A U.N.-controlled internet?

Where would one even start
defending such a bad idea?

U.S. Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota has issued his analysis of the U.N. committee's report that the United Nations should "take over" control of the internet. Fortunately he is not a defender:

"Subjecting the Internet and its security to the politicized control of the UN bureaucracy would be a giant and foolhardy step backwards." (Courtesy of the Drudge Report)

Coleman makes some good points, among them:

"The first priority for the United Nations must be fundamental reform of its management and operations rather than any expansion of its authority and responsibilities.

"The Internet has flourished under U.S. supervision, oversight, and private sector involvement. This growth did not happen because of increased government involvement, but rather, from the opening on the Internet to commerce and private sector innovation.

"Putting the U.N. in charge of one of the world's most important technological wonders and economic engines is out of the question. This proposal would leave the United States with no more say over the future of the Internet than Cuba or China-countries that have little or no commitment to the free flow of information."

That last point is the pertinent one: The U.N. wants to control the internet because most of its member states hate what the internet represents, a threat to despots and tyrants. Control of the world wide web would give certain factions at the U.N. more of the power they crave to build a one-world government.

So here is our question for American patriots and lovers of freedom: If we do not wish to give up our control of the 'net, how does the U.N. plan to take it away from us? Only with the cooperation of at least two branches of our federal government could it happen. Something to think about as we look at Supreme Court nominees and the all too soon 2006 mid-term elections.

Bottom line for the Oklahomilist?

The United Nations can go to hell.

No, it's not very sensitive, but this is one sorry outfit that does almost nothing right and poses a greater danger to human freedom than most people imagine.