On
this Christmas day, and faced with our daunting
cause, we are reminded of scripture. In Paul’s
letter to the Romans he wrote:
“….There is no authority except that which God has
established. The
authorities that exist have been established by God.
For rulers are not a
terror to good works, but to evil. For he is God’s
servant to do you good.
“….For he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute
God’s wrath on him
who practices evil, so be afraid…for he does not
bear the sword in vain.
For because of this you also pay taxes, for the
authorities are God’s
ministers attending continually to this very
thing…” Romans 13:1-6
And from Jefferson we have:
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the
liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have
removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the
minds of the people that these liberties are a gift
from God? That they are not to be violated but with
His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I
reflect that God is just, and that His justice
cannot sleep forever." (excerpts are inscribed on
the walls of the Jefferson Memorial in the nations
capital) [Source: Merrill . D. Peterson, ed.,
Jefferson Writings, (New York: Literary Classics of
the United States, Inc., 1984), Vol. IV, p. 289.
From Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia,
Query XVIII, 1781.]
Jefferson wasn’t the only Founder moved by such
reasoning. They all knew the evils associated with a
reliance on the whims of men, elected or otherwise,
for individual Liberties and Freedoms.
Unanimously, in signing the Declaration,
they all recognized that individual Liberties are
endowed by “Nature’s God” and the “Creator,” and
they all relied on the protection of “divine
Providence” as they set forth to end Government’s
violations of those Liberties, pledging to each
other “our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred
Honor.”
The Declaration of Independence embodies the
profound, high-order principles of republican
government: that all men are created with equal,
unalienable Rights, that governments are formed by
men to secure these Rights, and that governments
derive their just powers from the consent of
the People.
With America’s Charter secured, its
“by-laws” followed.
In describing the purpose of the
Constitutional Convention of 1787, Virginia delegate
Edmund Randolph commented: “The general object was
to provide a cure for the evils under which the
United States labored; that in tracing these evils,
to their origin, every man had found it in the
turbulence and follies of democracy.”
Guided by the Creator and the Charter, with
a single-mindedness of purpose, steering clear of
democracy’s shoals, the Founders mapped a course for
an enduring republican America that would limit
government and maximize individual Freedom and
Liberty.
Guided by the Creator and the Charter, the
Founders adopted a Constitution that “guarantees to
every State in this union a republican Form
of Government.”
The Founders, like many scholars of their
day, knew well that democracy, ruled as it is by men
rather than law, will eventually sink all ships of
State.
Professor Alexander Fraser Tyler, writing
when the states were still colonies of Great
Britain, explained why democracies always fail; “A
Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of
Government. It can only exist until the voters
discover they can vote themselves largess of the
public treasury. From that moment on the majority
always votes for the candidate promising the most
benefits from the public treasury with the result
that Democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal
policy….”
John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States from 1801-1835, had this
to say: “Between a balanced republic and a
democracy, the difference is like that between order
and chaos.”
John Adams warned: “Remember, democracy
never last long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and
murders itself. There never was a democracy that did
not commit suicide.”
Historians, including American historian
Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948) confirmed the
Founders’ distaste for democracy as the vilest form
of government; “At no time, at no place in solemn
convention assembled, through no chosen agents, had
the American people officially proclaimed the United
States to be a democracy. The Constitution did not
contain the word or any word lending countenance to
it ….”
On the other hand, the Founders gave clear
expression to the blessings of a republican form of
government.
John Adams said, “You have rights antecedent
to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be
repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived
from the Great Legislator of the Universe.”
TO JETTISON THE CONSTITUTION IS TO SINK THE REPUBLIC
Without question, our Constitution has been
abandoned by America’s elected and appointed
officials and those whose water they carry (see, for
instance, our
previous article). Its violations are
numerous and mounting with each newly elected
Congress and President. In addition, as the record
clearly shows that since 1995, each new Congress and
President has arrogantly refused to respond to
repeated Petitions for a Remedy to these Grievances,
instead answering the People’s Petitions only with
repeated injuries, playing both to the mob and to
those who feed at the public financial trough.
America has transitioned from a Republic to a
democracy even while the Constitution of the United
States of America lies in plain sight.
2009: AMERICAN PATRIOTS' LAST LINE IN THE SAND
Despite the seeming desire of the Courts,
the state and federal governments, the Electoral
College Electors and the dominant media to let the
unresolved matter of Mr. Obama’s eligibility quietly
fade from the public consciousness, their refusal to
attend to this crisis may have inadvertently
manifest a casus belli around which the
minority of Americans who still reverently value our
nation’s Founding Principles and Constitution can
rally.
For far too long, the People have endured
escalating attacks upon the Rule of Law and the
Constitution. Its precious, but fragile guarantees
of Individual Rights, Freedom, Liberty and Justice
have been compromised – ironically by the very
public servants empowered to preserve and protect
them.
As this Foundation has documented, there
exists a long train of abuses and usurpations that
have fundamentally undermined the essence of the
Liberty of the People. See our
previous article for
a partial list of current violations of the
Constitution.
And now our Republic faces the spectacle of
a president-elect who steadfastly refuses to produce
an original birth certificate conclusively
establishing his legal status as a “natural born”
Citizen as explicitly required by the very
Constitution he will take an oath on January 20th
to “preserve, protect and defend.”
We also face the horror of government officials,
either so afraid of the People or so utterly corrupt
and morally vacuous, that none will rise to enforce
the Rule of Law.
Is this transgression against the natural
born citizen clause of the Constitution not the
“capstone” Grievance of our time?
Haven’t we, like our Founders, reached the
tipping point where the threats to Life, Liberty and
Property can no longer be tolerated? Dare we
tolerate further these insults and attacks upon our
Rights and our Freedoms?
WHAT MUST A FREE PEOPLE DO?
Last Sunday, WTP Chairman Bob Schulz,
announced to a gathering of Patriots in Boston that
the Foundation was preparing to organize a national
meeting of delegates from each of the fifty states.
The purpose of the National Congress will be much
the same as that modeled by our Founders: a limited
number of chosen representatives of the People
gathered together to freely and openly discuss the
mounting violations of the Constitution and to
decide on a course of action to confront the
usurpers.
QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED
This historic gathering has been tentatively named
the “Continental Congress 2009.”
Modeled after the very process of momentous
deliberation taken by our Founders, representatives of the People will assemble
once
again in Philadelphia to lay claim to, and
practically exercise, the Natural Rights of Popular
Sovereignty and Self-Governance as articulated in
our Declaration of Independence and guaranteed by
the Constitution.
If this noble initiative moves to fruition,
Continental Congress 2009 will convene to answer
two questions critical to the future of the
Republic and the preservation of Liberty: 1) Should
the People begin a process of withdrawing their
resources from those federally elected and appointed
officials who have usurped the power of the People
until their constitutional Grievances are Redressed
and the Constitution is restored? and 2) Should the
People immediately submit to their Governors and
State legislators model statutes for the
re-establishment of the constitutionally mandated,
well-regulated State Militias?
As the delegates deliberate, discuss and
debate, they will keep the People in their home
states fully informed through daily updates on 50
Continental Congress websites – one for each State.
Eventually, when the delegates settle on an
agreed course of action, and the People are asked to
publicly endorse and participate in it, we will know
if our cause would have the critical mass required
to succeed.
In offering this proposal, our Foundation recognizes
it shares much common ground with many Freedom
organizations across the land. Indeed, we hope our
offering may move the leaders of these many
organizations to stand together, and work in concert
toward this single objective so that we may succeed
before our nation, and the Light of Liberty are
irretrievably lost.
We would urge both those in positions of
leadership and those individuals who can devote some
effort in assisting this project to contact us
(details below) and serve on a Continental Congress
2009 steering Committee.
The time has come to temporarily set aside
the lesser issues of our lives and commit ourselves
once again, to the cause of Liberty.
“If
there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my
child may have peace.” Thomas Paine,
The American Crisis, No. 1, December 19, 1776
“The
cause of America is in a great measure the cause of
all mankind.” Thomas Paine, Common Sense,
1776
IMMEDIATE FOCUS:
DELEGATE SELECTION & FUND RAISING
The proceedings of the Continental Congress
2009 are planned to commence in late February or
early March and will last at least two weeks until
its work is complete. The process of nominating
delegates will formally begin on January 1st.
Details regarding the process of nominating
qualified delegates to the convention will be
released shortly, as will additional details
regarding schedules, locations, etc.
Unless someone proposes a superior
alternative, we believe Continental Congress 2009
should be held in Philadelphia. We have been
negotiating with the Constitution Center for the
24/7 use of its Grand Hall. This would provide
adequate space for 50 tables for the participating
delegates from each of the 50 states., as well as 50
tables for observers from each of the 50 state
legislatures. In addition, the Grand Hall provides
adequate space for members of the public, media and
government who may wish to silently observe the
proceedings.
See
www.constitutioncenter.org, then click on
“Facility Rentals.”
Our cost for the Grand Hall facility (alone)
would be $14,000 for two weeks, plus $1,000 per day
thereafter, which includes some basic audio/visual
and technology services including the use of the
facility’s video large “wall” also located in the
Grand Hall.
Other costs associated with executing the
historic event would include those for
stenographic/transcription services, video recording
and webcasting services. In addition, there will be
the cost of transporting, housing and feeding those
delegates who may not be able to pay their own way.
Initially, we must all now focus on two
principal tasks: Delegate selection and fund
raising.
To this end, Bob Schulz would like to meet
with potential delegates and those in a position to
write checks to one or more of the companies we will
be contracting with to supply the needed goods and
services. Note: Donors will have the option of
writing checks directly to the service company or to
the (tax deductible) WTP Foundation.
Here is Bob’s tentative
schedule of regional meetings to take
place across the nation beginning the first week in
January in preparation for the convening of the
Continental Congress 2009 in Philadelphia.
Please note that while Bob is ready, willing
and able to undertake the rigors of such a schedule,
the trip itself and its success will depend entirely
on grass roots support.
Beginning with the earliest meetings in Texas we
need to quickly assemble “advance” teams of
self-starters to form on their own and assist with
the required tasks of locating each meeting hall,
informing other patriots, organizations and the
general public of the time and location of each
meeting, identifying and contacting potential
delegates, identifying and contacting people in a
position to donate relatively large sums of money
for the cause and to arrange for such donors to
personally meet with Bob, as necessary.
Unfortunately, due to the myriad schedule
requirements, the regional locations, the dates,
planned meeting times, and planned routes are to a
large extent not flexible.
Bob needs the assistance of one or more
Patriots to contact, evaluate and pre-select venues
for each of the Saturday and Sunday meetings
currently planned. Meeting rooms should planned for
approximately 35 guests to be seated classroom
style, if possible, in or near an inexpensive hotel
where Bob could spend the night. For weekday
evening meetings, plans should accommodate 20
guests, seated theater style in or near a hotel
where Bob can lodge for the night.
Bob will be on his way to Texas on Friday, December
26th. He will be available by email at
Bob@givemeliberty.org and by cell phone at
518-361-8153. The office in New York will be manned
as well.
Again, here is Bob's tentative
regional meeting schedule.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR
Please pray for the success of Continental
Congress 2009 and for the peaceful restoration of
our Constitution and Republic. Our Founders
bequeathed to us a Divinely inspired plan for
Earthly governance so that the children of the
Creator might endlessly enjoy His bounty of Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. On this
occasion, we pray that you are, as we, committed to
altogether reclaiming and restoring the most
precious Light of Liberty.
Please add to your list of New Year’s
Resolutions your commitment to work for the success
of Continental Congress 2009.
We will publish web updates on a frequent
basis.
Again, we wish you Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year.
NOTE: Some of the information for this
update came from the pocket-sized booklet published
by Benedict D. LaRosa in 1999 titled, DEMOCRACY
OR REPUBLIC, WHICH IS IT?
As a fund raiser, WTP is once again offering
copies of this pamphlet. Click here.
Bob's tentative
regional meeting schedule.
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