I
don't mean by this that the mass slaughter of Jews, the mentally ill,
Greeks, Turks, Ibos, Sikhs, Catholics and Russian dissidents is fine and
dandy. I just find it odd that a species capable of doing such things
in the first place thinks it deserves rights. We deserve to be tarred
for our inhuman rites, not awarded human rights.
If
we face the facts of history, the idea of any rights - legal,
constitutional, democratic, libertarian, suffrage, privacy or whatever -
are so much guff put down on paper by pompous ideologues and useful
idiots. As Rome, Napoleon, the American South, Mussolini, Hitler,
Stalin, Pol Pot, Islam, Blair and Obama have proved endlessly, it looks
binding and good-hearted on paper: but that's all it ever is: hot air
converted into holy assertion through the medium of ink.' READ MORE
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