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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing the notion of Human Rights. I have gotten a lot of folks kind of look askance at me in the past year and a half roughly or at least the last 9 months since I have been talking kind of my views on the lack of authority that anyone has to really to tell anyone else what to wear, what to do, under what circumstances, they can do this, that or the other thing; just the kind of overarching nascent totalitarianism that we are kind of seeing from time to time. I am not saying it is pervasive, but there is just a lot of creepy intrusiveness amongst a lot of folks. I am not just talking about Governments either. People can be very nosy where they shouldn't be. One big one is, whatever happened the notion of medical privacy? I mean this is a fundamental aspect of our privacy just as people and it has just sort of been thrown by the wayside by a certain group of people primarily. I shouldn't say a certain group but just some folks out there just seem to not think that this is an issue. Well I think it is an issue. It is none of anybody's business, the medical information about anybody else that pertains to that person.

Leaving that aside, we are kind of talking about that and I brought up, there are human rights issues at play here and people kind of looked askance at me and I get it. So I went ahead and I went to un.org and it is actually un.org/en/about-us, Universal Declaration of Human Rights from the UN website. Just a couple of articles and I just picked these out while just looking at it. I wasn't even really trying to dissect this as a lawyer, I was just kind of looking at it just on a surface level if you will of the words. 

Article 3. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

For all these people out here that think that you should be stabbed in the head every time you want to walk out your front door; there seems to be a subset of folks out there that think “well if you want to get on a plane, we have got to stab you in the head; if you want to walk through a threshold, we got to stab you in the head.” Well again, Article 3, Universal Declaration of Human Rights - "Everyone has the right to life liberty and security of person." Getting stabbed in the head if you don't want to be stabbed in the head ain't exactly "security of person" that is how I look at that. 

Article 9. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

I have got to be honest with you. I have had issues since day one with respect to the notion that people can be detained just because of the result of a polymer chain reaction. Now I am not going to get into the medical side of all that but just from a legality standpoint, that is not due process. I am not pointing out any specific country here, this is just kind of an overview of my opinion if you will, just sort of the state of play of the world but it is not due process under any notion of due process. It is just "hey, we are going to detain you because, this." Well yeah under any normal set of circumstances well and let's not even call it that; under any basic notions of due process that is not due process; that sounds kind of arbitrary. 

Article 27. Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community. 

So there is not any constriction on that, there is no condition precedent. It is just you have the right "freely to participate". Quoting directly, and let me quote it all the way through: "Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits." I mean "freely to participate"! Again no condition precedent, just there it is. 

So for folks out there who have looked askance at me when I have said "hey there are human rights issues at play" I mean to me, and this is just a basic, I was just sort of skimming this when I was looking at it. This isn't even an in-depth analysis and I found three articles right there where I can pretty well point to. Some of this stuff that has been occurring the last 18- 20 months, in my opinion at least would seem to contradict the spirit of these articles if not outright conflict with the wording itself.