By Niki Raapana, April 12, 2006 The ultimate communitarian vision is absolute control over the requirements for global citizenship. Anything that furthers this goal is a communitarian action or reaction. The escalating arguments between illegal immigrants and legal Americans can easily become a tool used by the nice people who are rebuilding us a more […]
By Niki Raapana, March 28, 2006 Twenty-first century communitarianism is a philosophical, political, and legal theory. It combines every opposite theory in the history of the world. It’s a projected vision for a new global order by the year 2020. It’s what all of us should be socially evolving into. Communitarians borrow ideas from ancient […]
By Niki Raapana, March 19, 2006 From sea to shining sea, America is changing the structure of local government. Our constitutional republic is rapidly changing into a communitarian system of law. New laws are introduced every day that incorporate a vague set of “community” values. U.S. law was established to protect and maintain individual rights. […]
By Niki Raapana, February 17, 2006 East Germany passed a public disclosure act soon after communism “fell.” The German people took their new freedom seriously. They insisted on their right to see government documents. The office in charge of turning over police files became overwhelmed with requests. A month after the new law passed, some […]
By Niki Raapana, January 25, 2006 Here’s how communitarian rulings create a new quality of life: “Adams offered an illuminating example of the questions arising from the interaction between European institutions on the one hand and society at large on the other. Only keen observers of communitarian matters are aware that the European Court of […]
By Niki Raapana, January 25, 2006 How both parties sold America down the river After wading through all the publications and websites representing both support and opposition for the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-approved by the U.S. Congress July 2005), it’s astonishing to realize how very few of them bother to explain the legal […]
By Niki Raapana, March 18, 2005 The Third Way is another term used to define communitarianism and Civil Society (Dana Milbank, Washington Post (2001)). Third Way politicians claim they seek to find a middle ground between the far-right and the far-left. They identify the “new” American responsibilities to the “new” communities. Third Way philosophers, politicians, […]