sneaky Article 29 UN UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS?

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sneaky Article 29 UN UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS? (Midtown) © craigslist - Map data © OpenStreetMap UN UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS? Article 29. (1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. (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. (3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. Can you see the problem? "These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations." Since when does the UN get to decide what every country (and independent soul) has to do? Time is now to dust off our copy of the Declaration of Independence? I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past…. Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us…. it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable–and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come… Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace– but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!…Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! -Patrick Henry"