Petition to stop Japan from joining UN

http://www.gainfo.org/Petition-Campaign/petition.asp

This is a petition to go against Japan's attempt to become a permanet member of the UN. I strongly implore you to sign up for this petition because when Japan becomes one of the UN members, they would be able to extend their power even further because now they gained an influence in the UN.

Japan has the 3rd largest economy in the world, maybe 2nd largest. They deserve to be on the security council. Then again, along those same lines, Brazil and India should be on there too. India is the world's largest democracy and a huge burgeoning economy, Brazil is the regional leader of SA and has quite a huge population and economy as well. Leaving the security council the way it is --a snap-shot of the world power structure at the end of world war 2-- is propagating an antequated system of power that will eventually lead to all those other nations who will rise over time to simply not use the UN to peacefully solve problems and eventually the UN will become defunct and abandoned.


Personally I think the whole SS permanent-seat structure should be restructured so that:
the Europeans get 1 seat
the US gets 1 seat
China gets 1 seat
Japan gets 1 seat
Brazil gets 1 seat
India gets 1 seat
the AU gets 1 seat(since there really isn't a single African country big enough, powerful enough or rich enough to merit a seat)


I would also do away with the veto and have it just straight majority vote.

First of all, I am one of those people who doesn't agree that there ought to be such an apparatus. Also, I despise Kant.

That aside, I think that politics should be based on realities and not fancies. If we fancy that things ought to be so nice, that there ought to be world peace / universally respected human rights / what have you, that is all well and good. But political science must deal with realities, not fancies. So I would say that it matters very much how cynical a person may be as to whether such an improbable state may be achieved.

A political system can have the best intentions in the world and still be a miserable failure for failing to deal with realities.

Mostly I'm saying that World Peace is highly improbable. As for Human Rights violations, I think that if a country has a problem with the way another country treats people, then the former country can gather a group of like minded nations for that specific purpose, or deal with it itself.

In this situation, it is not the selfishness individual members of the UN may or may not posess which concerns me. Rather, it is the lack of selfishness in joining such a body that I find anathema. The duty of a nation is to look after its own best interests, whatever it may percieve those interests to be. In surrendering, partially or in full, your sovreignity to a foreign body you give up in equal measure your power to look after your best interests - you are agreeing to place the desires of other nations before your own.