[danielf]

Originally Posted by Gary L

No, no, no. he doesn't mean take away their human form and make them zombies or whatever. he means to take away their rights as a human.

remember though, human rights are something that were made. they're not something that was always there.

Surely, the only reasonable reason for taking away a person's human rights is because the person is not human? Otherwise we might as well have called human rights British rights. Presumably there's a reason why we didn't.