Kofi Annan is sending the wrong signals, I think. The TelePolis article ¹ reporting on his recommendations for a global counter-terrorism strategy highlights a few issues I have:
recommendations for a global counter-terrorism strategy
1. There’s no definition of what terrorism actually is. I find it far from obvious.
2. He wants to “strengthen border control” and urges “Interpol to enhance its work on the database” on stolen and lost travel documents. Those are steps in a direction I don’t want to take.
3. He wants to control the Internet: “Terrorist networks rely on communication to build support and recruit members. We must deny them this access, particularly by countering their use of the Internet - a rapidly growing vehicle for terrorist recruitment and dissemination of information and propaganda.” I wonder how this is going to work without significant collateral damage.
As a global citizen I reject a repressive world with increased border controls and significant control of our communications, just as I reject police checkpoints and the secret police reading my mail on a national level.
#Terrorism #UNO