[ga-full] ICANN - Cairo and the Egyptian Government

["!Dr. Joe Baptista" <baptista@pccf.net>]

I recently sent the following complaint to the Egyptian Government.  Let's
hope the violence I predicted never comes - things have been quite, but if
news that a US government body like ICANN was holding a meeting in a
politically unstable climate like Cairo - I hate to think of what might
happen.  Of course - it would make excellent news.

Regards
Joe

Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 08:05:32 -0500
From: baptista@pccf.net
To: sherif@tso-mohp.gov.eg
Subject: Mubarak's address to ICANN - 

Hello:

I am contacting you in respect of your position as an employee of the 
Government of Egypt.  I have recently been exposed and subjected to a 
great slander I found at http://www.earth-net.net/mahir-icann/

Not only is this information an embarrassment to President Mubarak, it 
is also a national disgrace.  It is understandable that President 
Mubarak's decision to support ICANN - the Internet Corporation for 
Assigned Names and Numbers - would result in this scandal.  ICANN is a 
creature of the United States Government designed to take control of 
the internet on behalf of large corporate interests.  ICANN is also 
hated by every internet user who knows of it's existance and intended 
purpose.

What is not understandable is that a well respected international 
person of President Mubarak's stature would subject himself to 
supporting an organization so steeped in scandal which serves the 
sole interests of the United States government.

ICANN has continually denied the Arab world, as it has denied the 
European Union, the rights to participate in providing the world 
with an effective means of communicating in natural language.  If ICANN 
wanted the arab world could easily communicate in their own languages. 
But for now, we have to communicate in english, until ICANN feels 
otherwise.

I will be looking forward to Mr. Mubarak's address to ICANN

Kindest regards
Joe Baptista

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