Federalist No. 25

“For it is a truth, which the experience of ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.”

Schools For Misrule, p. 196

“Georgetown recently hosted a National Forum on the Human Right to Housing at which conferees were instructed on such topics as “promoting affordable housing using a human-rights based framework.” Loyola-Los Angeles put on a conference rallying interest in the new U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, hailed as an “international ADA” and presumably the catalyst for the future construction of sidewalk curb cuts and wheelchair ramps in remote tropical settlements. Numerous groups have united behind the fruitful concept of “poverty as a human rights violation,” said to justify proposals for an international guarantee of minimum income. According to the introduction to an NYU symposium, international law now guarantees rights to health, education, and “decent work,” not to mention freedom from “severe social exclusion.” [Read more…]