At 08:44 PM 5/26/01 +0200 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>Have you any idea what an absolute bullshit you are throwing around, John?
>You are claiming that because the authors of the Universal Declaration of
>Human Rights allegedly copied *one* article from the Declaration of
>Independence and *one* article from the Bill of Rights, they must have
>believed that *everything* written in those documents was right. Is there
>*any* evidence for that?
Ummmmm....... yeah - because the United States was one of the principle
countries that wrote it!
And yes, the United States very specifically ensured that the death penalty
was not mentioned in the UDHR.
>>Amnesty is simply twisting someone else's words to fit their own political
>>agenda on this issue.
>
>AI is a highly-respected organization with a huge
>number of supporters around the world; most governments and millions of
>people agree with them. Now you dare saying that all those people (and AI
>itself) have a wrong interpretation of the UDoHR, and your interpretation
>is the only right one. What a crap.
I am just pointing out that AI has a position that represents their own
particular political views on this subject. If AI's position was the
position of the UN, I would think that the UN would have amended the UDHR
to reflect such.
JDG
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"The point of living in a Republic after all, is that we do not live by
majority rule. We live by laws and a variety of institutions designed
to check each other." -Andrew Sullivan 01/29/01
