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America, We Don’t Even Recognize the UN Declaration of Human Rights Under Obama.
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Is the Declaration of Human Rights merely a declaration of aspirations & what is alleged to have been violated?

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The article “America, We Don’t Even Recognize the UN Declaration of Human Rights Under Obama”would have been more helpful to me, and I assume other readers, had the article addressed the following questions:

  1. What are the facts and supporting evidence?

Stated facts and evidence to support the author’s conclusions stated in the title “America, We Don’t Even Recognize the UN Declaration of Human Rights Under Obama”.

More specifically, what is the author of the article alleging to be the “human rights” not recognized “under Obama”?

2. What specific articles of the Declaration are alleged to have been violated?

The article consists only of a listing and recitation of articles under the Declaration, so the reader is unable from reading the article to know either:

(X) if Obama is being alleged to have violated all of the articles of the declaration, or only certain articles, and

(Y) what Obama did, or did not do, that is being alleged to support the alleged conclusion that Obama does not recognize that Declaration.

3. Why was the preamble to the declaration not included in the article?

Included a statement of the “preamble” to the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, which introduces the reader of the Declaration to the UN background and explanation of the articles of the Declaration, so that the reader could read and understand the articles the Declaration quoted by the author within the context of that preamble.

However, the author neither included such preamble or explained why the preamble was omitted from the article.

4. Why the failure to make reference to “aspirations” in the preamble?

In particular, a reading of the preamble to the Declaration causes me to wonder, and perhaps other readers, whether an appropriate reading and understanding of the Declaration raises the question of whether some or all of those at the UN who approved the Declaration merely intended only to declare “aspirations” to human rights, and not declare the rights themselves, based upon the following passage of the preamble referring to what is being proclaimed in the Declaration as being “the highest aspiration”:

“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.”

So a reader may be left to wonder what are the answers to these questions.

As a result, the reader of the article may have their interest stimulated by the article, but end up being left with a lot of important unanswered questions. Perhaps the author, or others, can “fill in the blanks” by answering these questions.

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