[governance] Monroe Doctrin for Cyberspace?

Mon Aug 17 16:14:10 EDT 2009

One of the more powerful things in defense of the expansion of human
freedom and equality is one single paragraph of the Declaration of
Independence. (paragraph 2). Its concepts have been -- successfully --
used to abolish chattel slavery, cited endlessly by President Lincoln
(whose fame Tolstoy said would last a thousand years or more), relied
upon by women suffragists, who simply changed the pronouns in the
document to specify that "she" was included in "mankind", and is the
core of Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have A Dream" speech.  The only
time the USA has made historical progress has been in reliance on that
document.  It's also spread worldwide and been cited in countless
reform and revolutionary movements from the French Revolution to the
NOrth Vietnamese and everything in between.

A defense of the IDEALS of American history, what it is supposed to
be, is not a defense of the shortfalls of those ideals, nor does it
indicate selling out to anyone.

IN fact, at any given point in history about the most progressive
thing one can do is go straight back to the roots of American history.
 At least here in the USA, and in Finland where my wife comes from,
it's powerful and basically uncontestable, but very different from
jingoistic talk.
On 8/17/09, Rui Correia <correia.rui at gmail.com> wrote:
> Eric,
>
> Why not save us all the guess work and tell us once and for all that you and
> others of your coterie get paid (and how much) by ICANN/ US Dept to work
> against common civil society interests in the free world? The internet
> reveals much including past ICANN inbreeding and other associations. You
> would do better to dress up in a wolf costume trying to convince us that you
> are Little Red Riding Hood!
>
> What is your issue now with "America" (sic [there is no such thing! -
> America or the Americas is a/ are continents that comprise A NUMBER OF
> countries, not just the US of A])?
>
>
>
> Rui
>
> 2009/8/16 Eric Dierker <cogitoergosum at sbcglobal.net>
>
>> I am concerned that with the JPA significant dates edging ever closer,
>> this
>> type of anti American revisionist history will become more prevalant. Let
>> us
>> hope not. Let us begin by making it known that innaccuracies such as this
>> will be challenged.
>>
>> America has never and most likely will never have any decrees. We do not
>> run our rig that way.  Doctrines are a statement of intention by
>> executives
>> in governance, they are not law or treaty.  The Monroe Doctrine is a
>> statement against a *Holy Alliance* that threatened to reinstate
>> colonialism.  It was a statement to our lawmakers how the executive
>> planned
>> on dealing with others.
>>
>> All nations are allowed to make moves to secure their borders.  Internet
>> governance must accept and enjoy the cultural integrity that goes along
>> with
>> this forever necessity.  All nations should feel confident and indeed plan
>> for future independence regarding telecommunications.  If the United
>> States
>> can effectively maintain and control access to information for other
>> countries, it would be incumbent upon those countries to change that
>> reliance.
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On *Sun, 7/19/09, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
>> <isolatedn at gmail.com>*wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <isolatedn at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [governance] Monroe Doctrin for Cyberspace?
>> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, "Vanda Scartezini" <vanda at uol.com.br>
>> Cc: "Carlton Samuels" <carlton.samuels at uwimona.edu.jm>, ""Kleinwächter,
>> Wolfgang"" <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de>
>> Date: Sunday, July 19, 2009, 1:10 PM
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> President James Monroe decreed in 1823 that any attempt to extend foreign
>> political systems onto U.S. soil would be considered an act of aggression
>> requiring U.S. intervention. This was essentially for national defense.
>>
>> Mary Ann Davidson proposed to invoke the Doctrine" to put the world on
>> notice that the *US has cyberturf,* and that we will defend our turf" It
>> would be a distortion of this doctrine, if quoted to propose policies that
>> would amount to no less than an US aggression of a space that it common to
>> the whole world.  What is proposed is the opposite of Monroe Doctrine in
>> that sense.
>>
>> Why would Oracle say this?
>>
>> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
>> Blog: http://isocmadras.blogspot.com
>>
>> facebook: http://is.gd/x8Sh
>> LinkedIn: http://is.gd/x8U6
>> Twitter: http://is.gd/x8Vz
>>
>> 2009/7/19 Vanda Scartezini
>> <vanda at uol.com.br<http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=vanda@uol.com.br>
>> >
>>
>>>  Carlton
>>>  I guess I could add many others examples to your comments. Lets not be
>>> naïve on this.
>>>
>>> *Vanda Scartezini*
>>> *POLO Consultores Associados*
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>>>
>>>  *From:*
>>> carlton.samuels at gmail.com<http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=carlton.samuels@gmail.com>[mailto:
>>> carlton.samuels at gmail.com<http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=carlton.samuels@gmail.com>]
>>> *On Behalf Of *Carlton Samuels
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:39 PM
>>> *To:*
>>> governance at lists.cpsr.org<http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=governance@lists.cpsr.org>;
>>> "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"
>>> *Subject:* Re: [governance] Monroe Doctrin for Cyberspace?
>>>
>>>
>>> Um, see, history matters!  Those of us on the periphery of empire can
>>> attest to that.
>>>
>>> Seems I share some common reading material with Ms. Davidson.  And while
>>> we read the same books, her worldview leads her to count all other actors
>>> in
>>> the space as merely collateral damage.
>>>
>>> The Monroe Doctrine is an unfortunate metaphor applied to either
>>> cybersecurity or Internet governance.  I shall take the most benign
>>> explanation and insist she is blithely unaware of the deleterious impact
>>> of
>>> the Monroe Doctrine on Latin America and the Caribbean. Honduras is just
>>> the
>>> latest gasp in a sorry history of an execrable policy that delivered
>>> "repeated injuries and usurpations greviously committed" and unilateral
>>> extraterritorial interventions resulting in stunted democratic
>>> institutions,
>>> mayhem and murder. Other stakeholders, the local people for one, were
>>> never
>>> recognized as having worthwhile much less sovereign interests. She
>>> clearly
>>> does not know the true history of the United Fruit Company in Central
>>> America and other implementing tools of this doctrine.   I won't even
>>> mention Haiti.
>>>
>>> Let us be clear. The views expressed by Madame Reding of the EC inre
>>> ICANN-related Internet governance issues are merely more, well.....shall
>>> we
>>> say nuanced...as befits a better understanding of the sweep of history
>>> and
>>> its impact on the future.
>>>
>>> History is not bunk.  And culture is a helluva thing!
>>>
>>> Carlton Samuels
>>>  2009/7/15 "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <
>>> wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de<http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de>
>>> >
>>> Here is a good statement from Mary Ann Davidson, CSO from Oracle, where
>>> she proposes a "Monroe Doctrin" for Internet Governance. This is an
>>> extended
>>> version from a statement she made in a Congressional Hearing recently.
>>>
>>> If somebody expected that we will soon the end of the IG debate, the
>>> contrary will be the case: The discussion has just started and the risk
>>> is,
>>> that all the new entrants in the discussion will probably not understand,
>>> what multistakeholderism is and why this has been an achievement for the
>>> diplomacy of the 1st decade of the 21st century. The 2nd decade could
>>> look
>>> rather different.
>>>
>>> Wolfgang
>>>
>>> http://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/
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