[Grovenet] Avoiding WAR (WAS: draft vs. volunteer)

[Ed Davie]

That's Quakers, with a capitol Q, Stephen.
I suspect you know little or nothing about them.
Ed
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steven
  To: Forest Grove local interests list
  Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 7:49 PM
  Subject: Re: [Grovenet] Avoiding WAR (WAS: draft 
vs. volunteer)


  Yea, right. Corruption, graft and party politics 
on a world scale. More
  like crackers than quakers.

  Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
  > What are those options and now might they be 
implemented?
  >
  > Yes, I am a strong believer in a world 
government. Countries like ours (and
  > most, actually) live with relative internal 
peace because all the citizens
  > accept control by the state in a great many 
things. At least it's been a
  > century and a half since we fought a war among 
ourselves and it's been much,
  > much longer for many other countries.
  >
  > It would seem that moving that model up to a 
global level would produce the
  > same results.
  >
  > Ron D'Eau Claire
  >
  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com 
[mailto:grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com] On
  > Behalf Of Ed Davie
  > Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 7:21 PM
  > To: Forest Grove local interests list
  > Subject: Re: [Grovenet] draft vs. volunteer
  >
  >
  > For many years, I have believed that a "World
  > Government" would solve a lot of problems.
  > Very difficult to attain, I'm sure.
  > "National Sovereignty" certainly is a problem
  > world wide!
  >

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