UNITED NATIONS ESTABLISHES WORKING GROUP ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE

www.un.org ^ | 11/11/2004 | UN Idiot

[myheroesareDeadandRegistered]

I guess if they do take over you won't be able to access www.theUNsux.com anymore?

[expatpat]

Keep your hands off OUR Internet!

[Sarastro]

FReepers generally take a dim view of the UN based on the facts that it is ineffective, anti-American, anti-Israeli, left-wing, etc.

Rather than complain about its policies (which, improbably, it might conceivably change to ones more to our liking), we should oppose the UN on the basis that it is constitutionally illegitimate. Two fatal flaws are that (1) it is not representative (e.g., Tuvalu (population 11 thousand) gets the same vote as China (population 1.3 billion)) and (2) it is not democratic (in that many countries are dictatorships of one form or another and their UN representatives are not accountable -- directly or indirectly -- to their people). An organization with these flaws can never be legitimate.

The UN was formed from the ashes of World War II in the hopes of preventing WWIII, and it is ill-adapted to today's world with its stateless insurgencies.

If we need any global organization, it would have to be based on legitimate constitutional principles, including representativeness and a power rooted in the free choices of its constituent members' citizens. For example, an organization of democratic countries with voting strength proportional to population might be appropriate.

However, the history of such organizations is not promising. Consider the European Union -- half-way between a nation and the global entity sketched above -- which seems to have morphed into an inefficient and ineffective left-wing bureaucracy. (Compare its proposed constitution with our own for an evening of chuckles and horse-laughs).

Bottom line: the UN is constitutionally illegitimate and should be replaced, if at all, by a legitimate, representative organization of democratic nations.

[Edgerunner]

An how are they gonna govern the Internet? Gonna raid a country and arrest citizens for doing something they don't like? Try it anus boy!
I believe this will get them off our shores, and if any of those UN aholes try to enter the USA, they will be turned away...

[CWOJackson]

As long as we have a President like the one we have I'm not too concerned what the UN say, does or demands...and I bet if our hackers were worried the UN wouldn't be able to boot up a computer for years.

[An.American.Expatriate]

Meanwhile, the UN is STILL unable to define the word terrorism . . .

[F16Fighter]

After the internet tax, everybody gear up for your mandatory 666 branding, computer ID chip implantation, gun and bible confiscation, and international "user" tax on air and water.

But all the above is practically part of the the Democrat Party platform, anyway.

[Edgerunner]

Well put, thanx...

[CWOJackson]

My pleasure sir...

[trubluolyguy]

Could this be the next step towards the one world government? I mean last year they were holding hearings on the taking away of our gun rights....my God what's next?

[hosepipe]

[ UNITED NATIONS ESTABLISHES WORKING GROUP ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE ]

Who can blame them.. The internet is playing havoc with U.N. goals.. of world dominance.. Could be short wave internet connections (being developed) will be a last resort.. Because socialism is advanceing rapidly in the U.S. with the U.S. being the LAST holdout to socialism.. All democrats and ALL RINOS are for U.N. hegemony..

[maikeru]

from the above article:
The Working Group will prepare the ground for a decision on this issue [Internet governance] by the second phase
of the World Summit on the Information Society, to be held in Tunis in November 2005.

“Issues that we expect to address include the management of Internet resources,
network security, cyber-crime, spam and multilingualism.”

FUNDING OF WSIS-2005

The total cost of organizing the core preparatory process and the Summit of the Tunis Phase
is estimated to be about CHF 15 million (US$12.8m), not including elements of the process supported by the host country, Tunisia.
The WSIS-2005 Fundraising Campaign has set a goal of raising at least CHF 5 million (US$4.3m) in financial contributions
with the expectation that the remainder can be supported through in-kind contributions from various partners.

Financial Contributions for Tunis Phase (as of 14 October 2004)

Governments:
Azerbaijan: US$ 12,800
Burkina Faso: US$ 21,300
Holy See : US$ 3,400
Japan: US$ 329,700
Japan: US$ 333,350
Namibia: US$ 10,600
Netherlands: US$ 64,000
Norway : US$ 153,600
Senegal: US$ 17,000
Senegal (Commitment) : US$ 39,250
Spain (Commitment) : US$ 128,000
Syrian Arab Republic (Commitment): US$ 10,650
Sultanate of Oman : US$ 85,350

International Organizations
UN Federal Credit Union (UNFCU) : US$ 1,050
Universal Postal Union (UPU) : US$ 8,550
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) : US$ 12,800

To date, more than half the core funding comes from Japan, with (count 'em) 2 almost identical contributions.

The balance comes from all the major players one would naturally associate with leading edge internet development...=)
 

[MarshallDillon]

Now the U.N. wants to take the world's best shot at free expression away. Who can we shoot?

[EagleUSA]

Could this be the next step towards the one world government? I mean last year they were holding hearings on the taking away of our gun rights....my God what's next...
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Well that is what they want, ONE WORLD, A SOCIALIST AMERICA --- THAT THEY ARE IN CHARGE OF, OF COURSE. It is all about power and control with these hard-left losers. They have nothing for America...America is there to serve them in their minds...and they will take every right and possession you have, to make that happen, IF YOU LET THEM.

[Indie]

U.N. BE THROWN OUT OF THE USA

Wrong organization, wrong President, wrong time. Someday we'll have a true patriot as POTUS who will do exactly this. But Michael Peroutka was not elected.

Unless the Republicans start rasing HE!! with POTUS on down to Congress and stick to their guns by voting them out of office even if they are Republicans things will never ever change.

[AIC]

Since most of us if not all on this thread agree that there is no foreseeable reason for the U.S. to belong to the U.N. why not try to form a grass root activist group and lobby congress to withdraw from the U.N. because the U.N. and the U.S. no longer has the same goals and reasons to stay together. As I see it now the U.N. has changed its course in the 1970's whereas the U.N. of today does not represent the same U.N. as was setup in 1947. I can't see where staying in the U.N. has any advantage for anyone anymore.

[B4Ranch]

My list would get us both out in jail. Me for designating and you just for asking to see it. LOL

[nw_arizona_granny]

Well that is what they want, ONE WORLD, A SOCIALIST AMERICA ---
THAT THEY ARE IN CHARGE OF, OF COURSE. It is all about power and
control with these hard-left losers. They have nothing for
America...America is there to serve them in their minds...and they will
take every right and possession you have, to make that happen, IF
YOU LET THEM.

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You have stated the future well. This has been brewing for several years.

[KoRn]

Just damn...

Between those bastards and the liberals will freedom survive in the long term? Keep an eye on them peeps!!

[B4Ranch]

Every time you connect to the Internet, your PC supplies information to your server company that says who you are and just EXACTLY what sites you look at at.

>>I believe this will get them off our shores, and if any of those UN aholes try to enter the USA, they will be turned away...<<

We headquarter these scum! We pay 25% of every cost, we protect them, we support what they do. OUR LEADERS SIGN THEIR TREATIES, REDUCING THE SOVEREIGNTY OF AMERICA.

Turned away? Hah! They are in our beds already!