9.25.2007

Maybe he had his fingers crossed or something

Can we get an instant re-play on this? Maybe he had his fingers crossed. I mean, what other explanation could there be? Commander Guy went to the UN today to praise the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights...

Sixty years ago, representatives from 16 nations gathered to begin deliberations on a new international bill of rights. The document they produced is called the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- and it stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty. It opens by recognizing "the inherent dignity" and the "equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family" as "the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the world." And as we gather for this 62nd General Assembly, the standards of the Declaration must guide our work in this world.

(White House)

...which says, in part...

Article 3.

  • Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 5.

  • No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 8.

  • Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 18.

  • Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

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.

Article 18.

  • Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

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.


Etc., blah blah blah, and some other stuff.

Of course as that twit Mitt ("Mitt") Romney says, there's an exception to every rule, which is probably why some fringe Republicrat Rep. named Duncan Hunter (or Hunter Duncan, something like that) is saying he wants to cut off any federal funds that go to Columbia, seeing as how they let some wacko president (I know that's hard to believe, wacko president, but there you have it) from Iran make a speech the other day and another Republicrat, Fred ("Freddie of Hollywood") Thompson sternly warned, in this stern statement, "If I were President of the United States none of this would have been an issue--"I wouldn't have let [the guy from Iran] into the country in the first place." So that would be two exceptions, I suppose.

Maybe Commander Guy is planning to set an international example by cracking down on the Republicrat blowhards.

Oh, never mind. He had his fingers crossed. I'm pretty sure.

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