On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories."  The Waikiki Beach Outreach Ministry also accept this Declaration of Human Rights for ALL HOMELESS, including those who live on Waikiki Beach in the State of Hawaii, USA.  

PREAMBLE

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family AND OF THE HOMELESS POPULATION is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common AND HOMELESS people,

Whereas it is essential, if man AND THE HOMELESS is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rightsshould be protected by the rule of law,

Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations AND OF THE HOMELESS,

Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom FOR THE HOMELESS,

Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms FOR THE HOMELESS,

Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms FOR THE HOMELESS is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,

Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations AND THE HOMELESS, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

Article 1.

All human beings AND THE HOMELESS are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2.

Everyone AND THE HOMELESS is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status INCLUDING HOMELESSNESS. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3.

Everyone AND THE HOMELESS has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 4.

No one, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade AND HOMELESSNESS shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5.

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment INCLUDING THOSE BEFALLEN BY HOMELESSNESS.

Article 6.

Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 7.

All, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 8.

Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 9.

No one, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10.

Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Article 11.

(1) Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.

(2) No one, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

Article 12.

No one, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 13.

(1) Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.

(2) Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14.

(1) Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.

(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 15.

(1) Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, has the right to a nationality.

(2) No one, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

Article 16.

(1) Men and women of full age, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.

(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.

(3) The family, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Article 17.

(1) Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.

(2) No one, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Article 18.

Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19.

Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 20.

(1) Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

(2) No one, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, may be compelled to belong to an association.

Article 21.

(1) Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.

(2) Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, has the right of equal access to public service in his country.

(3) The will of the people, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

Article 22.

Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

Article 23.

(1) Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

(2) Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.

(3) Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.

(4) Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Article 24.

Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Article 25.

(1) Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Article 26.

(1) Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.

(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Article 27.

(1) Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.

(2) Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

Article 28.

Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS, is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Article 29.

(1) Everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS,  has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.

(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS,  shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.

(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 30.

Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein FOR THE HOMELESS.

^{To Those Who Care:}

^{Please forgive our representatives who are angry with you.  They often are loud and use harsh words because they care about us.  Even Jesus turned over the money changers tables and called the Pharisees, the churches of his day, "snakes, vipers and hypocrites", but He did so for a reason.  When our representatives, Pastor Bob Erb, lawyer Randolph J. Amen and/or brother Todd Morikawa seemed too loud, intense, emotional or even disorderly to you, please know they are just trying to get a message to you.  Your way of helping us is insufficient.  You should listen to them.}

^{From Matthew 25:31-46}

³¹"But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit upon his glorious throne. ³²All the nations will be gathered in his presence, and he will separate them as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. ³³He will place the sheep at his right hand and the goats at his left. ³⁴Then the King will say to those on the right, `Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. ³⁵For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger, and you invited me into your home. ³⁶I was naked, and you gave me clothing. I was sick, and you cared for me. I was in prison, and you visited me.'

    ³⁷"Then these righteous ones will reply, `Lord, when did we ever see you hungry and feed you? Or thirsty and give you something to drink? <sup>38</sup>Or a stranger and show you hospitality? Or naked and give you clothing? <sup>39</sup>When did we ever see you sick or in prison, and visit you?' <sup>40</sup>And the King will tell them, `I assure you, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters,^[a] you were doing it to me!'

    ⁴¹"Then the King will turn to those on the left and say, `Away with you, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his demons! ⁴²For I was hungry, and you didn't feed me. I was thirsty, and you didn't give me anything to drink. ⁴³I was a stranger, and you didn't invite me into your home. I was naked, and you gave me no clothing. I was sick and in prison, and you didn't visit me.'

    ⁴⁴"Then they will reply, `Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and not help you?' <sup>45</sup>And he will answer, `I assure you, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.' ⁴⁶And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous will go into eternal life."

Our representatives are doing what the Bible commands.  They treat us like Jesus Christ himself.  They are sheep.  You are goats.  If you really want to help us homeless, than heed them; do not criticize them because they dont fit your concept of civility.

If you do not want to help us restore our civil rights, if you dont want to feed us, house us, pray for us, comfort us, then dont.  But please dont act like you care for us and then treat our representatives so inappropriately.  If they are angry at you, it is probably for good reason.  You are being a goat.

                                                Signed, THE HOMELESS

Confusion

The day started off great, the path was clear

As I drove home, here comes the fear

What happened today, what realizations will come

Has there been infidelity, has there been lust

Maybe, but generally just a lack of trust

Is the house clean, are the kids tidy

Laundrys piling up, oh theres my tighty whiteys

The dogs are restless, the house filled with gloom

We all anticipate imminent doom

When is it coming, what will it be

Stay tuned sports fans, wait to see

Will there be love

Will there be truth

The only way to tell is to become a sleuth

Now the proof is found

Where it was once dark, light abounds

The pain is real, the fear realized

Now it is time to discover what is prized

Is it worth the time, is it worth the trouble

How can 1 stay married to a girl in a bubble

Decisions of heart, decisions of mind

God must have been a woman to be so kind

Just end my day with a night cap and joint

Maybe tomorrow will be more on point

One of Laura Christine Baker's poems that Bob Erb considers one of his favorites is located on http://poetry.com/Publications/display.asp?ID=P3804766&BN=999&PN=46.  Check it and others out on www.poetry.com and use their names in your search for what they have written.  Read them all.  They are a ministry of their own.  God bless you as you read His words and those inspired by it.

Another friend, Sharon,  has written a poem as she wrote for me that I would like to share here:

In addition Laura Christine Baker has shared a prayer she desires the world to praise God and guide our nation:

Just a short reminder for all

FATHER IN THE NAME OF JESUS we come before you with a HUMBLED HEART as we enter into your courts, and come before THE ROYAL THRONE OF GRACE, and lay down upon your sacred ALTAR all the concerns with the situations that effect those in our BLESSED NATION with the hurricanes, and we say
HALLOWE BE THY NAME, THY KINGDOM COME, THY HOLY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN,
and we look to you LORD GOD as THE CREATOR OF THE BEGINING and the end, as well as THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH, and we know that YOU HOLD ALL POWER, and can do ALL THINGS, and THAT YOU ARE IN CONTROL, and not men.
And LORD we know that your word says If any of you lack WISDOM, let him ask of GOD, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him JAMES 1:
Therefore ABBA FATHER we stand in the gap for ALL OUR LEADERS to be touched by HEAVEN WITH WISDOM in all situations concerning our NATION OF THE UNTIED STATES OF AMERICA.
WE STAND UPON YOUR WORD that says IF any two of you shall touch and agree upon anything it shall be done for you FROM OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN.
So LORD we put it your HANDS, and PRAY FOR MERCY for all people.
We LIFT YOU UP, for you are so WORTHY and WORTHY OF ALL OUR PRAISE, and we know that YOU ARE OUR HELP, OUR HOPE, OUR PROVIDER, and OUR PROTECTOR, and OUR HEALER, and we know that we can do ALL THINGS THROUCH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS US, and we PRAY FOR REPENTANCE, and REVIAL for every heart, home, and family across our COUNTRY.
For we know that your WORD says
WHEN A MANS WAYS PLEASE THE LORD, HE MAKETH HIS ENEMIES TO BE AT PEACE WITH HIM. PROVERBS 16: 7
So LORD WE SPEAK PEACE IN THE NAME OF JESUS RIGHT NOW, with the storm, and trying to damage our NATION, we CRY OUT TO YOU TO CALM THE WINDS and the WAVES,,,,,, FOR YOU ARE THE PEACEMAKER, and there is no other like you. NO one can do what JESUS can...........
JESUS TOUCH OUR NATION

IN JESUS PRECIOUS NAME WE PRAY
AMEN

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