My Human Rights Record

I started writing this post as a "flashback" to my early days and was going to highlight one post. Well, that post went from amusing to a political/humanitarian cause which now led me to write this post where a "flashback" to all of the causes for freedom and peaceful action that I've written about will be highlighted with a quote or two from the post.

I stopped quoting around late July because this post would never end if I went all through 2009. However, the list of nations I wrote about to improve human rights are as follows:

Iran
Honduras
Colombia
Russia
North Korea
Nigeria
Sudan
Somalia
Morocco/Sarahwi Democratic Republic
Afghanistan
Venezuela
Nicaragua
Peru
Yemen
Egypt
Switzerland
China
Guinea
Cuba
Mexico
United States of America

So lets begin:

From March 15, 2009:
I know this may not even reach you, or anyone in Pakistan, but let it be a statement that I will appreciate to be held to account should I ever do otherwise. I give permission to all to call me a liar if I ever do anything contrary to this statement: Release the judges and lawyers held during the Musharaff crackdown before he was elected from office.

From March 15, 2009
If you believe your richer because of your race, your a fool. Your rich because of your effort, or your dumb luck. However your stupidity in taking your wealth for granted means you will probably lose it, because your race did not give you your wealth and so relying on it to get you more will fail miserably. In conclusion: There is only one race: human. The human race is equal, the same, and gives all within it the ability to make themselves unique and capable of achieving anything.

From April 1, 2009
If you go to a 'protest' because of anger, you are not going to protest. If you go because you have a message, a story to tell someone, to let someone know then you are going to protest.

From April 8, 2009
It comes down to something more than religion. It comes down to ignorance to the truth. A lie about gays has been spread to deep into society scrubbing it out will take time. It is getting better though. Nobody can deny that. The hatred remains, but like racism against blacks, although some still remains it is much better as time goes on.

From May 11, 2009
The tea party protests were not an act of racism. They were a call to Obama to do as he promised on the campaign and bring the corruption of spending in Washington to an end. They were and still are a representation of the freedom American's have to voice their opinion. These protests were not racism against a black man, they were frustration against deficit spending. Until the Democrats realize this the anger will continue to rise in America and 2010 will be fast approaching for many of them.

From June 11, 2009
Waterboarding is torture. The other techniques require the use of occassional chains, slapping, and blindfolding. If it is not torture, which those may not necessarily be, they are in the least unusual if not cruel. I do not oppose them because they violate the Geneva conventions. If they do, fine, if they don't, so what. We have a Constitution in this country that says no cruel and unusual punishment. While that is often interpreted as a right given to our citizens, I believe it is also a command. We can not experience those punishments based on our 6th Amendment. What do we think gives us the right to conduct those practices on someone else? I think the Constitution tells us not to use those techniques and so I agree with them being banned as they already are based on the Constitution.

From June 11, 2009
A threat against one person should not be considered more serious than a threat against many. This shooter in Washington D.C., the name of whom I will not glorify on my blog, had a forum through which he threatened to kill gentiles. This could have been prevented. It should have been prevented. Our legal system needs to stop protecting the threatening of life in any form. It is not free speech, it is a threat to our security. Our nation's security is our citizen's security because our people are the nation.

From June 13, 2009
Healthcare is not a right. Choosing if you have health insurance or not is a right. Read your consitution. What powers are not granted to the federal government are granted to the states and the people. We have the right to live our lives.

From June 16, 2009
The people of Iran, and of the world, are entitled to freedom. Freedom is the engine of progress for mankind. In shutting down foreign news sources and placing their employees under, essentially, house arrest you are proving yourselves to be cowards. For all sides in Iran the act of silencing the opposition and using violence against those with whom you disagree with are what makes you coward. By not facing your opposition intellectually and resorting to barbaric brute force you are a coward. Speak to your opponents instead of shooting and stabbing them. Rally around your voices instead of your weapons.
To the world I urge you not to allow Mirhossein Mousavi become the next Benazir Bhutto. Stand in unity of democracy and freedom in Iran and against the censorship of its people. In a world where injustice is commonplace those who stand for justice should not stand by to prevent being looked at as 'meddling." If meddling in another nation's affairs brings freedom and restores justice then it is indeed a good thing.

From June 17, 2009
I urge the support for their freedom to continue and for the world to not lose interest at this crucial moment and to continue to support the freedom of Iranians until this regime is altered in a way that is beneficial to Iran's people and will thus help the world's efforts for peace.

From June 19, 2009
The people of America were oppressed by the British. The Revolution gave independance and freedom to the whites. They did not demand the British also pay money in return. The only payment was freedom. The blacks had their freedom granted in the civil war when whites and blacks fought together for the freedom of the blacks. This is not to say that racism is not an issue, but slavery, as a practice of the U.S. government, has ended.

June 20, 2009
For Persia's people to not have the blessings of freedom urged by the rest of the world we have failed in bringing one of the oldest nations on earth to the modern free age of man.
However I will not give up. I will condemn the acts of violence by all sides and the silencing of voices wherever they occur in Iran. Freedom must be given and peace will be what is returned.

From June 24, 2009
We are the shining city on the hill. We shine with the energy, the feelings of freedom. We can share this power source to the world at no cost by simply standing up for the rights of others.

From June 29, 2009
I will not support the use of violence against the protestors, but I also do not support the protestors methods of holding protests with the specific purpose of confronting the military forces at the presidential compound. The media blackout is also what I am against. However, while these violations make the new government violators of the nation's constitution and reduce their legitimacy, Zelaya's government is no more legitimate. It violated the Constitution and needed to be removed. The first mistake of the new government was ordering his exile instead of his impeachment.

From July 1, 2009
If you see the homeless in your city, help them. If a politician tells you about the homeless to get something they want done, tell the politician to be quiet.

From July 4, 2009
Why is it that the leading nations, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela, calling for freedom and democracy in Honduras, are the same nations that are taking away those two essential things in their own countries?

From July 16, 2009
Too many Russian activists and critics have been killed without justice in the past five years. A Democracy is accountable to its citizens and should always remember that its citizens choose whether or not those in power stay in power. The time for political assassinations and the silencing of opposition in Russia must pass.

From July 16, 2009
They say healthcare is a right. Apparently freedom of choice only applies to what they want. A good example is the strange divide on guns and abortion. Freedom of choice for an abortion but not for a gun. One gaurantees a death, the other is only meant for defense and hunting with no gaurantee of death. The whole ideology is contradictory. What they say and what they do are completely different. The lies need to end if our country is going to survive.

From July 19, 2009
Violence is not the answer. Protest without violence. If you use no violence there will be no curfew or media restriction. Your voices will be heard if you use them instead of weapons. No more violence. Bloodshed will not solve this crisis. A democracy is formed through discussion and writings of law; not the skulls of those you disagree with or the blood of the innocent.