‘Follow the Science’ -The Path to undo History

 

Leading scientists have long been claiming to know what is "human in form but not in social potential". 'Follow the science' thus reveals a path to destruction of basic Human Rights

Democracy and Human Rights are considered ‘mutually constitutive’. The USA represent the first example of a constitutional Republic founded on the principle of Human Rights.

Science, on the other hand, is said to be “an institution congenial to democracy”, due to the values attached to science and due to the principle of “speaking truth to power”.

On the Fourth of July 1776, the Continental Congress in session in Philadelphia ratified “The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America”. In the document, today known as the Declaration of Independence, the “Founding Fathers of America” stated as true, or as…

“ (…) self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

It has been well recorded that King George III of Great Britain, who personified the “power” to which the colonies spoke truth, because the Crown “plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people”, rejected the idea of inalienable rights for his subjects. He scolded the “misguided Americans” and “their extravagant and inadmissable Claim of Independency”.

The course of History seemed to have vindicated the Continental Revolutionaries. 172 years and tow cataclysmic World Wars later, on December 10, 1948, the United Nations’ General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in its 3rd session in Paris, it resolved the following Preamble (excerpt):

“Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law (…)”

The UN was set up just three years earlier in order to prevent “another world war like the one [the world] had just lived through.” The “tyranny and oppression” mentioned in the preamble must be read as a reference to the Nazi war crimes, which were exposed to the world public during the ‘Nuremberg Trials’, the last of which had sentences announced not before April of 1949.

Belle Mayer Zeck was a young attorney of 26 years of age when she was sent to Nuremberg to participate in preparing the indictment for the I.G. Farben Case. Fifty Years later, Mrs Mayer Zeck expressed distress about how little had been done for “the perpetuation of the Nuremberg principles and (…) the cause of human rights.”  (more...)

‘Follow the Science’ -The Path to undo History