Posts Tagged ‘Critique’

No rights for the damned

July 24th, 2009

Incarcerated in Cell № 7 in the Fortress Prison in Landsberg Am Lech in the Bavarian state, Adolf Hitler in 1924 wrote in what was to become the agenda for Nazi Germany in the next few decades…

A folk-State should in the first place raise matrimony from the level of being a constant scandal to the race. The State should consecrate it as an institution which is called upon to produce creatures made in the likeness of the Lord and not create monsters that are a mixture of man and ape. The protest which is put forward in the name of humanity does not fit the mouth of a generation that makes it possible for the most depraved degenerates to propagate themselves, thereby imposing unspeakable suffering on their own products and their contemporaries, while on the other hand contraceptives are permitted and sold in every drug store and even by street hawkers, so that babies should not be born even among the healthiest of our people.

Mein Kampf, Volume 2, Chapter 2. Adolf Hitler

Hitler was first and foremost a believer in the racial supremacy of the German people and obsessed with the idea of a pure race, physically and mentally perfect. In Mein Kampf, he bemoaned the loss of what he called Germanic ethos and rededicated himself to the goal of a Germany in which there would only be pure blooded individuals, conforming to his vision of a mentally and physically perfect race.

Disconcerting echoes of this ideal of physical and mental superiority were heard in courtroom № 11 in the Punjab and Haryana High Court earlier this month.

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Human rights are for all humans…

May 13th, 2009

“He (a terrorist) is not fit to be called a human. He’s an animal so what is required is animal rights” said Justice Arijit Pasayat, the second pusine judge of the Supreme Court of India while addressing a conference on terrorism recently.

While condemning the terrorists as being undeserving of the protection of human rights, he said that human rights activists ought not to waste their time agitating for providing even a modicum of rights to these animals. These words would per se be quite unwelcome from anyone, but coming from one of the twenty-four guardians of our democracy, they are alarming.

With all respect due to the judge, I must differ. The basic minimal set of rights, available even to the most depraved criminal or the perpetrator of the most heinous terrorist crimes, is also a sacred charge on humanity and must never be allowed to be stripped, on pain of losing the very essence of humanity.

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