Mike Pompeo unveils new propaganda phrase: "Natural law".........

[riversedge]

Mike Pompeo unveils new propaganda phrase: "Natural law".
The idea is the powerful can do whatever they want to the vulnerable because that is "natural".
The Trump administration has withdrawn the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council as a prelude.

Link to tweet

[SHRED]

1. Kind of like...

"Manifest Destiny".

Ugly.

[vlyons]

2. referencing back to the Nazi ideology about

their misunderstanding of evolutionary natural selection and survival of the fittest. Natural law could also be used to claim the same sex attraction is unnatural, and women in a subserviant role under the control of a man is natural.

[msongs]

3. christian taliban joins up with the muslim taliban in a common cause nt

[sinkingfeeling]

4. "Natural law" is dogma from the so-called 'Christian' right.

[targetpractice]

5. Social Darwinism, huh?

Let's see how the evangelicals weasel out of this.

[Stuart G]

6. Powerful?? How about Nixon? he was powerful enough? Did he get away with it?

[IADEMO2004]

7. Let the big dog eat. T-shirt State Department Foreign Policy Position.

Nov 2020 we need you now.

[pansypoo53219]

8. more "calvin ball" or GOP only rules.

[applegrove]

9. It is natural law that there is a third sex in many cultures. Women who had

lots of children had better odds of having a gay son. Their gay sons would make an income like a man, have no children, and help support his sisters kids(sisters had lots of children too). And their female children had more children too. That is how gay genes survived. That is the theory behind the gay gene. It pans out in Samoa and elsewhere in traditional culture. And they dressed as they dam well pleased. That is nature. Before Christianity and nation states, everyone had a vital role in the village.

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2013/12/3/1259918/-Top-Comments-Survival-of-the-Fabulous-Edition

[MiniMe]

10. And what about laws against those kind of things?

Laws, Smaws. Ignore the laws?

[lindysalsagal]

11. Wasn't that one of the slavery excuses?

???

[C_U_L8R]

12. Sooner than later Pompeo will have no power.

It's inevitable. Bet that 'natural law' gets a quick revise.

[TreasonousBastard]

13. Natural law is actually a thing. it is a valid philosophical viewpoint that there are...

fundamental rights we all share. Often given to us by gods, but in the event there are no gods, still fundamental to our existence.

Pompeo is no doubt perverting the meaning to fit in with the Trumpian complete lack of ethics, but here is an example of Natural Law that we are all familiar with:

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

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