2006-09-04 01:08:15 · 16 answers · asked by ewan 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
correct especially to americans.
2006-09-04 01:14:42 · answer #1 · answered by Redeemed 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i would disagree as there are other threats that are larger than Terrorism. The main and the largest threat to human rights is nothing more than political ambition combined with power. To see the effects of it just look at US, Germany, Russia, and middle easter n countries in last 100 yrs.
2006-09-04 15:18:04 · answer #2 · answered by badsah11 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Terrorism itself threatens no rights. Governments using terror as a pretense to deprive the people of their rights is the greatest threat to human rights.
2006-09-04 08:51:51 · answer #3 · answered by Paladin 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Terrorism is an attempt to regain individual rights by using the only weapon available to the people affected. You see terrorism as a vicious attack, but if you were abused and manipulated by the wealthy, watching others rape your homeland, and enslaved by petty dictators...you might object! What options do they have except to try to scare off the foes...in France, during World War II, terrorists (under the name of the Free French underground) did the same, the Vietnamese did the same to both the French and the Americans. If you examine the American history, you find that there are similarities in the Revolutionary War, where people wanted the freedom of self-determination. Is that so bad? We need not interfere in other nations' domestic issues which spawned the Middle-east problems....supporting Saddam, and the Shah of Iran, did we need to assert ourselves in Korea...for what purpose..to fight an un-winnable war? Everywhere we have tried to promote peace by armed intervention, we have failed...the problem will be resolved only by the people of that country...by themselves....yes, let them kill each other...but let them do it.
2006-09-04 08:25:23 · answer #4 · answered by Frank 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One man's Terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Terrorism has become a tool to degrade your enemy. In many occasions armed resistance to intolerable state oppression is simply termed "Terrorism" by the oppressor. Minorities are usually the victims. Yes, Terrorism(Minority's armed resistance) is the greatest threat to Human rights(Majority's oppressing rights), like in Sri Lanka.
2006-09-04 09:14:21 · answer #5 · answered by a b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say that poverty is one of the greatest threats to human rights. Without poverty there would be no terrorism (or a lot less of it). Is Pink Floyd says: "With and without. Who'll deny it's what the fightings all about".
And think of the whole myriad of other problems that poverty contributes to.
Terrorism, on the other hand, is extremely easy to stop. Simply stop participating in it.
2006-09-04 09:06:58 · answer #6 · answered by Andy J 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the top 10
2006-09-04 08:15:25 · answer #7 · answered by MrSandman 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the protection from terrorism is probably a greater threat to rights.
2006-09-04 08:13:20 · answer #8 · answered by Rob 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Isn't greater threat to human rights a prison in Guantanamo, Cuba?
2006-09-04 08:17:55 · answer #9 · answered by nelli 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes it is. And on the other hand, terrorists will claim that it is their right of freedom of assembly and association or whatever provision that is relevant.. So we can actually say that though we are exercising our fundamental human rights, they are too.. And im SO AGAINST TERRORIST. The ECHR and the HRA is actually working against us though it is meant to protect our fundamental human rights..
2006-09-05 11:10:01 · answer #10 · answered by ~Venus~ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree, protection against terror and action against terrorist erode citizens' rights in every country.
but the alternative is far worse - I mean let terror run free is unthinkable.
2006-09-04 08:27:52 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋