Thursday, July 14, 2005

Human Rights Abuses

(One thing that really frsutratees me is the language of human rights being used to defend thing that are just plain wrong, corporations claiming human rights beign a case in point)

This is my house
I own it
it's mine
and I'll do with it what I like
because that's my human right
I'll leave it empty and unused
and I'll do what I please
because that's my human right you know,
that's my human right
It's my human right and its worth fighting for.

I've a right to own a car,
no tax on fuel it's just no just
I've a right to cheap oil, free parking, and speed
so get the hell outta the way of my SUV
and I'll fly around the world on £1.60 return
because that's my human right you know,
that's my human right
It's my human right and its worth fighting for.

I don't want no asylum centre built round here
It's my back yard they're living in
my back yard they'll steal from
my job they'll take, my house price they'll deflate,
and my road they'll want their mosque in.
because I have human rights too you know,
I have human rights too
I have human rights and they're worth fighting for.

And what about Nike?
Telling lies about its corporate crimes and then claiming the right to freedom of speech!
Well who cares if we gave a false impression
we have the right to freedom of expression!

Because corporations have human rights too you know
they've been granted them by law.
Corporations have human rights too, though they weren't human before.
Corporations have human rights too,
and they have the money to fight for them.

It's just a matter of time before corporations get the right to vote,
to claim asylum, to found a family to ...life!
I wonder, when will corporations gain the right to life?
Where's an end to this corporate personhood insanity,
because if corporations have human rights,
then how do we define humanity.

Because they're our human rights you know,
for us living breathing and human
not for Nike Shell or CNN
They're our human rights
and we'll fight for them.

3 comments:

Dom said...

I didn't know where to put this, but anyway, i'll get on with it!

Have you seen that new advert, i think it's renault? Where the whole world has been covered in a blank canvas, as soon as i saw this advert i thought how that would just be a bombers paradise, I think this would be a great idea, if you just covered your house in canvas and just sprayed everywhere!

Maybe someday the world will see the point in graffiti, They would let graffiti become legal, but none of the pointless silly 'tagging' stuff, like you see everywhere now-a-days, these are the people who give graffiti a bad name. Such a shame, but thats hippocrytism right?

Anyway, peace!

Dom said...

I didn't know where to put this, but anyway, i'll get on with it!

Have you seen that new advert, i think it's renault? Where the whole world has been covered in a blank canvas, as soon as i saw this advert i thought how that would just be a bombers paradise, I think this would be a great idea, if you just covered your house in canvas and just sprayed everywhere!

Maybe someday the world will see the point in graffiti, They would let graffiti become legal, but none of the pointless silly 'tagging' stuff, like you see everywhere now-a-days, these are the people who give graffiti a bad name. Such a shame, but thats hippocrytism right?

Anyway, peace!

Dom said...

Oops! sorry i didn't realise it posted the first time! :$