Know your true
human rights.
They protect the security of your person and property
and support your freedom.
Know your true
Comment to Patriots Ghana in Accra, Ghana
Per Maslow's hierarchy of human needs the second level, above physiological needs, is security. The best way to achieve that is to educate everybody in the rules governing human interaction. These rules are essentially the fundamental rights that every person has as a human being. The primary one is the right to personal security.
Filed under: Comments to NGO's | April 30th, 2013
Comment to the Environmental Justice Foundation in UK
Your effort is very commendable but your thinking is a bit muddled. Firstly, justice is the idea that a person gets what he/she deserves- I have yet to see a better definition. Therefore, the term "environmental justice", being impersonal, is meaningless.
Secondly, the basis for protection of the environment is that it is owned in common by everybody. Usually this is on a country basis but also applies on a worldwide basis because environmental effects often cross borders. Those who protect the environment are protecting the asset of all citizens in a country or all residents of the world, as the case may be. On the other side of the coin, those who despoil the environment are offending all citizens of the jurisdiction or of the world as the case may be.
Filed under: Comments to NGO's | April 17th, 2013
Comment to Iran Academia in Netherlands
I hope I am not seeing the spread of the modern political paradigm into Iran. This paradigm is the idea that the purpose of government is to engineer society along the lines of socialist liberal philosophy. It has a firm grip on the Western democracies and is spreading around the world.
A basic tenet of this philosophy is the UN declaration of human rights. This document was made up by socialist thinkers in the first half of the 20th century. Their purpose was not to discover what human rights were but to design societies in accordance with their values and morality. They invented rights to support their vision. The "right to an education" is an example. After recognizing that a person needs an education to get along in a modern society it is assumed that he/she has a right to have this need provided by other people. It cannot be shown, however, that a need begets a right. There is more explanation of rights at web site www.truehumanrights.com
Filed under: Comments to NGO's | April 13th, 2013
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About The Author
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. “I am not a man of leisure”, says Robert.