THE REVOLUTION CONTINUES: The Cure for Ron Paul's Issues: A Profound Plan for Freedom
Listed just below are seven activities of the federal government that are un-constitutional.
With the exception of Ron Paul, all of this year's presidential candidates, past and present, would have us believe these activities are mere matters of public policy.
Ron Paul says "NO!" -- These are not matters of public policy, they are VIOLATIONS of the Constitution.
Here they are:
- The Federal Reserve
- The invasion of Iraq
- The USA Patriot Act
- Undocumented, illegal immigrants
- The North American Union
- Gun control
- The federal Income Tax, as enforced by the IRS
It is true, our servant government has seized power from the People by stepping outside the boundaries drawn around its power by the Constitution.
How important is the Constitution?
It's a set of principles to govern the Government, not the People.
We are not mentioned except in the preamble that says We the People establish the Constitution to secure the blessings of Liberty.
The Constitution is all the stands between the People and total tyranny and despotism.
That's it's function. That's its importance.
The problem is the Constitution cannot defend itself, it just sits there.
If the Government won't defend it -- and it will not -- who will?
If corporate America won't speak up in defense of the Constitution, who will?
If the dominant media will not defend the Constitution by exposing its violations, who will?
If our Government controlled schools refuse to educate our children regarding the limited power of Government, then who will?
If our churches and places of worship are prohibited -- by the IRS -- from discussing these truths in public, who will preach the Gospel of the Constitution to the masses?
You guessed it. It's up to the People -- you and I.
So what can we do? As a Free People, what MUST we do?
Fortunately, in this country of, by and for the People, there is a Supreme Law that enables the People to directly hold the Government accountable to the Constitution.
Due to the passage of time, this law has been all but forgotten. It's not a law the Government wants you to know about.
Still more fortunately, it's a law that is embedded in the Constitution -- explicitly guaranteed by the First Amendment.
Deliberately inserted by Jefferson and the other prescient Sons of liberty as the most critical factor in the carefully crafted balance of power between the People and their servant government. It reads:
“CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW . . . ABRIDGING . . . THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE . . . TO PETITION THE GOVERNMENT FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES.”
That's it. The Right of Redress. The last ten words of the First Amendment. A law that enables the People to directly hold the Government accountable. The Right to remedy Government violations of the Constitution. An individual, unalienable Right, endowed by the Creator.
However, the Government treats the clause as People treat the "third rail" -- not to be touched, to be avoided.
Unlike the other four Freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, the Supreme Court has NEVER interpreted the last ten words and recently refused its first invitation to do so.
What are the Rights of the People and the obligations of the Government as guaranteed by the Petition clause?
What was the intent of the Founding Fathers? What did they have in their minds?
One need look no further than the words of an official Act the First Congress passed unanimously in 1774:
“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.” Continental Congress to the Inhabitants of Quebec, Journals of the Continental Congress, Journals 1:105-113
Another clue comes from the words of Thomas Jefferson who wrote in 1775:
“THE PRIVILEGE OF GIVING OR WITHHOLDING OUR MONEY IS AN IMPORTANT BARRIER AGAINST THE UNDUE EXERTION OF PREROGATIVE, WHICH LEFT ALTOGETHER WITHOUT CONTROL MAY BE EXERCISED TO OUR GREAT OPPRESSION; AND ALL HISTORY HAS SHOWS HOW EFFICACIOUS ITS INTERCESSION FOR REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES AND ESTABLISHMENT OF RIGHTS, AND HOW IMPROVIDENT WOULD BE THE SURRENDER OF SO POWERFUL A MEDIATOR.” Thomas Jefferson, Reply to Lord North, 1775, Papers, 1:225
One of the best clues is found in the Declaration of Independence itself.
Read the words the Founding Fathers used to express their ultimate Grievance, the Grievance that capped the long list of Grievances enumerated in the Declaration, the Grievance that more than any other caused them to withdraw their allegiance, their support, and their tax money from the government of their day. They wrote:
“IN EVERY STAGE OF THESE OPPRESSIONS WE HAVE PETITIONED FOR REDRESS IN THE MOST HUMBLE TERMS. OUR REPEATED PETITIONS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED ONLY BY REPEATED INJURY. A PRINCE, WHOSE CHARACTER IS THUS MARKED BY EVERY ACT WHICH MAY DEFINE A TYRANT, IS UNFIT TO BE THE RULER OF A FREE PEOPLE.”
The Founders believed a government that violates the Rights of the People and will not listen to its People is NOT fit to rule a Free People.
The Founders had numerous Grievances but found most intolerable the Government's refusal to respond to their Petitions for Redress.
Finally, we know the Founders were intimately familiar with the words of the Magna Carta, the cradle of Liberty, signed in 1215.
We read in Section 61 that the monarch agreed that if the royal family offended the People in any respect, the People possessed a natural Right to not only claim Redress, but they also enjoyed a natural Right to a REMEDY of the Grievance.
Read the words of the Magna Carta:
“IF WE [the Monarchy]…MAKE NO REDRESS WITHIN FORTY DAYS…THE [People] MAY… ASSAIL US IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE, WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY OF THE LAND, BY SEIZING OUR CASTLES, LANDS, POSSESSIONS, OR ANYTHING ELSE SAVING ONLY OUR [Lives] …UNTIL THEY HAVE SECURED SUCH REDRESS AS THEY HAVE DETERMINED UPON. HAVING SECURED THE REDRESS, THEY MAY THEN RESUME THEIR NORMAL OBEDIENCE TO US.”
So now you know the historical purpose and original intent of the "accountability" clause of the First Amendment.
If the People Petition the Government for Redress of ANY violation of the Constitution (such as the War powers, Privacy, Money or Tax provisions) but the Government refuses to Respond, the People have the Right to withdraw their allegiance, their support, -- and their tax money -- until their Grievances are Redressed, to peaceably and non-violently procure the Relief they are entitled to as a Free People.
THIS IS THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND.
It is very important to note that there is absolutely NOTHING in American history or jurisprudence that contradicts this interpretation of the law.
Now that we know we possess this profound power to hold the Government accountable, it is imperative to address how can we claim and practically exercise this Right.
First, WE NEED A PLAN -- a profound plan for a profound problem.
We then need to WORK THE PLAN.
Given the current nature and extent of the federal Government’s violations of the Constitution, it is clear we must act decisively -- and very soon -- if our Liberty and our Republic are to survive.
To begin, we must acknowledge what will not work.
We know we cannot elect our way out of tyranny.
The math is against us. Think about it.
To elect our way out of tyranny, one more than half the number of People voting in all the precincts and in the halls of Congress would need to strictly abide by the Constitution, abandoning all their party loyalties, special interests and self-interests.
It will never happen.
People have forever suffered human frailties and as Jefferson said, “political parties are by their nature, corruptive.”
In any event, we should never, and can never be forced to rely on the majority to protect our Rights. Our Rights are individual rights that were endowed by our Creator simply because we are alive. These essential principles lie at the heart of our Founding documents and the design of our system of governance.
We also know individuals and small groups cannot speak to power and prevail against the manpower and resources of the state.
What we do know is that peaceful "people power" can work. Gandhi and Martin Luther King understood this well.
They understood that when the People are up against unjust and uncivil laws and government, and they are entitled to reform, they will achieve it only if they are pro-active, non-violent and can mobilize a determined minority into a "critical mass."
This critical mass of People must share a heartfelt passion for Liberty and Justice to the extent that they will put aside their differences, set aside the priorities of everyday life, and join together to act for the common good of all the People.
WE HAVE A PLAN.
We have a profound Plan to restore Freedom and Constitutional Order.
We have a Plan for the minority of Americans who are awake to the present dangers and who have declared themselves to be Constitutionalists and defenders of the Rule of Law.
We have a Plan to mobilize the Freedom Keepers among us, who are more or less isolated one from another, often with spouses, co-workers and neighbors who don’t yet understand that one could love the country but despise the government for they are two different things.
Unless someone has a better plan, we are asking that you join the one we have adopted.
The Plan is bold, but doable. With an energized and vocal critical mass, the Plan could quickly attract world-wide attention.
It starts out rather quietly, but builds in August and September to a climax.
First, on June 30, 2008, every member of the Congress will be served by one or more of their constituents, at their local district office(s), with seven signed Petitions for Redress of Grievances.
Each Petition for Redress will address a separate violation of the Constitution and will request a response within 40 days (by August 11, 2008).
On July 11, 2008, a declaratory judgment action will be filed in each of the 11 federal judicial circuits outside the District of Columbia. These lawsuits will each seek a Judicial declaration of the obligation of the Government to respond to Petitions for Redress and the Rights of the People if the Government fails to respond.
Prayerfully, there will be sharp disagreements among the Circuit courts, making it difficult for the Supreme Court of the United States not to accept the next invitation to interpret the meaning of the accountability clause of the First Amendment.
Beginning on August 11, 2008, Bob Schulz will begin a hunger fast in Washington DC to draw attention to the fact that the Government of the United States of America has turned on its Free People by violating their Constitution and refusing to be held accountable, choosing instead to allow Americans to once again hunger for freedom and Redress of Grievances.
You can demonstrate your support for the Constitution and the Rule of Law by joining Bob for a day or two or, a weekend or more. A large scale, public hunger fast in the Gandhi tradition is needed, now.
Men died to make us free.
Men died to keep us free.
Freedom is a very fragile thing, never more than one generation away from being lost.
Each generation is responsible to the next as its Freedom Keepers.
Acta Non Verba. Deeds not words are needed now.
Time is of the essence.
Here is what you -- as a Freedom Keeper -- can do.
Go to www.GiveMeLiberty.org/revolution to volunteer to serve the Petitions for Redress
on your local Congressperson on June 30, 2008.
Go to www.GiveMeLiberty.org/revolution to volunteer to Petition your local federal court
on July 11 for an interpretation of the Constitution's accountability clause.
Go to www.GiveMeLiberty.org/revolution to participate in “Hungering for Redress”
in Washington, D.C. on August 11, 2008.
And finally, go to www.GiveMeLiberty.org/revolution to suggest any alternative plan.
THANK YOU.
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