The Layman's Petition

"...Has the US President's 2017 electoral success underscored the imperative for a human context beyond the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?..." "...In The Layman's Petition, (the author's) view is that academic society has inattentively perpetuated an auto-verifying lie of omission effectively obstructing the world's population from reaching a timely and spontaneous global adulthood..." "...In Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, "thought" (the irrefutable fact of it) is the primary (hence first to be stated) issue; followed by its subsidiary issues of: "conscience," "religion," and "belief," followed in turn by their subsidiary issues of what amount essentially to individual self-expression..." "...To proceed with timely, unprecedented and globally legitimate prosecutions, an injunctive functional benchmark in human behavior had to be set, Article 18, with the delicate, respectful and universally validating language concerning 'thought itself' to be realized later through Article 19. It was toward this end that The Layman's Petition was written." Above quotes from The Layman's Petition/Preface 2017 US Federal Election. The Layman's Petition (Copyright 2002, 2007, 2010) is a high school dropout's deeply personal memoir with a strong social/philosophical element.