FOXNews.com - Views - Straight Talk - The Next International Right: "It seems to me that the human rights community has things exactly backward. Given that the efforts of the international community to prevent and punish genocide over the past several decades have been, to put it politely, a dismal failure, perhaps it is time to try a new approach. International human rights law is supposed to be a 'living' body of law that changes with the needs of the times in order to secure important goals -- chief among which is the prevention of genocide. Given that the traditional approaches of conventions and tribunals have failed miserably, the human rights community should be prepared to endorse a new international human right: the right of law-abiding citizens to be armed."
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
FOXNews.com - Views - Straight Talk - The Next International Right
U.N. should align themselves with the NRA...This link should work (cut and paste): http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,65889,00.html
FOXNews.com - Views - Straight Talk - The Next International Right: "It seems to me that the human rights community has things exactly backward. Given that the efforts of the international community to prevent and punish genocide over the past several decades have been, to put it politely, a dismal failure, perhaps it is time to try a new approach. International human rights law is supposed to be a 'living' body of law that changes with the needs of the times in order to secure important goals -- chief among which is the prevention of genocide. Given that the traditional approaches of conventions and tribunals have failed miserably, the human rights community should be prepared to endorse a new international human right: the right of law-abiding citizens to be armed."
FOXNews.com - Views - Straight Talk - The Next International Right: "It seems to me that the human rights community has things exactly backward. Given that the efforts of the international community to prevent and punish genocide over the past several decades have been, to put it politely, a dismal failure, perhaps it is time to try a new approach. International human rights law is supposed to be a 'living' body of law that changes with the needs of the times in order to secure important goals -- chief among which is the prevention of genocide. Given that the traditional approaches of conventions and tribunals have failed miserably, the human rights community should be prepared to endorse a new international human right: the right of law-abiding citizens to be armed."
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broken link. id like to read it
Interesting article and I concur with the conclusions.
Fascinating however how the author is postuating the creation of a right to armed self-defense. The American perspective is that such a right naturally exists (i.e. endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness)
The "rights" identified in the Bill of Rights were not created by the document. Writing them down just reminds us (and our government) some of the important ones.
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