ACTING IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST

At that time some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, “Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill you.” He replied, “Go tell that fox, ‘I will keep on driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach my goal.’” – Luke 13:31-32 (NIV) 

Defiance, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humankind's original virtue. It is through defiance that progress has been made. Rebellion in opposition to oppression and tyranny is obedience to the Creator. – Phil Sutton 

SVC already has the influence Worldwide to bring about World Economic and Political Democratization, especially if Phil Sutton is at the helm. That is the point. There is a broad consensus that the Author of the International Responsibility to Protect Principle and Revival Series of books is key to World Democratization. If Phil became President of the United States that consensus and influence would be at risk. - Fatou Bensouda

On my 18^th birthday in 1977 my Mother gave me a small plaque of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “IF” and picture sized plaque of Martin Luther King’s “I have A Dream” Speech he made a day after my 4^th Birthday in 1963. My Mother was telling me something about my future I would not fully understand until I met Nelson Mandela at the White House in June 1990.

The first stanza of IF states: If you can keep your head when all about you, Are losing theirs and blaming it on you…

I have lived in that situation countless times. I have always been the one that has to keep his cool when all about me are losing theirs and blaming it on me! It is a perfect description of my life!

The third and sixth lines are poignant as well:

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you…   Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies…

The al Qaeda Hezbollah Successful Takeover of America Scandal has flushed out the worst criminals America has ever seen and now they are about to be brought to Justice. Their lies will not stand!

Dr. King said this about an America full of promises but not full in accomplishment in terms of the American Dream:

Five score years ago, a great American (Abraham Lincoln), in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But 100 years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men — yes, black men as well as white men — would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Twelve weeks days later, U.S. President John Kennedy would give his last speech in Fort Worth, Texas, which I discussed last week, and be assassinated in Dallas. https://www.svctrailblazerpublications.com/history-will-not-permit-it

The man that became President that day, Lyndon Johnson, shares my birthday. When Angelica; Tony and Cheri Blair; and Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt won the United Nations Public Service Award for Innovative Programs in 2010 for starting the Africa Project, I said those who are born on August 27^th had a special sensitivity to human suffering. I used LBJ, who dreamed of an America free of poverty and signed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts as part of President Kennedy’s legacy, and Mother Teresa as examples. Mother Teresa was actually born on August 26^th, but she always claimed the 27^th. We will be happy to adopt her!

The most famous line of Dr. King’s speech was “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’”

Thomas Jefferson, who wrote those words into the Declaration of Independence and a Slavery Abolition Clause to go with it, was a hereditary slaveowner and never did free his own slaves. The social mores in the south were that strong. George Washington was the only Founding Father who did so.

We named our Son, Jack, after both men. They were both shy, reserved plantation owners. Both Thomas and George would have been perfectly happy if history had left them alone and they could have lived their lives entirely at Monticello and Mount Vernon. But history would not permit it.

On August 9, 1974, Richard Nixon resigned as President. In all but my last two books, I declared this day as the darkest day in American History. Americans’ Faith & Trust in their Government, the First Thematic Principle of the American Dream, had simply been too severely, if not irretrievably, damaged.

Of course, Richard Nixon had lost the closest Presidential Election in American History to John Kennedy in 1960. The bitterness over that loss propelled the mischievous activities of the Watergate Scandal.

In the very first SVC International Viewpoint published on SVC International Inspiration Day, June 22, 2000, I predicted the election between Al Gore and George Bush would be even closer. I turned out to be right. NBC Newsman, Tim Russert and I were the only Political Analysts who predicted the race would come down to Florida.

In the run-up to the election, I wrote a series on the closest Presidential races after World War II. Covering the 1960 election, I found that the pundits were quite concerned about the two young bucks succeeding the venerable Dwight Eisenhower. Both men were under the age 50 and Ike was 68. The 1960 election was the only time a President under the age of 50 would be elected and a generational transfer of power would take place.

The pundits needn’t have worried. History made sure both would serve as President and were on track to be considered two of the best Presidents, especially in Foreign Policy, if their Presidencies had not been tragically cut short.

In his Resignation Speech delivered 52 years ago tonight, President Nixon emphasized the reason he was stepping down because he believed it to be in the best interest of the country. nixon's resignation speech - Search

In the speech President Nixon introduced Theodore Roosevelt’s “The Arena” speech. The speech was originally entitled, CITIZENSHIP IN A REPUBLIC, but this segment changed its identity to history and found its way to the conclusion of each of my books:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

I had the high honor to reenact the speech for my Cousin Theodore, on its centennial on 23 April 2010, at the Sorbonne the University of Paris. The original title for REVIVAL OF THE AMERICAN DREAM was THE ARENA: A GUIDE TO AMERICA’S FUTURE. That changed with 9/11 and the book was never published with that title.

A month later, President Roosevelt would lead the American Delegation to King Edward VII’s State Funeral in London. It would be the last time European Royalty would meet in peace. Four years later in August World War I would start and most of the hereditary monarchies would not survive the war and those that did were reduced to figurehead status.

The next morning, Gerald Ford was sworn-in as the 38^th President of the United States. ford's inauguration speech video – Search

President Ford stated what he had to in a short eight-minute speech. He reassured the American People:

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy.

As we bind up the internal wounds of Watergate, more painful and more poisonous than those of foreign wars, let us restore the golden rule to our political process, and let brotherly love purge our hearts of suspicion and of hate.

This quote appears in each and every one of my books at least three times because I believe what it says is that important. First, the Greek word democracy quite literally means “the people rule.” Too often citizens fall short in their responsibility to participate in the political process. They abrogate their responsibility, sit on the sidelines, and blame the politicians and others for the problems of the nation when they are the ones ultimately responsible for the whole mess!

I don’t know how many times SVC has reminded Americans of this responsibility when it comes to the AQHSTAS and it’s just been mocked and ridiculed. The chickens are coming home to roost on that one, I assure you!

President Ford also professed his faith “in a higher power” who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy. As we bind up the internal wounds of Watergate, more painful and more poisonous than those of foreign wars, let us restore the golden rule to our political process, and let brotherly love purge our hearts of suspicion and of hate. 

The process of punishing the traitors/terrorists of the AQHSTAS will be guided by a restatement of Jesus’ Golden Rule: What you have done unto others, will now be done unto you. This is perfect Criminal Justice because it insists on punishment to fit the crimes and a deterrence against others emulating them. 

The only way our Civilization can survive and healing can occur in America is to make sure those who think, talk and act the way the traitors/terrorists have and still are acting are viewed as the outcasts and undesirables, not those who have done nothing wrong and are the ones who have been out in a snowbank somewhere in 20 below weather with the traitors/terrorists making sure their Victims have no hope of ever living a meaningful, unharried life again – i.e., having adequate income from work to live inside; having adequate food and clothing; having a vehicle; being with their families, etc. 

On the 50^th anniversary of President Ford’s Inauguration, former President Donald Trump spoke at the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse on the Montana State of University Campus in my hometown of Bozeman, Montana, USA, spouting his regular mantra of fear and hatred, something Jerry Ford would never do. Less than a month before, he survived a brush with death and Joe Biden had withdrawn from the 2024 Presidential race, almost assuring his re-election to a second, nonconsecutive term as President. 

President Biden had pulled a “Johnson”, leaving his Vice President Kamala Harris to fend for the Democrats like Vice President Hubert Humphrey had to in 1968, losing to Richard Nixon. Funny how history keeps on repeating itself. 

But only one obstacle remained: Donald Trump was and is a fugitive from International and U.S. Federal Justice and his arrest could occur at any time, rendering President Trump as unavailable to continue his campaign to win another term, let alone serving as President again. 

Convict Trump then made what amounts to a plea bargain with the International Tribunals. In exchange for putting down AQHSTAS, all would be forgiven. Nearly 19 months into his second term, his Pre-Inaugural Resignation Letter will be tendered with Secretary State Marco Rubio if Convict Trump does not get with the program N-O-W! 

In Colorado Springs, the traitors/terrorists continue to follow the al Qaeda Script with great staunchness and with evil vengeance believing they are right when they couldn’t possibly be right. While he is amused watching the traitors/ terrorists make fools out of themselves and knocking themselves out stalking, intimating and taunting him trying to get him to fear they are onto him when the opposite is very much true, Americans cannot ask Security Chief Norman to live the life of destitution and supposed terror any longer! 

I do not desire to become America’s 48^th President like my friend Jerry became the 38^th President through massive scandal, but like him I will not shirk the enormous responsibility if the United Nations so decides. The National Interests of America and its people must come first before any personal consideration! 

I do not know exactly where America’s leadership deviated from the time-honored notion that our Presidents would act in the best interests of the United States, but I do know it has happened with great certainty. 

Jack’s other namesake President, John Adams, sacrificed his Presidency to keep America at peace with France. Leading Federalists like Alexander Hamilton demanded war with France but President Adams held firm. He knew the new republic was unprepared for war and war could threaten the fledging nation’s very existence. 

One thing I have learned from my study and research of our famous Ancestors, especially those involved with the American Revolution, is they had an almost overwhelming sense of right and wrong and devotion to duty. They would do what was right no matter what the cost! I intend to fully follow my own instincts in that regard!

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