HUMAN RIGHT OR HUMAN PRIVILEGE

In case you haven't heard someone is upset with our Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

It is a equal rights group upset that Secretary Clinton has not made an issue out of the Saudi Arabian woman that was arrested for driving in Saudi Arabia. A Saudi women had filmed herself while driving and posted it via the internet in a protest for women's right to drive in Saudi Arabia.

Secretary Clinton just finished helping launch the "Womens World Cup Initiative" which is to empower women through sports. So the rights group thought this would be a perfect time for Secretary Clinton to speak about driving while female.

You see Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that does not allow women to drive a vehicle.

The United States has a real tricky situation with Saudi Arabia right now. The current administration is now calling on the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, to heed the public clamor for democratic reform and human rights. Yet we know that Saudi Arabia is one of the most conservative Muslim nations in the Middle East. They are also one of the most oppressive Muslim nations against women.

Still with all of that, the oil rich country is one of our closest so called allies in the Middle East. You see we don't want to really upset the nation of Saudi Arabia due to the oil and trade we get from them. So as of yet Secretary Clinton has not made much of a response to the request of the rights group. This is probably more of a political reason then anything else, since we know that Secretary Clinton is a very strong supporter of womens rights.

Now as you know from our past writings, we here at Loose Topics are defenders of our rights and defenders of our country.

So we ask the question is driving really a human right? Or is driving a human privilege?

As human beings we have certain rights we are obligated to. Is driving a car a right? It certainly is a privilege. We are giving that privilege after we can prove we are capable of handling such privilege and the same privilege can be revoked.

Why do we (the United States) always feel that we must influence or tell other nations what privileges they should allow their own citizens to have? It is their nation, their country and their government. We are not talking about a government not allowing a certain group the right to have food.

Now there will be arguments that the Saudis are discriminating against women. And rightful so, but that is their custom, that is their way right now. They are protesting to change that way, and hopefully they do. But why must America get involved here. Why must we tell them that they should stop what they are doing and do things the way we do. If the citizens of Saudi Arabia, men and women included, want change then they should seek and make change. They do not need us to tell their government to make the change.

If Secretary Clinton were to make a statement she should say that from a political stand point we do not wish to tell the Saudi government what privileges it should or should not have or who may have those privileges, but from a pure women's point of view she understands why they are protesting. That is it.

We can not be the babysitter to the world and still take care of our own here. We need to worry more about our problems here in the United States and less about foreign ones.

Just an opinion, I could be wrong. Tell us what you think? Man or woman. Is driving a human right?
Agree or disagree at least we know what the PEOPLE think. L2