Wanted - "True Americans" Exercising Public Trust

Wanted

"True Americans" 

Exercising Public Trust

     Through letters, email, personal conversation, or other means, please encourage each of those listed below to begin down the path of restoring a great America and making America and We, the People sustainable well into the future through fulfillment of our Agreement among We, The People.   Ask them to read and understand their free copies of Human Rights Capitalism. 

     May all Americans come to know, understand, appreciate, and fulfill our Agreement among We, the People.

John Avlon – No Labels

John Boehner – Speaker of the House of Representative, U.S.

Jenn Brown – Executive Director, Battleground Texas

Sylvia Mathews Burwell – U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services

N. Keith Chambers – Executive Director, Illinois Human Rights Commission

Hillary Clinton – likely Presidential candidate for Democratic Party in the next Presidential election

Mike Feuer - Los Angeles City Attorney

Senator Al Franken – US Senator

Jeff Frazee – Executive Director, Young American League

Eric H. Holder, Jr – Attorney General of the United States

Kathleen G. Kane – Attorney General of Pennsylvania

Caroline B. Kennedy – daughter of John F Kennedy, and current U.S. Ambassador to Japan

John F Kerry – U.S. Secretary of State

Brad Lander – New York City Council

Lisa Madigan – Civil Rights Bureau, Office of the Attorney General, Illinois

Barack Obama – President of the United States of America

Mark Pacella – Chief Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania

Thomas E. Perez – U.S. Secretary of Labor

Harry Reid – Majority Leader U.S. Senate

Jocelyn Samuels – Acting Assistant Attorney General (Civil Rights Division)

Tea Party – Washington, DC

Dick Thornburgh – Chairman of the Washington Legal Foundation’s Legal Policy Advisory Board, which WLF champions unfettered capitalism

Elizabeth Warren – Senator of the United States of America and author

Marianne Williamson – California politician, author

If any of these iconic individuals in their respective area feel that they are being singled out and would prefer not to participate, please let the publisher know by clicking here, and your name will be added to the Those Who Opted Out list.  At present, no one has opted out.

If any of these iconic individuals did not receive a complimentary copy (or misplaced it), please click here and request that the publisher send another copy (and provide the best mailing address to which you would like it to be sent).

Wanted - "True American" Journalists

Wanted

True American

Journalists

Political Journalists

A complimentary copy of Human Rights Capitalism was sent to each of the following individuals.  As one reflects upon the multiplicity of public comment on political action, particularly by those entrusted with the exercise of freedom of speech on behalf of Americans, the question arises:  “As Americans, are political journalists and other commenters on political action seeks to solve the challenges we face as the sovereign (We, the People), or simply engaging in selling their non-substantive rhetoric for personal gain?”  So, the publisher sent each a complimentary copy with this statement (or one that is similar): 

To one who often comments on the actions and inactions of the “leaders” of American government as well as the political actions of other Americans, please allow me to say – “May all true Americans (especially those exercising freedom of speech on behalf of Americans) come to know, understand, appreciate, and fulfill our Agreement among We, the People.”  If political action by or in America is not consistent with or in fulfillment of our Agreement among We, the People, then is such political action not Un-American and a breach of our sacred Agreement?  Shouldn’t our Agreement among We, the People always be the touchstone for measuring the worth of any and all American political action?  Isn’t all other comment outside the parameters of such touchstone merely non-substantive rhetoric? 

Respectfully,

John F Halbleib

It is unclear whether each will read Human Rights Capitalism or comment on its content.  Given that

(1)  the book is about our Agreement among We, the People, 

(2)  each of those receiving a complimentary copy is a member of We, the People (or comments on political action affecting other members), and

(3)  each should be genuinely concerned about solving those challenges facing all Americans,

it would follow that each should read about our Agreement and comment on it. 

Let’s see if those who purport to be genuinely concerned about Americans are in fact concerned enough to respond.  This list will be updated periodically as their feedback arises. 

If those receiving a complimentary copy do not respond, doesn’t their failure to respond imply that each who fails to respond is simply engaging in selling their non-substantive rhetoric for personal gain?  Does this not also imply that the wellbeing of all Americans is not their concern?  If so, why should Americans buy what they are selling?

Michael Albert, Z Magazine

John A. Allison, President & CEO, Cato Institute

Brian C. Anderson, City Journal

Daniel Backman, Harvard Political Review

Scott Baker, TheBlaze

Robert Baldwin, Journal of Politics & Society, Columbia University

Martin Baron, The Washington Post

Eleanor Bartow, The American, American Enterprise Institute

Monika Bauerlein, Mother Jones

Glenn Beck, an American television and radio host, political commentator, author, etc.

James Bennet, The Atlantic

Gary Benoit, The New American

Joel Bleifuss, In These Times

Patrick J. Buchanan, The Human Events Group

Julie Chen, CBS’ The Talk

Ken Chandler, Newsmax

Ruth Conniff, The Progressive

Anderson Cooper, CBS’ 60 Minutes and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360°

Katie Couric, ABC’s Katie

Noelle Daly, The American Interest

Paul D'Amato, International Socialist Review

James S. Denton, World Affairs

Christopher Dolan, The Washington Times

James A. Dorn, Cato Journal

Peter Dreier – The Huffington Post, E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, and Chair of the Urban & Environmental Policy Department, Occidental College

William Falk, The Week

David Firestone, The New York Times

James F. Fitzgerald, The John Birch Society

Thomas J. Fleming, Chronicles

William A.Galston, Wall Street Journal

Adam Garfinkle, The American Interest

Jonathan Garthwaite, Townhall Magazine

Nancy Gibbs, TIME

Malcolm Gladwell, a journalist, bestselling author, and speaker

Jonah Goldberg, National Review and Fellow – American Enterprise Institute

David Michael Gregory, NBC’s Meet the Press

Richard N. Haass, President – Council on Foreign Relations

Suzanne Hanney, StreetWise

David Harsanyi, The Federalist

Jacob E. Heilbrunn, The National Interest

Chris Hughes, The New Republic

Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post

Jim Impoco, Newsweek

Clara Jeffery, Mother Jones

Holman W. Jenkins Jr., Wall Street Journal

Alex Jones, INFOWARS.COM

Michael Kazin, Dissent

Larry King, CNN’s Larry King Now

William Kristol, The Weekly Standard

Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect

Dan La Botz, New Politics

Matt Lauer, NBC’s Today

David Letterman, Late Show with David Letterman

Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show

Tod Lindberg, Policy Review

Rachel Maddow, MSNBC

Bill Maher, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, and one of the producers for the HBO newsmagazine series Vice, etc.

Richard Markosian, Utah Stories

Daniel McCarthy, The American Conservative

Norah O'Donnell, CBS This Morning

John Oliver, HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

John Podhoretz, Commentary

David Remnick, The New Yorker

Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs

Ellen Rosenbush, Harper’s Magazine

David Rothkopf, Foreign Policy

Bob Schieffer, CBS’ Face The Nation

Kristen Schmidt, Columbus Monthly

Ahmed Shawki, International Socialist Review

Dimitri K. Simes, President & CEO – Center for the National Interest

Susan Smith Richardson, The Chicago Reporter

Sam Stein, The Huffington Post

George Stephanopoulos, ABC’s Good Morning America and This Week with George Stephanopoulos

Howard Stern, Author, actor, talk show host, etc.

Bhaskar Sunkara, Jacobin

Art Thompson, The John Birch Society

R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., The American Spectator

Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation

Peter Van Doren, Regulation, Cato Institute

Matt Welch, Reason

Robert Whaples, The Independent Review

George F. Will, The Human Events Group

Julia Wrigley, New Politics

Paul Young, The New Islander

If any of these iconic individuals in their respective area feel that they are being singled out and would prefer not to participate, please let the publisher know by clicking here, and your name will be added to the Those Who Opted Out list.  At present, no one has opted out.

If any of these iconic individuals did not receive a complimentary copy (or misplaced it), please click here and request that the publisher send another copy (and provide the best mailing address to which you would like it to be sent).

Wanted - "True American" Leaders

Wanted

“True American” Leaders

If you asked “What does it mean to be a “true American?” you would likely get a different answer from each American citizen (which would be more than 300,000,000 different answers).  Moreover, most would not know or understand whether their particular answer was factual or merely their personal opinion. 

If you asked “What is the Agreement among We, the People?” you would likely get the following answer – the Constitution of the United States of America.  This would be wrong, because the Constitution is a charter or grant of authority by We, the People to our Federal government to serve We, the People as the Sovereign. The Constitution itself recognizes this when it begins “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union”.  That is, the Union of We, the People already existed.

So, to determine what it means to be a true American you must first come to realize what constitutes the Agreement among We, the People.

If you do not know the answers to these two questions, it becomes impossible (other than by chance) to be a “true American” and to fulfill the Agreement among We, the People. 

In fact, the inability of America to solve its own problems is due to the fact that the vast majority of citizen-members of We, the People do not know, understand, appreciate or fulfill our Agreement among We, the People.  This is and should always be the starting point in every inquiry regarding the best solution to American challenges.       

In order to start the process of focusing all Americans who genuinely want to be “true Americans” on what this means, the publisher of Human Rights Capitalism has made complimentary copies of the new book Human Rights Capitalism available to iconic individuals in these loosely grouped areas:

• academia in areas related to human rights, political science and American history,
• political activists,
• ultra-wealthy capitalist,
• celebrities,
• individuals holding positions of public trust,
• religious leaders, and
• political journalists.

There was no common reason why particular individuals were identified and selected.  Rather, each shares a common aspect of American life.  Each of their respective livelihoods revolves around either

(1) exploiting the human condition for their own financial gain (that is, each is profiting from their activity without a genuine intent to assist in the successful resolution of the challenges faced by other Americans which each member of the Sovereign (that is, We, the People) is duty bound genuinely to achieve within the limits of such American’s abilities and resources in fulfillment of their Sacred American Pledge),

(2) devoting themselves to the never ending quest of improving the human condition, or

(3) some combination of the two.

However, the reality is that each of us cannot know precisely why each of them does what he or she does.  Moreover, we cannot know whether what each of them does is intended to improve the human condition for all, or simply exploit mankind for personal gain.  That said, some seem self-evident as for example in the contrast between what one would expect to learn about political activists and religious leaders as contrasted with that which we would expect to learn about political leaders and capitalists.  But the object here is to afford each person an opportunity to comment on whether he or she is a “true American.”

So, each has been provided with a complimentary copy together with a challenge along these lines:

May all true Americans come to

know, understand, appreciate and fulfill

our Agreement among We, the People

The book Human Rights Capitalism explains the origin, nature and confirmation of the Agreement among We, the People, which served as the Agreement around which We, the People formed and grew as a sovereign.   

As Americans and citizen-members of We, the People – what can be more important than knowing the answer to this question – To what have all citizen-members of We, the People already agreed?  Is it not absolutely true that we need to know the answer to this question before we seek to solve today’s challenges in a manner consistent with our Agreement?

Any bona fide leader in their respective areas of academia, political activism, capitalism, celebrity, positions of public trust, religion, and/or political journalism should warmly embrace the opportunity to be one of the first to know, understand, appreciate and fulfill our Agreement among We, the People, starting with learning the origin, nature and confirmation of the Agreement among We, the People.  As a member of the sovereign We, the People in the United States of America (its ultimate sovereign), this is part of our responsibility.

If any of these iconic individuals in their respective area feel that they are being singled out and would prefer not to participate, please let the publisher know by clicking here, and your name will be added to the Those Who Opted Out list.  At present, no one has opted out.

If any of these iconic individuals did not receive a complimentary copy (or misplaced it), please click here and request that the publisher send another copy (and provide the best mailing address to which you would like it to be sent).