Human Rights Conform to Local Values?

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Carl R. ToersBijns is the author of the Wasted Honor Trilogy [Wasted Honor I,II and Gorilla Justice] and his newest book From the Womb to the Tomb, the Tony Lester Story, which is a reflection of his life and his experiences as a correctional officer and a correctional administrator retiring with the rank of deputy warden in the New Mexico and Arizona correctional systems.

Carl also wrote a book on his combat experience in the Kindle book titled - Combat Medic - Men with destiny - A red cross of Valor -

Carl is considered by many a rogue expert in the field of prison security systems since leaving the profession. Carl has been involved in the design of many pilot programs related to mental health treatment, security threat groups, suicide prevention, and maximum custody operational plans including double bunking max inmates and enhancing security for staff. He invites you to read his books so you can understand and grasp the cultural and political implications and influences of these prisons. He deals with the emotions, the stress and anxiety as well as the realities faced working inside a prison. He deals with the occupational risks while elaborating on the psychological impact of both prison worker and prisoner.

His most recent book, Gorilla Justice, is an un-edited raw fictional version of realistic prison experiences and events through the eyes of an anecdotal translation of the inmate’s plight and suffering while enduring the harsh and toxic prison environment including solitary confinement.

Carl has been interviewed by numerous news stations and newspapers in Phoenix regarding the escape from the Kingman prison and other high profile media cases related to wrongful deaths and suicides inside prisons. His insights have been solicited by the ACLU, Amnesty International, and various other legal firms representing solitary confinement cases in California and Arizona. He is currently working on the STG Step Down program at Pelican Bay and has offered his own experience insights with the Center of Constitutional Rights lawyers and interns to establish a core program at the SHU units. He has personally corresponded and written with SHU prisoners to assess the living conditions and how it impacts their long term placement inside these type of units that are similar to those in Arizona Florence Eyman special management unit where Carl was a unit deputy warden for almost two years before his promotion to Deputy Warden of Operations in Safford and Eyman.

He is a strong advocate for the mentally ill and is a board member of David's Hope Inc. a non-profit advocacy group in Phoenix and also serves as a senior advisor for Law Enforcement Officers Advocates Council in Chino, California As a subject matter expert and corrections consultant, Carl has provided interviews and spoken on national and international radio talk shows e.g. BBC CBC Lou Show & TV shows as well as the Associated Press.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Human Rights Conform to Local Values?

Why Human Rights are Inconsistent throughout the world

Paying attention to recent events throughout the world where governments have focused on human rights of people from many different backgrounds, cultures and various geographical regions there is a storm brewing on the horizon. Certainly, when one looks at these allegations, there appears to be an inconsistent but powerful demand to not conform to universal standards and focus on local cultures and values instead.

Leaving government to draw their own human right values based on local cultures and traditions opens up a Pandora’s Box to creating various rules or by laws not consistent with those already established by many existing decrees and mandatory rules we live by today and will impact those constitutions developed or created in democracies throughout the world today.

Implementing and defining human rights according to local customs will certainly impact existing stand-alone standards that will conflict with those already written and enforced in many countries. It is with high certainty that these new rules or bylaws will be influenced by religious ideology, political traditions and regional inferences.

Thus this creation or adaptation of local human rights laws or bylaws is seriously flawed and imposes unnatural sanctions or values not shared universally as either acceptable or a violation of existing laws. One such influence could be the laws pertaining to Sharia Law and its values. Certainly not appropriate for a universal application, it contradicts the rights of others as well as our own Constitution.

It is my opinion that if third world countries insist in establishing their own human rights that this is another attempt to arbitrarily use human rights as a tool to justify the means to oppress people who criticize and condemn their government thus attempting to regulate their freedom as well as voice.

Using the law as leverage to enforce such condemnation or disagreement in speech or principle, we can see that these new human rights laws will create more conflict and violate people’s rights everywhere this kind of action is contemplated and implemented within the next few years.