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October 6, 2010
BOB SCHULZ RESPONDS TO TIME MAGAZINE
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WTP Chairman Bob Schulz is featured in the
cover story of the Oct. 11, 2010 issue of
TIME magazine titled, “"Locked and
Loaded: The Secret World of Extreme Militias."
What follows is Bob’s response. Please send
it to as many people as you can. Thank you.
Note: Links to the TIME article and an
online interview w/ Bob Schulz are at the
bottom of this update.
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Dear Editor:
I
am featured in your cover article, written by Barton
Gellman, though I cannot understand why. You have
wholly mischaracterized me and the works of my
Foundation, in order to shoehorn me into a piece
that may work for TIME, but has no relevance to what
Gellman and I discussed. The information I provided
to Gellman, through more than six hours of
face-to-face interviews, plus e-mails and written
documentation, has been twisted and wholly taken out
of context, rendering it inaccurate, misleading and
libelous.
There are so many falsehoods in what was attributed
to me that I cannot address them all in this letter.
I will take them up with TIME management.
For
the record, I have never advocated violence, I do
not and have never belonged to any militia, nor do I
communicate with militias or influence militias in
any way that I am aware of. However, I do fully
support the Constitution’s guarantee of
well-regulated militias in every State. To quote the
mandate of the second Amendment, “A well
regulated Militia, being necessary to the security
of a
free State, the
Right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not
be infringed.”
Therefore, the absence of well-regulated Militias in
every State is repugnant to the constitution.
This article serves neither the truth nor the People
of this nation. While it wastes thousands of words
regurgitating the intricate details of militia
activities, their confrontations with government
officials, and a handful of blatantly criminal acts,
the article fails to address the fundamental
"secret" re-invigorating the Patriot consciousness
of Americans across the land.
The
"secret" that the mainstream media appears to have
an extreme aversion against putting forward or
openly discussing, is that over many
administrations, with the support of both Parties,
the federal government has all but abandoned our
Constitution.
As
more and more People are learning daily, from
largely non-mainstream media sources, it is only the
Constitution that stands between the People and
total tyranny and this dangerous rejection of the
Constitution has put the fate of our nation and
Liberty of the People at grave risk. It is this
stark realization, not racial or religious bigotry,
which is driving the pro-Constitution movement, the
Tea Parties and likely, the citizen militias.
The larger, ugly truth is this: For decades the
citizens have endured an escalating campaign of
constitutional violations including undeclared wars,
un-enforced immigration laws, warrantless searches
and surveillance of private papers and
communications, slave-like direct non-apportioned
taxes on labor, a monetary currency conjured out of
limitless debt, the giving and lending of public
money and credit to private corporations for
decidedly private purposes, the absence of a
“well-regulated militia” in every State (mandated by
the first thirteen words of the Second Amendment)
and a privately owned central bank known as the
Federal Reserve.
It is these violations of our “Charters of Freedom,”
that are fueling the voices of dissent. Liberty is
a force of Nature. It cannot be subdued.
Most disturbing perhaps is TIME's publication of
false statements, harmful to me and the We The
People Foundation For Constitutional Education,
Inc., and designed to detract from our intelligent,
rational and professional defense of the
Constitution.
Not
only does the article falsely brand me as an
advocate edging "anti-government" patriots "closer
to violence," Gellman and the editors at TIME,
violate every principle of journalistic
responsibility by failing to accurately report the
substance of numerous hours of personal interviews
TIME conducted with me, supported by hundreds of
pages of legal and historical documentation that I
provided to Gellman and TIME.
The
public record I have established over three decades
clearly shows that I have always advocated the
use of peaceful, non-violent resistance in defense
of the Constitution. Any person who has ever
heard me speak, including Gellman, has heard me hold
up the examples and teachings of Gandhi and Martin
Luther King, Jr.
Our
Foundation's legal research and litigation, which
stretches over many years is an open book to anyone
who visits the archives on our website, as Gellman
indicated to me he had done. Our focus has been
based squarely on the historical context, purpose
and full exercise of the last of the five Rights
guaranteed by the First Amendment.
Gellman knows that each of our First Amendment
Petitions for Redress have cited a specific
provision of the Constitution, included a factual
account of violations of that provision and sought a
remedy to the violation. There were nine Petitions
for Redress submitted over a fourteen year period,
not “hundreds” as the article states.
TIME knows our work in defense of the Constitution
has always been rooted in the Rights of the People
and the obligations of the Government under the last
ten words of the First Amendment. Known as the
accountability clause, those words guarantee the
Right of the People to PEACEFULLY hold the
Government accountable to the rest of the
Constitution. Understandably, the Government would
have the Right forever remain the “Forgotten Right.”
But why TIME?
In
point of fact, it is our research into the
fundamental RIGHT of the People to hold their
servant government accountable through the First
Amendment Petition clause, and the Foundation's
aggressive litigation, high-visibility protests and
educational efforts that have drawn the iron fist of
the IRS. However, any Right that is not
enforceable is no Right.
The
article's dismissive note regarding the Supreme
Court's refusal to hear the Foundation's case fails
to convey the critical fact, known by TIME, that the
purpose of the landmark federal lawsuit was for the
Supreme Court to declare - for the first time in
history - the constitutional meaning of the
First Amendment's Petition/Accountability clause.
That's correct. I, and other Americans who stood
with me, wanted nothing more than our modern day
Supreme Court to declare the legal meaning, effect
and significance of the government accountability
clause of the First Amendment. The Supreme Court
refused to settle the “first impression”
constitutional question. We provided Gellman a
direct quote from the 1821 Supreme Court decision of
Cohens v. Virgina,
19 U.S. 264, 265, holding it was "treason to
the Constitution" for the Court to refuse to hear a
case it is constitutionally required to hear.
Disturbingly, TIME would have its readers believe
that I was the source of the quote.
Far
from being "anti-government" and advocates of
violence, the very purpose of the We The People
organization is to educate Americans regarding the
history, meaning, effect and significance of every
clause of the Constitution, including the
accountability through peaceful Petition process
clause of the First Amendment.
The
essence of Liberty and the enjoyment of fundamental
Rights is predicated upon the Rule of Law and the
Right of the People to hold their (servant)
government accountable. It is our Declaration of
Independence which states, “to secure these Rights,
Governments are instituted among men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the Governed, that
whenever any form of Government becomes destructive
of these ends it is the Right of the People to alter
or abolish it ….”
In denying the public an accurate portrayal of the
motivations of those depicted in the article, TIME
serves only to deprive the People of vital knowledge
regarding a peaceful means -- perhaps the only
peaceful means remaining, to restore constitutional
governance carried out in decency and good order.
On
March 13, 1962 while addressing the diplomatic corps
of the Latin American republics, President John F.
Kennedy stated, "Those
who make peaceful revolution impossible will make
violent revolution inevitable."
If TIME truly abhors the initiation of violence, as
I do, it should do everything possible to help
inform the American People about their possession of
a fundamental Right that can be exercised to restore
the Constitution through peaceful, non-violent
means.
This is the legacy our Founders left us in the First
Amendment Right to Petition. They even told us how
to do it in the 1774 Journals of the Continental
Congress (quoting):
“If money is wanted by Rulers who have in any manner
oppressed the People,
they may retain it
until their grievances are redressed,
and thus peaceably procure relief, without trusting
to despised petitions
or disturbing the public tranquility.”
Journals of the Continental Congress (1774),
1:105-113
The
website of the WTP Foundation is
www.GiveMeLiberty.org. For anyone who takes the
time to read our archives, dating back to 1999, our
every action and Government’s every response, are
fully documented.
Robert L. Schulz
Chairman and Founder
We The People Foundation for Constitutional
Education, Inc.
We The People Congress, Inc.
Here is the TIME article:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516-4,00.html#ixzz113OYB1L5
Click here to view Bob discussing the TIME article
with Gary Franchi on Reality Report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7CLxsuCWjk
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