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You-Tube Course in Human Rights
A condensed version of “Human Rights, What Are They Really?” has been uploaded to You-Tube as a short course in human rights. It is in 3 segments-
Segment 1: Elements of a right and natural rights
Segment 2: Subsidiary rights
Segment 3: Comparison with prevailing human rights doctrine
Go to:
Segment 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otnzIVYgabE
Segment 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXWStA_Hqt8
Segment 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iJH7dSfF6M
A 4th segment is planned and will appear later.
Filed under: Notices, Uncategorized | January 11th, 2019
On Facebook- answer to claim that the LGBT group is marginalized…
To say a group is marginalized requires a suitable context. Let me illustrate with an analogy. Imagine that all the population lived in vehicles on the coast to coast road system. Would it have any meaning to say that blue vans are marginalized when the drivers have the same rights on the road as all other drivers and the same freedom to go anywhere that their intentions carried them? If you think instead that the population moves in one direction, like a herd, then to say that an identifiable set of individuals is marginalized means that they are pressured to the fringe. That is the way socialist liberal governments see the population. They call the herd society and their goal is to design it until it looks good. Almost by definition that ideal society includes everybody. Therefore, governments try to expunge all criteria by which people are differentiated but some of those criteria are sound. Homosexuality and variations thereof have less value to the population than heterosexuality because the latter replaces those who die and conforms to the obvious design of nature which is male-female coupling.
Filed under: Social media comments | October 26th, 2018
Reply to those against a two state solution in Palestine
Filed under: Comments on News Stories | August 28th, 2017
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Robert Stephen Higgins was born into a coal-mining family in Nova Scotia but grew up mostly in Southern Ontario. In 1964 he graduated from the University of Toronto in Mechanical Engineering and began his engineering career in the aero engine and aircraft fields. This included a period at the Boeing Airplane Company in Seattle as a material stress analyst on the 747 jetliner project. Worried that aircraft design projects were too discontinuous for raising a family he moved to the power industry. Through the 1970’s he was a design and project mechanical engineer on new oil and coal-fired power stations in Canada and the USA. Much higher pay and adventure called to him in taking a project engineering position for the construction of a nuclear power station in Argentina. He remained in the Canadian nuclear power industry as a design engineer until taking early retirement in 1999. Afterwards, he completed two consultant contracts in the nuclear field, the latter taking him to South Africa to manage a mechanical engineering department on a project to design and build a demonstration pebble-bed modular reactor (nuclear) which, unfortunately, was cancelled in 2008.
Robert was not just an engineer, however, but an interested student of the whole human story. History and archaeology were fascinating subjects, but closer to home the direction in which politicians, judges, and others in positions of power were taking society was of more serious concern. A public confrontation with the president of the large company (23,000 employees) for which he worked was a tipping point. Robert suggested that the employment equity program which the president was promoting would discriminate against white males. The president replied that he did not care if it did, he was going to implement it anyway. Reflecting on this interchange afterwards, Robert concluded that employment equity programs were more about designing society than about individual rights.
After retirement, he applied his long experience with objective analysis to discover what human rights really were. His book Human Rights, What Are They Really? was published in late 2008. More writing is ahead amid efforts to advance his own technical projects.
In April, 2014, Robert became a member of the board of the Human Rights League of the Horn of Africa.
You are analyzing the situation as you would a game event on a game board. The game board was designed by lawyers and should be thrown away if you want a fair solution. Return to a clean sheet of paper and see that every person in Palestine has an equal claim on all that Nature provided. Who can deny that? The aggregate claim by the Palestinian people entitles them to a proportional share of what Nature provided in Palestine. On that equity they can create a new country that is their own. No person or group in Palestine “owns” land; they only have a claim. Israel, like all countries, controls certain land, delineated by its boundaries on a map, for as long as it can resist challengers. That is the position of Israel (as all countries) and it would be better for long term stability, especially in view of continual discord, to negotiate a peace with the Palestinian nation that respects their equity in Palestine.