One-World Government and Language?

The Logical Language Group received an email from a gentleman in France who is with L’Union Française Onixienne. An AltaVista babelfish translation of their website yields the following:

The French Onixian Union is an association which has the aim of promoting, adapting, and developing the creation of a federal State, called "Terran Federation", including all the current Sovereign states such as the Eurasiatic, Oceanic, American, African countries ... such as recommends the French author E. Onix in his work entitled "My Utopia: the Terran Federation".

Here is an AltaVista babelfish translation of the email (written originally in French), in which he asks us five survey questions.
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I personally have very little desire for a one-world government; mainly because if you don't like your government you should be able to move somewhere else. Furthermore, here we see how such an institution would surpress personal freedom in terms of language. Is the concept of one-world government inherently opposed to personal freedom?

There's something to be said for language diversity. I'm very fond of science fiction stories such as Tom Purdom's "Fossil Games" in which technology keeps the characters alive and young for so many centuries that they have time to learn dozens of languages, including artificial ones. I do not savor the prospect of all languages boiling down to one universal monoculture.

Here are my answers to Stephane's questions: ( Click here. )

What would your answers be?

Charges Not Brought Against Art Project

Here's a follow-up to the "War On April Fools' Day" story I posted about last week: Authorities have decided not to bring charges against the teenage girls who put up Super Mario Bros. question mark blocks which a bomb squad responded to. Click here to read the story in the Akron Beacon Journal.