Posted on 11/12/2004 10:49:53 AM PST by B4Ranch
The 'powers that be' simply cannot allow a medium such as the internet, where truth and logic are freely exchanged, to co-exist with them.
I don't expect a total ban, but one step I do think will be taken is to hold the service providers and forum owners responsible for the behavior of their posters. All it would take is one or two "example" cases, and internet forums all over would shut down from fear of lawsuits or prison.
ON THE NET...
http://www.un.org/News/ossg/hilites.htm
"WORKING GROUP ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE ESTABLISHED: The Secretary-General today announced the establishment of a Working Group on Internet Governance. That body will be chaired by Nitin Desai, the Secretary-Generals Special Adviser for the World Summit on the Information Society, and will include 40 members from Governments, the private sector and civil society. The Working Group is intended to facilitate the negotiations that will take place in the second phase of the World Summit, which is to be held in Tunis in November 2005. Desai said that the group will 'strive to establish a dialogue of good faith among all participants.'"
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>>Bottom line: the UN is constitutionally illegitimate and should be replaced, if at all, by a legitimate, representative organization of democratic nations.<<
Years ago, don't you think this was brought up? Yeah, I'll bet it was but we signed on for the ride anyway, constitutionally illegitimate or not.
Now, the Constitution has as much authority as the Sears catalog does in our legislative halls. We kill babies before they're born because it's convenient for us to do it.
We start wars without Congress declaring so.
These Executive Orders issued when Congess is in session aren't what I would consider legal but the legislators don't seem to mind. Are we even allowed to mind?
In Texas, a blue helmet is a bullseye for a LOT of people.
The last thing the UN is trying to do is reduce slavery throughout the world!
There are more slaves today than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The modern commerce in humans rivals illegal drug trafficking in its global reach and in the destruction of lives.
The porn industry makes more money per minute world wide than any other industry. Oh yes Annan, that is supporting human rights for sure when 14 year olds can be dragged from country to country for sex.
The only way I can see to make life more difficult for them is to make a list of code words that correspond to published UN papers.
Secretary=attack
General=UN
Kofi=Headquarters
Annan=next 24 hours
This kind of thing would drive them nuts.
It would be much easier to get 5000 people and just destroy the UN headquarters buldings. Most of the NYC police force would demand a front position! LOL
Govern this, you Marxist prigs.
take a look....http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html
FIRST ACT: "FREEREPUBLIC.COM" IS HEREBY AND FORTHWITH TO BE BANNED PENDING INVESTIGATION INTO "INCITEMENT TO RACISM AND BIGOTRY"
Kofi Annan
Secretary-General
The UN doesn't create, produce, or accomplish anything worthwhile but its anxious to manage what others have created. These people are nothing but a bunch of worthless bureaucrats seeking to control Internet resources under the guise of "governance".
Smartass, you have been out done :)
hee hee.
Sounds like it's time for the Internet to establish a Working Group on UN Subversion...
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