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Communicating Our American Values

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TO:     Lee Hendee, Web Entertainment Media

Thanks for asking my opinion on local governance in Wilmington and Clinton County. Thanks for all you’re doing on behalf of our 1st Amendment freedoms.

I’d like to hear candidates and public servants talking about restoring the American Dream of a well-functioning democracy that delivers the goods of basic human rights. I’m not hearing public servants and candidates using values words like empathy, or shared responsibility, or common wealth, or common good, or public health, or public education in achieving our vision of protecting and empowering each other.

What I hear most of the time from our candidates and elected officials, both locally and nationally, is the language of plutocracy, our current American Nightmare. Plutocracy strives to deliver the goods of corporate rights, corporate earnings, corporate incentives, corporate competition to strengthen an already gargantuan corporate government. Plutocracy’s insiders in public government at all levels enable the shift of our public resources and freedom protection from public accountability to unethical corporations and uncaring wealthy individuals.

Even candidates and elected officials I like can’t seem to shed the language of plutocracy. For public government to be effective in protecting and empowering us, we have to save our empathic souls and shift our language to human rights principles of equality, equity, accountability, cleanliness, and democracy.

Public Education Is A Human Right

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(The following is a Policy Direction of the Empathy Surplus Project)

Public Education Human Rights Values Behind the Vision

Empathy
Responsibility (personal and shared)
Strength
Protection
Empowerment
Freedom

Public Education Human Rights Principles Behind the Vision

Universality is the principle that human rights is about equality and afforded to everyone, without exception. It is by virtue of being human, alone, that every person’s public education human rights are authorized.

Equity is the principle that every person and their nation owe each other equity by virtue of one’s humanity and not according to payment, privilege, or any other factor.

Accountability is the principle of effective public government in enforcement of human rights. For public government to be effective it must be strong enough to (1) deliver the human rights, and (2) resist and, if necessary, punish private, corporate government enablers inside public government / agencies seeking to shift public resources and the moral mission of protection and empowerment to corporations and their wealthy friends.

Transparency is the principle of clean, open and effective public government. We want clean elections, clean access to information, and clean management in the protection and deliver of public education human rights.

Participation is the principle of democracy, whose soul is empathy, caring citizens through their representatives protecting and empowering each other in decisions about how their public education human rights are ensured.

In other words:

  • Every person’s human right to public education is authorized.
  • All systemic barriers to access of public education human rights shall be removed.
  • The cost of public education human rights shall be shared fairly.
  • Public education shall be transparent in design, efficient in operation, and accountable to the people it serves.
  • As a human right, public education that satisfies these principles is the responsibility of public government (not corporate government) to ensure. Caring citizens and ethical business owners shall always focus on the values and principles when defending and promoting public education human rights against corporate government enablers inside government, who shall be named unethical.

Authorization of the ideal of public education as a human right was affirmed by member nations of the United Nations and NATO and re-affirmed under the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The United States of America is a member of both organizations.