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Vorbereitungen
My preparation for the upcoming lecture is complete, tomorrow I will contact you again in this regard Detlef Stern put it together and then I'm curious to see whether the students have also done their "homework".
And at the end of the day, the dancing leg will be swung later, before I can do it again the following week take a look at in its entirety. Because, as is well known, I don't like to be one of those people who simply let themselves be surprised on Mondays and then quite logically quarrel with the realities.
Fundamental Rights
Fundamental and human rights are related to each other, because in my opinion they can both be derived from natural law, but they have very different effects on the people affected. Therefore, especially in politics, one should be particularly careful not to confuse one with the other.
In some social contracts (between the state and the citizen) the citizens are granted basic rights and in the somewhat better ones duties are also imposed. The Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany is such a social contract. Human rights apply as a pure derivation from natural law, even without contractual justification, but unfortunately only for those people who believe in inalienable, universal and indivisible human rights.
And so it was indeed a great moment for mankind when the United Nations passed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948. But you have to know that this is a declaration and that each state is still entitled to conclude its own contracts with its citizens. The People's Republic of China, North Korea and the Russian Federation can be viewed as corresponding negative examples. Our Basic Law, one of the positive examples, includes the commitment to “inviolable and inalienable human rights”.
Another highlight was the adoption of the European Convention on Human Rights by the member states of the Council of Europe, which gives all citizens of these states the opportunity to sue for human rights and their fundamental freedoms. And this before a common court, namely the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. It is important that this is only available to people who live in the member states of these contracting countries.
The last relevant highlight was the entry into force of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union on December 1, 2009. But here too, these fundamental rights only apply to citizens of the Union and other people living in the member states.
And that's why it's so important, when you're fighting for the basic rights of Iranian women as a professional politician, to know what the basic rights enshrined in Iran's "social contract" with its citizens actually are. I don't think it would serve our cause very well if their fundamental rights were limited to the right to children, the kitchen and the mosque.
travel day
Saturday started earlier than usual, which brought back fond memories of sunrises and sleepless nights. Shortly thereafter, I was waiting for our passengers in a parking lot near the motorway and reached the airport in Stuttgart without any traffic problems. Parking there is no longer a challenge either, so I was able to really enjoy the walk to the gate. I have now planned the additional times for body and luggage checks in Stuttgart and so it was no problem this time either that I was allowed to take off almost everything and my luggage was checked for drugs and explosives.
The flight to Berlin was also entertaining and the arrival at the new old airport was a bit of getting used to, because the airport is a pure statement of the die-hard and I looked around to see if there weren't a few colossal statues of former tyrants in a corner. In any case, the airport reminds me of an oversized funeral home. The new connection to the city is positive in any case, and so we were at our conference venue shortly afterwards.
In the evening we had the opportunity to get to know the airport a little better. Arrived very quickly and comfortably at the airport again, there was the traditional currywurst - unfortunately no longer in the usual railway carriage. The return flight with a stopover in Frankfurt also went without any problems and the cars were still in their places.
You can debate flying as you like, it is still the only way to organize national meetings at a reasonable time these days; few fellow citizens can allow themselves the luxury of planning two travel days and, if necessary, a tourist program for a half-day meeting.
I still do not think it is advisable to move all such meetings to virtual space, because humanity is still a physical entity and will probably remain so for a few millennia.
50 years
The last half century has flown by me in a flash and unfortunately I didn't make it to the moon, let alone its dark side.
And no matter what you now of Roger Waters must hold, his music is still one of my favorites today — 50 years ago, Waters might have been a completely different person.
On March 24, 1973, The Dark Side Of The Moon was released in record stores and shortly afterwards all of these songs were droned on AFN and other stations of the time. A little later I was also in possession of this record and Pink Floyd records are still often on my turntable today.
