Liberal Japan

Okay, I’ll get to Ozawa in a minute but first let’s review some other neat quotes:

The internationalists may be naive enthusiasts, while the nationalists may often be bigoted and reactionary. But somewhere in this debate lie the core issues of governance in a globalizing and integrating planet.
– global policy.org

It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order.
– Walter Cronkite

The choice is very clear: we either follow the Constitution or submit to UN global governance.  American national sovereignty cannot survive if we allow our domestic laws to be crafted or even influenced by an international body.  This needs to be stated publicly more often.  If we continue down the UN path, America as we know it will cease to exist.
– Ron Paul

Okay, now here’s what Ozawa said, quite some time ago:

Under the current Constitution, it is possible to dispatch the SDF as a standby force in the service of the United Nations and allow it to engage in overseas operations. This is because such activities would be carried out under the supervision of the United Nations and thus would not constitute a sovereign right of the nation …
– Ichiro Ozawa (in his 1993 book)

Right. It’s okay to dispatch the SDF and have them kill a bunch of people, so long as they we’re doing it for the UN. Because after all, I mean, UN law takes precedence over Japanese law, right? I mean that’s sort of like the world law, while Japanese law is only for Japan, right?

I mean so long as the SDF are only following (UN) orders, it doesn’t matter what Japanese law says or what Japanese people think. All that should matter is whether the world as a whole approves, right? I mean, if the UN needs more soldiers, heck, as long as the world approves they could just come to Japan and grab ‘em up, right?

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