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To: RightWhale
The UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, cited by Bill Clinton as the greatest document ever written by man is 100% worthless.

The declaration says that all people have the right to opinion and expression. The right to rest & leisure. As well as a standard of living. All mothers and children have a right to special care and assistance. Sounds good so far.

But then you get to Article 29 Paragraph 3. And what exactly does Article 29, paragraph 3 say?

"These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations."

So you have no freedom of speech. No right to proeprty. No freedom of expression. No standard of living. You have nothing if your exercise of said rights interferes with the goals of the United Nations.

14 posted on 11/02/2005 1:14:25 PM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: Phantom Lord

Yeah, it's funny that the Declaration is severely unpopular in the worst third-world under-capitalized pits such as former colonies. Probably the US has been implementing the Declaration better than any other major capitalized country. Not that the Declaration is any more than a soft, fuzzy, Lib feel-good wish list.


21 posted on 11/02/2005 1:20:36 PM PST by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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