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All human beings are born free

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All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.


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Facing the Dictator

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Abdul Hafiz Ghoga is a Libyan human rights lawyer, who rose to prominence as the spokesman for the National Transitional Council and later as the Council's Vice Chairman. As Chairman of the Benghazi Bar Association, he defended political prisoners.

Ghoga met former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi for the first time on 6 February 2011, only eleven days before the popular revolution. Gaddafi had Ghoga and three other lawyers from Benghazi be brought to a meeting with him in his tent in Tripoli.

The meeting lasted for ninety minutes. Also present was Abdullah Senussi, Gaddafi's brother-in-law and head of his secret service. The four human rights lawyers from Benghazi called for freedom of the press, freedom of opinion, and a constitution.

After the discussion with Gaddafi, who, according to Ghoga's words, was clearly irritated at the demands, the four lawyers from Benghazi decided to call for a "Day of Rage" in Benghazi on 17 February 2011. This was the beginning of the Libyan revolution.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Hakim_Ghoga

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Learned Helplessness
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When young, circus elephants are attached by heavy chains to large stakes driven deep into the ground. They pull and yank, but the chain is too strong, the stake too rooted. One day they give up, having learned that they cannot pull free, and from that day forward they can be "chained" with a slender rope. When this enormous animal feels any resistance, though it has the strength to pull the whole circus tent over, it stops trying. Because it believes it cannot.

"You will never amount to anything. You cannot sing. You are not smart enough. You are a loser. You should have more realistic goals. You are the reason our marriage broke up. Without you kids I would have had a chance. You are worthless." This opera is being sung in homes all over America right now, the stakes driven into the ground, the heavy chains attached, the children reaching the point they believe they cannot pull free. And at that point, they cannot.

Unless and until something changes their view, unless they grasp the striking fact that they are tied with a thread, that the chain is an illusion, that they were fooled, and ultimately, that whoever so fooled them was wrong about them and that they were wrong about themselves -- unless all this happens, these children are not likely to show society their positive attributes as adults.


http://www.noogenesis.com/malama/discouragement/helplessness/circus_elephants.html
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Haven for Freedom of Speech
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Iceland has a bold new international money-making plan. The country wants to turn itself into a haven for the digital age. "A haven for freedom of information, freedom of expression and of speech," says lawmaker Birgitta Jonsdottir. "What we are doing is putting together all the best laws so that one country can set the standard for how we in the future strengthen these rights." Iceland wants people from around the world to set up their servers there and publish material online without the fear of ruinous lawsuits or censorship. Icelanders see this as a noble aim and a business opportunity.

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/10/25/am-iceland-turns-from-banks-to-freedom-of-speech-/
Filed under: Censorship Freedom Iceland Information Internet Law
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