Editor's Note
Rothschild, Matthew
Editor's Note Matthew Rothschild Bush's Mockery "We take the Universal Declara-W tion of Human Rights seriously around here. In fact, Managing Editor Amitabh Pal has had a copy of it hanging on...
...For some reason, Bush failed to mention Article 12...
...By disappearing detainees to secret prisons around the world...
...By countenancing the torture of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere...
...Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says, "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment...
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...What a joke, what chutzpah, that after so sullying that declaration Bush then invoked it in New York...
...For some reason, Bush failed to mention Article 8. Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says, "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile...
...For some reason, Bush failed to mention Article 6. Article 7 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says, "All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law...
...By holding kangaroo courts in Guant?namo...
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...For some reason, Bush failed to mention Article 5. Article 6 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says, "Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law...
...For some reason, Bush failed to mention Article 7. Article 8 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says, "Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted to him...
...I doubt he's even read the document...
...The reason is obvious...
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...The last person I ever expected to invoke it was President Bush, but there he was in his September speech to the United Nations mentioning the Universal Declaration of Human Rights a dozen times...
...For some reason, Bush failed to mention Article 9. Articles 10 and 11 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights guarantees everyone equal rights to a fair and public trial with the presumption of innocence and all legal guarantees...
...For some reason, Bush failed to mention Articles 10 and 11...
...Bush has systematically violated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
...By granting himself—and having Congress approve—the right to label people enemy combatants and toss them behind bars without habeas corpus protections...
...In fact, Managing Editor Amitabh Pal has had a copy of it hanging on his office wall for years...
...Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says, "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home, or correspondence...
...By using the Patriot Act and the NSA and a signing statement on last year's postal law to spy on Americans or invade their privacy...
Vol. 71 • November 2007 • No. 11
