Read what allvoices.com Posted about Human Rights, What do you think? I Feel Disappointed, Can't happen in Nigeria

Culled from allvoices.com

I ventured into this article in allvoices.com, addressing the US Citizens on human rights  so i thought it right to share my disgust with you guys. Read below;

"As an American citizen you have certain rights, and they begin with the liberty to pursue a life of happiness. It’s written into the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, which also states that you have other inalienable rights, although it doesn’t list them up front.

One of those rights isn’t defined in any of the founding documents; possibly because nobody thought it was necessary. You have the right to think any stupid thing you choose, and to do almost any stupid thing you want. You might suffer some consequence or pay a high price, but that doesn’t stop even smart people from invoking their right to be stupid about one thing or another.

It helps to always remember that just because you can do a thing doesn’t mean that you should. You have the right to waive your rights, or to ignore any violation of your rights – and Americans have a long tradition of doing just that, often at the wrong time and for the wrong reasons.

You have the right to purchase a worthless insurance policy if you choose. Insurance companies also have the right to sell deceptively one-sided policies that rake in premiums while delaying and denying benefits, all under that ancient axiom of business – let the buyer beware.

But you don’t have to exercise that right, and neither do the insurance companies. Remember, just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

You have the right to avoid contact with other human beings whose skin tone is noticeably different from your own. It’s your right to think of someone as inferior because of their ancestry or birthplace. It’s your right to assume someone’s private thoughts and private behavior are reprehensible even when you don’t know them well enough have a clue.

But you don’t have to publicly exhibit those rights. Again, just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Racist and demeaning behavior returns bearing a label, marked with a price – and you’ll pay full price even if you don’t realize it.

You don’t have an unlimited right to behave badly in public, but you’ve got a lot of leeway there. Stupid human tricks, including outright illegal behaviors, are often rewarded with money and attention, fortune and fame. A lot of folks exercise that right every day just because they can, even when they know they shouldn’t.

You have the right to believe that career politicians and billionaires have your best interests in mind when they promote a thing. That’s almost never true, but go ahead and think what you will. You might even vote for someone based on that stupid belief, which is also your right.

But even though you can, the rest of us really wish you wouldn’t. When the rich and powerful decide to sell a thing they usually succeed, which is usually bad news for everyone except the rich and powerful, plus their friends.

You have the right to believe that in today’s interconnected, interdependent and highly technical society, people still build homes and businesses by themselves. You might even believe you’ve done so yourself. That hasn’t actually happened since the last days of the American frontier; still, it’s your right to believe any strange thing you think, or any strange claim you hear.

For example, it’s your right to think that if a person starts a business that becomes a corporation which grows into a global enterprise, that person is someone special, in some way better than most other persons, who deserves a profit of hundreds of millions of dollars while employees of the firm are paid the local minimum wage. It’s your right to believe in unrestrained capitalism even when you suffer from the effects of it. Most folks do, these days.

But just because you can hide from an ugly truth behind a veil of selective stupidity, doesn’t mean you should.

It’s easy to understand why folks do; profit and wealth are highly respected in our culture, ingrained in the common values we share. But it’s also easy to understand why they shouldn’t – an imbalance threatens the foundations of our economic system; it’s artificial, out of control and needs to be corrected quickly. We can no longer afford the right to be stupid about the economy.

Politicians have the same rights as any citizen, and most of them exercise their right to behave stupidly more than the average citizen. They aren’t held accountable much when they say and do stupid things, which makes it easier for them than for the rest of us. People who win elections can count on a core of believers to vote for them in the next election no matter what kind of stupid human tricks they do while in office.

That’s not a uniquely American situation, as the people of Toronto have proven. A core of support still exists for Mayor Rob Ford; there are Canadians who would vote for him again despite his admitted history of drunken stupors, drunk driving and smoking crack – all during the past year or so. Their reason? A largely partisan belief that his administration will save taxpayers money.

That same kind of willfully ignorant behavior is basically what democracy in America today is all about. We have a Congress full of individuals with their right to be stupid on full display all of the time, put into office by an electorate that has behaved intentionally stupid for much too long. The dysfunction and misdirected attention in Washington and in every state capitol across the land is no surprise; when a governing body dumbs down its behavior, nothing it does is done well.

We have the right to live this way. We can accept the current state of corruption and malfeasance in the corridors of power, exercise our individual right to remain stupid, and continue gathering in groups to support a collective decision to avoid the hard truths of our time.

But just because we can, doesn’t mean we should…"