by Nouri Arif

Created on: June 27, 2007

The proposition that a single World Government might in some way lead the Earth to a future that isn't fraught with the same horrors that exist today is ludicrous. The history of our frail little planet is packed full with megalomaniacs that have attempted to do just that very thing. In every instance the most powerful empires bent on global domination have fallen by the way side, but never have they fallen before reeking some of the most amazing havoc in recorded history. It is a sure bet, however, that there will always be a group that insists that the single World Government is the correct and proper thing for our Earth and it is just as sure a bet they will always be wrong.

Hitler tried it. He tried it under the auspices of warring against the tyrannical sanctions imposed upon Germany after World War I by the Allied powers and the need for living space for the German people. This soon became a war against European Jews, Communists, Homosexuals, lesser races wherever they could be found, Catholics, Gypsy's and all revolutionaries. The world was plunged into a nightmare that produced the Holocaust and the sieges of Stalingrad and other Russian cities. Twelve years into the thousand year Reich, however, and many millions of dead and executed later, Hitler married Eva Braun, killed her and then himself and was partially burned in a pit outside his bunker in Berlin. And good riddance. Imagine a world in which the likes of Adolf Hitler might have been the seminal figure for the single World Government. We'd have a world on our hands that had been sanitized of anything but the racially pure and any hope of individualism would be an ancient memory. We'd be spying on each other every moment of everyday and hoping our children didn't turn us in for not saying "Heil, Hitler" when we answer the phone.

The Romans tried it. They almost succeeded at it, too. They, of course, gave us the likes of Nero and Caligula as examples of fine leadership to look to for inspiration. They gave us slavery as an institution and not just for one race, oh no, but for any race even their own Roman blood if the situation was right. They gave us blood sport, wars fought on every known continent by generals set on conquest in order to prove themselves glorious to the people of Rome and for the booty they could become rich and powerful from. They gave us senators that murder on the floor of the senate chambers and corruption on a monumental scale. And, it stands to reason, the Romans gave

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