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Fri Jan-21-11 07:20 PM
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14. Rights are never impposed from the outside.

They come to those who demand them.

When Martin Luther King led the struggle, the people rose up and demanded their rights. The oppressors arrested them until there was no room in the jails. And still the people demanded their rights in such numbers it was impossible to ignore.

The job of a tyrant is to either distract the people (bread and circuses), or to cow them with brutal displays of force. But once the people realize they far outnumber their oppressors, the outcome is already won.

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-Do we have to wait 30 years for human rights in China?	Vattel	Jan-21-11 10:02 AM	#0
- "We" have to wait for as long as it takes them (the Chinese) to attain human rights.	elocs	Jan-21-11 10:06 AM	#1
- Who said we can?	Vattel	Jan-21-11 02:45 PM	#5
- The "do we have to wait 30 years..." infers that we can. We can't.	elocs	Jan-21-11 04:00 PM	#7
- Whatever.	Vattel	Jan-21-11 06:30 PM	#10
- I'm waiting for human rights in America. nt.	Warren Stupidity	Jan-21-11 10:38 AM	#2
- +1000! nt	laylah	Jan-21-11 02:33 PM	#3
- point taken, but I suspect that, you also care about the rights of Gao and others	Vattel	Jan-21-11 02:44 PM	#4
- Our President lecturing anyone about human rights is a travesty.	Warren Stupidity	Jan-21-11 04:28 PM	#9
- Again, point taken.	Vattel	Jan-21-11 06:31 PM	#11
- +1000000	Cali_Democrat	Jan-21-11 04:13 PM	#8
- Yep, first step is to bring them back here. nt	bemildred	Jan-22-11 02:05 PM	#19
- Until Guantanamo is closed, we have a mote in our eye!!!	styersc	Jan-21-11 02:57 PM	#6
- more like a log	Vattel	Jan-21-11 06:33 PM	#12
- I think the idea that "China's at a different stage of development" is a bullshit rationalization.	Brickbat	Jan-21-11 07:15 PM	#13
- China will always not care too much about human rights	AngryAmish	Jan-22-11 07:21 AM	#18
- excuse me	Jeneral2885	Jan-22-11 05:07 PM	#22
- Rights are never impposed from the outside.	Countdown_3_2_1	Jan-21-11 07:20 PM	#14
- That means it will arrive at about the same time as controlled fusion!	DavidDvorkin	Jan-21-11 10:18 PM	#15
- What is horrible is that people are moaning about what is going on in China	davidpdx	Jan-22-11 02:31 AM	#16
- Sadly, we have little leverage with North Korea	Vattel	Jan-22-11 06:48 AM	#17
- True, but so few people know or care what is going on there	davidpdx	Jan-23-11 05:09 AM	#23
- We probably have to wait as long as it takes	quaker bill	Jan-22-11 04:12 PM	#20
- What gives America the right	Jeneral2885	Jan-22-11 05:03 PM	#21

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