Just to play the Devil's advocate for a moment.....
Are you so certain that people who would support the Anti-UN are basically greedy and/or power hungry? Wouldnt there be people that would have a legitemate gripe with the centralization of power under a group that, as many of us know in RL, is full of morons and thugs? Wouldnt there be people that would have a legitemate worry that the UN created the ASS-1 as a hoax in order to run roughshod over people? Couldnt it be that there are people who are legitemately afraid of being on the recieving end of 'justice' by groups within the UN because of past grievances?
If all the Anti-UN are painted as insane, criminal or power-mad thugs...that is just as dumb as the portrayal of the Anti-Unification League and Army of the Southern Cross in the Robotech novels (and newer comics...no thanks to that no-talent hack of a writer Jay Faerber). Its taking an overly simplistic and, in some cases, stupid view of how life works. Having the heads of the Anti-UN be some Snidely Whiplash-esque villains who twirl their mustachios and laugh maniacally would be a mistake of the first order.
Agreed. I wish they got into a bit more detail like that in MZero. I still see the Anti-UN portrayed like these really evil bad guys.
Even the original show didn't fall shy of showing the dark side of UN Spacy, such as Misa's father's blind faith in the Grand Cannon, to annihilate a great portion of the aliens BEFORE commencing peace talks, and of course the banishment of SDF-1 and its citizens from Earth.
I like a show where it's not so easy to tell who the bad guys are, it's a little more realistic.
Yeah, one reason I like Gundam SEED so much, screw the action, it's not that great anyways, it's all about the drama! Oh the humanity!