Human Rights

Look into the eye of the propagandist and say "I do not buy your dignity-eroding approach. I do not accept you as a creator of heroes."

My name is on this list and I hope that you will add yours.

Your government is trying to push two disasters past you while you worry about the safety of the troops in Iraq and consider putting the people who are raising your taxes (if you are working class) back into office.

Here's a campaign issue to throw in the face of Bush appointee John W. Ashcroft, who promised to enforce the laws as they were written. Here's something to demand of John Kerry.

The arrival of Muslims with their conspicuous expression of their faith is becoming the test of our commitment to the principles of religious freedom.

Secular does not mean the absence of individual religious expression. It means that the State shall have no opinion where religious practices do no harm.

One authoritarian dictator is pretty much like another. Right wing critics of Amin don't like to talk about the fact that he got to live the good life in Saudi Arabia until his death from multiple organ failure in Jeddah or that he was put out of power by socialist Tanzania.

Three fundamental human rights occur to me after the recent discussion here about domestic violence.

Big Brother might be fishing because they don't like what you say about them. And in no time, you're a fish out of water, suffocating.

I have long said that driving homosexuality underground results in severe exploitation and cruelty to the weaker partners.

>. Islam has shown that it is perfectly capable of righting its own wrongs.

I'm for new voices and new perspectives. I just don't want my erstwhile allies acting like that Frenchman and getting good causes shot down by some frightened guy with a gun.

Good questions.

I'd like to turn the insinuation on its head: heterosexuals who oppose homosexual marriage are demanding special rights on the basis of their sexuality.

Far too many bloggers are jumping to print reports coming off their television sets about alleged atrocities in Iraq. Both those for the war and those against it reprint the latest allegations uncritically.

It's time to apply Amnesty International principles here. Bush and his cronies must be held accountable.

I thought I would do some pointers to other blogs and news articles that should give all Americans the chills.

Maybe, unlike King Canute and the legal machinations of the ACLU, Ryan's voice will still the turbulent waters and stop the bloody tide of malice.

I'm discovering if you want to get the lowdown on American corruption in time to head something off, you need to read the overseas papers.