To be completely frank, as a US citizen living in Europe, I could not be more disgusted with Cruz's behavior. Even though I try to stay as politically neutral as possible, I am more than happy to express my feelings about this because I can and should criticize someone misrepresenting my passport country and spreading false information as he does.
I'm sincerely sorry you have to witness this spectacle. It is beyond embarrassing. -Michael On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Nurani Nimpuno <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 15 Sep 2016, at 16:06, Jim Reid <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> On 15 Sep 2016, at 14:44, Johan Helsingius <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> it has become a veritable soap opera... > > > > I thought it always was a soap opera. > > > > FWIW I watched yesterday’s hearing. [Yes, I need to get out more.] > Cruz’s conduct was disgraceful and shameless. His whatabootery was off the > scale. > > > > Strickling and Marby were asked questions equivalent to “is it true > you’ve stopped battering your wife?”. They carefully avoided rising to his > bait. Cruz’s sock puppets were asked “do you agree it will be bad if > Russia, Iran and China get control of the Internet?”. Cruz threatened NTIA > staff and accused them of breaking the law. Elected politicians simply > shouldn’t attack blameless civil servants like that and certainly not in > public. > > Agreed. I was glad to see that they didn't get sucked into trying to > answer some of those rather absurd questions. > > > He was pursuing his own flawed agenda and ignored anything that > contradicted that. His starting assumption is/was remarkable: USG is > compelled to uphold the US First Amendment (free speech) and that somehow > this extends to ICANN because of the IANA contract with NTIA. > > Indeed. I must at that I thought both Strickling and DelBianco were > brilliant. I have never seen Strickling quite so animated. > > Their explanations were clear and straightforward and very eloquent. But > clear explanation of the facts only works on people who are interested in > understanding the facts of course. Let's hope reason prevails. :) > > > Much as it pains me to say this, Kieren’s article in The Register > absolutely nails it: > > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/14/ted_cruz_in_wronghea > ded_internet_crusade/ > > I also share your pain. :) > > Nurani > > > > > >
