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THE UIGHUR PEOPLE - ONUS ON CHINESE GOVERNMENT TO PROVE IT IS NOT PUNISHING AND DEPRIVING THEM OF THEIR BASIC RIGHTS! PART 2.

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'The lesson of our history is that we humans are a predatory species with the weak being the prey or potential prey of the strong.  It is in the common basic interest of all humans, that we should all be presumed to have certain basic reasonable rights, which we are endeavouring to exercise, in our and society's best interests.  And that we should not be prevented from doing so by the unjust actions of the state, the government and/or other humans.  It being the case that the government and the state should have as the primary purpose of their being, the protection and welfare of all its citizens and sovereignty. Why, even the FFs of the United States, while on the one hand declaring that all men are born equal and with certain inalienable rights.   Had, for some incongruous reason, chosen, it appeared, to excluded the Africans who were brought to the shores of colonial America as slaves, and their descendants.   From having the 'inalienable rights' of which they spoke.

THE UIGHUR PEOPLE - ONUS ON CHINESE GOVERNMENT TO PROVE IT IS NOT PUNISHING AND DEPRIVING THEM OF THEIR BASIC RIGHTS! PART 1.

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Human rights has become a clarion call for the past 70 or more years. The rights of us people to have and live a life of qualified freedom from political and other forms of oppression has become a clarion call in all parts of the world.  Prior to this, there was the declaration of the the rights of man, as penned by the British born political theorist and philosopher, Thomas Pain. And what of this 'rights' of which we speak, whether it be that which was articulated by Thomas Pain, of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights?  What is the status of our 'human rights'? The so-called Founding Fathers of the United States, while accepting the need to separate the political state or estate from the then powerful and unaccountable and non-transparent religious estate.   Would have us believe that 'human rights' are 'inalienable'.  But what does that mean, that we all have some basic rights and that they are 'inalienable'?  'Inalienable',

IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS - AN ACCOUNT OF LIVES IMPACTED BY 'EVERYDAY ADVERSITIES.' PART 60.

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'What we recall of our experiences of the past, tends to be a factor of how they impacted on our senses at the time, the strength of our continuing attachment to those experiences.   And the extent to which we have succeeded in assimilating them into our subsequent experiences and move on with our lives.' So much for that, in his early teens when Kazaliwa began bunking off from school and staying away from home.   He would more often than not be found at the home of one of his white friends, whose father was not too concerned about his son not attending school.  Yes, it had been the case that Kazaliwa, notwithstanding the fact that he had been the subject of racial bullying by some children while he was attending Junior School.   Had many white friends to whom he was very close. And it was not the case that it was their addiction to using elicit drugs that bind them together.  Or that there were only a handful of black families and even less black children Kazaliwa's age an