During the gubernatorial (governor's) primary elections of August 19, 2008, the most important election of Washington State, Christian Pierre Joubert and his "Fundamental Freedom's Action Plan" harvested nearly twice as many votes as the Greens and more than twice in relation to other minority and third parties. If we are to count the Republican Party and the G.O.P. as one movement, his Fundamental Freedom's Action Plan, as a platform, emerged as the third political force. (For the evidence, see the Secretary of State's website for the results by clicking here).
This success is based on the People's thirst for the expansion of additional fundamental freedoms and their desire to believe in a political philosophy whose Plan of Action proposes a credible method by which to satisfy the five basic needs all Civilizations have struggled with: (a) good vibrant and unpolluted food and water catering to life and reproduction (b), a decent and re-energizing shelter structure, (c) affordable health care and conditions under which lifestyle medicine is prevalent (d), meaningful access to education, culture, art and spiritual practice,(e) and equal access to an efficient Justice system, including, but not limited to civil justice, thanks to which security and all of the other freedoms mentioned above can be vindicated when necessary.
JOUBERT AND HIS "FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS" PLATFORM ECHOED IN THE PUBLIC, AN ECHO FROM WHICH A "HOLISTIC" APPROACH TO POLITICS EMERGED
"A good politician triumphs by adapting to the times and taking advantage of opportunities as they come. A great politician anticipates openings others don’t see and creates possibilities that were not there before". Raymond Aron (French political philosopher)
The credible method that many constituents appreciated was the plan outlined in the first paragraph of the Voter's pamphlet:
“Because I feel Washington State should be leading the Nation in promoting a Spiritual Civilization based on holistic medicine, alternative energy, affordable housing, relevant education, a dynamic economy, bio-diversity, world development and meaningful access to justice, I respectfully propose my “FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS” PLAN OF ACTION.” (Christian Pierre Joubert, Washington State’s Voters Pamphlet, primary election, August 19th, 2008).
Among all of these above-mentioned goals, the most important one concerns public health. In this perspective, complementary and alternative medicine, or holistic medicine, (a form of enlightened Reason and Innovative Science shouldering a troubled medical and social system), has been a resisted current to mainstream medicine, yet it has greatly helped to heal patients. And in doing so, more maintream physicians are opened to change and as a result, patients are healtier and happier (See some statistics below).
In a similar way, practicing "holistic" politics in the Democratic Party can provoke consternation at first, but when the dust has settled, the mainstream is more enlightened and effective.
As History shows, it is upon these forces that Progress flowers. (For the evidence, click here). However, there is usually a price to pay for being un-orthodox. In this case, the loss of the primaries. So Joubert's political duties now is to support and endorse those Democrats who are still running and who represent the most hope for the realization of our basic liberties.
Thus, in addition to the Obama endorsement and the endorsement of the other Democrats on the ballot, the Fundamental Freedoms Action Committee and Joubert supported the endorsed Democrat Ms Christine Grégoire. As the present Governor is the best freedom advocate in relation to her Republican (G.O.P) rival. But for 2012, it remains our duty to endorse Christian for this position.
THE CORE FREEDOMS WE ARE STRIVING TO GET CODIFIED INTO LAW
" Christian Joubert, of Edmonds, would make public health and holistic healing his top priority. The Democrat says on his Web site that "chronic diseases including chronic stress can be cut down by at least half in four years" under his proposed policies". SEATTLE TIMES by staff reporter Andrew Garber, July 27, 2008.
A. FIRST CORE FREEDOM:
THE "QUEEN" OF OUR HUMAN FREEDOMS WITHOUT WHICH ALL OF THE OTHERS MAKE NO SENSE: OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO BE HEALTHY AND FREE FROM SOCIALLY INDUCED CHRONIC DISEASES VIA THE ADOPTION OF TOXICITY FREE LEGISLATION, HOLISTIC HEALTH FREEDOMS AND EQUAL ACCESS TO HOLISTIC MEDICINE
“For the first time, cancer has surpassed heart disease as the top killer of Americans under 85…. In 2002, the most recent year for which information is available, 476,009 Americans under 85 died of cancer compared with 450,637 who died of heart disease. ” (American Cancer Society’s annual report released in January 2005, CLICK HERE FOR THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AND OTHER GLOOMY HEALTH STATISTICS )...“The real richness of a Nation is the Health of the People” (British Prime Minister Disraeli).
All human beings in general and Americans in particular have a fundamental right to benefit from equal access to holistic health (including, but not limited to genuine health-care choices) and freedom from persistent bioaccumulative chemical toxicity. By holistic health we mean what the International Community has determined:
" Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity ” (The World Health Organization’s Constitution).
This norm is central to any national revival. And can not be achieved until all Governments embrace first the toxicity and detoxification challenge. And in the U.S. toxins and pollutants are increasing at an alarming rate.
"Chemicals such as lindane, lead compounds, and some brominated flame retardants and organophosphate pesticides are examples of persistent, bio-accumulative, and/or highly toxic chemicals that continue to be used in commerce, although strong evidence exists that they pose threats to human and ecosystem health. (...) With few exceptions, the U.S. government lacks the authority or an efficient policy instrument to prevent these high-priority chemicals from being used in products and processes or released to the environment. It also has been very difficult for state and local governments to restrict these chemicals. Policy instruments to efficiently and effectively phase out problematic chemicals are needed at all levels of government. (New Solut. 2007 Jan 1;17 (3):193-207 17959562.
Yet, other advanced Democracies are successful in banning bioaccumulative toxicity. Some comparative evidence: Ingredients used in American personal care products: 10,500. Portion of chemical ingredients in cosmetics that have been assessed for health and safety by the industry’s self policing safety panel: 11 percent. Ingredients banned from cosmetics. USA 10. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE EVIDENCE OF THE TOXIC CHEMICAL EPIDEMIC.
As many production ingredients as in the United States, except that in Europe, home of the precautionary principle doctrine, there were 1100 of them which were considered unsafe (www.safecosmetics.org).
“When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically.” (Wingspread Statement, 1998)
In a similar vein, we can not achieve the goal of cutting chronic diseases by half in four years without the legal institutionalization of therapeutic (i.e., health, medical) freedoms, meaning that there should be a non discriminatory approach to all empirically-based health-care techniques. From the People's health perspective, there is a need to democratize the State's monopoly on "certified official medicine". The World Health Organization has classified over hundred Medical approaches. The American chosen mainstream official medicine (called allopathy, meaning drugs and surgery), has too many drawbacks, for the most part (not for everything), but for too much, see the evidence of multiple hundreds of thousands of Americans who die each year because of this type of medicine, via a CLICK HERE) is only one of these approaches. And the European Parliament has recognized over a dozen of them, from naturopathy, to homeopathy, phyto-therapy, aromatherapy and acupuncture and others. There are enough protective criminal laws to prevent medical deceit and heretic and-or orthodox quackery. The People need to decide themselves what is their best medicine and when needed, get Financial assistance for the health plan that works for them.
"Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body”. THE HONORABLE Justice CARDOZO et al, in SCHLOENDORFF v. SOCIETY OF N.Y. HOSP., 211 N.Y. 125, 129, 105 N.E. 92, 93 (1914).
In this perspective, health professionals should inform patients of all scientifically based prognostic and treatment procedures, including alternative, natural, integrative, “cam” (complementary and alternative medicine) and holistic therapies, without which the patient's consent is not secured. (See patient's bill of rights, via mouse click).
In conclusion, we are hoping that our leaders and executives will lead the Nation in institutionalizing a responsible free choice public-private holistic health system that would exclude no one. Among other measures and pending Legislation, there is a social need to adopt two executive orders.
1. An executive order on persistent bioaccumulative toxic chemicals measures (CLICK HERE FOR A MODEL PROPOSAL).
2. A second executive order on measures to implement the People's right to benefit from equal access to holistic health (CLICK HERE FOR A MODEL PROPOSAL)
3. By advocating before the State Legislature and the US Congress as many as possible of the 38 public health measures outlined in the Action Plan's platform (CLICK HERE FOR THOSE MEASURES).
If these proposals were implemented, Washingtonians' and Americans chronic diseases and acute pain rate could be reduced by half in four years and there would be less urgency in establishing long term care services for the elderly and persons with disabilities, if only because holistic health would bestow upon the majority of Americans health and resiliency.
As a result, Washington State BALLOT INITIATIVE MEASURE NO. 1029 would not be urgent if the State invested in holistic health retreat centers and in lifestyle medicine. Pending the eventuality of these measures, it is nonetheless reasonable to vote for this Referendum-Initiative measure, provided the home health-care practitioners get trained in longevity and holistic medicine and eco-sustainability lifestyle.
In addition, thanks to the implementation of the Action Plan's detox and health measures, there would be substantial savings for both the State and the People. Chronic diseases drains much of the State's public finance and the People's hard earned savings and moral, please see the evidence via a mouse click (medical bills being the first cause to bankruptcies and one of the first causes to foreclosures, (click here to examine the evidence).
Lastly, with the reduction of over half of chronic disease in four years, (and even more with time), patients would become "healers", they would be blessed with "new blood" and "high spirits", there would thus be no need for assisted "suicide" via lethal prescription drugs. Being "elderly" does not equate to being "sick". (See the Vilcambans, Hunza and other centenarians villages where there are few if any chronic diseases, via mouse CLICK HERE). Sickness is a result of not paying attention, of violating lifestyle medicine's principles. The normal path to "death" is for one's soul to leave Planet Earth when one is ready, in one's deep sleep, naturally, painlessly, joyfully, via the expiration action mechanism. In this perspective, even though BALLOT INITIATIVE MEASURE No. 1000 on assisted suicide sounds compassionate for patients who are suffering, the best response to chronic pain is to use well established longevity medicine so that we can avoid chronic diseases and excruciating pain in the first place. Death row inmates also often leave Planet Earth via "lethal prescription".
To refuse to explore holistic longevity medicine and effective holistic pain management techniques before enriching pharmaceutical companies and shortening patients lives is not reasonable. (CLICK HERE TO SEE THE EVIDENCE ON THE DRUG COMPANIES' DECEPTION WITH CANCER AND THE POWER OF HOLISTIC MEDICINE). On the other hand, keeping active the present law on medically assisted suicide (i.e. felony class c) and incarcerating compassionate physicians for responding to the suffering patient's plea for assisted suicide (e.g. the morphine drip which in reality is often the common practice) is unethical (See measure number 33 for the details on this issue).
B. SECOND CORE FREEDOM
THE "KING" OF OUR HUMAN RIGHTS, WITHOUT WHICH OUR HEALTH FREEDOMS CAN NOT BE EFFICIENTLY PROTECTED: THE RIGHT TO BENEFIT FROM MEANINGFUL AND EQUAL ACCESS TO CIVIL JUSTICE AND FREEDOM FROM JUDICIAL OPPRESSION AND NEGLIGENCE
"A statewide report, however, showed 80 percent of low-income individuals in Washington facing a critical legal need do so without legal assistance each year."Stanley A. Bastian, President WSBA (December 7th, 2007)
Washingtonians and Americans also need to benefit from their constitutional right to enjoy equal and meaningful access to civil justice. Not only is this project not difficult to achieve (ClICK HERE FOR THE EVIDENCE), but this initiative would also greatly benefit both the Nation and the State while it would guarantee the People's health's rights. Please click here for the constitutional arguments. As stated the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) President Stanley A. Bastian regarding this issue (and this assessment also applies for the entire Nation) :
"This case highlights the need to greatly expand access to civil legal services in Washington, particularly when basic human needs are at stake such as in child custody disputes. Every day, people around the state appear in court without legal representation. And they often do so by necessity, rather than choice. Those individuals are also often unable to effectively present their cases in a court. Access to the justice system is a fundamental right, and no person should be denied access simply because they are poor. The WSBA will continue to work with the Legislature to expand access to our court system in Washington."
This constitutional right is central to any Democratic restoration. The present interpretation of our Constitutions in this matter is self-serving to special interests whose powerholders have no class interests in enboldening and strengthening the working masses. Even the more enlightened members of the US Supreme Court confirmed what our "equal protection of the laws" norm implies:
“…We have recognized that the promise of equal justice for all would be an empty phrase for the poor, if the ability to obtain judicial relief were made to turn on the length of a person's purse. It is true that these cases have dealt with criminal proceedings. But the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is not limited to criminal prosecutions. Its protections extend as well to civil matters". 351 US 12, 76 S.Ct. 585, 100 L.Ed. 891 (1956). (Opinion written by Supreme Court Justices Black and Renquist).
THIRD CORE FREEDOM.
"THE PRINCE" OF HUMAN RIGHTS, WITHOUT WHICH LIFE HAS NO FULFILLING DIGNITY TO IT : OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO REMAIN FREE FROM IGNORANCE AND OUR RIGHT TO BE ENTITLED TO RELEVANT EDUCATION INSOFAR AS THE SATISFACTION OF OUR BASIC NEEDS ARE CONCERNED
"Keep the People ignorant. This way, we can better manipulate them" Queen Katherine of Russia. "Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness" George Washington (1796). "An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a Republic." Thomas Jefferson
For our first two basic rights to be long-lasting and decisive in the renewal of the Nation, the People also need to benefit from the equal and affordable access to relevant knowledge in the following skills.
(a) Internationally recognized human rights and duty law in conjunction with the basics of American civil rights law and a general 101 introduction to law.
(b) Science-based nutrition and toxic free lifestyle education.
(c) Holistic healthcare techniques including psychological counseling.
(d) Sustainability and eco-development sciences, including, but not limited to the teaching of clean renewable energies, eco construction, alternative transportation systems and organic agriculture techniques.
(e) Basic computer and internet training, that which constitutes the cultural and education "equalizer" of modern times.
(f) Methodology on learning and research skills.There should be as much emphasis on left brain development as on right brain development, meaning art, creative imagination and intuitive knowledge should be balanced with critical thinking, verbal communication skills and achievement.
(g) Meditation & breathing techniques, holistic & health maintaining exercises, sun breaks, music and art classes.
These skills can be taught either via community colleges, universities or human rights & duties education lighthouse centers, or "civic clinics" (see below).
This general education (the People's Education, orchestrated by both private and public synergy) would equip Washingtonians and Americans with the necessary pedagogical, civic and health tools to ensure the satisfaction of their basic needs, that which would significantly reduce sickness, legal conflicts and social entropy in our communities while promoting development, (including, but not limited to financial stability), sustainability, a renewal of the American Republic and Peace among Nations. As the UNESCO Constitution provides in its Preamble: "Peace beings in the minds of men". This ideal is central to any Republic worthy of legal existence and international recognition. Click here for the action plan's access to relevant knowledge measures.
FOURTH CORE FREEDOM
AND OTHER LIBERTIES AND PROJECTS PROMOTED BY THE COMMITTEE'S FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS ACTION PLAN
A recent survey (Easton, 2006) found that 81% of the UK population agreed that the Government’s primary objective should be the creation of happiness not wealth. Earlier this year David Cameron, House Member Leader of the Opposition, put happiness firmly on the political agenda by arguing that “It’s time we admitted that there’s more to life than money, and it’s time we focused not just on GDP (gross domestic product), but on GWB – general well-being" (BBC, 2006).
Freedom from poverty, from homelessness, from debt, from inertia and entropy, from frustration is inseparable from our right to live in a sustainable environment and to work in socially useful areas which do not damage life. Affordable and meaningful access to ecologically sound urban and rural living communities where people have meaningful work and a decent chance to pursue happiness, as provides our federal Constitution is a necessary condition for many of our other rights to prosper. Thus, to better favor the expansion and the codification of this basic right, the implementation of the following measures would help.
1. FREEDOM FROM POLLUTION AND TOXICITY. Environment and socially friendly and renewable energies (e.g. solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, hydro-electric, pedal, air compression and others) and better water purification systems, including, but not limited to grey water systems and ozone.
2. FREEDOM FROM IGNORANCE AND TECHNO-RIGIDITY. Basic needs appropriate technologies, access to high speed internet, additional home schooling and a more flexible work week (including in the home or local community).
3. FREEDOM FROM HOMELESSNESS AND DESERTS. Affordable eco-housing (built with green and non toxic bio-material), organic agriculture and permaculture, tree planting, viticulture and bio-diversity landscaping (too many towns and cities are devoid of parks, this is not conducive to the People's right to pursue happiness, let alone children's need to play).
4. FREEDOM FROM POVERTY AND CONGESTION. Additional economic boosters, from new crops and agricultural & energy breakthrough techniques to new ways of dynamizing our economy, more sustainable living wages, innovative and simple mass transport schemes.
5. FREEDOM FROM EXCESSIVE CONSUMERISM : Art promotion, including via the construction of a "Responsibility Statue" in Alki Island (Seattle harbor)and human rights lighthouse centers (civic clinics) in all of our 39 counties of Washington State and 50 States of the Union would contribute in preparing the condition for the next Civilization shift (See the mision and history link to examine the evolution of Civilizations issue).
6. FREEDOM FROM NECRO MILITARO-MERCANTILISM (The one President Eisenhower spoke about, see below). Media control is important, as predatory behavior begins in the mind. In addition to the dozens of measures outlined in the Action Plan, there is one pilot project of particular importance, the building of an experimental holistic health eco village based on detox and immuno boosting retreats, sustainability, appropriate technology and congenial values, in the low to mid mountain area, close to hot springs and a river. This project would start the shift in the civilization process. Because then, People would have the living evidence that lifestyle medicine and holistic health are decisive when it comes to the rejuvenation and restoration of chronically ill patients. Once shown to be decisive, this model could be implanted within each of Washington State's 39 counties. And later, within the Federal Union's 50 States. Provided our law-makers allow our Constitutions to get more "perfected" with key amendment provisions (See the Committee's Constitutional clean-up Declaration for the details).
(PLEASE CLICK HERE TO EXAMINE THE EMPIRICAL BASIS, THE RATIONALE AND THE FEASABILITY OF THESE PROPOSALS)
CLOSING ARGUMENTS
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IN FOUR YEARS, WILL THE PEOPLE HAVE RESTORED THEIR REPUBLIC ?
IN FOUR YEARS, WILL WASHINGTONIANS SHOW THE EXAMPLE BY PROVING THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO ELIMINATE HALF (50 PECENT) OF THE PEOPLE'S "CORPORATE" CHRONIC DISEASES ?
AND SAVING BILLIONS OF PUBLIC FINANCE DOLLARS IN THE PROCESS ?
SO WHAT IS THE SOLUTION ?
SOLUTION ONE: PAINFUL.
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution".
Abraham Lincoln
SOLUTION TWO: MORE CHALLENGING.
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
Patrick Henry
ABOVE: The year was 1787. The place: the State House in Philadelphia, the same location where the Declaration of Independence had been signed 11 years earlier. For four months, 55 delegates from the several states met to frame a Constitution for a federal republic that would last into "remote futurity."
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again. A situation, similar to the recent one, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now. The birthday of a new world is at hand” Thomas Paine, February 14, 1776
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