Expressive Opposition

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Warm hearts and the Christmas… (strike that) Holiday spirits are high from Liberal Massachusetts all the way to the United Nations this year. Internationalists abound are eager to make working Americans finance low cost and free laptop computers for poor children worldwide. Nicholas Negroponte, the founding chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab cooked up the idea, with a dash of kind regard and the American taxpayer’s wallet. Kofi Annan sees U.S. dollar signs and is eager to support the program. Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney recently proposed spending $54 million to buy one of the laptops for every student in middle school and high school in his state so the laptops are for a domestic as well as a massive International social program.

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Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman proposes a resolution, which assures support for protecting the Internet from an International takeover by the United Nations. Although the Bush Administration has, to a small degree, abused power over Internet policy, it is the United States that created, financed, and built the Internet. Under International control, oppressive nations such as China, North Korea, and parts of the Muslim world would result in a censored Internet for all.

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Kofi Annan is looking for more money to fund the UN, again proposing global taxation. The U.N. has also been trying to seize control of the Internet [2003 story]. Although President Bush stated control of the Internet would not be handed over to the U.N., the issue has been ignited by recent threats from U.N. members such as China and Brazil. U.N. control of the Internet will include a U.N. global domain tax with a tangible tool of enforcement. The Internet represents what may be the last venue for freedom of expression in the world. It belongs in the hands of ordinary citizens uncensored and unrestricted. If Hillary Clinton becomes president on 08 I’m sure the U.N. will achieve their goal of Internet control. Perhaps they should just sit back and be patient for what may be inevitable as our rights slowly give way to globalization and oppression.