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Show Hint5 E l 017 tO S6t J&ll-CTfsist BKANDGCLAJIN '. , ,' Dissolve 1 package(3oz.)JEl-0BrandGelatiniti I cup boiling water. Add 2 cups ice cubes; stir constantly until gelatin starts, to ytycken, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove unmelted ice Chill until set; 30 minutes. For more tips send $1.00 to: The New Joys of Jell-O Recipe Book, Post Office Box 3168, Kankakee. Illinois 60901. Jell-O is a registered trademark of Genera! foals Corporation. , . . General Foods Corporation 1977 The Birch Log UN, USSR Two of A Kind by John F. NfcManu Belmont, Massachusetts The whole world knows that the Soviet So-viet Union suppresses human rights. In addition to a flood of press reports about the abuse of Soviet dissidents, our own President Presi-dent has made a personal crusade cru-sade out of the Issue, anxiously milking it for the propaganda value to himself. Yet he and his administration continue to supply sup-ply sustenance to the slavemas-ters slavemas-ters who run the Kremlin's jails. Source of Rights But is it fair to liken the United Nations to the Soviet Union? The question cannot be answered without a realization that Soviet power to abuse human rights is built right into its Constitution. On June 4, a draft of a brand new Soviet Constitution was made public. It was found to be an ideological repeat of all four previous Red Constitutions. The latest Soviet document lists various economic and political polit-ical right (housing, education, speech, assembly, privacy, etc.); but it makes the assumption that rights are granted by the state. Having granted these rights, the state assumes power to cancel them . The text boldly declares that rights may be suspended sus-pended "in conformity with the interests of working people and for the purpose of strengthening strengthen-ing the socialist system." This language duplicates that of the 1936 Constitution still in effect ef-fect under which millions died in slave labor camps and before firing squads. Contrast the Soviet invitation to dictatorship with the American Ameri-can system which acknowledges that men "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights." The difference should be blazingly obvious: Unlike the Soviet system, ours recognizes rights given to man by God and forbids government to interfere with them. Every limitation of human rights in the USSR is perfectly legal and totally within the power pow-er of the state, as outlined in the Soviet Constitution. Is it any wonder that tyranny is the consequence? con-sequence? But no such tyranny is possible in the United States so long as Americans preserve the U.S. Constitution which protects pro-tects their God-given rights. UN Like the USSR On March 17, 1977, President , Carter addressed the United Nations Na-tions and expressed a firm commitment com-mitment to "seek Congressional approval and sign the UN Covenant Cov-enant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the Covenant Cov-enant on Civil and Political Rights." Both high-sounding UN documents follow the pattern in the Soviet Constitution. Article Four of the UN Cov- . enant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights states that "in the enjoyment of those rights provided by the State ... the State may subject such rights only to such limitations as are determined by law . . . ." In the UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, we read (Article Nine): "No one shall be deprived of his liberty except on such grounds and in accordance with such procedures as are established by law." Further along, we see (Article Eighteen): "freedom to manifest one's religion or beliefs may be subject sub-ject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law . . . ." Throughout the document, rights are enumerated and then qualified out of existence in the very next sentence. There really are no rights except ex-cept those that come from God. And if God gave them to us, no government can rightfully take them away, as the Soviet Union takes away the rights it gives, even as a matter of policy. If the UN possessed the ability to follow suit, it certainly would do likewise. The Carter crusade for human rights is a fraud. If protection pro-tection of rights were Carter's true goal, he would begin by leading the United States out of the United Nations. The late Senator Robert Taft was right when he said: "The UN is a trap. Let's go it alone!" 7977 Tlit John Birrh Society Ftatum FOR INFORMATION CONCERNING THE BIRCH LOG, CALL BILL REAGAN 586-8228 |