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A Richard Campbell asked about Article 19 of the United Nations charter 
and its relationship to the First Amendment. I thought it would be of 
interest to show the other articles of the Charter, which also bear some 
influence from the American Bill of Rights - including the First Amendment.


Subject: UNRights!---Re: cr-4/10> Important: Thoughts on RIGHTS

>          ARTICLE  12.  No one shall be subjected to arbitrary
> interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor
> to attacks upon his honour and reputation.  Everyone has the right
> to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.  [So
> in fact, the US legislature is considering enacting legislation which is
> a violation of these human rights.  Is anyone surprised?]

OK as long as name calling isn't defined as attacks on honor and
reputation, lest you be arrested for thinking and posting that IN YOUR
OPINION somebody is a hypocritical, oneworlder swine.  If this isn't
allowed, then neither is any dissent of any substance.

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ARTICLE  19.    Everyone has the right to
freedom of > opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold
> opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart
> information and ideas through any media and regardless of
> frontiers.
>

This may contradict article 12 above.

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>          ARTICLE  20.  (1)  Everyone has the right to freedom of
> peaceful assembly and association.
>
>          (2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
>

Unless its the association of peoples under the rule of the UN, right?

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>          ARTICLE  22.  Everyone, as a member of society, has the
> right to social security and is entitled to realisation, through
> national effort and international co-operation and in accordance
> with the organisation and resources of each State, of the economic,
> social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the
> free development of his personality.

Wow. I need free full cable TV to realize my cultural dignity and
freely develop my personality.  I now demand this from the UN  :)

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>          ARTICLE  27.  (1)  Everyone has the right to freely
> participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the
> arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
>
>          (2)   Everyone has the right to the protection of the
> moral and material interests resulting from any scientific,
> literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
>
>
>          ARTICLE  28.  Everyone is entitled to a social and
> international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in
> this Declaration can be fully realised.
>

Brrrrrrrrrr.  This one chills to the bone.  Left to the
imagination, one can see where this leads (marches).

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>          ARTICLE  29.   (1)  Everyone has duties to the community
> in which alone the free and full development of his personality is
> possible. [This fascinates me, as it raises questions about the
> responsibilities and duties that participants in cyberspace have towards
> each other.  We are so concerned with rights being determined by
> legislative and commercial entities that we don't discuss the rights that
> we ought to be able to enjoy which are constructed solely by other folks
> online.]

So now they want to set standards on what constitutes developing
my personality?  This now implies that I have DUTIES that I "must"
perform?  Or else what?   The wall?

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>          (2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone
> shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law
> solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for
> the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just
> requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in
> a democratic society.

Which are?  Who gets to define morality?  Are we to be subject to
limitations to secure the recognition and the rights of others such as
speech limitations because others may feel offended?  Sounds a little too
broad to me.

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 >          (3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be
exercised > contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

WHAAAAAATTT????   So rights are cool as long as you aren't a UN
dissident?   Then you lose them all for criticizing big brother, who only
wants to help you set up the New World Order <tm> because he loves you?
This little Bill of UNrights has me a little worried now.   Let us hope
they can't ever be enacted, especially in light of that last little
zinger there.   I'm no Bircher, I thought they have always been a little
out of phase, but man I can start to see some light there.  Save us from
those who mean well.

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