Freedom of Speech - We have the right to voice our opinions in any way we please, whether verbally, in writing or both. We have the right to be heard and to hear the opinions of others without being obliged to believe what they say. A democratic society believes in the rights, the human rights, of its people. However, there are many countries, and millions of people, who do not have freedom of speech. They do not have the right to hear, watch, or read anything apart from sanitized and sanctioned material. Those that do read anything else are treated as extremists, subject to imprisonment or worse. This is some of my international experience from living in Asia and research from non-democratic countries. Coming from a Western country, I have had the benefit of this and many other human rights for a considerable time, despite news reports that would seem to state otherwise. Our law has not been decided in a rush and made by those living a privileged lifestyle. It has been built by the decisions made in Courts, with juries of our peers and the Court has always been a place of equality and fairness. Our freedom to speak out against injustice, or just voice our opinion about the state of Local Government, has already been wellestablished. However, it is fact that we have our sacrosanct human rights, properly confirmed until The Human Rights Act 1998 through IPbpR. This has placed into our law, among other human rights, the fact that we can have our own opinions and discuss these opinions freely and without fear of reprisal or interference from the Government. This is under Article 10 of the Act and called ‘Freedom of Expression’. It is my desire to fight for human rights under the guidance of the Authority of the U.N. to help humans in non-democratic countries who have strong opinions about how the country is being run. It may seem obvious that we, as democratic country citizens have this right, but the fact remains that many other countries do not and if a Western Government body is trying to stop us from, for instance, giving a speech about crime in our neighborhood, or writing a report on the state of the local primary care trust, they are
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