At 06:24 PM 5/27/01 +0200, Jeroen wrote:
>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.
Just for information, how many of those countries had the death penalty at
the time it was written?
-- Ronn! :)
