" What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task" President Barack Obama, inauguration speech, Jan 20, 2009
Bilateral Franco-American collaboration in the joint financing and building of a grand Statue of Civic Responsibility in America
AS AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE, I WOULD FIND FRENCH, EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN FINANCE TO BUILD A MAGNIFICENT STATUE OF CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY WHICH WOULD COMPLETE AND POTENTIATE THE FRENCH GIFTED STATUE OF LIBERTY. THANKS TO WHICH TRANS-ATLANTIC RELATIONS WOULD BECOME THE FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE ENTIRE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. THEREBY USHERING IN A SPIRITUAL AND HOLISTICALLY SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH WOULD BE BASED ON THE UNIVERSAL VALUES OF PRESIDENT OBAMA’S ACTION PLAN.
"There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all. (Vaclav Havel)
My respectful request to become the next US Ambassador to France and to work on improving the United States’ national interests and on World Peace (in conformity with the State Department’s mission statement and our founding father’s intent), is all the more animated by historic meaningfulness that I have not only campaigned in the 2008 gubernatorial race of Washington State on most of the Barack Obama themes, but also on new ones, including on the edification of a Statue of Civic Responsibility, a cherished and timely project, which could help to usher in and consolidate a holistic and spiritually sustainable civilization.
“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).
To this end, equipped with the U.S. ambassador to France casquette, I could find joint financing and technical assistance in France and most probably in Europe, Mid-East, in Asia, in Africa, in Latin America and in the U.S as well, finances that would be consecrated to the Edification of this grand Statue of Civic Responsibility which would herald President Obama’s and the American People's new era of responsibility.
" What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task" President Barack Obama, inauguration speech, Jan 20, 2009
Among other pieces of evidence, we have today’s popular French foreign affairs Minister, Bernard Kouchner, who enthusiastically supported my human rights effort when I worked at Gonzaga Law School.
"I received your documentation and letter relative to the creation of an international institute of human rights at Gonzaga law school. I give my moral support to this enterprise..." Dr Bernard Kouchner. Humanitarian and Health Minister of President Mitterand's French government and today’s French Foreign Minister under the Sarkozy Government).
As U.S. Ambassador to France (and with President Obama’s permission and Secretary of State Clinton’s consent), one of the first duties I would get done would be to request a meeting with Bernard Kouchner to see to what extent the Sarkozy Government CAN, (in the same way as the 19th century French Government DID), contribute financially and technically in the edification of this proposed Civic Responsibility Statue, whose time has come, a new "era" and "institutional" symbol which could be more powerful than all of the armies of the world.
Former international law professor and former Culture and Education Minister under the Mitterand Government Jack Lang. would also be an excellent contact to get this project under way When the goal was to find 250,000 dollars to build the Statue of Liberty in the 1880s, the French found astute methods, including using the performance arts in Paris. The U.S national endowment for the Arts could be business partner in this project.
“THEREFORE, as a Gift to the State, to the Nation and to the International Community, (and a source of additional tourism dollars to pay for the "affordable housing erga omnes" project), my final proposed executive order will be on the Edification of a Statue on the proposed Alki island close to Elliot Bay, to be facing the French gifted "Statue of Liberty", a Statue which will mobililize the volunteer and creative energies of all artists, architects, engineers and People of good and strong faith, a Statue which will be made with "green" bio-material and the most sophisticated laser, optical fiber and computer technology, a Statue which will shine in permanence like the Stars in Heaven, a Statue which has been missing for too long, a Statue which will complete the Queen of Human Liberty one in New York City, the one the terrorists missed, a Statue which will be called, the Washingtonian Statue of Humanity, the Statue of the King of human freedoms, the Statue of Human Civic Responsibility, the Statue-Throne of enlightened humanism, a Beacon which will remind us that our fundamental freedoms can only be guaranteed if we also exercise our basic duties. And this process starts with our Voting duties”.
(Written in July 2008, for the entire text and on the building modality, please see my website: http://www.christianforgovernor2008.com/statueproject.html).
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Meanwhile, to examine the proposed modality on the concrete measures to build this Statue, please click here.