Everyone knows who Mitt Romney is, the Republican candidate
for President of the United States. Romney is one of those people either you
hate (like me) or love (like that douche who lives down the street from me).
Recently Romney is known for not understanding why you can’t open the windows
on an airplane. (At a young age, even though I didn’t know why, I still
understood that you can’t open the windows or bad things would happen). Romney
is also known for his comment about 47% of Americans who think they are
entitled to healthcare and food and shelter.
Well,
Mr. Romney, you are obviously want to be president so you are familiar with the
United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, where it says
that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable
rights, and among these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
(I will get to that later), but is Romney aware of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights? Obviously not because he seems to be ignoring three of the thirty
rights we are given just by being born and a member of the human race.
Since he
knows nothing about this document and it is very rare that a lot of people do,
why don’t I give a little history lesson.
In the
year of 1948, the United Nations adopted the document after the experience of
the Second World War when it came to Nazi Germany. After that awful war, the UN
vowed to never let anything that awful happen again. The first draft of the
document was made in 1947 and the work was later taken over by a formal drafting
committee consisting of members of the commission from 8 states, selected by
geographical location. The Commission of Human Rights was made up of 18 Members
all from various political, cultural and religious backgrounds
Later,
the beautiful document was born and the human race was given thirty rights that
we were born with. The rights we all are entitled to are
1.
Everyone is free and should be treated in the
same way.
2.
Everyone is equal despite differences in skin
color, sex, religion, and language for example.
3.
Everyone has the right to life and to live in
freedom and safety
4.
No one has the right to treat you as a slave nor
should you make anyone a slave
5.
No one has the right to hurt you or torture you
6.
Everyone has the right to be treated equally by
the law
7.
The law is the same for everyone, it should be
applied in the same way to all
8.
Everyone has the right to ask for legal help
when their rights are not respected
9.
No one has the right to imprison you unjustly or
expel you from your own country
10.
Everyone has the right to a fair and public
trial
11.
Everyone should be considered innocent until
proven guilty
12.
Everyone has the right to ask for help if
someone tries to harm you, but no one can enter your home, open your letters, or
bother you or your family without good reason
13.
Everyone has the right to travel as they wish
14.
Everyone has the right to go to another country
and ask for protection if they are being persecuted or are endangered of being
persecuted.
15.
Everyone has the right to belong to a country. No
one has the right to prevent you from belonging to another country if you wish
to.
16.
Everyone has the right to marry and have family
17.
Everyone has the right to property or possession
18.
Everyone has the right to practice and observe
all aspects of their own religion and change their religion if they want to
19.
Everyone has the right to say what they think
and to give and receive information
20.
Everyone has the right to take part in meetings
and to join associations in a peaceful way
21.
Everyone has the right to help take part in the
government of their country
22.
Everyone has the right to social security and opportunities
to develop their skills
23.
Everyone has the right to work for fair wage in
a safe environment and to join a trade union
24.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure
25.
Everyone has the right to adequate standard of
living and medical help if they are ill.
26.
Everyone has the right to go to school
27.
Everyone has the right to share in their
community’s cultural life
28.
Everyone must respect the social order that is necessary
for all of these rights
29.
Everyone must respect the rights of others, the
community and public property
30.
No one has the right to take away any of the
rights on this declaration.
During a speech at a private dinner, Romney said that 47% of
us “think” we are entitled to food, shelter and adequate healthcare. That is
true. Because we are entitled to them
According to right number twenty five, we ARE entitled to
the adequate standard of living which does include food and shelter and adequate
healthcare which we ARE entitled to when we are sick. Romney doesn’t think we
are, he even thinks “adequate” healthcare is calling 9-1-1 when someone’s heart
decided to give out and try to kill them.
Romney, why is it that you don’t believe in human rights,
you want to deny people of their right to food, shelter and health.
Not only
is Romney against those rights, he is against same sex marriage and wants to
add an amendment to the United States constitution banning it. Not only is that
just plain wrong, it is also against human rights. Right number sixteen is that
we are all given the right to marry and have a family.
If Romney
is against these simple human rights, what else is there? We already know he is
going against right number 2. Everyone is equal despite differences in skin
color, SEX, gender, religion, language. ECT. Romney and his douchebag vice
president nominee are trying to take away women’s right to choose along with
her healthcare.
What other
rights does Romney want to take away from us American citizens? Make him and
his rich buddies above the law? Our freedom of religion which is already being
taken away by not separating church and state? Even as a Christian, I believe
in the separation of church and state. Religion should stay in church or in
private schools where everyone is there to learn that along with the academics
required by the state. What about number thirty on the list? No one can take
away these rights. This whole thing literally sickens to me! Not only that, but
how ignorant he and a lot of conservatives are. They keep putting the law of
the religion before the law of the land. As a Christian, I know the bible is a
book of contradictions because it is written by several people. It says
homosexuals prostitutes are to be put to death, yet it says Thou Shall Not
Kill. So if you base all your beliefs on religion alone and only that and
nothing else, nothing is going to make sense. You have to add facts and know
that not everything in the bible needs to be taken so literal.
Either way,
Mitt Romney cannot become president. Don’t let him take our rights away from
us. Don’t elect him into office. Vote for Barack Obama.
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