Just like Wagyu beef!
Posted on 10/09/2014 6:02:02 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, a potential Democratic White House contender, said in an interview published Wednesday that "Wi-Fi is a human right."
O'Malley, a two-term governor who has fundraised vigorously for Democrats running in midterms races this year, said in an interview with CNN that he can relate to his 20-something daughters.
"I am noticing a generational shift. While baby boomers were led to believe that sometimes our prosperity comes from separating from other[s], people under 40 believe that it will come from being closer to others," he said.
O’Malley said young people are no longer following the path of older generations who specialized in certain skills to attain a comfortable suburban life.
"Young people have flipped that on its head. Younger people are choosing to live in cities. They realize that connections to each other are making us better. That Wi-Fi is a human right. That proximity is important to entrepreneurship, access to capital and talent and diversity," O'Malley said.
"There is an opportunity there for us as a nation to embrace that new perspective," he added.
The United Nations declared Internet access a human right in a 2011 report, saying that the Internet "facilitates the realization of a range of other human rights."
"By vastly expanding the capacity of individuals to enjoy their right to freedom of opinion and expression, which is an “enabler” of other human rights, the Internet boosts economic, social and political development, and contributes to the progress of humankind as a whole," the report said.
O'Malley polls in single digits behind other potential Democratic White House contenders including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
A CNN/ORC poll released last month found that O'Malley would draw a mere 2 percent of registered Democrats in the early caucus state of Iowa. Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, who caucuses with Democrats, got 5 percent support in that poll.
I wonder if this clown has any kind of proof that “Wi-Fi” is a “human right”. What a moron. Why do people vote for the idiots living among us.
I attribute his remark to global varming of the inner liner of the brain.
100% N U T C A S E
Just like Wagyu beef!
MoonBat
Because they are idiots themselves.
Or fruitcake!
Justice is a human right.
I want the affordable justice act.
Let’s see the Lawyers handle government intrusion and take over of thier industry.
MD ping before it gets old....
Yes, but add lobster.
My Governor strikes again........well he seems to think rain is a right too since we are all paying for it.
This guy is an idiot and a jerk.
Even some 65% of MDers say he should not run for pres.
He has no shot. He thinks he is attractive like Kennedy so that will carry him. But he will be a blip on the screen.
“he can relate to his 20-something daughters.”
Does he mean perpetual adolescents who won’t leave home?
How about free groceries ?
Free electricity ?
So since wifi is worthless without a computer, I guess computers are a human right too.
I don’t know how the country survived for two hundred years without WiFi.
“George W. Bush is more dangerous to the world than Osama Bin Laden.”
Dude? Can ya spare a couple hundred so I can have waygu burgers in HOng Kong?
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