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Psst... pass this along to everyone you know...
Hello, everyone:
I got two requests to share information from Bob
Schulz's We the People Foundation and their plans
to hold a Continental Congress on March 2, 2009
(very soon!) That is why I am sending out this news
note to all. We here in Ohio have a statewide organization
as a vehicle to quickly disseminate information from all
Paulistas and liberty activists through-out the state. It
is called the Ohio Freedom Alliance (www.ohiofreedom.com)
which acts at least for the time being as a Campaign
For Liberty plus affiliate. (www.campaignforliberty.com)
About a month ago, someone got wind of a senate bill being
stealthfully introduced calling for Ohio to be the 33rd
state to ratify an “article 5” Con-Con or constitution
convention ostensibly to amend the constitution (U.S.
Constitution) to “balance the budget” I won’t waste a
lot of time expounding on what that entails but suffice it
to say that it would be like trying to get rid of one
pesky fly with a stick of dynamite. One might end up
getting a balanced budget passed but also destroying the
house one lived in in the process. There has been only one
other constitutional convention held in the United States
and we were lucky that our present constitution came out
of it. We lost the Articles of Confederation though.
We sent down a hurried delegation of people to testify in
Columbus and stopped it dead in its tracks. It is for that
reason when an idea circulating came up from We the People
calling for a “Continental Congress” We were
skeptical again. Tumbleweed Steve of Garretsville invited
Bob Schulz to Northeast Ohio to explain the whole thing
and we generated 63 people to attend January 20th and
heard him out.
What this process is is very different. No one is
attempting to “re-write the Constitution”. In fact,
if people are familiar with Bob and his We the
People Foundation (www.wethepeoplefoundation.org)
and (www.givemeliberty.org)
they know that he is a stalwart defender OF the
Constitution and wishes through repeated calls for the “redress
of grievances” hopes to force the government to
Obey the Constitution we currently have.
To make a long story short, I attended this event although
it is between Cleveland and Akron and about a one and a
half hour drive for me from southern Columbiana county. I
tend to be the southern anchor for our active Northeast
Ohio organizations. I would have to say that I was
impressed by not only his plan but also the down to earth
humility and determination of this man. He takes nothing
from the We the People Foundation and spends
100% of donations in educating and legally challenging the
government. He personally and patiently answered each and
every question posed to him.
He explained that he has taken the final part of the 1st
amendment, the part that reads “right to petition the
government for a redress of grievances.” He has used this
in making continued petitions in hopes of (1) getting
redress, or (2) getting the Supreme Court to make a ruling
upholding that right. He spent a good bit of time
carefully outlining how the Magna Charta started this
common law practice- or at least codified it from natural
law (remember the Declaration of Independence which states
“Natural law and Nature’s God”?) He also cited another
event when a jury upheld the rights of 4 bishops serving a
petition of grievance in 1644 resulting in a famous jury
nullification of the King. There were references to the
aforementioned Declaration of Independence, and the
federalist papers to prove exactly the understanding and
the intent of the framers of the Constitution in drafting
the wording of the first amendment. All this was presented
very clearly as well as the “long list of unanswered
grievances” which Mr Schulz is trying to lay the
groundwork for.
He now believes that we have enough to convene the second
Continental Congress to gain the attention of the
world and of American Citizens who seem to be asleep and
unaware of how dangerously far we have drifted from the
Constitutional basis for our government and just as the
declaration of independence states that “we are inclined
to suffer under grievances” there comes a time when we
must out of duty to “humanity” (all men) air our
complaints that they might peacefully be answered. In
other words, we give our wayward government one last
chance to answer us.
No one who reads this would likely dispute any or much of
what I have written but Bob Schulz is calling on each of
us in our respective states to send 3 delegates to a
convention to draft a plan to petition our government to
obey its own laws- the Constitution. Time is short and
each state should send one of her best and brightest to
participate in this exercise. Several states have already
chosen, Ohio is in the process of choosing hers from those
who attended last night.
As I said, I have a great deal of admiration for Mr.
Schulz- especially after last night. He is humble, he is
dedicated and he has a strong belief in Providence to
provide and make sure this takes place. He said he is
never let down by supporters in funding or following
through on the Foundations’s causes. He says this is
because the cause is just. I would like to ask that each
of you in as timely a manner as you can muster, get in
touch with him, organize a meeting and select your
delegates to send. Time is of the essence.
We in Ohio have even come up with a plan to elect our
delegates by paper ballot so as not to be hypocritical in
demanding our government return to paper transparent
ballots herself.
Don’t just take my word for it, check out, research
this man, his foundation and his causes and then ride with
haste to the Convention and begin the month long process
of serving the government notice: It is We the People
who are in charge here. You are but OUR servants.
Wayne [last name redacted]
P.S. You are welcome to come by and visit the pictures
from the event at:
http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1681/photos/
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