Name: Anonymous 2005-03-23 15:31
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.
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.