{"id":133124,"date":"2017-03-22T09:35:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T15:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/22\/if-youre-not-for-us-were-against-you.html"},"modified":"2017-03-22T09:35:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T15:35:19","slug":"if-youre-not-for-us-were-against-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/22\/if-youre-not-for-us-were-against-you.html","title":{"rendered":"If you&#039;re not for us, we&#039;re against you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because it is a clear sign of world leadership that you simply boycott human rights conferences that include examinations of your own record. <\/p>\n<p>I mean, Russia wouldn&#39;t go to something like that if people were being mean to them. So why should the United States? Amirite?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/speak-freely\/unprecedented-no-show-us-pulls-out-planned-human-rights-hearing'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/l8T_SEmqECZWSMU0EPdDbNPqcBdrJ2TWpGGNIuZwwOdA2B6es8qtnXdYY0ET71f-9-UMk_a5eHETUo2_XnJOtdAxVBN04B_MEVocYMUA0tVk0CVN4qZeL9F4f--apxVAWCOnMtf0VfYwO4rV-vTRZa1o6UKbnwUR-GQRl5orNY9G7Jf2hlA-GPMT_GuGyZY4iFt9ONETwagigMh8FIE2Q630h9C859BbM5toHm0RsYx2yJs=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/speak-freely\/unprecedented-no-show-us-pulls-out-planned-human-rights-hearing'>In an Unprecedented No-Show, the U.S. Pulls Out of Planned Human Rights Hearing<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/7nzumySaRAD'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because it is a clear sign of world leadership that you simply boycott human rights conferences that include examinations of your own record. I mean, Russia wouldn&#39;t go to something like that if people were being mean to them. So why should the United States? Amirite? In an Unprecedented No-Show, the U.S. Pulls Out of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/22\/if-youre-not-for-us-were-against-you.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If you&#039;re not for us, we&#039;re against you&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49354,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/24\/names-mean-things.html","url_meta":{"origin":133124,"position":0},"title":"Names mean things","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 24-Jan-15 4:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'd love to know a bit more about the background here -- when and by whom the name was last changed -- but it certainly doesn't look good that the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights has dropped the last couple of items off the name,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9478,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/28\/paging_doctor_z.html","url_meta":{"origin":133124,"position":1},"title":"Paging Doctor Zaius &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Jun-06 4:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Spain is breaking new ground in animal rights -- by blurring the animal\/human line and asking for human rights treatment for Great Ape. 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So we should only push for equal treatment of certain rights\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27017,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/09\/citizen-flipper.html","url_meta":{"origin":133124,"position":4},"title":"Citizen Flipper","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 9-Mar-12 5:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A couple of thoughts here:1. While I understand the reasoning behind it, I don't like the idea of \"rights\" being equated to \"obligations by the government.\" Maybe it's that Declaration of Independence upbringing in me, but it makes me want to think of some other term.2. 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