Fri 4 Jul 2008
July 4th: On Seeking the Good (revisited)
Posted by kthomas under Future History, Good People of Williams
Posted at 11:55 pm(for FM & SC) (–it is five minutes to midnight)
…From this day forward, to the final day of my administration, I pledge my life and my actions… to accomplish… and to forge a new course of nationhood through the patterns of human events…
3) To secure the future of PeMex as an inalienable national asset…, to be managed to the greatest benefit of all citizens, … to eliminate its corruption by…, … to raise production by…
7) To immediately suspend… the agricultural provisions of the NAFTA protocols, … and to renegotiate the provisions…
11) To withdraw from all but formal diplomatic relations… with the United… and seek a new relationship… on equal terms…
… y ni… ni… pero, qué puede ser que creemos, juntos¡
Inaugural Address: “A New Covenant for National Renewal: the 11 Points Speech,” (”Alternative Course,”) 4th July, —-, (planned, draft; undelivered)
July 5th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Oh…my…
…management (and thus benefit) of their own (rich) resources, renegotiation of NAFTA (from the Mexican perspective), along with a commitment to (a new level of) independence…
I understand the level of intense hope and excitement that being involved in this kind of effort must have generated…and have a much better understanding of the depth of disappointment when it did not happen [...]
Thank you, Ken, for ‘answering’ my questions, and (again), for sharing an experience that I sincerely hope we don’t even come close to experiencing in this country…in this election.
Yesterday was a beautiful day (where I live) and it was spent at a picnic that has been held for many years. As is the custom, the Declaration was read aloud. (The event was even more bittersweet, as the elderly gentleman who has read it for the past few years, recently passed away.)
Anyway, as I was listening, I realized, that depending on circumstances and recent events, different parts of that document take on new meaning. Certain parts I hadn’t noticed before, I heard anew.
I can only imagine the significance of that document for those who have really had to fight for those rights, whether it be here or Mexico, or Zimbabwe, or, or, or…