World Citizen Garry Davis Declares Obama/Romney "Foreign Policy" Debate "Double-barreled Deception:National and Global"
Washington,
DC Sunday, October 28, 2012
"The cause of American is in great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all lovers of mankind are affected, and in the event of which, their affections are interested. The laying a country desolate with fire and sword, declaring war against the natural rights of all mankind, and extirpating the defenders thereof from the face of the earth, is the concern of every man in whom nature hath given the power of feeling; of which class, regardless of party censure, is the author." --Tom Paine
Listening
to President Obama and Governor Romney last Sunday in their 3rd debate
deceptively dubbed "Foreign Policy," this activist world citizen,
wondered how these two humans competing only for an 18th century national
presidency, could be so oblivious of we, the world's people's needs and wants,
even though one of them would be immediately obliged to address these
politically from that now age-encrusted, largely irrelevant "branch"
office when elected.
Recalling
Norman Cousins' pertinent question, "Who speaks for Man? ", in the
name of his fellow world citizens, we charge the two debaters with
unconscionable and deadly deception. To start with "national deception, "
moderator Bob Schieffer's final question:
"What is the original purpose and mission of the United States of
America? " received from neither debater a direct response why the US was
formed in the first place.
Answer
in brief: "E pluribus unum" "From many, one." The primal
civic code of all just human communities. Three million new state citizens
along the eastern seaboard of the American continent in 1776 who had booted
King George off their collective backs became a single, frontierless human
community and with already-affirmed human rights in their various state
constitutions. This perennial geo-dialectical formula, however, originated not
from the actual construction of the United States of America in 1789, but from
the first paragraph of the 1776 Declaration of Independence, 13 years BEFORE
the Founders put together the united political body. Paine and a few others—
Madison, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton — considered the new fictional nation a
mere stopgap political instrument to deal with a "local" situation
when England's, France's and Spain's man-a-war's were anchored several miles
away in the neutral Atlantic ready to knock off the new states one-by one,
while Patrick Henry noted from the start that the U.S. Constitution itself "squints
toward monarchy" by delegating dictatorial powers to the president when
acting as the "Commander-in-Chief. " More to the point of "America's
mission on the planet, " neither Obama nor Romney referred to these "inalienable
rights" spelled out in the Declaration of Independence which defined not
only America's mission but the entire human races': "Life, Liberty and the
Pursuit of Happiness, " i.e.— and protected by government "with the
consent of the governed" representing humanity itself! This fundamental
civic formula is, was and always will be the "mission" of the United
States of America: a community ruled by law . . . not disrupted and brutalized
by anarchy as in these latter-days.
Later
on in this history, confirming this initial global mission such notables as the
Hon. Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States, added that "No more
important common interest exists than our shared interest in a world ruled by
law. " Thousands of other US citizens including Emerson, Thoreau, Walt
Whitman, H.G. Wells, Judge Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr., Carl
Sagan, R. Buckminster Fuller, E. B. White, Philip Toynbee, Emery Reves, Judge
Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Dwight Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy throughout the USA's turbulent 233 years, have
echoed passionately the same essential requirement for global peace: the rule
of world law. But neither candidate vying for this now 18th century and largely
irrelevant office of US president in humanity's 21st century with instant
communication, genocidal nuclear war, rapidly growing environmental disasters,
global religions fighting to worship the same deity, considered "Foreign"
as actually pertaining to extra-terrestrial species. As if to make the point,
the Space Station above all our heads made one earthly rotation during the
entire time of the debate. Indeed the 96% of humanity residing "outside"
the 2½ centuries-year-old, now politically fossilized USA, having originated in
a largely agricultural world now bypassed by 4 global revolutions: technical,
electronic, nuclear and space, were totally neglected in the debaters programs.
Who indeed does Obama and Romney think we really are if not members of the same
species? Didn't they know that former prez John F, Kennedy had urged "We
must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw worldwide war and
weapons. "? Or that Einstein insisted that "Only world law can assure
progress towards a civilized peaceful community."? And that "Henceforth,
every nation's foreign policy must be judged at every point by one
consideration: does it lead us to a world of law and order or does it lead us
back to anarchy and death"?
That
was the first major "deception" -- that neither candidate either knew
the United States' real mission from the get-go or indeed even replied to
Schieffer's fundamental question in response. President Obama and Governor
Romney, supposed inheritors of the Founders initial political sagesse, both
blatantly and in full defiance of history, contradicted or worse, ignored their
American progenitors.
The
second and more immediate global deception to the world public was concerning
their overt "mission" as president desirous of representing "the
American people." In short, to single out this 4.7% of the human race as
their "only" responsibility for protection. Thus "National
security" was the be-all and end-all for both candidates despite the
global war potential. The self-evident fact that WWIII would be totally
destructive, including the US citizenry, was missing from both Obama's and
Romney's responses. Obama was adamant: "My responsibility as president is
to protect the American citizens' Period."
Given
the total war capability now available as of August 5, 1945, the US citizenry
obviously cannot be protected by war which has become global as of 1914.
Secondly, with nuclear weaponry available to the 9 nations "on the table"
-- not to mention so-called terrorist groups -- with international anarchy
dominating the space between them, (though the USA outdoes them all with 8000
nuclear warheads), "protection from war" by threatening war is the
most insidious and blatant deception a public official could inflict on a given
public. (Obama's mention, for instance, when accepting the Nobel Peace Prize,
of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi, both passionate advocates of
world government, as being the two men he admired most, was a dramatic example
of the duplicity of the office, not to mention being blatantly offensive to
both their memories and to we who respected them in their total dedication to
world peace and ultimate sacrifice as victims of violence. Moreover, in the
President's address to the General Assembly of the United Nations on September
25th, Obama asserted blandly in that strictly diplomatic environment that, "I
am convinced that ultimately government of the people, by the people and for
the people is more likely to bring about the stability, prosperity, and
individual opportunity that serve as a basis for peace in our world." And
that "True democracy demands that citizens cannot be thrown in jail
because of what they believe, and businesses can be opened without paying a
bribe. It depends on the freedom of citizens to speak their minds and assemble
without fear; on the rule of law and due process that guarantees the rights of
all people." Hear, hear! But then
followed the National Defense Authorization Act, signed by the same President
Obama on December 31st, 2011 while the slaughter of civilians by drones, the
increasing cyberwars, the revolts of oppressed citizens throughout the Middle
East, the gross inequality of economic status, between rich and poor, in short,
the increasing obsolescence of the nation-state system is overwhelmingly
apparent in this turbulent 21st century world. As Alvin Toffler points out in
The Third Wave, "All the political parties of the industrial world, all
our congresses, parliaments, and supreme soviets, our presidencies and prime
ministerships, our courts, and our regulatory agencies, and our layer upon
geographical layer of governmental bureaucracy -- in short, all the tools we
use to make and enforce collective decisions -- are obsolete and about to be
transformed. A third wave civilization cannot operate with a second wave
political structure. "
Finally,
nowhere in the debate did either Obama or Romney refer to the Nuremberg
Principles and the ICC Statute proscribing "enemies of humanity" as
an indictable crime; nor the International Conventions mandated by the United
Nation; the UN's Charter Preamble "… to bring about by peaceful means, and
in conformity with the principles of justice and international law…";
Article 2, (3) "All Members shall settle their international disputes by
peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and
justice, are not endangered, "; the myriad United Nations resolutions
against the use of nuclear weapons; and above all, the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, signed by the US as all member-states of the UN, which, in
article 28 provides that "Everyone is entitled to a social and
international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this
Declaration can be fully realized"; nor did either acknowledge the
thousands of human rights and juridical organizations and even high schools -- such
as the Montessori School of Lucknow, India, whose 44,000 students add world
citizenship as well as claim to speak for the 2.4 billion students throughout
the world community -- all advocating the rule of world law. The only true "mission"
of the United States president -- indeed of every conscientious holder of
political office worldwide -- is to guarantee the protection of humanity itself
of which the US public is but 4.7 percent. The deception, national and global,
therefore of both candidates revealed startling the deadly irrelevance of a
national presidential election in a world become one in which we, its citizens
are sovereign and of one kind: human.
Bottom
line: Our human hearts beat in cosmic rhythm; blood courses in the veins of all
creatures; sleep beckons each and all at night; and finally, love and
consciousness permeate all our being.
Final
notice to President Obama and Governor Romney as well as all national officials
throughout the community: The World Government of World Citizens is, in
principle and practice, since September 4, 1953, that legitimate protector of
humanity, acknowledged willfully and actively by each and every registered
world citizen.
No
deception there.
Garry
Davis
Founder/President
World
Government Of World Citizens
Washington,
DC
