"I read W Finnerty's commendable and informative posting
here and came back to respond to it after spending time
reading his website and note that the post has been withdrawn.
I agree with all his comments.
Why was his post removed
from this thread? Is there a
technical problem?"
Article 19 of the
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human
Rights:"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."===================
"those of us who support
human rights"by W. Finnerty. Sun May
02, 2010 10:11I note with interest
the following piece (from Sun May 02, 2010
04:34):
"Like political and ecological activists, those
in
Ireland who express
a world view
disagreeing with the narrow minded and materialist
interpretations of the current psychiatric
establishment deserve the support of
those of us
who support human rights, and the right of each person
to think their own thoughts and form their own opinions.
Without mental freedom, what freedom do we
have?"
Unfortunately, it appears to be the case that
there is generally very little support --
of real
substance -- for human rights
ANYWHERE in the
Republic of Ireland at the present time, though there
is no shortage at all of course of empty, "Big Drum" types of
very loud
verbal approval
for it, and several
bogus (as I have come to see them)
"human rights"
organisations which (in practice) appear to do
nothing at all other than
provide
"window dressing" type
"illusions of respect for human
rights" on behalf of the
government,
and who are probably (I suspect) all funded by the government,
in one way or another, for
exactly
that purpose.
Last Friday I received an e-mail from one
of our
TDs (i.e. an elected "representative" of the
Republic of Ireland's Parliament) which seemed to me to
provide much in the way of irrefutable evidence of the
difficulties I have related in the paragraph just above, and
my reply (also by e-mail) to the TD in question (
Sean
Sherlock) can be viewed at the following Internet
address:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/HermanVanRompuy/30April2010/Email.htmAlso, and as can
easily be
verified via the Internet
address provided just above, the general lack of
GENUINE support for
human rights among
politicians, the
medical
profession (including GPs, consultant psychiatrists,
and clinical psychologists),
lawyers,
social workers,
police,
clergy,
main-stream-media personalities and organisations (and
so on), extends well beyond the
Republic of Ireland,
and it does so to an extent which (I suspect) many
normal
citizens -- i.e. people who feel no
need and who consequently have no
wish to be
members or
supporters of arrogant and cruel
"ruling
elites" of one kind or another (while
fraudulently pretending to be
"public
servants") -- would, upon serious investigation, find
the whole overall situation regarding the general lack of
commitment for the support of human rights, very close to
being
totally
unbelievable.
The
"window
dressing" and the associated
hoodwinking and
cover-ups
appear to be all working very well for the government: far too
well perhaps, when measured in terms of the negative impact
they are having on the general health and well-being of
our Nation?
Perhaps the first thing which needs to be
done, if genuine respect for human rights is to
ever to become a
reality for the population at large, is to
EXPOSE all of the
government "window
dressing" for the
cheap and nasty
(and socially destructive)
"con trick" that
it is (in reality).
My hope is that my e-mail of last
Friday (referred to above) to
Sean Sherlock TD might go
some way towards doing just
that.
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1948: United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rightsby W.
Finnerty. Mon May 03, 2010
19:19Article 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."
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."
Related Link:
http://secint50.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
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"All
cruelty springs from weakness."
Seneca (4 BC to AD
65)
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For future reference
purposes a copy of the above text was yesterday
placed at the following
Internet location:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/HermanVanRompuy/4May2010/Email.htm
(for several languages) are available at the
Internet address immediately
above.
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