At 15:41 26-5-01 -0400, John Giorgis wrote:
>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!
This comment suggests that somehow the US was more important in writing the
UDoHR then other countries were. For that to be true, most of the authors
must have been Americans -- but they weren't.
From the UN website:
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/humanrights/qna/faqudhr.htm
Who were the key contributors to the drafting of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights?
Eleanor Roosevelt (United States of America), Ren� Cassin (France), Charles
Malik (Lebanon), Peng Chun Chang (China), Hernan Santa Cruz (Chile),
Alexandre Bogomolov/Alexei Pavlov, (Soviet Union), Lord Dukeston/Geoffrey
Wilson (United Kingdom) William Hodgson (Australia), and John Humphrey
(Canada).
So according to the UN, there were 11 key contributors. Only *one* was
American. This certainly isn't evidence that the authors were in favour of
the death penalty.
Jeroen
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