Ed. note:
This update regards the
upcoming historic Continental Congress 2009 event
to be held in Philadelphia directly across from
Independence Hall. As part of CC 2009,
delegates selected by the People from each of the
fifty states will convene to discuss the
Government’s ongoing violations of the
Constitution and strategies the People can employ
to peaceably curtail the abuse. Although these
violations have been widely debated for years, it
is the Government’s patent refusal to respond to
any and all First Amendment Petitions for Redress
that now compel the People to justly and actively
resist the tyranny.
We strongly encourage our readers to review
each of our
latest updates.
At a minimum, please be sure to read our “Summit
Call”
and “Line
in the Sand” web
articles
which provide a good overview of the
constitutional crisis and CC 2009
initiative.
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Cleveland Testimonial
One patriot named Wayne who attended this week’s
meeting in Cleveland shared some of his thoughts
heartily endorsing the Continental Congress 2009
initiative. Below is the introduction to the
testimonial as it was received by email. Wayne’s
full testimonial (including several photos)
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FIRST OFF...
I would like to thank all of you who attended this
full house event.
Who knew we would end up with standing room only for
those who
didn't quite get there on time? Certainly not I.
Thanks for coming.
And for those who couldn't make it...so sorry you
missed out. This is
a very worthy mission that Bob Schulz has been on
for very many
years, in which he has been recording every step of
a very long and
drawn out process, leading up to this peaceful and
legal action that
must be taken now to secure and defend our
constitutional liberty.
So please read Wayne's perspective of the meeting,
and consider
what it is that YOU can do to become involved in
some way as well.
In Liberty,
Tumbleweed Steve
CC 2009 Well
Received, Moving Along, Gearing UP
Clear progress is being made. After 18 regional meetings
over 21 days of coast-to-coast travel, with at least
a dozen more scheduled, the Continental Congress
project to restore Constitutional Order and Liberty
is being well received.
At virtually every location citizens who love
America but are deeply concerned about the repeated
violations of the Constitution by Her elected
officials have begun to spontaneously form state
teams to set in motion the local activities
necessary to make the CC 2009 initiative
successful.
The initial focus of the self-evolving state teams is
threefold:
1)
OUTREACH – populating the State WTPC website with
news about CC 2009, AND bringing CC 2009 to the
attention of as many people in their state as
possible employing the full range of public
information and education tools available,
encouraging people to enter their nominations for
the position of delegate to CC 2009, and
2)
DELEGATE SELECTION – screening and placing
nominations from their state on the state web site,
and
3)
DELEGATE’S FUND – setting up and overseeing a
statewide CC 2009 fund to cover expenses relating to
transporting, lodging and feeding one or more of the
delegates from their state.
For CC 2009 to achieve its success, this process needs to be
taken to all of the fifty states, and in
short order. CC 2009 state nominating committees
need to be formed in every state with the intent to
recruit and commit nominees as potential delegates,
and to help screen such nominees for consideration
and choice by the citizens of their respective
states.
State teams need to reach out to other Freedom groups to urge
them to join in support of the CC 2009 effort. They
need to reach out to media organizations to expose
them, and their consumers, to this undertaking of
historic importance.
Bob Schulz has already conducted a large number of radio and
Internet interviews, devoting several hours each day
to the media outreach work. We urge everyone to
continue their individual efforts to contact the
media in their local area.
Again, WTP has recently released its online nomination system
and numerous individuals have already been
nominated. Click here for the
procedure
and to
access the nomination system.
Click here for the CC 2009
flyer, a sample
Press Release, and to find the
local media entities in your area (zip code lookup).
With your help, the vision of CC 2009 will become a
reality, and may well become the turning point in
history where a minority of determined citizens
decided to claim and exercise their constitutional,
LEGAL Right to hold their government officials
accountable to the Constitution, thereby rescuing
America from the slippery slope of democracy and
socialism, peacefully halting the erosion of their
Liberty.
It really is up to us – each and every one, because if we
–i.e., you – don’t step up to help, it
simply won’t get done.
U.S. Pulls Plug on
Philly
Despite our continuing success in launching the Continental
Congress 2009 initiative, or more likely, because of
such success, the management company contracted to
run the Government’s National Constitutional Center
(NCC) directly across from Independence Hall in
Philadelphia decided to effectively withdraw their
contract offer to make available the facility for
the CC 2009 event.
Despite the existence of a firm offer from NCC, good through
April 2, 2009, including price and conditions,
needing only a CC 2009 start date, representatives
of NCC this week rebuffed WTP’s efforts to fix the
start date and to obtain bank wire transfer
instructions to submit the required $14,000 down
payment.
After repeated contacts between NCC and WTP’s Bob Schulz, it
was clear that NCC (acting as proxy for the federal
government) had changed their minds about the CC
2009 engagement and was attempting to quietly
scuttle the negotiated arrangement by introducing
new and unacceptable terms and conditions that would
have made it impossible to execute the CC 2009
event.
NCC unexpectedly imposed new, draconian conditions
this past week on WTP when it was made clear WTP was
about to fix the event start date and make the down
payment.
Examples of NCC’s ill intent were NCC’s newly imposed
insistence that WTP would be barred from the entire
facility for two full days during the main March
event period, and that NCC could additionally bar
WTP from the facility entirely during any
other day, for any number of days, if NCC
had any evening event planned in any of its
other conference rooms-- effectively meaning that if
NCC booked evening events each night during the WTP
contract duration, WTP would be barred, by its
own contract, from all access to the NCC
venue.
Unfortunately, these less-than-subtle hints seeking to
discourage WTP from using the Government’s NCC
public facility were quite deliberate (having been
re-confirmed with NCC staff management via phone)
and also quite unexpected, given the numerous
good-faith exchanges previously engaged in during
contract negotiations between WTP and the NCC that
began last December. Click here for a
copy of the offer tendered by the National
Constitution Center to WTP.
Bottom line: It appears that the Government’s only true
commitment to the Constitution at the Philadelphia
NCC may be in sustaining a fading, historical
reminiscence of our long-forgotten founding
documents. Unfortunately for the Republic, it seems
the Government may not want to appear as helping the
People actually resurrect, protect and proliferate
the Principles of Liberty embodied by those
documents, which not so ironically, is
the very purpose of the Constitution.
Impact on CC 2009
Following the NCC’s change of heart WTP has begun the process
of evaluating alternative venues across the nation
capable of hosting the CC 2009 event. WTP
supporters are urged to submit their recommendations
to
bob@GiveMeLiberty.org. Please bear in mind that
potential venues need to have adequate seating
capacity, technology resources and a good number of
available hotel rooms in the area.
It is also likely the CC 2009 schedule will be
delayed by several weeks to late March. Details as
to venue and schedule changes will be made public as
they are available.
Please note that WTP updated its first CC 2009
flyer
and sample
Press Release
to reflect the current status of the venue issue.
Supporters are urged to continue to contact their
local media
regarding the CC 2009 initiative.
NEXT MEETINGS:
VA, WV,
TN ?,
GA ?
and NC
Mon., 1/26/09,
Richmond/Chesterfield, VA
6 PM,.
[NOTE
THE EARLIER START TIME] Venue:
Chesterfield County
Central Library, 9501 Lori Road, Chesterfield, VA
23832-0297. 804-751-4955.The
library is right off of Route 10, Ironbridge Road,
just after the Chesterfield County Courtroom
Building Complex. It has easy access to Route 288.
Available for breakfast meeting on 1/27/09 with
potential delegate(s) or donor(s).
Tues., 1/27/09,
Charleston, WV
6 PM
[PLEASE
NOTE EARLY START TIME]. South Charleston
Community Center, 601 Jefferson Rd, S. Charleston,
WV 35039. Phone 304-744-4731. Also available for
breakfast meeting on 1/28/09 with potential
delegate(s) or donor(s).
Wed., 1/28/09,
Knoxville, TN 7 pm. Venue to be announced. Also
available for breakfast meeting on 1/29/09 with
potential delegate(s) or donor(s).
Thurs., 1/29/09,
Atlanta, GA 7 pm. Venue to be announced. Local
assistance needed. Also available for breakfast
meeting on 1/30/09 with potential delegate(s) or
donor(s).
Fri., 1/30/09, Winston-Salem, NC 7 pm. Venue:
Holiday
Inn Express 110 Miller St., Winston-Salem, NC
336-721-0220. Also available for
breakfast meeting on 1/31/09 with potential
delegate(s) or donor(s).
Please check the
meeting schedule for additional details
and local WTP contacts.
Nominate Your CC 2009 Delegates!
Potential Delegates to the Continental Congress 2009
assembly can now be entered into nomination using
our secure, on-line nomination system.
Please be sure to read the
procedure before attempting to
access the nomination system.
After an initial review by WTP management and/or
state designees, the information submitted by
qualified nominees will be displayed on the main WTP
Congress web site pages for public review and
consideration. See an example of the nominee
display concept
here.
Remember that the Continental Congress 2009 project
is funded entirely by your generous, tax
deductible
donations.
New WTP Blog:
Don't forget to visit the new WTP blog:
www.WeThePeopleCongress.org/BLOG.
Please check the
meeting schedule for additional details
and local WTP contacts.
Thank you for
your
generous support. Please remember that your tax-deductible donations are the sole
source of funding the Continental Congress 2009
project.
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