Information Research Weblog

Following a news item in a Google 'Alert', I hit upon an item in the World Net Daily - an online newspaper of sorts, on the suggestion that the UN might take over the 'control' of the Internet.

At the bottom of the article I found:

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Get the U.N. out of the U.S.!

So I clicked on the link and found myself at a site headed Move America Forward, which is devoted to getting the UN Headquarters out of the USA. Without any sense of irony a cartoon shows a jackboot on Florida kicking the symbol of the UN. With the American passion for loyalty to flags and other such symbols, this presumably has a particular kind of resonance with the followers of this movement.

The site appears to be the brain-child of "The Honorable Howard Kaloogian" - 'honour' can mean some odd things in odd places like California, where Howie is a Member of the State Assembly, and no doubt this site is part of his campaign for bigger things. 'Governor Kaloogian' perhaps, even 'President Kaloogian'? Watch out for this guy - if you think that Bush is weird, you ain' seen nuthin' yet!