U.N. Logroll at Beltway Blogroll

I’m honored to be included at National Journal’s Beltway Blogroll in today’s discussion of the United Nations’ effort to take control of the Internet.

Beltway Blogroll wonders why this issue has not even received the inadequate blogosphere attention of the potential Federal Election Commission regulations that restrict blogs.

All admit the legal, technological and other complexities of the issues inhibit many commentators. Of course, Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds adds an important point I’d missed. Reynolds comments that bloggers may have been less forward on the issue of the U.N.’s designs because they don’t see the U.N. as a threat: “I don’t think that bloggers take the U.N. that seriously.”

If so, that’s a mistake. In the rest of the world, for better or ill, the U.N. is taken quite seriously. Its mischief on behalf of its majority satrapies inevitably is targeted at undermining the United States and the freedom and democracy that so threatens their corrupt reigns.

Powerline.com weighs in today with an excerpt from Norm Coleman, who has led the U.S. Senate’s investigations into U.N. corruption, and here speaks out against the upcoming U.N. sponsored Internet powergrab in Tunis. Senator Coleman warns, “we cannot allow Tunis to become a digital Munich,” and offers a Sense of the Senate Resolution.

Some have expressed surprise that the democracies of the European Union have indicated support for the U.N. takeover of the Internet, some suggesting this hearkens from reflexive anti-Americanism. This may be so. But, the Heritage Foundation scholars’ must read analysis of the issues brings up a likely more pressing motivation. The European approach to taxing anything that moves, looks to the Internet and its commerce as another source of tax revenue.

In short, the logrolling at the United Nations is among the direct repressors of freedom and the tax-them-to-submission repressors.

The Beltway Blogroll does not include my interview comment regarding the Left side of the blogopsphere: “The left-wing blogs (like Kos) have not zeroed in on this issue, perhaps because of their affinity for internationalized governance that allies with their critical of U.S. posture.”

Beltway Blogroll went to Kos for his blogopinion. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of Kos blog makes my point. He calls the internet a “global medium” which “isn’t served well by having it controlled by the political whims of the sitting U.S. government” compared to the whims of the world’s despots that one usually finds defended at Kos’ blog!