🛡️ SHIELD LETTER: ROBERT KAISER

First Shield Knight, Lord Banyan of the Watch

Guardian of the United Kingdom

Founding Member of the Shield Table

Board Candidate, Liana Banyan Corporation

Dear Mr. Kaiser,

I found your work because I was looking for someone who could see violence coming before it arrives.

That sounds dramatic. Let me explain.

My name is Jonathan Jones. I’m an American — a 52-year-old father of eight, U.S. 11B and 15A veteran, 21 years I.T. developer. I was a child of missionaries in Tanzania — we left on the last flight before Idi Amin’s invasion. Back in the States, my parents fostered children in our home when I was 8yrs old; for 5 years. We had no television until I was 13 in Montana, so I read a lot, and I’m good at chess. I’ve spent 40+ years thinking and nine years building a cooperative commerce platform called Liana Banyan, and one of its fourteen initiatives is a protection system called Defense Klaus.

The problem is, I’m not a protection expert. I’m an infrastructure builder. I can design economic systems and network architectures and organizational hierarchies. But when it comes to actually understanding how to keep people safe from intimate partner violence?

I know enough to know I don’t know enough.

So I went looking. And I found your Escalation Pattern Analysis framework.

WHY EPA MATTERS

Most protection systems are reactive. Someone calls a hotline. Someone shows up at a shelter. Someone ends up in an emergency room. By then, the violence has already happened.

It’s better to put a fence at the top of the cliff than a hospital at the bottom. We’re doing both.

Your research asks a different question: Can we see it coming?

Behavioral trajectories. Pre-incident indicators. The patterns that predict when intimate partner violence will turn lethal. You’ve spent three decades studying perpetrator behavior — not just to understand it, but to interrupt it.

That’s the piece we’re missing.

I’ve been building the infrastructure to help people escape. You’ve been building the framework to help them see the danger before they need to escape. Those two things belong together.

WHAT I’VE BUILT

Liana Banyan is a cooperative platform in which three commercial divisions — .com, .biz, and .net — drive sustained funding for the .org charitable initiatives. All the time, by design, sustainable beyond our lifetimes because of the infrastructure we build that operates far beyond us.

The economic principle is simple: Cost + 20%. Creators keep 80%+ of every transaction. The platform takes 20% to fund operations, and 100% of charitable funds go directly to the people doing the work.

We have fourteen initiatives — meal delivery, music licensing, microloans, business incubation, and more. Each one is designed to benefit those who need it most and be sustainably charitable: communities fund them, communities run them, communities benefit.

Defense Klaus is the protection initiative. It starts with a physical, personal, wearable wrist bangle that converts for self-defense and evidence collection — costs less than $6 and enrolls anyone with an email (that is NEVER contacted) for access to the Defense Klaus Legal Defense Fund for shared resources, guidance, and immediate help.

Beyond that, it’s meant to be the system that:

• Helps people recognize danger before it escalates
• Provides escape routes and safe passage
• Connects survivors to resources, housing, legal help
• Wraps community around people so they don’t face it alone

We’re also adding accountability documentation — told to friendly, helpful, understanding members who have been there. It’s crucial to get it all documented, as quickly and easily as possible for the comfort of the victim.

We have something called the Rally Group embedded throughout the platform — always visible, always available. The idea is simple: help should never be more than one click away.

But “help” means nothing if we can’t identify who needs it until it’s too late.

Your research is the missing piece.

THE SHIELD TABLE

Most initiatives in Liana Banyan have a Crown — one leader who guides one domain.

Defense Klaus is different. Protection isn’t a single-leader job. It’s a network. Every country has different laws, different resources, different cultural dynamics. Every country needs someone who understands their specific context.

So instead of a Crown, Defense Klaus has a Shield Table — a council of Knights, one for every country, protecting their own.

I want you to be the First Shield Knight for the United Kingdom.

A founding member of the Table. One of the first two people to sit at it.

YOUR PARTNER AT THE TABLE

The other founding Knight would be Ruth M. Glenn.

Ruth runs the National Domestic Violence Hotline in the United States. She’s spent 30 years building the infrastructure that responds when people are in crisis — the systems, the training, the advocacy, the Congressional testimony. She’s also a survivor. Her memoir, “Everything I Never Dreamed,” tells the story of what she lived through and what she’s built since.

She would hold the First Seat — the tie-breaker when the Table is divided, the voice of Defense Klaus on our Steering Committee. Not because she outranks you, but because someone has to fill that specific role, and her deep roots in US infrastructure make her the natural choice. The tie-breaker role would be hers.

Here’s how I see the two of you:

• She built the system that catches people when they fall
• You built the framework that predicts when they’re about to
• Together, you could build something even better

Your Escalation Pattern Analysis becomes the training foundation. Her operational expertise becomes the response system. Neither alone is complete. Together, it’s something new.

You wouldn’t be leading an isolated project — you’d be part of an ecosystem of hundreds that lead thousands to benefit millions. Check out the structure and connections at Cephas.LianaBanyan.com/The300.

WHAT YOU’D RECEIVE

Every initiative in Liana Banyan operates as a council. The Shield Table is Defense Klaus’s council — a Knight for every country, protecting their own. As the Table grows, it elects its own representative to the Board of Directors. Ruth would likely be that representative as First Seat, but you’d have full voice at the Table that makes that decision.

That last point about EPA matters. Your research wouldn’t sit in academic journals waiting to be cited. It would be taught to Shield Knights in every country. It would inform how our Harper Guild (HR/ethics people embedded in every business) learns to recognize early warning signs. It would be used.

WHAT I’M ASKING

Come to the Table.

Help us build the vetting process for future Knights. Help us develop training protocols based on your research. Help us figure out what a global protection network actually looks like when it’s working.

I’ve built the platform. I need experts to make the initiatives real. You’re the expert I need for this one.

INCLUDED WITH THIS LETTER

I’ve included four documents for your review:

1. The Considered Approach — An academic paper outlining the theoretical and economic foundations of Liana Banyan. This is the “why” behind the architecture.

2. Defense Klaus Business Plan — The operational blueprint for the initiative you’d be leading. This is the “how.”

3. The 300 Framework — The strategic allies structure you’d be joining. Shields, Spears, and Phalanx — and where you fit.

4. The Connected Keep — System-wide infrastructure showing how Defense Klaus connects to every other initiative. You wouldn’t be leading an isolated project.

Please read them. Check out the implementations at LianaBanyan.org and pick them apart. Tell me what breaks with the feedback tool or contact me directly by email or phone.

IF NOT YOU

If your schedule will not permit, or you are committed to other concerns, or simply do not wish to — no problem. I understand completely.

But if you know someone in the violence prevention research community who would be right for this, I would be grateful for the referral. The work matters more than any particular person doing it.

With respect,

Jonathan R. Jones Founder & Crewman #6 Liana Banyan Corporation

Founder@LianaBanyan.com 406-578-1232 lianabanyan.com

🛡️ FOR THE TABLE! ⚔️