HUMAN WRONGS
South Africa has a world-class constitution that not only enshrines our individual rights to inalienable freedoms, but also forms the cornerstone of our hard-won democracy. On the 21st of March each year, we celebrate Human Rights Day, because after 1994, as a country, we could - finally – collectively and truthfully say that every life matters; and subjecting men, women and children to discrimination of any kind; taking away their dignity or freedom in any way, would be a corruption of innate rights that we are all born with and that no man can essentially give. Those are freedoms that at one time in our country’s history, were dishonored based on prejudice and ideologies that have now been systematically called-out and swept aside to embrace our diversity and to protect us from it ever happening again. Furthermore, violating them is now tantamount to a criminal offense, punishable in the highest courts of South Africa: The Constitutional Court. What a beautiful testament to the countless people before us who fought – even at the cost of their own lives – to right the wrongs and make this a reality. But the reach of human rights is even bigger than that – they are celebrated internationally, and were recognised long before the old Apartheid dispensation gave way to democracy in South Africa in 1994. After World War II, in 1948, the United Nations determined that fundamental human rights must be universally protected, stating that “recognition of the inherent dignity and equal and inalienable rights of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.” That is why we are so generously given a day off work and our normal routines – to mark and celebrate a rock-solid tenet that was written for the benefit and protection of all South Africans lest we should ever regress to the way we once were; or, on a global scale, for example, to Hitler’s revolting regime of hatred and crimes against humanity – or any other tyrant who might raise his (or her) ugly head in the future. So, with that in mind, and the fact that the 21st of March is about to dawn, it’s celebration time! Wonderful – who’s with me!? Whoa! Hold your horses! We have a problem. It seems that this year, this special day, comes with a sting in its tail. You see, if you look just deeper than the surface layers of the Covid-19 narrative, you will see that this year, two years down the line after the declaration of a socalled, ‘worldwide pandemic,’ it appears that there is a bitter irony in our joy and a dampener on our celebrations. By all means take the day off, but be careful not to get too excited about exercising your inalienable, ‘enshrined-in-the-bill-of-rights’ freedoms. You see, this year, you can have the holiday; but not the rights. Because this year, not all of us have rights to celebrate. And if some of us don’t; then all of us don’t. If you’re struggling to understand why, bear with me and read on. I am sure you will find the information about to unfold as terrifying as we do on this side of the human-rights losses our nation; and nations everywhere have experienced since the pandemic began. Here’s why: when our leaders systematically removed our rights by enforcing experimental vaccines on people who didn’t want to take them, the rug of human rights was whipped out from under us in the name of ‘the greater good, and getting back to normal.’ But, - and let’s get this straight - if you took the vaccine by choice for what you perceived to be your good or the greater good, congratulations – do you realise that you exercised your rights to do that? And while we are straightening things up a little: before you, as a business owner, government minister or worker, healthcare worker, family member or friend insist that I give up my rights to bodily autonomy, based on flawed reports that have been used to manipulate the unassuming public and deliberately squash actual scientific research on these dangerous medical therapies, have you taken a moment to examine the information coming out of government databases that confirms the vaccines are not only completely ineffective and unsafe, but in thousands of cases, are devastating natural immune systems, generating chronic disease and worse, proving to be utterly deadly? And to be clear: this is not about a divided society occupying two camps: vaccinated and unvaccinated. This is far more sinister than an ‘us and them’ divide based on our respective medical statuses. The atmosphere in our country right now, that justifies medical coercion, and violations against individual freedoms means that whether you are vaccinated or not, if you are pro-mandates, you are contributing to the wave of unethical rulings that will eventually re-write our precious constitution and bill of rights, to preclude human beings, normal civilians - you and me - from having choice in more than just medical matters. So, every single one of us needs to dig deep on this upcoming Human Rights Day, because if you don’t believe vaccine mandates would be a corruption of the innate rights and freedoms that we are all born with and that no man can essentially give, then you are also pro-going-to-work on the public holiday on the 21st of March, Human Rights Day. Please, don’t take the day off and don’t conjure up any insincere, token celebrations. Because you cannot celebrate your rights if you cannot celebrate mine!