If the UN can shut you down, as indicated in the article, who would you condemn?

Completely agree.

A reasonable discussion. +1

I thought 'Feminists' (lamestream connotations)
didn't have feelings.
Being a lamestream feminists and being oversensitive seems to me to be an oxymoron. .

What authority does the UN have over the speech
(oral or written) of American citizens?

I am in total agreement with you! The scary part is we are "sleep-walking" through it all as if we haven't a care in the world! Time to find Atlantis....

Restricting thought and speech is a very old idea. The need to defend them does not mean blaming it on "the UN". Following Alex Jones' demagoguery means missing the real battles.

They will willingly drain your blood if you try to take on the government by force.

You should follow the work of security expert Bruce Schneier on current trends in security and privacy. Government (and other trackers) are now intruding more than what most people can imagine. The source of the problem is not the UN.

Private communications can be encrypted today, but they can still track where it goes and comes from if they devote enough resources to it, and ultimately break into the rest by brute force if they want to. The 'dark web' also greatly reduces the number of people who can use it and makes normal functioning much more difficult. It's not a substitute for defending freedom of speech and privacy. Technology, like any creative thought outwitting bureaucrats, is a tool to fight the statism and try to function in your own life despite it, but in the end is not the solution as a means to try to coexist with it as a natural course of affairs. Brute force kills rational thought. You can stay ahead of it for only so long.

Whatever, have it your way!

However, just be aware that there is truly an oligarchy in place (George Soros, Bill Gates, The Federal Reserve Chair and governors, etc. and many of these calls are being made by people who may have or may not have been elected by we the people (The Federal Reserve is a good example).

State legislators, Governors, Presidents, members of Congress and hundreds of thousands of nameless and faceless bureaucrats also have had their hands in these efforts and they may even include many of the folks on K Street. So, in effect you are partially correct however as you see, there is a cabal that goes go well beyond what you may have thought.

The treaties are also very real and are much closer than many believe to being implemented. At this stage of the game, all that is needed is a vote by the Senate, of a simple majority passed by vote with only a quorum present in order to make such treaties the law of the land.

Once one of these treaties are ratified they even trump the US Constitution as well as thousands of state and local government laws.

For instance, Agenda XXI came out of the RIO Accords in the early 90's and was brought back by Bush senior to be worked through a brilliant process starting in the early 90's. The preparatory acceptance work having already been completed leaves only the Treaty vote being that everything else has already passed muster in all 50 of the states and the US territories.

Unfortunately! Most people (myself included) had no clue as to what we were signing on to (I was involved as a dupe in the cross acceptance process). Even people at high levels were "indoctrinated" and tricked with flowery language and beguiling concepts that were never shown to be part of the UN Rio Accords per se or even as part of the UN Agenda XXI program.

Here in NJ our poison was known as "Smart Growth" (concept of controlled and sustainable growth through centralized planning at the state level - partially veiled if you will). This program was rolled out by Trenton and it included all 21 counties and essentially each and every one of the 650+/- municipalities had to participate and concur. That in fact happened in the late 90's.

Again, the UN program being best known as Agenda XXI came out of various studies (one of which was the RAND Corporation study on world population growth - circa 1966). This study being the progenitor of Agenda XXI program called for an overall approach that would promote a "sustainable" world. It still had certain vestiges including the population numbers and the theories that were appropriate at the time. Times have changed however many of the concepts (Malthusian theory and food production norms) are still based on the original studies.

For instance, the optimum world population was capped at 500,000,000 people (for the US, the optimal number was 50,000,000). The RIO Accords that I am sure you are familiar also embraced a world-wide redistribution of the wealth from the first tier industrialized democracies and a lowering of our standards of living in order to promote equity between all nations specifically, the emerging 3rd world countries. There were other studies as well that also embraced what is for all intents and purposes a worldwide implementation of Communism, a new economy and perhaps as Gorbechev opined, a new world religion as well.

Again, these studies were the forerunner of the "infamous" Rio Accords brought back to the United States by President GHW Bush and promoted by all presidents since. Still a theory by Crack Pots? All of this is very well documented I assure you.

At each level of the process in place here in the US, a cross acceptance regimen had to be completed, at least here in NJ it was done in conjunction with the state's (or should I say Statist's) master plan with the effort again being known as "Smart Growth". This program basically gave much more control to the state and Federal government and took away more and more of local control by boards, councils or committees. This control was also designed to move populations back into the decaying urban centers. The program is similar throughout the US and indeed the world.

All that needs to be done now is for the existing treaty currently before the Senate to be voted on (simple majority by a quorum present will do suffice I believe) and that will in effect complete the entire process from beginning to end.

Viola! Forget about local control over your planning and land use process!!! Don't believe me....check it out....its all public record!

Even though you are of a mind that what we need fear only are the lobbyists and some elected officials and those of us who believe things are much more dire are nothing but "crack pots" conspiracists, you might end up eating humble pie in short order as things continue to unfold.

For all our sake's let's hope that you are correct and that I am not....

For what its worth!!

Freedom: Thanks for the tip.
Always looking for "good writing", not that easy to come across.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson.

Screw the U.N. Just one more reason to kick them out and turn the building into a museum. As Rand once described it as a crime commission with the Mafia sitting on the board of directors with veto power.

All I can say is, You gotta be _hittin' me!

Agreed.

The problem with the notion of a "dark web" however is that ultimately all the communications flow through regulated communications providers. Unless you run your own network - which includes exclusive control and access to the hardware and facilities - you delude yourself into thinking you have private communications.

Any kind of incremental interference in the internet by US government agencies is a threat. The FCC's recent assumption of power that it does not have by decreeing the internet to be a "public utility" is one example of such creeping controls. The more centralized the technology of the internet becomes, the more it is vulnerable to censorship, which is why they try to go after control of DNS records. The more they do, the more they will drive legitimate users to the underground "dark web".

Someone always has to be special.
So I'm kinda surprised this is not about Muslim feelings.
Think there's a good chance it shall soon be ALL about that.
Where will feminists be then?
Perhaps going to find their own Gulch to hide it.
Maybe there will be Amazons along the Amazon.

Resistance is liberty.

There have been proposed bad "treaties", as well as thousands of bizarrre bills introduced in Congress, for a very long time. They go nowhere because they are crackpot.

The decline into more statism in this country is being implemented by lobbyists and politicians in this country, not the UN. Alarmism over the UN is misplaced.

Have recently been reading the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold, to give credit for the source of my comment ;^) One of the main admirable characters is an "it". Good writing that keeps your interest even after reading many books in the series.

Thank you for amplifying that unfortunate reality. Most people drift through existence not realizing just how the are having their rights stripped on a daily basis. What we see in China and other "restricted" countries is something that we will also be seeing in the not too distant future unless the American people wake up and take notice!

All you have to do is look at laws that are being proposed and regulations that are being implemented outside of "normal" processes such as; the "Fairness Doctrine" to name but one. Peal back the underlying rules that will be encompassed and you will see that such legislation is "normalized" to UN treaties being rolled out.

The same applies to the UN Treaty on Small Arms, the Treaty on Sustainable Growth (Agenda XXI) to name but two more. I strongly suggest that people spend a little less time watching television and a little more time investigating what your government is up to. You might be very 'unpleasantly" surprised!!!