Since when did constitutional monarchies become democratic? As for Vatican city, I'm sorry to inform you but it is a country that is controlled by a theocratic monarchy.

I don't care whether you say the thread isn't about one world government or not; your arguments almost perfectly mirror the arguments that are made in favor of unifying world government in to one all encompassing entity. If you slapped a little blurb pushing the North American Union on the end of your every post, they would make a lot more sense.

Why is it that this country only feels the need to step in and over throw dictators when it is in our best interest? Why do we do nothing about mass genocide in countries with no bankable resources?

I'm all for patriotism, but its the people who blindly believe everything they are told about the motives of our government that give this country a bad name, and are ruining freedom for the rest of us. If you think our country's administration is worried about freedom and justice while they are tapping phones, committing unconstitional torture, allowing unchecked private military forces to commit atrocities under our country's banner, unlawfully arresting American citizens and stripping them of their constitutional rights, and who knows what else that no one has found out about yet then you are allowing yourself to be deluded by propaganda and false hopes of righteousness.

Terrorism is a brand that is applied by our government to vilify its enemies. Isreal commits the same sort of atrocities as any group that has been labeled a terrorist organisation, but they are our allies. They bomb civilians, commit daily shootings in the streets,and have killed or maimed close to 10,000 children in the last 7 years.

Terrorism is defined as "the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes." I argue that our own government uses violence and threats of violence to intimidate and coerce the people of this country in to believing whatever they want us to believe. We have relinquished many of our rights in the last 6 years, and all for the sake of safety from unknown enemies. We have accepted faulty explanations for attacks on this country, including a list of terrorists that flew planes in to buildings that includes at least 7 people that are still alive and therefore could not have been on any plane that crashed and exploded, one of which was identified because his passport miraculously survived a 747 crashing and the resulting inferno unscathed and was somehow recovered mere moments after officials arrived on the scene.

I know you want to believe that our country is run by good people, but there is a reason why virtually no one in this thread agrees with you and its not because we are all idiots like you would like to believe.