Thursday, October 04, 2012

The Gift of the Magi

Free speech is a “gift given to us by the [Universal] Declaration of Human Rights,” said Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations Jan Eliasson during a press conference on October 2nd at UN headquarters in New York.  It is “a privilege,” Eliasson said, “that we have, which in my view involves also the need for respect, the need to avoid provocations.” [More]
And what the lords giveth, the lords taketh away...?

1 comment:

W W Woodward said...

Man nor government gave me my rights, and no man, or government, or association of governments can take them from me.
[W3]