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Pieter Friedrich

25 Jan, 8 tweets, 2 min read

@INCIndia

I just, today, received an invitation by a Pakistan High Commission in an English-speaking country to participate in a seminar. I was humbled & honored. I declined it.

@INCIndia & @AamAadmiParty have also reached out to me to collaborate. I refused.

I am independent. I am non-partisan — both in my home country of the USA and in terms of any international action. On principle, ideologically, I will never participate in any event hosted by or collaborate with any political party or government — whether in America or abroad.

I'm an American citizen. I will have nothing to do with the Republican Party or the Democratic Party — or any other party in my country. And I will certainly have nothing to do with any non-US political party. I view it as foreign interference.

Nor will I ever have anything to do — promotionally — with any government, whether the one of my citizenship or any other in the world. I'm not here to promote the agenda of any government, for good or ill.

My sole desire is to promote humanitarianism and a transnational embrace of the principles of liberty and human rights. God help me, I hope and pray that my life may be used with some little impact. I refuse to let it be co-opted by any special interest.

Recognition by any government anywhere in the world, platforming by any political party, support from any partisan or State interest globally, I hope and pray and pledge to reject it call. With respect.

That's why I ask for funding. I don't work for any US-based organization. I don't get checks from ISI. I survive — & research, write, & publish — solely with funding from you. I'm up against people with millions or more per year. Me? It costs far less.

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I should clarify. I don't work for an organization based in US — or anywhere else in the world.

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"Let others praise you, and not your own lips."

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Trump was “not my president.”

But he did win, according to the rules of the system.

Biden is “not my president.”

But he also won.

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