You wrote:
>Funny you should say this. I was just at a Department of State briefing
>on information policy last week, and when discussing the need for new
>global rules on consumer protection, Don Heath suggested ICANN as a
>model, where NGOs (he meant business NGOs like MPAA and the BSA) played
>a role.
Jones Day would not have lent its foremost international antitrust lawyer to create
ICANN for any other reason than that ICANN should be the communications tool for the
trade hegemony of its transnational clients through the WTO and GATT. The DOC would
not have gone to the lengths it has to protect ICANN, even to violating its own
charter, nor would it have run the risks of dissembling in congressional testimony,
for a lesser purpose.
Why has the Antitrust Division of the DOJ refused to investigate and pursue ICANN?
Merely because Joe Sims used to work there and is a friend of the Division's counsel?
If that were so, then Scott Sacks, to whom I supplied the same information I gave
James Tierney, and who is supposedly beyond the influence of the Division's counsel,
would have acted on it, and the same goes for the Division's director, Joel Klein, and
Janet Reno, who have been apprised of the situation by Tom Bliley. Yet nothing has
been done by them to change it.
Clearly, ICANN is an integral part of the U.S. Government's plans to control world
trade through the pseudo-world government of WTO. Don Heath is no doubt privy to those
plans, as are also the ICANN board and the Berkman Center. Why else would the DOC have
allowed the ICANN board and staff to give ISOC and CORE control of the DNSO and,
through the IETF, the PSO as well? But it is Vinton Cerf and MCI who are the key. Mr.
Cerf's characterization of the Internet as the device of world trade in the 21st
century, in his "Internet Is For Everyone" paper, was no exaggeration. In the Western
power-block politics of the cold war period, it was ITT that provided U.S.
communication and control; in the coming period of unopposed U.S. domination, it will
be MCI, through the Internet.
John Sweeney, because he has learned the effect of U.S.-controlled foreign industrial
production on American workers, understands what is at stake.
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