HUMAN ABILITY to REASON, HUMAN RIGHT to CONSENT - Proem & Poem No. 47

Most likely to be published early 2018, my 10th book currently entitled; 100 Proems & Poems on the HUMAN ABILITY to REASON, HUMAN RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover below merely a working version....

PROEM & POEM No. 47 - Conjured Lists / 3rd Reprise

      It is a grave mistake to consider the concise lists of rights by John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, and others, as something orthodox. By this view, there is tendency to revere them as a solution to an expansive government perpetuated by covetous people brokering with self-serving politicians. 

      Upon the very first formation of rights plural, that is, the listing of rights by two, three, four or more, the inherent illogic was as deceivingly present and detrimentally potent as it was in 1948 when conjured United Nations’ 30 articles of human rights that included the fantastically nebulous right to leisure. Frankly, the articles were presumptuously esteemed as universal, yet the world of 2.5 billion individuals were not universally consulted for the draft or declaration. The matter of rights plural is ambiguous as well erroneous whether it is three or thirty, furthering misdirection even peregrination, lacking certainty thus conclusion, hence the continual debate, the festering unrest and the inevitable violence.

      In all the efforts to establish something nobly moral in the name of human rights, the outcome cannot be anything more but the disrespect and disregard of the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason, inseparably the Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent.

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Liberty perverted; collusion, revolution then confiscation
Many by promulgation, plenty more by vast extermination
Abundant by enslavement’s iron pendant and abrogation
Incumbent on popular recumbence and mass subjugation

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

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