Public Policy Commentary
By Mark A. Goldman
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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I've now written four books since 2000, (all published as e-books, one also in paperback). Each book contains commentaries, most of which were originally posted on this web site, and each contains comments or writings that were never posted to this site. The e-books contain reference links which might help you do your own research and due diligence. —Mark Titles of the three books, and a quote from each, are as follows: |
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The Answer... |
"...and if you haven't the courage to tell the truth, or the consciousness to honor the truth, or the love to love the truth, then one day you will not have the truth to tell, and soon thereafter you will not live in a place that will acknowledge the truth when it is told, and not long after that the truth will not be told, for it will no longer be allowed. You cannot hope to be a traitor to life, and then expect to live in a free and just society." |
| The Critical Choice... Available without cost as a PDF file. Includes commentaries from the fall of Baghdad until June of 2004. |
"When an elected official takes his oath of office, he gives his word that he will preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. Any individual who makes a personal decision to take office and then not abide by the guiding principles established under the Constitution and the body of law that follows from it, and favors instead his own interpretation of some other law, e.g., religious law... he violates both his oath of office and the law he tells himself he's following." |
| Broke and Broken... Available as a PDF file. Includes commentaries from the disclosures about Abu Ghraib until December 2005 including overviews of what has happened to our country, the Constitution, and the rule of law, particularly since the Bush administration came to power in 2000. |
"The greatest danger the American people face now are not terrorists, but the possibility that you [Cheney] and Bush will not be impeached. For every day, while the American people sleep—ignorant and unaware of your gross infidelity—the rest of the world is looking at the photographs of burned, disfigured, and dismembered children, and they are beginning to believe that it is not just you and your administration who did this to them, but also our elected representatives, and the American people at large... because so far, we have allowed you to keep doing it with impunity. And given the anger and hatred for the injustice that they've been made to suffer, one can easily imagine the retribution exploding onto American soil if you and your conspirators are not repudiated and removed from office very soon." |
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Starting Over... Available as a PDF file. The dangers I spoke about in earlier books have come to pass, which is to say, we can no longer honestly say that the government of the United States is of, by, and for the People. But that's not the end of America yet. We can Start Over. It's up to you. Here's how. |
"My conclusion after years of research is that the American government no longer respects the sovereignty of its people. Our failing experiment can teach us a great lesson: the lesson is, that it's up to each citizen to honor and respect his or her own sovereignty, as well as, the sovereignty of others. Any citizen who refuses... consciously or unconsciously... to do so, contributes to the failure of the experiment. Personal responsibility is not something that you can give away, nor is it something that can be taken from you. We... each of us... is the true and only "government" of our own life. Shirk that responsibility and you will eventually lose sovereignty over your own existence and also make it more difficult for others to retain theirs." |
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Our country, our culture, and the rule of law have been corrupted and degraded... with government, industry, education, media and most citizens no longer working in an enlightened manner, or with a unified vision that promises to leave this planet better off than we found it. I invite you to read my books. Each book is written with commentaries in reverse chronological order, i.e., the most recent in the front of each book, oldest at the back... like standing at a point in time and looking back. That might seem counter intuitive when you first start reading, because you may not understand how I could be saying such things. As you continue to read, though, it will remind you of how we got here and it will all make sense. At least I hope so. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me directly by email: mark(at)gpln.com — Mark A. Goldman |
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“We are not going to be able to operate
our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for
much longer unless we see it as a whole
spaceship and our fate as common. It
has to be everybody or nobody.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Copyright © 1999-2014 Mark A. Goldman