The Right to Security

A secure feeling includes both physical and emotional security.
The Right to Security means one's personal security
and the security of the community in which one lives.

It fills one's need or a group's need to feel safe and non-threatened.

National (government) security actions or laws
should support one's need for physical security.

The Right to Security makes so many other rights possible.

Examples.

If one's Right to Security is in place,

the Right to Peace,

the Right Migrate,

the Right to Privacy,

the Right to Spatial Mobility

 and the Right to Apparel Choice

become more possible.

But sometimes,
ironically,
government actions taken in the name of protecting the Right to Security,
may also threaten an individual's security.
Examples.
--Infringing on one's Right to Privacy, such as
through specific laws (U.S. Patriot Act)
or by doing satellite mapping of one's home area
or requiring passage through airport security.
--Denying rights, such as the Right to Knowledge
by censoring one's Right to the Internet (China).
--Laws that disallow the Right to Delete
for those with criminal records
who want to change and move forward in life.
This paradox challenges how this right is implemented,
such as government measures and laws taken for the Right to Security.

Regardless of implementation methodology,

I declare the Right to Security.



Emotional security is a need.
"Temple of hugs", Amritapuri, Kerala, India
Woman guru "Amma" dispenses hugs to visitors.



Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, aka "Amma" which means mother,

provides, in her own way, an action of national security, 

in southern India,

when she sits for hours

giving hugs to those who come to her.