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FAQ Frequently Asked Questions The Planetary Bill of Rights Project |
Q: The United Nations already has a Bill of Rights, the UNDHR ( Declaration of Human Rights ). Why do you need this one? A: It has to do with the definition of "human rights". We see the UNDHR as a bill of socialist entitlements and much of it as not having the slightest thing to do with true human rights. We think much of these entitlements could only be realized by enslaving the world's population to pay for them. Q: In the article concerning the Human Right to Keep and Bear Arms, why does it say "free individuals"? Doesn't that limit it? A: Not in any rational sense. If people initiate force against others and are sent to prison, they lose the right to keep and bear arms while they're incarcerated. Is there a rational alternative to that? But the moment they leave prison, they should get all their human rights back at the gate. Please also keep in mind that in a world that embraced this Planetary Bill of Rights, people wouldn't be sent to prison for "victimless crimes", only for initiating force against others, what we consider the only true crimes. The wording also serves to illustrate that people are not free, to the extent that they are denied the Human Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Q: Why does the Planetary Bill of Rights Project need to be so enumerated? A: There's an old saying in the legal field; "A contract that's not in writing is not a contract.". We here in the United States have seen the results of a Constitution and Bill of Rights that wasn't enumerated enough, in modern language. It's been misinterpreted to the point of being ignored. So it became the goal of this Planetary Bill of Rights Project to clearly enumerate a Bill of Rights in modern language, improving on, and expanding the U.S. Bill of Rights and making it very clear and understandable so that it would not be subject to misinterpretation. Q: The U.S. Bill of Rights and Constitution is being routinely ignored. Why would you think this could be any better? A: Should we just give up liberty altogether? The essence of the Planetary Bill of R ights Project is not to form a world government, but to eventually gather hundreds of millions of people who will adopt it for their own across the whole world, and support and defend it. It's an exercise in individual liberty, not coercive collectivism. We realize that it will also require a massive educational effort because most people don't understand the true principles of liberty. They tend to see coercive collectivist government as their "Big Brother" who takes care of them. They don't realize that it's at their own expense and at the expense of their freedoms. The Planetary Bill of Rights Project will have to be promoted in the world, to succeed with this educational effort. Q: Own my life? I think my life belongs to God. God owns my life. A: In a universal philosophical and religious sense, for those who subscribe to a faith, that can be true. But if that's your belief, then you'd likely agree that you were "given life", in other words life was a gift by your God to you. If that's the case, you would own a gift while in possession of it, would you not? So you'd still own your life. In the sense that we discuss ownership of one's life for the purposes of this project, we mean that politically, either you own your life or the "collective" does. To the degree that you own it, you have liberty. To the degree that the collective owns it, you have tyranny. |
The people who would be most interested in this project would likely be Objectivists ( the Objectivism of Ayn Rand ), libertarians, Jeffersonians ( people interested in the individual rights oriented philosophy of Thomas Jefferson ) or classic Conservatives and various other individualists - people interested in individualism as opposed to coercive collectivism. If you're a compatible individualist, please give this site a link at your web page! Copyright 1995-2007 Planetary Bill of Rights Project. All rights reserved. |