Coated Pill....Easier To Swallow

       Many Christian prophesy teachers have for decades pointed to a revival of the Holy Roman Empire in the Last Days. Primarily using Daniel's vision of a statue with ten toes, part clay and part iron, and also the ten horns on the Dragon in Revelation 12:3. They expect ten nations in Europe to come together during the Tribulation period and we have indeed seen a larger European Union form along with the euro zone and its euro.
      Today's (June 10, 2013) New York Times' Op-ed pages had a half page article titled The Ghosts Of Europe Past written by Cambridge University history professor Brendan Simms. And here is my summation of that article:
     This European Union resembles that Holy Roman Empire in that it is nations coming together to "deliberate matters of mutual concern." The problem is that the Holy Roman Empire collapsed and for the EU to succeed it will have to understand why the empire collapsed in order to avoid a similar demise. That problem was, in part, that there was no authoritative structure in place to deal with the rivalries between the different states.
     Professor Simms then segues to the American Revolution. The Articles of Confederation were too weak to keep the union together so the Founding Fathers merged their debts, governments and efforts. Quoting Professor Simms. "The resulting American constitution created a powerful executive presidency and a representative legislature and made possible the creation of a national debt, a national bank and eventually a strong military..." In other words they "reformed" whereas the "modern" Holy Roman Empire "failed to reform and disintegrated after it was defeated by Napoleonic France  in 1806." There's another problem in "the old empire" in that it "became preoccupied with legality and procedure..." The law got in the way! Professor Simms writes that Alexander Hamilton and James Madison wrote about these problems of the old empire and that those same problems are being "echoed today in Washington."
     He's now ready to give the solution, from history, to the problems that the European Union is experiencing: "Fortunately there is a solution from history. The euro zone faces the same choice as the Holy Roman Empire and American patriots of old: how to overcome discredited forms of confederation. Rather than digging themselves into a deeper recession and democratic deficit through austerity measures, the states in the common currency need to form a full and mighty union on Anglo-American lines. They must create a strong executive presidency elected by popular vote across the euro zone, a truly empowered house of citizens elected according to population and a senate representing the regions. The existing sovereign debts should be federalized through a 'union bond' with a strict subsequent debt ceiling for the member state governments. There will have to be a single European military and one language of government and politics: English."
     I have to wonder how many "regions" that they might decide on? Ten is a nice round number. You can easily Google this article and form your own opinion. What I see recommended is strength through strictness and a powerful executive office where "legality and procedure" are ignored if they get in the way.....sounds like the Obama Administration. Does Professor Simms know that our branches of government are supposed to be able to check one another? Does he know that we are currently experiencing crisis, in part because of those nasty pests of "legality and procedure?" He tries to align the wrong people of today with our patriots of old and might want to consider more founders than just Hamilton and Madison.  Most of all he should expand his reasons for our strengths and might want to consider de Tocqueville comments, "I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and ample rivers, and it was not there, in her fertile fields and boundless prairies, and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power." The feeling that I got in reading this article was that it was coded...a coated pill easier to swallow.... because there are indeed normal people who read the New York Times and they (we-hopefully) do not want to hear of a state that survives primarily due to its authoritarian prowess and I sincerely hope that he is not thinking about us in some "reformed" world governmental structure.... for the Atlantic Ocean is just about the right distance between America and the European globalist aspirations of a New World Order.