Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Democracy no guarantor of rights

CNN says: Democracy no guarantor of rights

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The State Department on Wednesday said that laudable human-rights practices tend to occur in democracies, but it noted in its annual report on human rights that democracy does not guarantee what President Bush has called a commitment to "the non-negotiable demands of human dignity." ....

...Let's set Bush aside, he probably didn't coin the phrase anyway, but what are the "non-negotiable demands of human dignity" ?

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