Never Fear Innovation Especially When All the Old Methods Don't Work!
NEW YORK, NEW YORK * 6 NOVEMBER 2007
Citizen of the USA Stephen M. St. John addresses the international community in Washington and here in New York City, all members of the US Congress as well as other organizations and individuals, public and private, and advises that America's founding fathers based their formula for conflict resolution by means of territorial adjustment on the principle of mutual agreement with state sovereignty as the paramount default position.
That this formula, enshrined in Article IV, Section iii of the Constitution of the USA, has never been exercised is testament to its fidelity to the established order and applicability to rare and unusual circumstances only. As a model formula for a political solution to the Iranian/Arab-Zionist dispute, and even for a new article in the Charter of the United Nations for situations wherein the right of self-determination rubs against a nation's sovereignty, this truly democratic idea deserves consideration without fear of a promiscuous breaking up of nations and their sovereign rights.
The June 1945 United Nations treaty in San Francisco California drew a line beyond which the necessity to divide and conquer nations by theory or by force of arms was renounced. So we have seen the Czech and Slovak republics meet under the framework of the old order and arrive at a mutual agreement for a new order. Likewise with the former Soviet Socialist republics that met at the Kremlin to decide on a new order. Unfortunately, this was not the case with Yugoslavia, where outside influences called the shots, rendered the Charter of the United Nations irrelevant, fomented unrest, instigated unjustified war and planted seeds of future strife. What next? The People's Republic of Bogalusa (Alabama, Mississippi & Louisiana)? Alta California (California, Nevada & Arizona)?
Citizen St. John submits that words written in Philadelphia Pennsylvania over 200 years ago should be enlivened for a global context first as a guarantor of sovereignty and second as creator of sovereignty by mutual agreement only and with power greater than all the armies of the world and the utter destruction that their modern technologies of warfare can cause.
This is the basis of an Eight Part Peace Proposal for Greater Jerusalem, which is anchored in the UN Security Council Resolution 242, a sure foundation for reasonable compromise.
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