Globalization, Governance, and Internet Slime

Suggest the idea that global governance might not be such a bad idea, and this is what happens:

I knew that there was something odd going on, when I woke up at 7am on Tuesday and found that over 200 e-mails had arrived in the seven hours that I had been in bed. It turned out that my article on world government had been “Drudged” - ie put on the much-read Drudge Report and this had set off a torrent of e-mail traffic.

Rachman's proposals were, as ideas for global government go, pretty modest, rooted as it was in a European-style federalism. As it turns out, that's exactly what I'd like to see. But the more important point is that, as Rachman notes, he wasn't actually advocating for anything, but simply suggesting it as a possibility.

From his responses though, we see the confluence of religious paranoia and anti-globalist cant:

“Just wanted to let you know that you’re never gonna get your New World Order.

People are waking up everyday to what’s really going on ….Good luck gettin’ the guns you traitor piece of trash!!”