Re: U.N. Makes Bid for Control of U.S. Internet

U.N. Makes Bid for Control of U.S. Internet
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no way ... no how

those in our government who allow this should be replaced with
honorable Americans asap by any means necessary.

On May 30, 11:09 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>  U.N. Makes Bid for Control of U.S. Internet****
>
> by TAD CRONNMay 30, 2012****
>
> [image: Description:http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20090108_image001.jpg]****
>
> You know all those stories that get classed as "conspiracy theories" by the
> mainstream media, and that the Left tell you couldn't possibly be true? You
> know - the ones that will get you labeled a nut case should you talk about
> them in liberal company?****
>
> Well, one of them is being acted out in Congress right now. The United
> Nations, in a move proposed by India and backed by China and Russia, is
> making a play for control over your Internet.****
>
> The Internet is controlled by a volunteer, California-based group called
> ICANN. So far, this group has done a swell job of keeping the Internet free
> and mostly decentralized.****
>
> Whenever the Congress has tried to regulate speech or commerce on the
> Internet, it has raised alarm bells in many corners. The stakeholders in
> the web are legion. Thus, the Internet, at least in the United States, has
> remained relatively free from government interference.****
>
> Not completely free, however. And that's how the dog got out of the yard.***
> *
>
> Despite outcries over Congress' public attempts to regulate the Internet,
> the federal government has moved forward with its plans to monitor and
> control web communications, bit by bit.****
>
> Internet service providers already cooperate with the National Security
> Agency to monitor Internet traffic. To better do its job of snooping on
> you, the NSA has been building a new communications center in Utah to
> watch, well, everything.****
>
> The center is equipped to tap into, record and store the content of emails,
> Google searches, cell phone calls, traffic tickets, store receipts,
> bookstore purchases, travel itineraries - anything with an electronic
> signature, which these days is everything.****
>
> As governments move forward with installing "smart meters" in homes, often
> against a homeowners' will, the information collected by the NSA will
> include things like power and appliance usage. The center will also
> potentially be able to tap into things like networked traffic and security
> cameras. Cars equipped with OnStar and similar systems are also prime fruit
> for NSA plucking, not to mention the millions of GPS-equipped cell phones
> and other devices.****
>
> Heck, if you've got an Xbox Kinect or a webcam hooked up to the Internet,
> guess who could be recording literally your every move in your own home?****
>
> The concept of a "total information awareness program" was killed by
> Congress in 2003. It's expected to go online in 2013.****
>
> The current administration has been no protector of Internet freedom. With
> an entire department in the White House devoted to trolling the Internet
> and deleting or neutralizing negative information about President Obama,
> the Executive Branch has displayed a distressing penchant for filtering
> what you are allowed to know. In recent months, the number of White House
> "requests" to kill stories in the media that have come to light has grown.
> The Obama administration's meddling in the news process has become the
> whispered topic of conversation in media lunch rooms.****
>
> Since Obama came into office, there has been talk of giving him an Internet
> "kill switch" so that he could personally blackout undesirable news and
> communications should a "cyber emergency" ever happen here. There have been
> numerous attempts to give Obama that power, many of them originating from
> Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the JarJar Binks of the Senate. All have been
> blocked so far.****
>
> The most recent, dubbed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act,
> would legalize the ISPs' sharing of private information with authorities
> and give the president his long-sought power over communications. It was
> recently passed by the House and will soon be up for a vote in Harry Reid's
> Senate.****
>
> This country's cyber-censors have been hard at work installing the
> technical and legal framework for a complete Big Brother-style takeover of
> your privacy and, eventually, your rights to control your own life.****
>
> Smack in the middle of this environment is being dropped the United Nations
> proposal to replace ICANN with a multinational government commission that
> would push industry, ISPs, private users and anyone else with an interest
> in a free Internet to the fringe.****
>
> Congress for the first time is not considering just invading your privacy
> and infringing your rights via the Internet, but it is considering whether
> to let a foreign power — several foreign powers — do so.****
>
> Should Congress decide to go along, there is no doubt the United States
> would be expected to place the fearsome intelligence-gathering capabilities
> of the NSA on the table for access by other members of the international
> committee.****
>
> This would be an incredible coup for Russia and China, who despite their
> status as current trading partners would certainly love to see our
> government and way of life fall. Given their history, it's also a certainty
> that neither Russia nor China would share any of their internal
> intelligence data.****
>
> The fool in charge at the White House, however, who has already indicated
> to Russia his "flexibility" on missile defense after his re-election, might
> go along with such a deal.****
>
> After his tour of duty at the White House, Obama may be looking at the
> international stage. He is just vain enough and reckless enough to hand
> over the keys to our country in exchange for a personal leg up on his
> ambitions.****
>
> Read more: Family Security
> Matters<http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/un-makes-bid...>http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/un-makes-bid...
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