[governance] From the Christian Coalition "action alert", 8-20-05

[Carlos Afonso]

Wow, the opening paragraph of BD's message seems extracted+adapted 
directly from Umberto Eco's "Sette anni di desiderio"! :) In other 
words, probably all that is going to be written has probably already 
been written...

--c.a.

William Drake wrote:

>Hi Milton,
>
>First we had the "UN wants to take over the Internet" meme, now this.  So
>ICANN is a "liberal" organization.  Who knew?  Suddenly, it all makes
>sense...ICANN is based in Marina del Rey, near the people's republic of
>Santa Monica, and Los Angeles, a liberal Democratic stronghold and home to
>godless Hollywood.  Also near to Venice Beach, a heaving vortex of sun-fed
>immorality; untold possibilities for ICANN staff to be corrupted during
>lunchtime strolls.  Further, ICANN has foreigners on its board, who of
>course cannot be counted on to Defend American Freedom, and undoubtedly
>want the children to be exposed to porn, hence the .xxx decision.  And to
>top it off, its leadership talks a lot about something called
>"internationalization," which sounds a bit like the One World Government
>favored by the UN.
>
>I would not be at all surprised if, having gotten a taste with the highly
>useful .xxx controversy, America's christian right starts poking around in
>other bits of Internet governance in search of high yield targets.  The IG
>debate, and WSIS more generally, present all kinds of possibilities to
>alarm and mobilize the troops, raise money, influence Congressional
>staffers, get friendly Washington "think tanks" busy churning out position
>papers, etc.  It might take some doing to sort out a semi-coherent
>position---hate the UN and intergovernmentalism, but hate ICANN and "self
>regulation" too---but that's not really necessary.  Who knows, maybe
>they'll organize a campaign to get some people onto the ICANN board, like
>the recent events praying for Supreme Court "vacancies" (aka the, um, exit
>of moderates with lifetime appointments).   Hope that the Washington Times
>or whomever doesn't discover the IG caucus, wild eyed conspiracy that we
>are.
>
>Stay tuned,
>
>Bill
>  
>

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