[KLUG Advocacy] Re: [KLUG Members] Should the United Nations run the Internet?

Rusty Yonkers advocacy@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 2 Dec 2003 06:58:10 -0800 (PST)


--- "Robert G. Brown" <bob@acm.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:12:19 -0800, Rusty Yonkers
> <therustycook@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >> For those readers who have some philosopical objection to this
> >> transition, I
> >
> >as far as I am concerned the US should dump the UN anyway so this
> >would be even worse than what we have currently.....
> 
> Why?

Well there are a large number of reasons.  Basically though I believe
that there is a large difference in basic concepts of freedom and
justice that, although we do not always do them right, give us a much
better lifestyle and grant us a much better life.  We also do not see
the heavyhanded dictatorial problems that are evident in many other
socieites.  

Also to subjugate our decisions and way of life to decisions of
countries (and many in the UN are this way) that are blatantly
anti-US is a mistake.  Even with all of our problems I still believe
that we are by far the best country in the world.  Capitalism with
all its flaws still works better than any other economic form.  

I believe that it is good to help out developing countries but we
should do it on our terms with oversite by americans.  I have had
friends who have moved here from overseas, some of which worked with
or knew people that worked with the UN.  They talked about the abuses
of the UN and how money flows like water into the hands of the UN
personnel and not much to the intended poor people.  I have also read
a number of articles that talk about the abuses of power by UN troops
(almost always non-US troops) of the people that they are suppose to
be protecting.  From the people that I have known the story in
"Behind enemy lines" is not far off from reality in the way that we
are often abused by world organizations for not so idealistic
purposes.

You can paint me old fashioned but I believe that we are the best and
we should not be ashamed of it.  If anyone can be a "good parent" of
the world I think the US would be better than the UN.  If the UN was
so good why are the nation building projects like Bosnia still a big
CF after all these years.......

Well time to climb down off the soapbox .... I said my peace and I
stand by it.  If the world wants to use an Internet that is standards
based then we set the standards and they use them ... no problem. 
Our only real challenge is to make sure that M$ does not create the
standards..... 


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Rusty Yonkers
CNE, MCP, A+, CCNA, Linux+, Server+, Network+ certified
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An Atomic Supergeek with an attitude!
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Currently using SuSE 8.2, Mac OS X, and WinXP (would love to get rid of last one)

...............looking for penguin domination.....................

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