Death Penalty: The Ultimate Denial of Human Rights
Today is the world day against the death penalty, and Amnesty International is focusing its attention on the United States in the human rights organization’s global push to end capital punishment. The United States is the only country in the Americas that carried out executions in 2009. The paragraph below, from Amnesty International, best sums […]
Guatemala: US Infected Hundreds With Syphilis In The Late 40’s
Most of us remember the so called “medical” tests conducted by the Nazis “doctors” in the concentration camps. Needless to say, the experiments in question were the worst kind of torture imaginable, and treated human beings like lab rats. However, during the late 1940’s the self described “benevolent” super-power was conducting similar inhuman experiments than […]
Are Christian, Jewish and Muslim Fundamentalists Taking Us Back to the Dark Ages?
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche announced, more than 120 years ago, that “God Is Dead.” In light of the global events of the last decade, Nietzsche’s assessment was merely wishful thinking. His widely quoted statement was first expressed in Die Frohliche Wissenschaft (The Gay Science) and again in his most famous book Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Nietzsche’s […]
EU Commissioner Compares Expulsions Of Roma To Vichy’s Deportation Of Jews
Today in Brussels, the European Union Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding, called France’s expulsions policy a “disgrace”. The EU commission is threatening legal action against France over the French government’s crackdown on its Roma population. Viviane Reding compared President Sarkozy’s policy to the World War II deportation of Jews perpetrated by the pro-Nazi government of Petain, […]
Burning Korans and Building Mosques: America’s Blasphemy Laws
Blasphemy laws are instituted when members of a religious group decide that their belief system should be unassailable, immune from any real or perceived criticism, and protected from any disrespect or display of dissent, and are enforced through thethreat of punishment or dire consequences. America’s freedoms are being threatened by both internal and external forces exploiting the unwarranted legitimacy they receive through religious profession. If any one is going to secure their rights as an American citizen, we must all stand firmly for the rights of all American citizens.
