But looking at the thirty articles making up the Declaration, a strain implicit throughout it prevents me from joining the other six million signers. The Declaration starts off well. Article Four condemns torture. Articles Twenty and Twenty-one declare the right to peaceful assembly and association and the right to take part in government. These parts of the Declaration I can fully support, it is the other articles I have problems with.
All people have a fundamental right to life and liberty.
We have the right to be free from coercion if we respect the equal rights of others, but a right to security requires taking from others. The Social Security program is a good example. That way the less successful can drain money from the more successful. It is a disguised transfer program pure and simple. Article Seventeen s right to own property.