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United States International

Welcome to the website of United States International, the central registry for organizations, websites, and individuals worldwide who are working to make the United States a bigger and better country by bringing new geographic areas into the Union as States.

Note: Yahoo! is closing GeoCities on October 26, 2009, and this website is in the course of moving to http://sites.google.com/site/fiftyoneplus.

Please, don't look for pretty pictures, flashing lights, bells 'n' whistles, music, etc., here. Some of the more ostentatious members of USI have those things, sure, but we ourselves just want to give you a plain, unadulterated message. USI is the central registry for organizations, websites, and individuals working to bring new areas into the United States as States of the Union. From this webpage, links fan out to collective entities and individual activists in Canada, Britain, Puerto Rico, Guyana, the Philippines, and elsewhere who believe the United States should be larger and more inclusive. You may be surprised at how many we have already found, and at how many more find us in coming months or that form in response to our example.

Listing among USI's links does not imply that each organization or individual endorses all the policies and programs of every other organization and individual listed. It does signal that those noted as Members are pleased to be part of a broad Alliance dedicated to making the United States a greater, more powerful, more prosperous, and more constructive Nation better able to advance its civilization worldwide, and in the process benefit people not yet part of the Union.

One of the problems that statehood-minded organizations abroad have is winning credibility: making people believe that they are serious in wanting to bring their area into the United States, and having people in the opinion leadership of the United States take their proposals seriously.

USI hopes to overcome that basic problem by demonstrating to casual visitors and politicians alike that (a) there are indeed people outside the United States who believe it would be in everybody's interest for their country, province, or region to become a State of the Union, (b) that the idea of bringing new States into the Union is not bizarre and unthinkable but widely considered, and may well become hugely popular among the world's best minds, and (c) that enlarging the United States by admitting new States might bring challenges but annexations would also bring resources and solutions to problems — and not just to the problems of the new accessions, but even to longstanding, stubborn problems of the present-day United States.

We hope that by bringing together disparate groups and individual visionaries from many far-flung territories, we can demonstrate that expanding the United States is not a silly pipedream but an eminently sensible and easily accomplished way of bringing much of this planet, which often seems to be spinning wildly and dangerously out of control, under control, and giving hope to hundreds of millions, even, ultimately, billions of people who are rapidly running out of hope.

In numbers there is indeed strength. And security. And wealth — and the bulk of this planet's horribly suffering people need wealth to be redirected to their wellbeing.  50 states is far too few. As Jeremy Pender, our European and Commonwealth Coordinator, put it,

"The United States of America is suffering from arrested development."

We must have the vision the Founding Fathers of the United States had when they put forward the crazy notion that a bunch of disparate colonies scattered along 1,000 miles of coastline and separated from one another by weeks of travel could form a single great country. We must understand that it is as true of the world today as it was of the rebelling British colonies of North America in 1776 that

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."

Benjamin Franklin put forward that pithy summary of the events of his time at the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In the early 1960s John Fitzgerald Kennedy put forward a Declaration of Interdependence, in which he sought to waken Americans to the impossibility of total independence in a global age. Forty years later, the world is far more interdependent, and far more wretched, than it was in JFK's day, but our institutions haven't advanced at all.

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Who on Earth decided that, having reached the grand total of fifty states, the United States should suddenly stop growing?

It costs a great deal of money to keep a nation ticking over, not the least significant portion of which is what it costs its taxpayers to underwrite the differentiation of its 'identity' from those of all the other countries on the planet! Can you honestly think of a better way for President Bush to follow through with his Inauguration Day promise to cut taxes than by bringing the ax down on some of those innumerable embassies, missions and legations all over the globe? (Exactly how 'independent' can a country of, say, 500,000 souls in today's world actually BE?) Are we humans really all so dramatically different from each other that there's no scope for at least now beginning to consider the prospects for some serious international merging in this so-called global age?

(Consider that there are now some 190 separate countries on Earth, all of which need to speak to all the others. Each country that merges into the U.S. saves the cost and trouble of maintaining its own diplomatic and commercial relations with 190 countries and separately negotiating extradition treaties, commercial treaties, trade privileges and the like, with all those different countries. Merge two countries, and you save 190 diplomatic missions and countless hours of conflicts and negotiations. Merge three countries, and you save 380 missions and such. Merge four countries and you save 570! How much simpler and neater the world would be with so many fewer embassies trying to justify their existence by creating work!)

We at USI also invite you to ask yourselves such questions as why it is necessary for us to have two international borders to cross when we travel, say, from Seattle to Fairbanks -- or, even more glaringly, from Detroit to Buffalo (unless, of course, you go the long way around!). And what exactly IS there that's so "alien" about, say, a Russell Crowe or a Pamela Anderson Lee? Has the United States ever actually asked Britain at any point over the last 225 years what exactly it is that the boundary at the 49th parallel is meant to achieve, or what benefits have accrued to the United States, Canada, and Britain from that border's existence?

Doesn't the Declaration of Independence say that ALL men are created equal? If so, how can America logically defend the case for helping to defend countries (like Britain!) which, even now, deliberately distance themselves from such basic truths (in maintaining institutions such as a hereditary monarchy that only SOME people are eligible for)?

So, please, come on and join the rest of us here in starting to investigate some of these gross peculiarities in the way we're all conducting our national affairs. Then, why not stick around to help us arrive at ideas for making things better?!

USI seeks to change present international disorder and jealousy by waking everyone, worldwide, to the possibility of uniting much, perhaps even all, of this planet in mutually beneficial political union under the Constitution of the United States, by admitting new states — and plenty of them — to the Union.

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So, what's to be done about the United States' arrested development?

For a start, why not, as they say in England (one of our particular targets, by the way) when a business is hiring and seeks to tempt casual passersby, "enquire within"?

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USI and its members have a number of Internet opinion polls you may want to vote in. You can access them thru our British, Philippine, and Puerto Rican pages. In addition, one of our Charter Members, the Expansionist Party of the United States, has (a) an "End-Goal Poll" that asks how large the United States should ultimately be and (b) two polls on U.S.-Canadian union, one for Canadians and one for Americans. If you enjoy these polls, please tell your internationally-minded friends about them.

Feedback. If you'd like to submit a letter for consideration, please write to the Webmaster, XPUS@aol.com, with "Letter for USI" in the subject line.

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