IF DOROTHY HAD NOT HAD TOTO

Some might enjoy my recent critique of international human rights. The abstract is found below and the full article (not long) is available on this site or at SSRN http://ssrn.com/author=625523

IF DOROTHY HAD NOT HAD TOTO TO PULL BACK THE WIZARD’S CURTAIN:

THE FABRICATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AS A WORLD RELIGION

Abstract: This paper examines the increasing penetration and control

of nations by amorphous ideas of human rights, touching upon the symbiotic

relation between global capital and human rights, the anti-democratic nature of

many rights, the radically political nature of positive rights, the frequent absence

of national self-esteem and the consequent yearning for supranational approval,

the belief that judges and their surrogates are priests speaking for God, the

search for validating judicial will as replacement for a dead God, loss of judicial

confidence in reason, and banal judicial vanity. These lead to the creation of the

last and greatest Leviathan, a mortal god that can never be dethroned.