When it comes to high tech and telecom, Wall Street Journal columnist Holman Jenkins has a pretty good track record. He correctly predicted that AOL’s narrowband online success would crumble once broadband went mass market. As far back as 2000, he saw the financially self-defeating nature of trying to regulate broadband access, noting “Dumb pipe equals poor shareholders.”

Now, in an oped titled “Sort of Evil,” he puts wireless regulation in his sights and, as usual, his aim is on par with Bruce Willis’ in any of the “DieHard” movies. Here’s a sample:

• “Google and allied special interests… want cellular operators to package and sell access to their networks the way landline broadband operators do….
• “Why bother — except to tilt the playing field at a crucial moment in wireless’s development to please one very deep-pocketed company?
• “Google wants the business models of wireless and wired broadband suppliers adjusted to serve Google’s interests now, because — well, because, there’s a regulatory club lying at hand. The money Google spends on lobbying, after all, is pennies to the billions it invests in server farms and software. Yet the payoff is potentially sizeable. Google’s aim is nothing less than making sure its dominance in the wired world is carried over into the emerging wireless marketplace.”

As Officer John McClane might put it, “Yippie-Kay-Yea, Google.”