[nypokerface]

OH NO! Were in trouble now.

[JoJo Gunn]

Let's talk about the US failure to enforce them.

Let's also post all known photos of the ANSWER marches where the protestors held signs in favor of Hussein.

Leftist groups haven't a shred of credibility anymore. When they had honest and real chances to speak out for the human rights of Iraqis, they turned tail and ran.

[glock rocks]

don't worry... I'm sure they will put great emphasis on the primary human right to self defense and safeguard from tyranny for which there can be no infringement as noted in the second amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

[UCANSEE2]

Another Soros funded anti-Bush, anti-American, staffed by utopia-brained, easily-duped, adolescents (age making no difference for this term in this context), who are blindly looking for causes to support (especially ones that fight against "the man"), in efforts to believe they are going to bring world peace.

Why don't they just offer everyone on the planet a coke? That would be cheaper, easier, and according to the instrument of their education (TV) would solve the problem instantly.

[Texas_Jarhead]

Attention please, would RICO please pick up a white courtesy phone. RICO please answer the nearest courtesy phone. That is all, thank you.

[Little Ray]

''These include the right to economic security and a decent standard of living, the right of children convicted of crimes not to be executed..."

Socialist, pro-criminal morons.

"developed world's highest child poverty rate"

Higher than Russia? Are they developed? Define "poverty." How many American kid starved last year?

Another bunch of morons reaching for our wallets.

[Blue Screen of Death]

I don't want anyone to raise my awarness, teach me to think outside the box, connect the dots, or find closure.

[DumpsterDiver]

Cathy Albisa, a secretariat member who is based at CESR: "These include the right to economic security and a decent standard of living...

Take my money, please!

"...the U.S. has the developed world's highest child poverty rate and that 20 percent of adults are functionally illiterate."

Too many illegal aliens, perhaps?

[TheDon]

Whew! I was wondering if anyone cared about Human Rights violations in the US, i.e. the children's prisons, torture and paper shredder killings by gov't officials, people picked up in the middle of the night by gov't officials without due process, gassing of civilians, the mass graves, and, of course, the denial of women the right to vote and to be educated.

President Bush has done more for Civil Rights during his presidency than these folks will ever do in their entire lifetimes combined and then some.

[wizardoz]

''These include the right to economic security and a decent standard of living...

Gee Cathy, I looked all through the Constitution and I couldn't find those rights anywhere! Might you be one of the functionally illiterate adults you were so worried about?

[ChadGore]

When are they going to speak about the human rights, civil rights abuse that was 9/11 and the Bali bombing . .etc etc. ?

When terrorists snuff out thousands of inosent people, they are abusing the most widely recognised, most widely adopted human right, the first and foremost civil right of all: THE RIGHT TO CONTINUE TO LIVE.

[Maceman]

They can start by protecting our right to criticize a political candidate 30 days before an election.

[Stultis]

Socialists co-opting "human rights" ping! (Paging all "exceptionalists")

Economic/Social Rights -- Good
Constitutional Rights -- Baaaad!

[Stultis]

the U.S. has the developed world's highest child poverty rate

I'd love to know the exact basis for this statistic.

I have one friend who is pretty radical. He sneered about liberating Iraq because we should take care of the three million "homeless children" in America first. (Of course he reserves the right at any other time to complain about America not doing enough to help people overseas.)

He also accused me of doing nothing about this. (To his credit he does a good deal of volunteer work, which I do not.) Ironically, though, I was able (after a little research) to point out to him that I had actually housed "homeless" children! I took in a friend for a several months who was temporally hard up financially. She was a single mom with two kids.

It turned out that the majority of "homeless children" in his statistic were dependents of single moms living in non permanent housing arrangements (e.g. staying with friends or family).