The WTO now apparently gets to tell us what industries we can and cannot subsidize. Don't get me wrong, I'm not in favor of farm subsidies at all, but "US must act 'quickly' on cotton" makes my blood boil. It surely is wonderful to live a world where an organization accountable to no one and nothing gets to decide our laws. Even in the days of widespread monarchy, the king was responsible to God, and when he was not, as with the Romans, look where you ended up. Do we want to go down that road? I do not think so. We seriously need to start resisting this move towards globalization. It stands in opposition to the Catholic principle of subsidiarity, concentrating power and decision-making into the hands of the unaccountable few rather than localizing it to levels where it is under the control and influence of the people who's lives the laws will decide. The United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the World Court, all of these need to go. And the LOST treaty creating a NGO, with the power to tax of all things, to cripple the trade of any country that defies it, needs to be stopped. It must not be allowed to happen. We are going downhill fast here, with the spread of secularization, paganism, and, with them, corruption and death. It is no surprise that the United Nations "peace keepers" are the center of so much scandal; what else do you expect to come from a culture that has greater regard for you as a sheep than you as a thinking sovereign person? "Might makes right" in history and politics, as Fr. Lyle used to say, and these soldiers have the might, without the moral framework to hold them back. Expect to see more of this. Expect to see LOST used to redistribute our wealth to the pockets of corrupt dictators in 3rd world countries, supposedly to fund improvements, development, and aid, but with the same sort of corruption that the Oil for Food program had.
