[governance] The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Well - two things.

1. The NSA / GCHQ etc activities in monitoring electronic intelligence have been known since at least the 80s, with no shortage of spy novels (frederick forsyth's 'the fourth protocol' for example) giving several details that are, if anything, only being corroborated by the snowden exposes.  And in this atmosphere you had Postel and the others, you had ICANN, you had viable international multistakeholder cooperation across the board.  How or why does that change now because someone states the obvious with corroborating details?

2. Let many things pass / stay silent etc - then we get "nobody has responded to this, so I assume we have consensus".  Giving professional propagandists with a pernicious political  agenda the last word and suffering them to remain uncontradicted simply leaves them to declare a very public victory.   Such agendas are every bit as much a threat to multistakeholderism as what they purport to oppose - simply because it fans an atmosphere of distrust and alienates stakeholders, tarring everybody and every organization in the USA with the same brush [which is familiar enough from cant generalizations like "global north"]

--srs (iPad)

> 
> To everyone involved in all the civil society factions fighting on this list, I suggest
> 
> Let many things pass. Concentrate on issues that matter and where discussion can make a difference and lead to positive actions.

-------------- next part --------------
____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.igcaucus.org
To be removed from the list, visit:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing

For all other list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/

Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t