Felolow list members,
David Post, despite his website ICANNWatch and his criticisms of
ICANN, is an ICANN supporter. He has been involved since the
beginning of this process and has all along been perfectly well
aware of the illicit and unlawful manipulations employed by the
Department of Commerce and its big business sponsors to create the
unrepresentative regulator ICANN, yet he has never once attempted to
use the law to stop what has been done, which is his duty as a
lawyer.
The only explanation for such conduct is that he, like so many
others who have allowed this undemocratic institution to develop
unapposed, hopes to acquire personal advantage from it, through the
UDRP, as an attorney, or in politics.
Note that, while Mr. Post criticizes ICANN's procedures, he never
fails to excuse those who run ICANN by suggesting that they are not
responsible for what they are doing and that they are trying to
improve matters, as if they were well-meaning people who simply
don't know how to create representative, democratic institutions.
Nothing could be further from the truth. ICANN is an
unrepresentative, undemocratic, and illicitly created and run
institution because it was planned to be such from the outset by a
small group of wealthy and powerful persons whose intention it has
always been to dupe the public into abdicating its
constitutionally-derived authority.
Mr. Post seems to be advocating an awakening by the public to its
power and responsibility, but he is profiting from the status quo,
in which we have none. He is not to be trusted.
Michael Sondow
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