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

[William Drake]

Milton,

Private responses suggest otherwise.  I suspect people simply don't feel
motivated to prolonge a thread here, so we can let it drop.  One last
comment, though.  It's not because I'm an expat; precisely the opposite. 
Eight years in Washington, including working at a foreign policy think
tank, gave me a lot of clos exposure to how the US far right works. 
They're like Chinese foreign policy---long-term in outlook, methodical in
build-up.  It's just a question of figuring out which seemingly innocuous
statements are actually the opening salvos of a wider effort to come.  In
1999, I had the distinctly eerie experience of having lunch with a leading
neocon thinker who told me that when the Republicans get back into the
White House, "first we'll do Iraq, then we'll do Iran, then we'll do North
Korea."  I mistakenly thought he was indulging a mid-day fantasy.  My
antenna's a bit more sensitive now (the subsequent evaporation of steps 2
and 3 notwithstanding).

Best,

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: governance-bounces at lists.cpsr.org
> [mailto:governance-bounces at lists.cpsr.org]On Behalf Of Milton Mueller
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 6:34 PM
> To: wdrake at cpsr.org; wdrake at ictsd.ch; governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: Re: [governance] From the Christian Coalition "action
> alert",8-20-05
>
>
> Bill,
> Perhaps it's because you're an expat American, but you seem to be the
> only person on the list who understands the implications of this. I hope
> people are reading what you said below. People who talk about how much
> they like the "flexibility" of ICANN because it responds to last-minmute
> political pressures are going to find out what that really means. And
> people like Carlos who _think_ they are happy because the US is exerting
> pressure to do what it wants this time, will learn the hard way, too,
> not to abandon principle for expediency.
>
> >>> wdrake at cpsr.org 08/24/05 11:31 AM >>>
> >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.
>
>





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