Article 19 of the UN Human Rights Charter explicitly states:
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression;
this right includes freedom to hold opinions without
interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas
through any media and regardless of frontiers." * * *[ SO WHY? ARE THESE ENGLISH VALUES UNDER ATTACK IN THE LAND OF MAGNA CARTA? A TIMELY REMINDER! IF ENOUGH PEOPLE REFUSE TO ACCEPT THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL RESTRAINTS ON THEIR RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH AND EXPRESSION SUBJECT TO THOSE LAWS PREVIOUSLY IN PLACE - THEN THE LAW BECOMES EXTINCT!]It is also clear that the state can only enforce obedience to law if the laws are such that most people do not want to break them. Let the State, however powerful, pass a law which the mass of the people do not respect, or to which a considerable minority violently object, and the enforcement of the law will be difficult if not impossible. There is no need to insist on that at the present time.Essentials of Democracy by A.D.Lindsay - LL.D. Master of Balliol College, Oxford July 1929.* * * |