Charles Hill wrote,
To understand the current Islamist assault on world order, it is necessary to recognize that every major war of the modern age has been an ideologically driven attempt — no two alike — to overthrow and replace the Westphalian international state system.
The quote is from page 49 of Trial of 1000 Years: World Order and Islamism, cited by Roger Kimball.
I have not read the book, but I would be curious how Hill fits World War I into this framework. Instead, this might be an example of over-reaching along the conservative civilization-vs.-barbarism axis.
Let us take at face value the claim that the protections of US citizens against surveillance were violated only incidentally. Let us also accept that states will privilege their own citizens over others. Implicit in the debate is a premise few seem to have questioned: that it is justified for the US to violate the privacy rights of citizens of other countries without just cause. It has rendered meaningless whatever domestic protections citizens of other nations may enjoy against their own democratic governments. Why should an Indian citizen fight unregulated surveillance at home when the US can carry it out anyway?
Pointer from Tyler Cowen.
I wish more people took David Brin’s approach to thinking about surveillance. We do not necessarily have to see surveillance as a tool of coercion or as oppression. But once people put it one of those axes, it is hard to get them to reconsider.
As having brought liberalism with its policies of investment choice and schemes of credit and carry trade investing to fulfillment, Jesus Christ, acting in dispensation, Ephesians 1:10, is now introducing authoritarianism, and John The Revelator’s Beast Regime, with its policies of diktat and schemes of nannycrat control, where through a soon coming credit bust and global financial system breakdown, foretold in Revelation 13:3-4, regional leaders, that is, nannycrats, will meet in summits, to renounce national sovereignty, and announce regional pooled sovereignty, in each of the world’s ten regional zones, most likely first with the Eurozone, and secondly with the North American Continent, which will become a North American Union, or NAU, a region I call CanMexAmerica.
Thus the The Westphalian System of sovereign nation states is collapsing, and out of its ashes the Beast Regime of regional governance and totaliarian collectivism is rising to rule the world.
Accompanying the rise of the Beast System, will be a war in Syria foreold in Isaiah, 17, and a third world war, foretold in Ezekiel 38.
Illuminati Prophet Albert Pike had Luciferian insight that there would be three world wars. D. Robert Singer writes the article The Modern State of Israel: Providence, Miracle, or What Really Happened. In 1871 Albert Pike founder of one of the Rothschild secret societies, Order of Perfectibilists, received a vision, which he described in a letter dated August 15, 1871 that graphically outlined plans for three world wars that were seen as necessary to bring about the One World Order.
ThreeWorldWars.com writes … http://tinyurl.com/lytzx9a … The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the “agentur” of the “Illuminati” between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm … Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. [1] [Cmdr. William Guy Carr: Quoted in Satan: Prince of This World, Albert Pike received a vision, which he described in a letter that he wrote to Mazzini, dated August 15, 1871.