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Posted on 04/18/2011 10:41:16 AM PDT by jazusamo
United Nations diplomats on Wednesday will set aside pressing issues of international peace and security to devote an entire day debating the rights of “Mother Earth.”
A bloc of mostly socialist governments lead by Bolivia have put the issue on the General Assembly agenda to discuss the creation of a U.N. treaty that would grant the same rights found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to Mother Nature.
Treaty supporters want the establishment of legal systems to maintain balance between human rights and what they perceive as the inalienable rights of other members of the Earth community -- plants, animals, and terrain.
Communities and environmental activists would be given more legal power to monitor and control industries and development to ensure harmony between humans and nature. Though the United States and other Western governments are supportive of sustainable development, some see the upcoming event, “Harmony with Nature,” as political grandstanding -- an attempt to blame environmental degradation and climate change on capitalism.
“The concept ‘Mother Earth’ is not universally accepted,” said a spokesman from the British Mission to the U.N. about Bolivia’s proposal. “In general, our view is that we should focus on tackling important sustainable development issues through existing channels and processes.”
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Apparently they’ve solved every other conceivable problem on the “mother earth” they want to elevate to sainthood.
“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools........who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator...” Romans 1. The idolatry of earth worship.
Has the whole world gone mad, or slid into a cesspool of liberal thought?
Only someone very very liberal could conceive of the concept of Mother Earth having human rights and all that.
Even if you are liberal, can’t you concede the point that anyone proposing something like this years ago would have been considered unbalanced in the head?
Yet today, to be liberal and sensitive and politically correct, we are compelled to take seriously the notion that Mother Earth has human rights, and her rights are violated by global warming and capitalism and modern technology.
It’s amazing that this type of subject can be taken seriously in today’s world.
The clear outcome of such an international law is not to elevate “mother earth” to human status, but to lower human beings so they function within oligarchies as the equivalent of wheat, concrete, oil, and lumber.
At the end of WW II the whole world was owned by basically nine countries. Now something like 130 additional countries have been created. The people of those countries unwrapped the gift of independence, not to find the freedoms they expected, but instead the famines, civil wars, and repressive governments their ancestors suffered under before colonialism. The General Assembly has become a promotion and perpetuation society for aspiring totalitarians.
“Last Straw”
Demand the rent, withdraw the funding, boot their commie a$$es out of the greatest nation the world has ever seen and be on our way.
Colonel, USAFR
Why are we still part of this wacko group of heathens?
Isn’t it well past time for some OTHER lucky country to “host” this collection of weirdos, world-domination-wannabes, and crooks? Aren’t we being selfish for wanting them to stay? I think they should go where they would be TRULY appreciated- Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia...
AMEN!
US out of UN and boot their butts out of NY.
So, what if mother earth violates somebody else’s human rights? Will she be put on trail, or is it automatically assumed it was self defense?(Rhetorical question)
Things that do not recognize human rights, have none themselves.
Mother Earth needs to be tried and convicted and her rights taken away for the terror and slaughter she has created in Japan and around the world. Clearly she is a tyrannical caretaker of life.
I like that insight. Here is an exserpt of something I wrote about trials for terrorists.
“Instead Article 13 of the First and Second Geneva Conventions and Article 3 of the Fourth Convention must be consulted. Terrorists are not the armed forces, militias, volunteer corps, insurgents, or freedom fighters of any country or authority. They are not an organized resistance movement carrying arms openly and have no distinctive identifier. Terrorists are not even spies and saboteurs covertly destroying the infrastructure, industrial capacity or armed forces of an opponent. The focus of their campaigns is the murder and torture of people defined as Protected Persons by the Conventions. Terrorists seldom if ever follow the customs of war. There is no basis to consider these human abominations prisoners of war.”
Yes! Let’s send “mother earth” to the Hague, and substitute her for terrorist in the Geneva Conventions.
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