Statement by Hana Al Bayaty, Ian Douglas, Abdul
Ilah Albayaty, Iman
Statement by Hana Al
Bayaty, Ian Douglas, Abdul Ilah Albayaty, Iman
Al Saadoon, Dirk Adriaensens, Ayse Berktay, Matthias Chang,
Arundhati
Roy, Michel Chossudovsky and Eduardo Galeano
(7 March 2007)
On 10 March 2007 in Baghdad a
stillborn regional conference will convene in which the
Iraqi people will again be absent, their resistance not
represented. Instead, a defeated US occupation will continue
attempting to write the fate of the Iraqi people, conspiring
with an undemocratic Security Council, as well as
neighbouring and
regional states, supposedly invited by a puppet government.
What kind of government
collaborates with foreign powers against its own people?
What kind of government
invites foreign forces to kill its own population?
What kind of government
substitutes militias for regular national armed forces?
What kind of government
bequests the nation?s oil wealth to foreign powers?
And what kind of
government goes begging to its neighbours to let its own
citizens flee by millions into their countries?
What is a government that
rewards rapists?
What is a government that
rewards death squads?
What is a government that
lacks so much legitimacy that it has to ?surge? for the
fourth time its own capital?
What is a government that
kidnaps and imprisons and tortures the people?
What is a government that
invents new extremes of martial law?
What is a government whose
finances cannot be accounted for?
What is a government that
shamelessly degrades civil infrastructure?
What is a government that
cannot even provide basic services, like clean water and
electricity?
And what is a government
that is never in the country?
Such a government is the
proof that occupation is the highest form of dictatorship.
All peoples in the world
aspire to democracy as it is supposed to be
the expression of their will. The will of the Iraqi people
could not be subjugated to force for the fourth consecutive
year. The Iraqi Resistance is democratic by definition,
because it is an upsurge of popular will, and is progressive
by definition, because it defends the interests of the
people.
The only solution in Iraq
is the sovereignty of the Iraqi people.
Only the national popular
Iraqi Resistance is capable and empowered, both as an
objective reality and under international law, to
determine a path towards peace and stability in Iraq and end
this illegal occupation.
We must pre-empt any new
US attempt to impose a lackey government on the Iraqi
population by recognizing its resistance as the sole
representative of the will of the Iraqi people.
Retrieve recognition from
this foreign-imposed backward government and recognize the
Iraqi Resistance!
Hana Al Bayaty
Ian Douglas
Abdul Ilah Albayaty
Iman Saadoon
Dirk Adriaensens
Ayse Berktay
Matthias Chang
Arundhati Roy
Michel Chossudovsky
Eduardo Galeano
On December 10, 1948 the
General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which
appears in the following pages. Following this historic act the
Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of
the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed,
read and expounded principally in schools and other educational
institutions, without distinction based on the political status of
countries or territories."
PREAMBLE
Whereas recognition of the
inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all
members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice
and peace in the world,
Whereas disregard and contempt
for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have
outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in
which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and
freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest
aspiration of the common people,
Whereas it is essential, if man
is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to
rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should
be protected by the rule of law,
Whereas it is essential to
promote the development of friendly relations between nations,
Whereas the peoples of the
United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in
fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human
person and in the equal rights of men and women and have
determined to promote social progress and better standards of life
in larger freedom,
Whereas Member States have
pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United
Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of
human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Whereas a common understanding
of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the
full realization of this pledge,
Now, Therefore THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN
RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement
for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual
and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in
mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for
these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and
international, to secure their universal and effective recognition
and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves
and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.
Article 1.
All human beings are born free
and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and
conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of
brotherhood.
Article 2.
Everyone is entitled to all the
rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without
distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language,
religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin,
property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall
be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or
international status of the country or territory to which a person
belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or
under any other limitation of sovereignty.
Article 3.
Everyone has the right to life,
liberty and security of person.
Article 4.
No one shall be held in slavery
or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in
all their forms.
Article 5.
No one shall be subjected to
torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 6.
Everyone has the right to
recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Article 7.
All are equal before the law and
are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the
law. All are entitled to equal protection against any
discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any
incitement to such discrimination.
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 9.
No one shall be subjected to
arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Article 10.
Everyone is entitled in full
equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and
impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and
obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
Article 11.
(1) Everyone charged with a
penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved
guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all
the guarantees necessary for his defence.
(2) No one shall be held guilty
of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did
not constitute a penal offence, under national or international
law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier
penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time
the penal offence was committed.
Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to
arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or
correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation.
Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such
interference or attacks.
Article 13.
(1) Everyone has the right to
freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each
state.
(2) Everyone has the right to
leave any country, including his own, and to return to his
country.
Article 14.
(1) Everyone has the right to
seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
(2) This right may not be
invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from
non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and
principles of the United Nations.
Article 15.
(1) Everyone has the right to a
nationality.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily
deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his
nationality.
Article 16.
(1) Men and women of full age,
without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have
the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to
equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its
dissolution.
(2) Marriage shall be entered
into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
(3) The family is the natural
and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to
protection by society and the State.
Article 17.
(1) Everyone has the right to
own property alone as well as in association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily
deprived of his property.
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 20.
(1) Everyone has the right to
freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
(2) No one may be compelled to
belong to an association.
Article 21.
(1) Everyone has the right to
take part in the government of his country, directly or through
freely chosen representatives.
(2) Everyone has the right of
equal access to public service in his country.
(3) The will of the people shall
be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be
expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by
universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or
by equivalent free voting procedures.
Article 22.
Everyone, as a member of
society, has the right to social security and is entitled to
realization, through national effort and international
co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources
of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights
indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his
personality.
Article 23.
(1) Everyone has the right to
work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable
conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any
discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the
right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and
his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented,
if necessary, by other means of social protection.
(4) Everyone has the right to
form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Article 24.
Everyone has the right to rest
and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and
periodic holidays with pay.
Article 25.
(1) Everyone has the right to a
standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of
himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and
medical care and necessary social services, and the right to
security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability,
widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances
beyond his control.
(2) Motherhood and childhood are
entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether
born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
Article 26.
(1) Everyone has the right to
education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and
fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory.
Technical and professional education shall be made generally
available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all
on the basis of merit.
(2) Education shall be directed
to the full development of the human personality and to the
strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental
freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship
among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further
the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
(3) Parents have a prior right
to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their
children.
Article 27.
(1) Everyone has the right
freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to
enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its
benefits.
(2) Everyone has the right to
the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from
any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the
author.
Article 28.
Everyone is entitled to a social
and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth
in this Declaration can be fully realized.
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.
Article 30.
Nothing in this Declaration may
be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any
right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the
destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
71:2.4There are ten steps, or
stages, to the evolution of a practical and efficient form of
representative government, and these are:
71:2.5
1.
Freedom of the person.
Slavery, serfdom, and all
forms of human bondage must disappear.
71:2.6
2.
Freedom of the mind.
Unless a free people are
educated -- taught to think intelligently and plan wisely --
freedom usually does more harm than good.
71:2.7
3.
The reign of law.
Liberty can be enjoyed
only when the will and whims of human rulers are replaced by
legislative enactments in accordance with accepted fundamental
law.
71:2.8
4.
Freedom of
speech. Representative
government is unthinkable without freedom of all forms of
expression for human aspirations and opinions.
71:2.9
5.
Security of property.
No government can long
endure if it fails to provide for the right to enjoy personal
property in some form. Man craves the right to use, control,
bestow, sell, lease, and bequeath his personal property.
71:2.10
6.
The right of petition.
Representative government
assumes THE RIGHT OF CITIZENS TO BE HEARD. The privilege
of petition is inherent in FREE CITIZENSHIP.
71:2.117.
The right to rule.
It is not enough to be
heard; THE POWER OF PETITION must progress to THE ACTUAL
MANAGEMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT.
71:2.12
8.
Universal suffrage.
Representative government
presupposes an intelligent, efficient, and universal electorate.
The character of such a government will ever be determined by
the character and caliber of those who compose it. As
civilization progresses, suffrage, while remaining universal for
both sexes, will be effectively modified, regrouped, and
otherwise differentiated.
71:2.139.
Control of public servants.
No civil government will be serviceable and effective unless the
citizenry possess and use wise techniques of
guiding and controllingofficeholders and
public servants.
71:2.1410.
Intelligent and trained
representation. The survival of democracy
is dependent on successful representative government; and that
is conditioned upon the practice of electing to public offices
only those individuals who are technically trained,
intellectually competent, socially loyal, and morally fit. Only
by such provisions can government of the people, by the people,
and for the people be preserved.
UB
From the
Urantia Teachings
134:6.1
If one man craves freedom -- liberty -- he must remember that
all other men long for the same freedom. Groups of
such liberty-loving mortals cannot live together in peace
without becoming subservient to such laws, rules, and
regulations as will grant each person the same degree of freedom
while at the same time safeguarding an equal degree of freedom
for all of his fellow mortals. If one man is to be absolutely
free, then another must become an absolute slave. And the
relative nature of freedom is true socially, economically, and
politically. Freedom is the gift of civilization made possible
by the enforcement of LAW.
134:6.2Religion makes it
spiritually possible to realize the brotherhood of men, but it
will require mankind government to regulate the social,
economic, and political problems associated with such a goal of
human happiness and efficiency.
134:6.3
There shall be wars and rumors of wars -- nation will rise
against nation -- just as long as the world's political
sovereignty is divided up and unjustly held by a group of
nation-states. England, Scotland, and Wales were always fighting
each other until they gave up their respective sovereignties,
reposing them in the United Kingdom.
134:6.4
Another world war will teach the so-called sovereign nations to
form some sort of federation, thus creating the machinery for
preventing small wars, wars between the lesser nations. But
global wars will go on until the government of mankind is
created. Global sovereignty will prevent global wars -- nothing
else can.
UB
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