrations.
That is perhaps why, for example, Troy Davis, though a productive
promoter of CFE, acknowledges the value of the ISPO approach:
collecting signatures of voters to persuade national election
candidates and thence parties and governments to seek supranational
consensus on particular issues which are within the legislative
competence of national governments but issues they dare not
regulate without general simultaneous legislation by rival
governments in a world where they are at the mercy of stateless
global banking and industrial cartels the moment they do anything
to give another country a competitive advantage in the race
to attract investment, jobs and growth, a short-sighted fundamentalist
devotion to big business preference, subsidies and feather-bedding
at the expense of citizens in general and the environment.
It is not just economic fundamentalism of the Wall street-
Washington consensus that deters governments from putting
people and posterity before profits and growth. It is the
involvement of public opinion and its posubjugation to “maffiacs”-military,
administrative, financial, fundamentalist, industrial and
academic complexes like those Eisenhower warned the world
about.
Here are some steps that I think can only hasten success for
Dr.Roger Kotila’s eventual aims:
1. Join ISPO (web site www.simpol.org)
2. Within reason, when voting give preference to ISPO adopters
3. Advise any social action group in which they are involved
to do likewise
4. Continue the process that produced CFE by encouraging discussion
of improved democratic systems, e.g. some of the proposals
in “a new Way to Govern – Organizations and society
after Enron” (sold by the author, by Dr.Shann Turnbull
<stuurrnbull@mbal1963.hbs.edu) or free loaded <http://www.neweconomics.org/default.asp?strRequest=newarchve&stNewRequest=newaitem&intNewsID=198
and then click to PDF file.
My 20-page essay “World Democracy” may be available
shortly by e-mail.
Doug
Everingam
To
Across frontiers,
By being one among the readers of Across Frontiers , I would
like to congratulate you in gathering issues concerning our
Planet Earth from different parts of the world.
I agree that the planet Earth is failing a lot off problems
such as wars, dishumanity ,diseases, environmental degradation
and many much more. All in all , the world is in trouble.
There fore , what should be done in order to rescue Earth
and its inhabitants, that is a question.
For example, the issue of USA under President Bush and Iraq
under Saddam has now open another page after the Sept 11.
In my opinion, I would suggest that the better way of suppressing
the conflict between these two states is peaceful negotiations;
since the use I of violence, threat or war will not cure the
conflict through they might stop for a while, but still the
conflicts will take its channel.
We all know that diplomacy is an act of conducting official
relations between two states or international organizations
in an intelligent and skilful way to promote peace through
negotiations, then they can agree to one another, if they
allow this principle perhaps rather than the use of battles.
Therefore, as an Provisional World Parliament Sessions continues
till World Government established, they have to be more efforts
on how to rescue the Planet Earth and it’s inhabitants
since catastrophies and natural calamities, including wars,
is the problem. Also we should ask ourselves why war never
stop in Rwanda, Somalia, Palestine, and Israel. There is a
need to gather more effort by finding other alternatives to
stop the war.
Yours for Humanity
Anna R. Machanga
a student from Centre For International Relation &Diplomacy
Dear
Philip, 15Jan,03
Let me congretulate you for your forthcoming conference of
the WCPA sceduled for February 11,2003.
I just returned today from New York where I attended some
United Nations meetings this past Monday and Tuesday. The
UN remains the ideal instrument for peace theoretically but,
in practice, most of the nations represent only the elite
in the government and not the people.
The work of WCPA is paramount importance and of absolute necessity
because it involves the welfare of all people of all nations
without exeption.Keep up good work. I am sending you hre below
an article of mines, which I might have sent you, for purpose
of sharing it with others in WCPA. The article is entitled
: Weapons Industry : Source of Terrorism.
Best regards and may God continue to bless you, your charming
and intelegent wife, your entire family and all the WCPA members.
Charles Mercieca
President, IAEWP, UN-NGO
Professor Emeritus,AAMU-USA
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