From: John McMillan
Subject: 1-21-09 re: Proposed Texas Friendship Day Resolution this leg. session
To: "State Rep. Donna Howard"
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 11:27 AM
Dear State Representative Howard,
This is a friendly reminder that I'd be very pleased if you would be willing to sponsor my proposed Texas Friendship Day Resolution (see attachment, below), or some similarly worded resolution on behalf of an annual Texas Friendship Day tradition in our state, during the current session of the Texas Legislature.
During this period of economic downturn, the proposed annual tradition promoting strictly-mutual-consent and strictly-platonic personal relationships between mutual-consent friends, would serve as an invaluable boon to our metro area's and state's economy.
Thank you in advance for giving consideration to this friendly recommendation from a law-abiding, gainfully-employed, single adult male constituent of yours.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan...
My New and public-policy-minded blog's website: www.johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com.
---- Original Message -----
From: "John K McMillan"
To: "State Rep. Donna Howard"
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 12:06 PM
Subject: proposed tentative text of Texas Friendship Day Resolution
> Rep. Howard,
> I hope you will also be interested in this (see below) follow-up item
> relating to the proposed "Texas Friendship Day" resolution by the Texas
> Legislature that I had recommended to Rep. Todd Baxter, my duly elected
> state lawmaker, a few years ago.
>
> As you are no doubt aware, the Texas Legislature during its most recent
> session chose against approving any such resolution. I was also very
> disappointed by that legislative decision, partly because I had shared a
> proposed wording on that type of resolution with numerous state lawmakers,
> and other state officials as well.
>
> Sincerely and Best Wishes from a constituent of yours in northwest Austin,
> John Kevin McMillan...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John K McMillan
> To: State Rep. Todd Baxter
> Cc: Senator Gonzalo Barrientos
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 1:29 PM
> Subject: Texas Friendship Day Resolution
>
>
> To: State Representative Todd Baxter,
>
> Texas House of Representatives,
>
> District 48,
>
> Texas Legislature of the State Government of Texas,
>
> P.O. Box 2910,
>
> Austin, Texas 78768-2910
>
> Phone: (512) 463-0631.
>
> January 14, 2005
>
> Dear State Representative Baxter,
>
> Thank you again for your July 13, 2004-dated and signed reply letter from
> your legislative office in response to my tentative proposal advocating the
> designation of an official State Legislature of Texas-endorsed "Texas
> Friendship Day" on one officially designated day of each year.
>
> Your assurance to me in that 2004 official reply letter to me that "your
> suggestion has been placed on my 'Request to Carry' list, and I will keep
> your comments and concerns in mind as I develop bills for the 79th
> Legislature," was very reassuring.
>
> As a law-abiding and honest and friendly constituent of yours who believes
> very strongly in the crucial importance of lasting and
> strictly-mutual-consent, mutually-beneficial platonic friendships involving
> frequent year-round in-person leisuretime meetings in the life of every
> Texan, I would like to offer you the following rough draft for a proposed
> resolution that I'm hopeful you will officially sponsor in the Texas House
> of Representatives as soon as possible during the current session:
>
> "TEXAS FRIENDSHIP DAY" RESOLUTION.
>
> WHEREAS Texas apparently is the only state in the entire nation whose state
> name officially refers to friends or friendship, the name "Texas" deriving
> form the Caddo Indian word for "friends"; and
>
> WHEREAS the official state motto for Texas is, in fact, "friendship"; and
>
> WHEREAS, Texans' loyalty and generosity to their strictly-mutual-consent
> friends is legendary, as such great Texans as Texan authors Walter Prescott
> Webb and Liz Carpenter have emphasized in their writings; and
>
> WHEREAS, people all over the world regard Texans as being very friendly and
> cheerful and extroverted, calling to mind the famous saying from United
> States President Lyndon Johnson of Texas, that "there are no enemies in this
> world, only potential friends"; and
>
> WHEREAS, friendliness and a freedom-loving style toward others and generous
> hospitality and politeness and extrovertedness and optimism and cheerfulness
> and loquacity and openness in speaking about themselves during in-person
> personal meetings with others are traditional strengths of most Texans; and
>
> WHEREAS, many of the public landmarks of Texas are, in fact, monuments
> attesting to the nobility and sublime beauty of mutual-consent platonic
> personal relationships, with the Philosopher's Rock at Zilker municipal park
> in our capital city of Austin being an example of the sublime value of
> mutual-consent friendships to our state and its people, and the Alamo in San
> Antonio attesting to those nobly courageous Texan soldiers' fraternal love
> for and friendship toward one another; and
>
> WHEREAS, the thriving collegiate fraternity and sorority scene in cities and
> towns of Texas with college campuses underscores the devotion of many
> college students in our state to the ideal of mutual-consent and platonic
> brotherly or sisterly love; and
>
> WHEREAS, the various military bases in Texas foster brotherly love and
> sisterly love among Texans employed by the U.S. Armed Forces; and
>
> WHEREAS, the varsity high school and varsity collegiate athletic
> competitions in Texas often attest to great and enduring platonic love
> between the athletes and their coaches, as well as the platonic love among
> the athletes themselves; and
>
> WHEREAS, the vast majority of all human mutual-consent personal
> relationships in life, including, for most Texans, the vast majority of
> their most frequent personal phone conversation involvements, are, in fact,
> platonic in nature; and
>
> WHEREAS, Texans who have happy and harmonious personal mutual-consent
> platonic relationships with a variety of persons are much more likely to
> tangibly benefit from that platonic personal-relationship success by also
> being successful in their quest for a lasting mutual-consent sexual romantic
> relationship as well; and
>
> WHEREAS, the vast majority of all of the emotional peak experiences, or the
> most sublimely moving experiences, of life for each Texan, including in the
> company of one's children or cousins or parents or closest mutual-consent
> friends, do, in fact, highlight mutual-consent platonic relationships among
> Texans; and
>
> WHEREAS, the numerous Holiday Season greeting cards and Holiday Season phone
> calls from mutual-consent platonic friends and platonic relatives that
> nearly all Texans receive in December of each year underscore the joyous and
> sublime nature of strictly-mutual-consent and strictly-platonic
> relationships that are mutually-intimate, mutually-salutary, and
> mutually-generous in nature; and
>
> WHEREAS, strictly mutual-consent platonic personal relationships offer a
> valuable antidote to the despair and severe trauma that involuntary
> loneliness and involuntary isolation can inflict on a Texan of any age; and
>
> WHEREAS, lasting and multi-decade personal friendships are particularly
> important to individuals in a U.S. state and nation where the marital
> divorce rate remains alarmingly high and most of the non-marital or
> pre-marital romantic relationships do not last more than 12 months, with
> many Texans finding that they have numerous strictly-mutual-consent platonic
> relationships in their own life, including some lifelong mutual-consent
> friendships, that last much longer for them than any of their own respective
> romantic relationships last; and
>
> WHEREAS, strictly-mutual-consent personal platonic relationships fully
> respectful of each person's privacy rights are particularly crucial in a
> state where the incidence of the unconscionable and sadistically injurious
> crime of stalking of law-abiding Texans by others has been alarmingly
> widespread in recent years; and
>
> WHEREAS, strictly-mutual-consent and in-person platonic relationships
> between law-abiding and honest Texans that are fully respectful of each
> other's privacy rights offer a salutary and very noble antidote to the
> emotional trauma and duress that many Texans experience when they are
> subjected involuntarily to anonymous communications or slanderous gossip or
> libelous writings by others or fraudulent communications or unwanted obscene
> communications or pranksterism or verbal harassment or crimes involving
> physical violence against those Texans by sadistic and injurious
> individuals; and
>
> WHEREAS, promotion of civil, law-abiding, mutual-consent platonic personal
> relationships in Texas is doubly urgent because many Americans and people in
> other nations to this day associate Texas with the notorious misanthropy and
> brutal violence in our state that was depicted in the cult movie "The Texas
> Chain-Saw Massacre" as well as other heinous crimes of physical violence
> that have occurred in this state, the well-publicized murder rate in Texan
> urban areas having been shockingly high in recent decades; and
>
> WHEREAS, strictly-mutual-consent personal platonic relationships between men
> and women are particularly essential in a U.S. state where the percentage of
> adult married women who are coworkers of men at workplaces around this state
> has increased dramatically in recent decades, which has resulted in a
> significant increase in the total amount of platonic in-person conversation
> time per year between men and women in Texas; and
>
> WHEREAS, strictly-mutual-consent and mutually-congenial personal
> strictly-platonic relationships between law-abiding Texan male persons and
> Texan female persons help to reduce the incidence of violence against female
> persons in this state and promote optimal friendship skills in romantic
> relationships as well that can help to enhance the longevity of those
> mutual-consent romantic relationships; and
>
> WHEREAS, promotion of optimal inter-personal platonic relationship skills
> are essential in a state where the reported incidence of parents and other
> older persons sexually abusing younger relatives of theirs has been
> alarmingly high, and where the incidence of pederastic crimes and of
> intergenerational sexual exploitation of youthful Texans by older persons,
> this in a context often involving a notoriously sadistic and sinister "Sugar
> Daddy" figure, has been shockingly widespread in recent years; and
>
> WHEREAS, lasting and multi-decade strictly-mutual personal friendships help
> to confer on Texans a feeling of confidence from knowing that they have
> directly and proudly chosen on their own to directly associate with those
> strictly-mutual-consent friends whom they have become acquainted with on an
> in-person basis over a period of months or years, and that that choice to be
> a mutual-consent friend of each such individual was protected in full by the
> freedom of association legal rights and accompanying freedom of
> non-association legal rights, freedom from compelled relationships or any
> form of slavery, the freedom of speech rights, freedom of religion rights,
> and the privacy rights that the United States Constitution assures all
> Texans; and
>
> WHEREAS, dialogues between strictly mutual-consent platonic personal
> companions in Texas can instill in a person a very salutary and emotionally
> fulfilling sense of empathy and kindness toward others; and
>
> WHEREAS, the platonic dialogues between law-abiding, honest, and
> strictly-mutual-consent friends foster tolerance on their part toward a wide
> variety of law-abiding forms of conduct by individuals whose political,
> religious, and personal beliefs and conduct are significantly different from
> one's own; and
>
> WHEREAS, each law-abiding and honest and polite Texan should take great
> pride in his ability to develop honest and sincere and wholesome and lasting
> personal, strictly-mutual-consent friendships with other Texans on an
> individual basis; and
>
> WHEREAS, there is demonstrated social science and medical science evidence
> indicating that mutual-consent platonic personal relationships can
> significantly enhance each Texan's emotional and medical health; and
>
> WHEREAS, the September of 2002 issue of "Reader's Digest" magazine stated
> that many studies have shown that friendships help to increase human
> longevity by promoting good physical and mental health, with friendship
> helping to reduce stress, boost the immune system, and increase a person's
> chances of surviving a life-threatening illness; and
>
> WHEREAS, strictly mutual-consent platonic personal relationships between
> law-abiding persons are superior to romantic relationships in that platonic
> relationships between law-abiding persons almost never lead to the infection
> of either platonic-relationship partner with AIDS or herpes, or any other
> incurable disease; and
>
> WHEREAS, Texans with several or many mutual-consent friends are more likely
> to feel happy and pursue healthful exercise and enhance their emotional and
> intellectual development and oral communication skills from having in-person
> personal relationships with a wide variety of mutual-consent friends and
> mutual-consent friendly acquaintances; and
>
> WHEREAS, the cellular phone revolution in Texas is fostering many more
> opportunities for platonic dialogues between Texans that are also conducive
> to their potentially at some point choosing on a mutual-consent basis to
> become platonic friends with each other; and
>
> WHEREAS, the E-mail era on the Internet is making it very easy for Texans
> living hundreds of miles from each other to keep up with each other on a
> daily or weekly basis without incurring any extra expense from those
> mutual-consent and mutually-congenial E-mail correspondences; and
>
> WHEREAS, Texans with several or many mutual-consent and law-abiding friends
> are less likely to commit a violent crime or any felony crime, for that
> matter, than are Texans who don't have several or many mutual-consent
> friends; and
>
> WHEREAS, strictly-mutual-consent platonic personal relationships and the
> accompanying mutual-consent dialogues between friends can help each Texan to
> pursue quality-of-life-related and other constructive brainstorming that
> helps that Texan to enhance his own and others' quality of life; and
>
> WHEREAS, strictly-mutual-consent platonic personal relationships in Texas
> have not been adequately emphasized by the fiction writers and news media in
> our state, with such theatrical plays or movies as "The Best Whorehouse in
> Texas" and "The Last Picture Show" or "The Lonesome Dove" conveying the
> tragically uninsightful and crass view that human identity and human motives
> are primarily sexual in nature; and
>
> WHEREAS, the great mutual-consent and strictly-platonic love relationship
> between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Presidential Candidate Adlai
> Stevenson of Illinois in the 1950s and 1960s has long set an inspirational
> example of our entire nation, with no comparably impressive
> strictly-platonic and strictly-mutual-consent love couple having been
> publicly highlighted thus far in the recent history of Texas, unfortunately;
> and
>
> WHEREAS, strictly-mutual-consent platonic personal relationships are often
> life-saving, such as through good life-saving advice that a Texan can offer
> to a friend or through life-saving conduct that a Texan can offer when he
> serves as a designated driver for a friend of his who is inebriated; and
>
> WHEREAS, strictly mutual-consent platonic personal relationships help to
> reduce the per-capita incidence of addiction to illicit drugs, licit drugs,
> alcohol, or tobacco products on the part of Texans, it being clear that
> Texans who have full mutual-consent and emotionally satisfying platonic
> social lives are less likely to develop an addiction to illicit drugs, licit
> drugs, alcohol, or tobacco products than are Texans who dwell in the misery
> of involuntary solitude while being deprived of full, emotionally
> satisfying, and strictly-mutual-consent platonic relationships in their
> personal lives; and
>
> WHEREAS, Texans' great love for athletic activities and recreational
> activities and creative pastimes lends itself to those same Texans
> developing strictly-platonic personal relationships with mutual-consent
> creative pastime companions who are personally compatible with them and who
> also enjoy playing tennis, racquetball, canoeing, roller-skating, hiking,
> tea and conversation meetings, book-club meetings, etc.; and
>
> WHEREAS, strictly mutual-consent platonic personal relationships enhance the
> desire of Texans to pursue travel around our state with mutual-consent
> platonic travel companions, which is also good for the tourism industry in
> our state; and
>
> WHEREAS, each year there are thousands of persons who each year migrate to
> Texas from other nations and from other U.S. states, those newcomers
> benefiting greatly from Texan-style friendliness and generous hospitality
> toward themselves; and
>
> WHEREAS, many of the immigrants in Texas who are from Latin American
> countries, in particular, have a particular need for additional
> encouragement by our State Government to themselves develop
> strictly-platonic relationships with and platonic politeness toward persons
> of the opposite sex, platonic relationships between men and women in Mexico,
> for instance, reportedly being regrettably rare in that foreign nation; and
>
> WHEREAS, the growing trend toward an increasing percentage of all Texans
> living in apartment complexes or condominium complexes brings with it many
> increased opportunities for Texans to develop strictly-mutual-consent
> friendships with neighbors living at the same complex who share the same
> common grounds who may use the very same private gym or weight room or sauna
> room or swimming pool at that same apartment complex on a year-round basis;
> and
>
> WHEREAS, some publications in our state, including "The Austin Chronicle" in
> Austin, Texas, have officially acknowledged the need in our state for
> "Platonic Personals" classified advertising sections of their newspapers;
> and
>
> WHEREAS, there currently is no major friendship-theme annual festival or
> annual celebration held anywhere in Texas that is open to the general
> public; and
>
> WHEREAS, many law-abiding and conscientious Texan women and Texan men
> currently suffer needlessly because their desire to develop
> strictly-platonic personal relationships with various cited members of the
> opposite sex whose in-person companionship they enjoy are often discouraged
> by other Texans, who declare in an insulting manner that they question
> whether any woman or man in Texas is capable of achieving strictly-platonic
> love or strictly-platonic personal affection toward someone of the opposite
> sex in this state; and
>
> WHEREAS, the theme of friendship in our state has been woefully neglected in
> the past by previous Legislatures of the State of Texas, even though
> strictly-platonic and strictly-mutual-consent friendships are one of the
> very finest human resources and cultural traditions currently found in this
> state in the 21st Century; and
>
> WHEREAS, the first Sunday of August each year has already been designated as
> the annual date for the International Friendship Day, according to the
> website for www.friendship.com.au on the Internet;
>
> THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, THAT THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE HEREBY DECLARES THE
> FIRST SUNDAY OF AUGUST EACH YEAR AS TEXAS FRIENDSHIP DAY.
>
> State Rep. Baxter, I hope very much that this very tentatively worded rough
> draft of a proposed Texas Friendship Day resolution that I hope you will
> introduce before the Texas House of Representatives during the current
> legislative session will appeal to you and all of your colleagues.
>
> Please feel free to revise this proposed resolution any way you wish in
> order to make this as persuasive and well-organized and cogent as possible
> when you do introduce this resolution before the Texas House.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> John Kevin McMillan, a law-abiding and non-stalking,
> privacy-rights-respectful, clean-talking, gainfully employed,
> illicit-drug-free, alcohol-free, tobacco-free, never-previously-addicted,
> single adult gentleman constituent of yourself.
>
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