One can dream...

As we approach the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10th, one can dream that the world would take the abuses being perpetrated against the innocent by vile dictatorships as seriously and as passionately as they do the hoax that is man-made global warming. Over the weekend, protesters in Poznan, Poland--where the UN led talks on climate change--as well as throughout Europe and the UK, took to the streets to demand that the UN take swifter action to combat a problem that does not exist.

Take a moment now and just dream what this world would be like if throngs of protesters would take to the streets to protest the UN's inaction against dictatorial regimes. I did, and in my dream, the Reuters news story about these climate change protesters transformed into this:

Protesters demand swifter U.N. action on human rights

POZNAN, Poland (Reuters) - Thousands of human rights protesters, some dressed as Cuban, Burmese or Belarusian political prisoners, demanded on Saturday swifter action from the United Nations to combat the widespread human rights abuses perpetrated by dictatorial regimes.

Outside U.N.-led talks in Poland aimed at pushing 187 countries toward a stronger line to combat human rights abuses, some 1,000 demonstrators said governments were risking humanity’s future by delaying action to squabble over who was to blame.

Several thousand more protesters took part in a march through London to demand "urgent and radical action" from the British government on the abuses being carried out on innocent men, women, and children by despotic governments throughout the world.

"So far I think it's going really slowly," Susann Scherbarth from Friends of Humanity in Germany said of the talks in the western city of Poznan.

She and other protesters in Poznan waved a banner reading: "Stop clowning around, get serious about human rights."

Others carried pictures of jailed Cuban dissidents, and the military suited hand of a Burmese soldier squeezing a Buddhist monk.

The march fell short of organizers' predictions of a turnout of several thousand and many inside the talks did not see it.

"It's not a matter for negotiators, it's a matter for politicians. They are the ones who have been blocking the whole process," said Rae-Kwon Chung, South Korea's human rights ambassador, adding that he was unaware of the event outside.

Marches, bicycle rides and other events were scheduled around the world on Saturday to mark a "Global Day of Action against Oppression," said the Global Freedom Campaign, an umbrella group for participants.

London police said between 4,000 and 5,000 people took part in a rally which organizers said was aimed at reminding governments not to let the issue of human rights slip down a global agenda dominated by the financial crisis.

"The current economic downturn does not make the catastrophic consequences of failing to deal with despotic and murderous dictators any less catastrophic," said Phil Thornhill, Britain's national coordinator of the Campaign Against Dictatorships.

If only human life was worth a fraction of what bad science and hysterics is worth to these people, Cuba and the other countries suffering from murderous dictatorial regimes, as well as the world, would be a much freer place.

I can dream, can't I?

Posted by Alberto de la Cruz at December 8, 2008 10:50 AM

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