Sen. Rand Paul slammed the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland this week, calling it the “one-world bureaucracy of all these elitists and their private jets.”
“The real danger here that’s even more dangerous than all their phony caring about carbon footprint,” Paul told Fox News’ Jesse Waters. “The real danger is this look how bad your government is in a country where you get to vote for these people.”
“This would be a government, a world government where you don’t get to vote on anybody,” Paul continued. “This is everybody’s worst nightmare.”
“The bureaucracy that we have trouble in our United States because we don’t get to vote on them, we vote indirectly,” Paul said. “Can you imagine the one-world bureaucracy of all these elitists and their private jets that would rule our country and we wouldn’t get to vote? So I’m dead set against this and they used to call people that talked about one-world government used to say it’s a conspiracy. We would always say no, it’s in their mission statement.”
Paul concluded, “They say it at every meeting. That’s what they’re for. But lack of sovereignty means lack of freedom, it means lack of responsiveness and it’s completely antithetical to everything our country stands for.”
Julie Inman Grant, the Australian eSafety Commissioner, has said at the WEF that key human rights, such as free speech, must be subject to “recalibration.”
Inman Grant made the comments during a panel on Monday at the World Economic Forum’s event in Davos, Switzerland, appearing with Estonia’s Minister for Transport and Communications, Belgium’s Deputy Prime Minister, and the Executive Director of “digital rights” organisation, Access Now.
“We are finding ourselves in a place where we have increasing polarisation everywhere, and everything feels binary when it doesn’t need to be,” Inman Grant told the panel, saying that people would need to think about a “recalibration of a whole range of human rights that are playing out online.”
She argued that “freedom of speech,” need to be rethought when it came to balancing it with the supposed integral freedom to be protected from “online violence,” a term that Inman Grant didn’t expand on. She further suggested that “data protection” should be balanced with “the right to child dignity.”
