![[Most Recent Quotes from www.kitco.com]](http://www.kitconet.com/images/sp_en_8.gif)
UPDATE: Conservatives in Congress have introduced the DOTCOM Act to stop Barack Obama from giving away your Internet to the United Nations and despotic regimes around the world.
Time is short. We need the House and the Senate to pass this legislation A.S.A.P. and force Barack Obama to either sign it or explain to the American people why some international body like the United Nations and the tyrants and despots of the world need to regulate - and later tax - your access to the Internet.
Make no mistake, the "bad boys" of the world will start to regulate your online activities - in short order they'll eventually tax your Internet as well - and we must draw a line in the sand and stop this international Internet takeover now.
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every Republican Member of the Leadership of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Or alternatively, send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every Republican Member of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives.
Send My Blast Faxes
A "Global Multistakeholder Community"?
Barack Obama isn't going to just hand control of YOUR Internet over to the United Nations; instead, he's handing it over to unnamed members of a so-called "global multistakeholder community."
And "global multistakeholder community" is not some term we made up, or one that is being spouted about by conspiracy theorists. It comes directly from Barack Obama's Commerce Department, which announced in a press release on March 14 that they will "transition key Internet domain name functions to the global multistakeholder community."
And while the members of this "global multistakeholder community" are as of yet unnamed, we do know that some of the bodies involved in the planning over just who has ultimate control are, in fact, two agencies within the United Nations and a number of regimes that despise freedom such as Vladmir Putin's Russia and China.
The Wall Street Journal got to the crux of what is happening: "Russia, China and other authoritarian governments have already been working to redesign the Internet more to their liking, and now they will no doubt leap to fill the power vacuum caused by America's unilateral retreat."
The Journal adds: "In the past few years, Russia and China have used a [United Nations] agency called the International Telecommunication Union [ITU] to challenge the open Internet. ... They want the ITU to outlaw anonymity on the Web (to make identifying dissidents easier)... The unspoken aim is to discourage global Internet companies from giving everyone equal access."
And what's the big deal about "equal access"?
National Review Online quotes Daniel Castro with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation: "We may be concerned about the lack of free communication in other countries, but we don't have to sweat about those countries' governments shutting off our access here. And yet, having grown cocky in its maturity, the U.S. government is now considering inviting those countries' censors to the table and giving them a vote on how to fix a problem that never was. Why?"
Why indeed... but now that Congress is moving to stop this international attempt to squelch your freedom and your liberty, we must move to make sure that this legislation is passed as soon as humanly possible.
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every Republican Member of the Leadership of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Or alternatively, send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every Republican Member of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives.
Send My Blast Faxes
Oh Yes... Your Free and Open Access To The Internet Is An "Existential Threat."
And just in case the dangers posed by what Mr. Obama is doing aren't clear, consider the fact that even one of Obama's former aides, Andrew McLaughlin, said that the ITU is "the chosen vehicle for regimes for whom the free and open Internet is seen as an existential threat."
The ITU has a major seat at the table and you can be sure that when the dust settles, after Obama gives away your Internet to the thugs and tyrants of the world, that the ITU will be a major player.
Also consider what Esther Dyson, one of the founders of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers [ICANN] - the private corporation that manages the vital system that ensures all devices on the Internet can communicate with one another - recently said:
"In the end, I'd rather pay a spurious tax to people who want my money than see [ICANN] controlled by entities who want my silence."
Only Congress has the authority to stop this lunacy and madness and we must demand that it stop this lunacy right now.
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every Republican Member of the Leadership of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Or alternatively, send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every Republican Member of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives.
Send My Blast Faxes
And Just In Case The Dangers Still Aren't Registering...
National Review's Charles C. W. Cooke puts the dangers in greater perspective:
"As it stands, a tyrant is able to restrict access to certain parts of the Internet in his own country, but he is unable to make a page or a server or a service disappear completely. To wit, if I write something nice about Taiwan on NRO, the Chinese government can restrict access to that page in any territory that it controls - in the name of 'national security' or what you will. But it can't delete NRO entirely; nor can it restrict access to our servers from outside its jurisdiction."
If Barack Obama and the tyrants and thugs of the world get their way, that's all going to change.
If you believe the NSA and other agencies within the United States government having access to what you do on the Internet is a threat to liberty, just wait until the United Nations, Vladmir Putin and China get into the act.
And it's happening right now because Barack Obama is giving away your Internet freedom and liberty to the thugs and bad-boys of the world on a silver platter... in exchange for nothing.
Cooke adds: "'The United Nations has been angling quietly to become the epicenter of Internet governance,' warned Mary Bono Mack, a Republican from California... 'We cannot let this happen,' she vowed gravely. Just a year later, we are. Yesterday, the United States found itself in an advantageous and virtuous position: the benign steward of an astonishing network that it developed, refined, and then gave to the world without caveat. Today, provoked and shamed into action by actors who have neither the moral nor legal claim to its work, it is on the cusp of giving up control. An unforced error. For shame."
But what Barack Obama is doing isn't just "shameful," it's tyrannical. To quote an article from Net Right Daily, "it is up to Congress to reassert its power to regulate in this area - before Obama gives away the Internet to the international community, at the expense of future generations' vital freedom of expression."
It's up to Congress to stop Obama... but it's up to you to force Congress to do what must be done and the time to force Congress to do what must be done is now.
Yours In Freedom
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every Republican Member of the Leadership of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Or alternatively, send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every Republican Member of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives.
Send My Blast Faxes
Center for Individual Freedom
815 King Street
Suite 303
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: 703-535-5836
Fax: 703-535-5838
CFIF is a 501(c)(4) not-for-profit constitutional advocacy organization with the mission to protect and defend individual freedoms and individual rights. Contributions to CFIF are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes.
No comments:
Post a Comment