Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for August 04, 2014

Even it is a U.S. quote, let freedom ring!

I hope you show this to the Arab nations as well. For they do not respect it, but demand it of others if they are concerned!!!

So does everybody else, Carlos, that is exactly the problem. One measure for ourselves, one measure for the others …Because we are the good guys, and the others have to be shown the good way, if necessary, by force.

Clearly, they lived in far different times and could not envision the world in which we live. This needs to be a living document, open to revision and interpretation to make it relevant in the modern world. YaY!

This entitlement malarkey generates the heat of pride but not the light of wisdom. It keeps the unthinking masses under control by misdirection, so the powerful can do as they please. All rights are bestowed by power; their declaration is meaningless without a simultaneous declaration and common acknowledgement and acceptance of the power that upholds them. The UN’s socialist manifesto, mockingly derived from the simple “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness” origins of the US founding fathers, is all about taking and not about giving. It is a copy in form, not substance, and can never succeed, ever.

Where it says “Everyone has the right to belong to a religion,” it needs to say “Or Not” at the end.

I can travel wherever I want? How about Cuba.?

It all depends on the nation of your birth.

All of the above subject to Catch 22:. They can do anything to you that you can’t stop them from doing..Declarations do not insure rights or freedoms. Ready willingness to do the hard things insure rights and freedoms. Rights and freedoms that smell of flowers and sunshine are taken for granted. They are not appreciated once the sweat and gun oil dissipate.

Thank you for the beautiful strip…it illuminates our strengths and our short comings…no place is perfect…we still need to strive.

You can travel to Cuba if you go to Canada first.

Some have already pointed this out but I will again. Some of these rights don’t exist in the US. Good luck getting all of these no matter where you live because that place doesn’t exist.

I may just purchase this poster.

I wonder if there is a country in the whole world what actually follows and obeys all of these rights? Sadly, I don’t think so

Simon Seamount : “Or not” is a reigion. Like all the others, it is based on faith in a doctrine that can neither be proven or falsified.

The only “Rights” that anyone has are those bestowed by their government. Which will strip them away in a second if it deems it necessary. We must all work to isure that this does not happen.

And what planet is this author from? Not this one.

The loophole that can take it away is article 29:

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.

Gorbag- I couldn’t think of the right word, it’s more like “allowed to have” not bestowed.

The only ‘rights’ anyone has ever had are those that they can take and defend. Everything else is a right only as long as someone else is willing and capable of fighting for it. Strangely, people are great about talking about other people’s rights, but are much less willing to fight for them.