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Since the courts have at least twice ruled that no one has a legal right to Social Security (i.e., Congress can—and almost certainly will—change eligibility rules or benefits whenever it wants, including deciding not to pay any benefits whatsoever), then it’s a large stretch to view Obamacare as conferring any sort of “right” to health care—especially since it leaves 23 million uninsured. Is our failure to cover them denying them some sort of right?

Progressives may not view it this way, but from the standpoint of the law, that’s how the program would be viewed (assuming Obamacare can even survive efforts to kill it on constitutional grounds, through repeal or substantial modification).

What counts as a basic human right?

Naturalist affirm the existence of natural justice, of natural and unalienable rights, of the natural moral law, and of valid prescriptive oughts that elicit our assent, both independently of and prior to the existence of positive law.

The positivists deny all this and affirm the opposite. For them, the positive laws-the man-made law of the state-provides the only prescriptive oughts that human beings are compelled to obey. According to them, nothing is just or unjust until it has been declared so by a command or prohibition of positive law.Libtards use the positivist mentality are to declare anything a right if it "feels good" to them.

But Obama brought the U.S. under the council's jurisdiction, and this week his administration submitted for the first time a review of the human rights situation in the U.S. to the council. Many have criticized it for sounding too apologetic about Americans' human rights record.

Many have criticized it for sounding too apologetic about Americans' human rights record.

THAT'S IT? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

What in Hell's Bells is this lunatic President doing in the first place, submitting his and our country to the authority and "review" for approval of the U.N., on any grounds, for any reason, under any circumstances whatsoever?

And what is the plan here, Mr. President, when the U.N. comes back with one of its predictably ludicrous, anti-American screeds -- are you going to fire up TOTUS and spend three hours lecturing us, and particularly, say, the State of Arizona, on how we are the scourge of the earth and how embarrassed you are to have to "lead" a country so reviled by the intellectually and morally superior Beings at the UNITED NATIONS?

And, oh, by the way, Mr. President, when you do bring us that lecture, be sure to have your new BMF, Presidente Calderone, by your side. You know, just to remind us of how other countries such as Mexico get the human rights thing so much righter than we Americans do.

This story has been reported since Aug 23 (as far as I can find) in Washington Post. Both the Townhall & Post stories leave out some interesting details found on AIP (America’s Independent Party) website. Major detail is that our country will be subjected to humiliating hearing by the UN on Nov 5. Instructive to see variations in the story.

AIP News (Amer Ind Party) via Free Republic

The president’s first-ever report on U.S. human rights to the UN Human Rights Council contains a rich vein of offensive material. So far, one aspect has not been reported: our petty president used the situation to bash Arizona’s immigration law — and possibly transfer jurisdiction over the law from Arizona to the UN. Throughout the report, which sounds like an Obama campaign speech, the president discusses “the original flaw” of the U.S. Constitution, America’s tolerance for slavery, and his version of our long and despicable history of discriminating against and oppressing minorities, women, homosexuals, and the handicapped. After each complaint, he addresses how he is delivering us from ourselves, patting himself on the back for such initiatives as ending “torture,” promoting Affirmative Action, and passing health care legislation.

In his section on “Values and Immigration,” he praised the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to provide better medical care for detainees and increase “Alternatives To Detention” (e.g., letting them go). Then he turned to the one state that has had the temerity to stand in his way of fundamentally transforming the American electorate:

The national report is but the first step of the international government’s review process. On November 5, the United States will be examined by a troika of UN bureaucrats from France, Japan, and Cameroon (an oppressive nation which is a member of the Organization of Islamic Conference). This trio will consider three items: Obama’s self-flagellating report, reports written about America by UN tribunals or international governing bodies, and testimony from NGOs with a pronounced anti-American bias. It will also consider “voluntary pledges and commitments made by the State,” such as suspending an Arizona state law.

Then the French, Japanese, and Cameroon diplomats will draw up a plan of action for the United States to implement.

http://www.aipnews.com/talk/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=16411&posts=1&start=1

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/23/AR2010082303880.html

http://minx.cc/?post=304978

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100823/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_us_un_rights_1

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2576982/posts