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Freedom to Read and Learn; At Vote
Topic Started: Jan 5 2013, 01:14 PM (95 Views)
Slenisia
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Freedom to Read and Learn

A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
 
Category: Human Rights
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: Sionis Prioratus

Description: The World Assembly,

APPLAUDS past initiatives to build libraries and guarantee freedom of expression,

AFFIRMS that those advancements are of little value without the right to access knowledge,

RECOGNIZES that the World Assembly does not prohibit nor obligate member states to regulate or ban certain works, for example works advocating illegal acts,

Enacts:

No person shall be punished for reading, nor for enabling oneself and/or another to read, nor for acquiring knowledge and/or cultural enrichment from non-readable media or reading media adapted for individuals with disabilities, provided that the material was legally published with the intention that it be publicly available.
Edited by Slenisia, Jan 6 2013, 04:45 PM.
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Santosa strongly supports this motion. We may be a Communist nation but we too view it as an undeniable right that all people should be allowed to free and unhindered access to such pursuits. To refuse them this right is a violation of human rights and a deplorable offence.

If I might use Communism as an example. Earlier forms of Communism denied the people the right to learn and educate themselves in the belief that by doing so they were raising themselves above their fellows and viewed as attempting to better their own life at the expense of others. This is an extremely ignorant accusation and was a direct cause of old Communism's fall. Why should you keep your people uneducated and unskilled? That only weakens your nation as a whole. By, like Santosa does, fully allowing your people to strive for education you create a stronger nation through the lifting up and educating of the people to create an intelligent and highly skilled people which in turn makes for a strong Communist power. Think of it this way, if your people are uneducated and dim then your nation will be weak as a result but if they are intelligent and skilled then your nation will be strong. We have learnt from the mistakes of earlier forms of Communism to create our new and refined breed of Communism.

But before I digress any further let me say that Santosa welcomes this motion and we give it our full support.

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Slenisia
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Sorry; missed to voting on this one. Freedom to Read and Learn was passed 10,554 votes to 1,830.
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