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Volume VI, Issue # 83, April 26, 2004
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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THE UNITED NATIONS SEEKING TO GAIN INTERNET CONTROL:
THE UN PLAN FOR INTERNET CONTROL TIPTOES FORWARD
By Cheryl K. Chumley
FULL STORY:
The phantom of government-controlled Internet has raised its menacing head again; this time on the global level.
“Even the definition of what we mean by Internet governance is a subject of debate. But the world has a common interest in ensuring
the security and dependability of this new medium,” said Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the opening of a March 25-26 United
Nations Global Forum on Internet Governance. “The medium must be made accessible and responsive to the needs of all the world’s
people.”
In UN-speak, that means America better ready itself, once again, to relinquish a bit more of its Founding Father’s free market freedoms
and accompanying hard-earned dollars to support the policies and expenses of a socialist system that demands equality for all,
at whatever cost.
The idea of government control of the Internet is not new, not even in this country, where pending congressional bills reflect very
different opinions on if and how this technology should be regulated.
U.S. Representative Christopher Cox (R-CA), for instance, wants a permanent moratorium on Internet taxation via H.R. 49, while
U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) proposes to tax email and Internet access in S. 2084. The difference between these
contrasting regulatory proposals being discussed at the U.S. federal level versus global echelon, of course, is that
congressional representatives are accountable to their constituents.
The members of the United Nations, primarily anti-American in ideology and deed, are not.
So when United Nations leader Kofi Annan announces publicly a “common interest” in providing Internet access to “all the
world’s people,” suspicion should be the prevailing emotion among all those who claim reverence for the rights of the individual
and for free market dogma. This is not an idle pronouncement, an off-the-cuff expression of a personal dream or childlike desire
for all in the world to have equal rights and access to this technology.
Rather, Annan’s formal statements come on the tail end of a UN meeting on “telecommunications” regulation that was planned
in December, 2003, the same month the global body solidified its Declaration of Principles and its Plan of Action for actually
achieving control of the Internet.
This UN push for Internet control is not going to die. Already scheduled is a November 16-18, 2005, follow-up meeting in Tunis,
Tunisia, to give updates on how successfully these principles and action plans have been implemented in the various member
states, to include America. In terms of what the UN wants to accomplish, here’s the gist of what we face.
“The Internet has evolved into a global facility available to the public and its governance should constitute a core issue of the
Information Society agenda,” the Declaration of Principles states. “The international management of the Internet should be
multilateral, transparent, and democratic…. It should ensure an equitable distribution of resources.”
So what does this mean to you, an American citizen with constitutionally guaranteed individual rights, freedoms, privacies,
and free market abilities? Well, there’s that niggling “equality for all” philosophy again, the Socialist’s dream of achieving
absolute uniformity among those of dissimilar abilities and resources that runs completely contrary to our constitutional
system of government and our free market system of private enterprise capitalism.
This is how the plot for global control will unfold. In its Plan of Action, the United Nations lists ten goals, most aimed at
linking various Internet users and records to one, single, master global system. Planned connections include “villages,
universities, colleges, secondary schools and primary schools, scientific and research centers, public libraries, cultural
centers, museums, post offices and archives, health centers and hospitals [and] all local and central government
departments.”
Also planned is adapting “all primary and secondary school curricula to meet the challenges of the Information Society,”
ensuring worldwide access to television and radio and encouraging “conditions in order to facilitate the presence and use
of all world languages on the Internet.”
The foregoing jargon is UN language. In simpler terms, the principles and actions stated in the Declaration outline the
goals and means for taking charge of the Internet at the international level. By their own statements, UN members want
access to medical records. They want to know what’s being taught in the schools, from elementary grades through
college. They want to keep abreast of all scientific advancements. They want to know what’s being mailed, what’s being
exhibited in museums, and what’s being discussed in town hall meetings.
They plan to achieve these objectives by 2015.
Once realized, our free market system will surely crumble. Not only does the United Nations call for sharing technology with
disadvantaged and possibly even hostile states, but this body will also be in position to impose whatever access and usage
fees are deemed necessary for the good of all, to regulate business, and to oversee all content placed on the Internet for
public access.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
The United Nations & Its Agencies
Cheryl K. Chumley is an associate editor for at the American Policy Center, a grassroots activist think
tank that maintains a website at www.americanpolicy.org. Cheryl may be
reached directly at cchumley@americanpolicy.org.
Copyright 2004 American Policy Center
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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