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When we think of 'human rights' we automatically assume those
to be the lack of rights in other places, as the U.S. is already
the best, at everything. We are still the worlds leading
'Super Power' and holding, even with what they say is a 'bad
image' due to the Iraq war.
While it seems America is indeed the land of the free, we know

there is a price for that freedom. The price was paid by for fathers
war veterans, and heroes of history. Lest we forget, the price was
paid as recently as 50 some years ago by Americas very citizens.
When it comes to human rights we still have along way to go.
Of course we have the law and the case law, but we do not have it
written on our hearts like second nature.
I had to seriously consider the topic of this article for a moment
before writing..."The U.S. is the only place that has human rights!".
Because I live in a bubble, the same bubble we all live in unless we
change the channel on television to 'World News' instead of "Dancing
with the stars".
In some countries they have human rights, they assume that if you
are human, you have the right to die. You may be black but your the
wrong kind of African or the wrong kind of Columbian. You may be a woman
but your ankle was showing and hers was not.
We all have human rights, or so it seems. No one disagrees there.
It may be semantics, or worse, but I have figured out that the problem
with human rights is that we do all agree that we are human, the sick
thing is, we want to rate..."What kind of human?".
Oh yes, we value life, but "define life", we say. You may have been
"created equal", but somehow YOU messed that up. "Alls fair in love and war".
Who ever said that was not creating a standard but confessing the
obvious. People are not always human.

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