Itty Bitty Bigger World - Protocol Rights

Itty Bitty Bigger World - Protocol Rights


Article 72 - The Rights Of Human Beings, Defined

Preamble: the darkest hours of human history and the greatest crimes against human beings have resulted from defining human beings as 'other' and therefore outside the cursory laws and protections that existed at that time.

Therefore:

A human being is a member of Homo Sapiens Sapiens that either 1) survives birth, either natural or by surgical section, or 2) is viable, however briefly, without artificial life support measures.

The 'false to fact' classification of a human being as less or other than human is considered a heinous war crime under Protocol. This is regardless of any test that can be applied: ability or injury or disability (however acquired, pre or post natal) sapience or apparent lack, gender, genetic characteristics including race, personal belief systems including religion or lack thereof,

"That which is in human shape shall enjoy human doubt."73

The legal status of eggs, sperm, embryos and nonviable zygotes is excluded from Protocol. Local option shall apply save that the ownership of pre-human genetic materials by the originating human being(s) shall be respected.

Medical decision making with respect to end of life care shall scrupulously respect the wishes of the person. So called 'involuntary euthanasia' is considered a war crime murder under Protocol.

Diminished capacity, as in mental retardation, certain diseases, and natural aging in no way affects the classification of the person as human. Abuse of the retarded, demented or aged is a war crime under Protocol just as if the abuse had been inflicted on any other human being.

Conviction of crime or participation in criminal acts, including those punishable under Protocol, in no way affects the classification of the criminal as human.

Article 73 - The Obligations Of Signatories Towards Human Beings

All Protocol Signatories are mandated to provide the following succor to all human beings under their authority, control, scope of reach, within their territory or in any way associated.

When a human being is in disputed territory under Protocol, all involved Signatories are required to honor this mandate. Additionally, the additional rights of Surrender and Rescue are created.

Sustenance: a Signatory is obligated to provide Sustenance to all human beings as above. This includes potable water, edible food, other nutrients as may be needed, shelter, heating or cooling as may be needed, pressurization and/or gravity as applicable in space environments, opportunity to sleep at least six hours in each twenty four hours. This right does not apply in disputed territory to enemy combatants.

Medical Attention: a Signatory is obligated to provide medical attention to all human beings as above. Under no circumstances may a human being be denied medical attention. This right does not apply in disputed territory to enemy combatants.

Protection: a Signatory may not deliberately inflict great harm a human being nor allow a human being to come to great harm by inaction. This right does not apply in disputed territory to enemy combatants. This right does apply to detained persons. Physical and/or psychological abuse is prima facie evidence of the violation of this aspect of Protocol.

Surrender: in disputed territory, a human being who surrenders to a Signatory immediately gains all of these protections upon their first effort to cooperate with their captor. This is the explicit descendant of the ancient rights of prisoners of war.

Anywhere else under Protocol, a human being may assert the right of Surrender. The human being shall then be transferred to the physical control or custody of the Protocol Enforcement Bureau as soon as possible, and detailed investigation shall be made of the circumstances surrounding the event. This is the explicit descendant of the ancient right of habeus corpus. A human who cries Surrender enters the total jurisdiction of Protocol law. This may later involve the right of Flight.

Rescue: anywhere at any time, a human being may assert the right of Rescue. One or more Signatories must respond to this cry with any and all resources at their disposal. Mutual aid agreements and intra-Signatory agreements may outline how this is to be accomplished, but any errors shall always be made in favor of preserving and protecting human life. A human who cries Rescue must make a first effort to cooperate with their rescuer(s).

Flight: any human being at any time may assert the right to leave the jurisdiction of a Signatory. They may ask to be protected by another Signatory. While no Signatory is required to take up such application, it is encouraged.

If no Signatory accepts the Flighted person, such so called 'stateless persons' shall thereby enter the jurisdiction of the Protocol Enforcement Bureau. Upon adjudication, and after investigation, they shall with their prior informed consent:

1) be returned to their original Signatory
2) have application to a new Signatory accepted
3) very rarely, and with the prior consent of the Protocol Board, become diplomatic members of Protocol. [Working note: this is intended for what a past age would call 'political dissidents.']
4) if no other resolution is possible, be consigned to Coventry, presently the Protocol Enclave of Australia, and both investigation and future support costs shall be charged to their first Signatory

A Signatory that fails to respect all of these rights of human beings endangers its status under Protocol. Responsible members of Signatories who commit crimes against these rights do so at their very real and personal peril.

The Protocol Enforcement Bureau is not a Signatory. However, PEB shall honor Signatory rights towards all persons in its direct custody.

Itty Bitty Bigger World - Protocol Economics

Itty Bitty Bigger World - Protocol Economics



From: Protocol Economics Working Group

Re: A Public Statement On Economics

Economics is the study of systems for handling and transferring energy. The symbol referent we use is 'money' or 'currency.' The energy involved is social and technological.

Economics carefully considers some costs and utterly neglects others.

The Economic Working Group (EWG) has attempted to work on these hidden assumptions behind costs.

One is that the effect of human activity on the global environment is an enormous sunk cost.

Another is that discrimination against human beings for non economic reasons is another enormous sunk cost.

A third is that the unspoken, and often unwritten, expectation that the bearing gender do much of the work of reproduction, child rearing and home management is a true TRIPLE THREAT to any reasonable economic analysis of societal issues and problems.

We have been forced to abandon the 'cost pit' as it does not have the solutions Protocol demands.

We have focused instead on transactional analysis. The economic system that best captures information as part of the process is capitalism. This is because of the information carried as a product is conceived, manufactured, advertised, distributed, shipped and ultimately sold and consumed.

However, consumer capitalism has many other transactional problems, circling back to inadequate capture and analysis of costs.

Protocol demands a working answer, now. Capitalism is that answer, today. But it is neither the final nor the best answer.

Accordingly, the Economics Working Group, with great reservations, has proposed a system of formal regulation and price supports in which the real costs of Protocol measures are openly considered and managed.

But also paid. Potable water and nutritious food are human rights. So is a high level of health care for all persons. So is supportive care for those who cannot support themselves. We don't fail to provide them because we can't "afford" to.

Whatever it costs, is whatever it costs. Whatever it takes is whatever it takes.

Protocol demands no less.