September 11th, Ron Paul, Bob Barr and James Dean

Today, September 11^th, is a day to remember the dead, and renew our hope. On this, the 7^th anniversary of the attacks on the Pentagon and the Twin Towers, we have much to consider. Never in our history have we needed more wisdom; never have we so needed hope. Now cast your mind back in time. In those days after 9/11 you should remember that the world reached out to us with compassion. We were poised for peace, not war. No contrast could be greater. Today we understand how we were manipulated.

Today, finally, Americans are coming together, slowly erasing the chasms that have divided us. In so doing we are finding hope that, despite the deterioration in our economy, did not exist 7 years ago. Sometimes what you need to lose is your illusions.

We have moved through shock to confront truths that are unpalatable. We have found wisdom, gaining understanding and appreciation for what we have so nearly lost. What you come close to losing, you truly value.

In September 11^th my daughter should have been in one of those towers. An argument with her fiancé kept her home. Small things change our lives.

Now, so close to losing freedom, we need to see the world clearly and find wisdom.

In 1955 a wise man shared with me his vision of freedom. His words remain with me today. Those words changed me and my life. For a million different reasons today each of us sees ourselves, our nation, and freedom differently having learned it from many wise men and women over time.

While this is true for all, for those who work politically this takes on a special meaning now.

Over the last week events have taken place, refocusing us on what must be done if America is to turn back towards freedom. The two major parties have announced their candidates. John McCain found coat tails, lifting his faltering campaign out of the coffin.

That is politics as it has been.

Political parties are like all other human organizations; tools for our use and convenience. Human organizations are constituted for specific purposes. That may be civil, for business, or worship. They may be political. Any political party, like any organization, must be judged on its usefulness as a tool to enact our will. It matters not if you are a Republican, Democrat or member of a third party or refuse to participate. It matters mightily that you understand that in America the power was to remain always directly in the hands of the people.

Read the Declaration of Independence if you doubt the clarity of that intention. Every American should read it, every child should hear it and understand what it means to them personally.

The two party system has come close to destroying America . It has become the tool of those who steal our power. This week a coming together took place that was to send a profound message to all Americans. That message was muted by discord but still rings true.

Ron Paul held a news conference in Washington DC, calling on Americans to support third party candidates, refusing to endorse John McCain, who had begged him to do so. Paul was joined on the podium for the event by presidential candidates Cynthia McKinney of the Green Party, Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party, and Ralph Nader of the Reform Party. Conspicuously absent was the Libertarian candidate for president, Bob Barr. Those gathered were making the point that the two party system has stifled our choices politically and our freedoms. It was a point that needed making; a coming together that spoke loudly, joining action to rhetoric. Left to Right in American politics is disappearing. More and more every day, we are coming to see that our issues have one solution.

It was a profound moment.

Ron had built found common ground and urged all of us to stand together with one common agenda for peace, privacy, financial sanity, and the end of the Federal Reserve. Not a complete agenda, but a real beginning. Then Bob Barr was heard.

Barr did not attend the Coming Together News Conference. Claiming it conflicted with his own news conference, scheduled to take place just a short later in the same location, Barr thought his was more significant.

Barr has decided to offer Ron Paul the slot of vice-president. Anyone who has been a Libertarian longer than a day knew that Ron was the LP candidate in 1988 and could have had the LP presidential nomination at any time for the asking. Mary Ruwart, the candidate for the nomination this year who nearly defeated Barr, would have stepped aside to give it to him - if he would have taken it - in a heart beat. So why would Ron Paul want to accept a second slot to Barr? Clearly, he would not. His own agenda transcended party affiliation, which is completely in line with the founding vision of those who founded the Libertarian Party and makes a move away from partisan politics entirely.

If you listen they always tell you what they really mean. By announcing the 'offer' Barr proclaimed his desperation. Having promised to raise millions he is left with a rate of fundraising running at $25,000 a week. He has raised in total less than a million dollars. He has only 8,000 donors to the nearly 100,000 now donating to Ron Paul, who is not a candidate. Barr needed a Palin and the original was not available so he made a bid for Ron Paul, who declined.

The body with the power to change candidates is not Barr but the Libertarian National Committee. This fact obviously escaped Barr giving the onlookers another insight into how his mind works.

Libertarians govern their own organization. The LNC decides who will run if a replacement becomes necessary after the nominating convention. They have considered seriously removing candidates before. That might happen again.

Barr's clever strategy fell flat on its face, embarrassingly so. But Barr provides a useful example of a politician who persists in believing that his nomination was in effect an anointing. He has made his living selling the rhetoric of freedom in place of reality for his entire career. But he believes that politicians rule. He probably sees no difference between the words used to control and pacify you and the elemental truths affirmed by the words of Thomas Jefferson. Those likely confuse him.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. “

This latest revelation on what Bob Barr really thinks should therefore give all Libertarians pause, not just to consider why they nominated him in the first place but the deeper issue of why they allowed themselves to buy the lie of words intended only to deceive in place of the real thing.

Through the last more than 200 years, the hunger for freedom has endured despite the persistence of such lies. Over and over again Americans have believed the words, losing the reality of freedom. That same hunger founded the LP in 1971. Moved by the vision of America's founders, the original libertarians were determined to return government to the people.

Everyone makes mistakes and Libertarians are no different. But the mission remains. If the LP has a mission it is to awaken that truth in the minds of Americans. Never accept words in place of the reality of freedom. It is time to remember what freedom means.

Efficiency it is not freedom. Freedom is simpler and more profound; its nature lies in its universal truth, speaking to each of us and through each of us.

When I was very young the wise man I mentioned earlier told me what freedom was to him. We were sitting in the back yard watching butterflies. My little brother had exercised his own freedom by wandering off with his new lasso after our cat, Tiger Lady. Tiger had retreated slowly, keeping an eye on him. We watched. At age three Stephen's aim was not very good. My new lasso was sitting on my lap. Later, I would continue to practice spinning. This very wise man had just finished telling me about the courage and perseverance of Howard Roark the character from the Fountainhead. At age 6 I had yet to hear of Ayn Rand. Looking me right in the eye he said this, “Your freedom is is not one thing. It is everything. Freedom is your life, how you spend it. As you grow it will become all the things you dream, wish and work for. Those things,” he continued, “will be the record you take to God of how you spent the life He gave you. Freedom is God's gift to you.” Freedom is different for each of us, in each case unique. Freedom knows only the limits you accept.

Later this month, on September 30^th, the man who spoke those words to me, James Byron Dean, will have been dead 53 years. He lived his life a free man, as each of us should. Life and freedom, Jimmy knew, comes with no guarantees.

Freedom is personal. Government is the human tool we use to order our lives, reduce conflict, and secure justice. If it works it is a good tool. If it doesn't work we are free to change it.

Today, September 11^th, remember what freedom is for you and renew your determination to be someone who, working peacefully with others, governs yourself.

Next time you see Barr let him know.

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Sarah Palin, Ron Paul and Perception versus Reality

The corporates find the coat tails that McCain desperately needs.

Chuck and Sally Heath are proud of their daughter; they also have a bumper sticker on their truck that reads, “Vegetarian – Old Indian term for Bad Hunter.”

Sarah Palin, their daughter and, if the present nomination stays put, the next Vice President of the United States, was a pick that shocked and thrilled people who have long been indifferent to politics.

Have no doubt, the election results have been decided. The reforms needed to make it otherwise have not taken place. That said, the Palin phenomena is now changing the playing field, introducing new elements into an old game which just days ago, was so tired and obviously scripted that few cared.

Despite the undoubted charisma of Barack Obama, picked to ensure that the Democratic Party loses another bid for the White House, no doubt remains. A clear corporatist with no substantial experience or credentials and many doubts, his pick for VP brought with it no surge of support.

McCain was smarter. Only a vanishingly small number of those people know anything about Palin, but they are experiencing a rush of enthusiasm and, dare we say it? Hope.

Palin is the mother of five children. As the governor of Alaska and before that the mayor of her home town, Wasilla, where in 1984 she won the title of Miss Wasilla, she ran to enact reform each time. Charges she asked for federal assistance should alarm fiscal conservatives, perhaps, but why would Democrats, committed to the federalization of funding, be attacking her on that issue?

Her husband, Todd, reported to be an employee of BP is actually a blue collar worker and half native Alaskan. In one fell swoop, a real minority is a heart beat away from power. Amazing. The family yearly takes advantage of Todd's right to fish for part of the food they eat, something Palin herself loves doing.

In the wake of the announcement several things happened that increased her support. The first of these was the ugly reaction of Democrats generally. Palin was sneered at and vilified for being a hunter and having a bear skin in her gubernatorial office. In fact, Palin was raised in a family that depended on hunting as part of their livelihood, as traditional as apple pie and motherhood. Palin made the point that choosing to kill your own wild game is arguably less cruel that eating animals raised in the agonizing conditions common to feed lots.

Americans love a plucky underdog; this only burnished her appeal.

The attacks on Palin point up the chasm in values and culture that persists between right and left in America today. Palin's 18 year old son has enlisted in the army. Palin bemoans the energy policies that make America dependent on foreign oil. The birth of her most recent child, four months ago, was ogled by the left because the baby was born with Down's Syndrome. The family expressed nothing but joy at the birth. Within just a day Palin was denounced for running with a child so young while at the same time the values of those on the left affirm the right of women to do just that. When Palin announced that her 17 year old daughter is pregnant and will marry her baby's father and take responsibility for her choices many Democrats attacked her for not keeping her daughter from getting pregnant. Those of us who are parents might ask how you do that today. Americans are hungry for parents who do the right thing. Palin gave it to them.

This may well be a campaign that elicits a real dialogue on issues, something that would be good for all of us, an unexpected benefit coming out of a pick by McCain clearly made for reasons that were entirely political. He desperately needs the support of at least some part of the Conservative wing of the Republican Party. With Palin he gets more; he gets coat-tails that may well come with unexpected consequences. Voters who are excited by Palin personally, despite politics will have impact.

Why McCain picked Palin as a running mate illustrates the need to bolster the impression that the Republican Party has not stopped twitching. Their pick has been ratified by a rush of enthusiasm that holds an almost Princess Diana-like vibrancy. That enthusiasm flowed spontaneously at the recent Republican Convention, saving that gathering from a wake-like tenor.

The Rally for the Republican Conference, recently finished in St. Paul for Ron Paul, had more attendance; tens of thousands of Ron Paul supporters camped in and camped out around St. Paul to attend the event, listening to Dr. Paul speak about the need to renew freedom and the rights of individuals as the essential tenet in what he called, “The Freedom Philosophy” in his speech given on September 2^nd. The speech included this quote, “Individual liberty must be our goal. Prosperity and peace will follow. Without liberty, peace and prosperity are unachievable.”

Palin has also expressed liking and support for Ron Paul. Another plus this year.

Insiders whisper that Palin was picked because, among other reasons, she can be expected to fracture the support Ron Paul supporters would otherwise give to Chuck Baldwin, the candidate of the Constitutional Party and Bob Barr, former Congressman, who is now the candidate of the Libertarian Party. This may be well founded. While writing this article three prominent Ron Paul supporters were interviewed on the Palin nomination with interesting results.

Sheriff Richard Mack, the man who first filed against the Brady Bill in the early 90s affirmed his delight and support for Palin, saying she is, 'one great lady.” Mack was an early endorser of Ron Paul.

Connie Ruffley, the co-chairman of United Republicans of California and a Ron Paul supporter as well, was more moderate, expressing concern over some of the positions held by Palin, especially on her support of the War in Iraq.

But the most interesting response came from California's Mr. Conservative, former State Senator Don Rogers who said that if Palin was at the top of the ticket he would vote for her over all other candidates, even if she insisted on keeping McCain in the second slot. Rogers went on to point out the dangers McCain, who he characterizes as a RHINO, Republican In Name Only, corporatist who is, according to him, “A gun grabber who wants to give amnesty to illegal aliens.” Rogers then outlined the McCain history of having just last year partnered with Ted Kennedy on a bill that would have given amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens in our country. Further, Rogers continued, McCain would try to close gun shows, stop the private sale of guns, expand the Patriot Act, take away more of our freedoms, continue the destruction of the Constitution, and put the Security and Prosperity Partnership on fast forward. That plan, still in stealth mode in most parts of the country, would chop America in half, with a two football field wide corridor for global trade running through Texas to the Canadian border. That system is already in motion; something that surprises Americans who do not live in the area. Using her to trick conservatives to accept him and his one world government candidacy was nasty, but what can you expect?

The present presidential campaign is now decided. What remains in question is what if, as suggested by Senator Rogers, Palin was at the top of the GOP ticket. This goes along with other fantasies, for instance what if we had an honest election, but it makes the point.

Now let's find out.

If you like Palin and would support her for president let us know. If you loath McCain and would vote for Palin for President only if she dumps him, let us know that, too. I am sure McCain will be delighted to know. You can vote in this poll (which is honest) or you can actually send her a flower, which indicates even more enthusiasm. Then tell us why. In any case, check here next week and we will let you know what happened.

Americans, the Common Law, and Freedom – What you need to know.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —“

When you read the preamble to the Declaration of Independence remember what the world looked like to the men who wrote it. Then look at our world through their eyes; understanding their world and the institutions they used routinely brings understanding of what has gone so wrong with our world today.

Their world was the same and different. The agreement to go to war came after a long process of discourse over the issues, not by leaders, but by ordinary people. The Committees of Correspondence drove a dialogue on why the people should govern themselves, enacting formally what they had been doing for two centuries. They were a people who expected to cooperate, looking across into each other's eyes, never up to anyone in government.

Over that time they had built a vibrant and robust society that was stretching out in all directions. The people governed themselves, using of a system of organizing tools, proven over time. Those tools were town government operating with transparency, ensuring that real control remained directly in the hands of the people. For justice, they used the Common Law, brought with them from England.

Control of the functions of government through the town ensured that government would never eat up the seed corn. Direct scrutiny by the people on what was spent, the authority always with them to approve or deny, kept government small and honest. Delving back in time you see these people assumed that no one went into government to make money or secure their retirement because the pay was terrible and there were no benefits. Those serving in government were assumed to have enough money to be able to donate their time. That model still persists in some parts of New England. The same principles were in use for the justice system through the Common Law Courts. Judges performed a service to the community, drawing from their own time to do so.

In use by the people for centuries, the common law was not something apart from the people but like the air they breathed. School children saw it operating and were prepared to use it themselves when they became adults. Going to court was serious, a process treated with respect, but instead of dividing them they entered into that process knowing that, ultimately, there would be justice. Contrast that to how the system of courts looks to us today.

The Common Law is a system for justice that is handled directly by the people. That is the system our Founders assumed would continue; it was one of those tools, used sparingly, that allowed a free people to govern themselves directly. Town government, with its absolute transparency and resulting low costs, along with the Common Law, were the foundation for freedom that the Founders assumed would continue.

Elections handled directly by the people; the votes totaled openly and transparently.

Spending by government overseen directly by the people.

Common law courts that possessed the right to judge both the facts and the law.

The system worked. It remains the system intended by our Founders. It can still work today.

How do we become, again, a people who govern themselves? That we can do so is inherent in our mission statement. The Declaration of Independence says,

“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

The first Amendment of the Bill of Rights owes its existence to a common law case heard in New York in 1735. In 1735 the Royal Governor of New York attempted to suborn the right of jury to decide fact and law. It had begun with the publication of the New-York Weekly Journal in 1633 with Zenger as the editor. The paper began because Crosby, the Royal Governor, was corrupt and the people needed the truth. Zenger was arrested and incarcerated for telling the truth on November 17, 1734. The bail set made his release impossible.

The Zenger Case was heard on August 4^th of that year saw a jury of twelve men render the verdict of not guilty, thus overthrowing the law and setting a course that lead to the principle that the truth is its own defense. It was this case that remained in the minds of our Founders when they wrote the Bill of Rights, addendum to the Constitution, which was intended to limit government, never us.

The verdict of Not Guilty affirmed the right of anyone to break a law that violated the conscience of the community and the right of an individual to speak the truth.

The Zenger Case is with you any time you serve on a jury.

The Common Law is the muscle behind our rights.

Many today think of the Common Law as antiquated and impractical; nothing could be further from the truth. The disused understanding of these tools are waiting for us to pick up. They are easy to use and bring with them amazing benefits, also forgotten, that created the American people as different from any nation on the face of the Earth.

When you are empaneled as a juror on a Common Law Court you already understand that this is a grave responsibility. You take up the charge to become, with those others serving, the conscience of your community. You leave behind you any prejudices. Those who serve understand they must see the matter at hand dispassionately, demand the facts, scrutinize the evidence, see beyond evasion to the root of the issues. Then, the juror must reflect on each other point, listening as if the life of their community depended on it.

America itself owes its existence, in part, to another case where the jury refused to violate the conscience of the community and the right of the individual. That jury heard its case in England in 1670. King Charles II demanded the prosecution of William Penn for the crime of preaching his Quaker faith. The jury foreman, Edward Bushel, along with the rest of the jury, found the law unjust, in violation of the people's right to worship. The case was heard at the Old-Bailey from the 1^st to the and 5^th of Sept.

Afterwards, the jury was incarcerated for returning a verdict that outraged the judge. He directed that the jury reconsider their verdict. They retired and returned with the same verdict, Not Guilty. The judge then confined the jury in Newgate Prison to remain without food or water until the desired verdict was rendered. They continued to hold that William Penn was not guilty. Eventually they were fined and released.

William Penn, then 26 immigrated to Pennsylvania. The lesson of the right of the jury to decide is the birth right of all Americans and the midwife of our freedom.

The Common Law and its principles remain in use, though those now in power try to disguise their existence. A pivotal example of the same kind of courage shown in the Zenger and Penn cases took place in the township of Credit River, Minnesota on 12^th December 1968. The issue was the fraud being perpetrated by banks across the world. It is known as the Credit River Case.

Jerome Daly faced eviction from his home. Daly had sued the bank, his house in foreclosure; while reviewing the papers and practices he had noticed that the mortgage was issued with no legal consideration. The verdict rendered hinged on the admission by the president of the First National Bank of Montgomary that there was no legal consideration with the loan written for Jerome Daly's mortgage. The bank president testified, ‘this was standard banking practice exercised by their bank in combination with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, another private bank, further that he knew of no United States Statute or law that gave the plaintiff the authority to do this.”

Daly kept his home. Two weeks later the judge in the case, Mahoney, was murdered. No one ever said that freedom and justice would come without costs.

Courts that follow the common law accept the tenet that the jury decides on all issues, both fact and law; they can demand more information. Nothing is hidden from them. The judge is only there to be called on by the jury. They must understand that the rights of individuals trump statute, and, most importantly, they are acting as the incarnation of the conscience of the community.

Arguably, the most important check and balance to power in government is the power of the informed jury to decide on the issues of both of law and fact. Today, we as Americans face the need to restore to use the tools that connect us to our own power, granted not by government, but by God.

Start with your local county, establish your own Heritage Association on the common law and the Constitution.

Let your local law enforcement know what their obligations are under the Constitution.

Celebrate Jury Rights Day, September 5^th . Get to know the Fully Informed Jury Association.

A free people will govern themselves; a people who will be free do it themselves.

Restore the Constitution

About this Project

This is the first Restore the Constitution Project for you to undertake in your county. Using it you can deliver the message that the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the land. You will find instructions, sources for supplies and a Proof of Service Form for this project. Other projects, each on its own small site, will follow. Using these, you can serve law enforcement officers with a letter and a copy of the Constitution. If you like, you can also include a copy of “The Proper Role of Law Enforcement,” by Sheriff Richard Mack.

The project can be carried out by a small group very inexpensively. It is the first of a series of such projects. Together, the projects will enable you to restore your county to government by the people, transitioning from the present system to one that is stable and reliable and resistant to becoming uppity.

The Heritage Association, who is sponsoring the Restore the Constitution Projects, can be organized in each county to do further outreach to the people who you could never get interested in politics. Ordinary people are interested in learning the history of the Common Law and the Constitution using the speeches and other resources provided when it is introduced as a short presentation that includes history and made relevant. Through existing local organizations such as the Lion's Club and your local women's club, we can inject an understanding of how America was intended to work using the Common Law in the hands of the people and the Constitution to rigidly limit the power of government. You can show them how a common law court worked using the model we will provide. They can see how it feels to be a real jury, the kind familiar to our ancestors, that decided on fact AND law.

First broaden understanding into the mainstream, then we will be in a position to take effective action. This can happen in just a few months when accompanied by the opeds and other materials Heritage makes available. Heritage provides a foundation for local organizing; you can use it or another local organization, as works for you. Please read this and pass it on.

Thanks, Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

Restore Constitutional Government to America

Every day we move closer; every time we open the paper, surf the Internet, it is worse. Left, right, libertarian, green, we know in our bones and hearts that we need to take action. We have been divided along lines of political opinion where we should have been joined to find solutions. We have been cut off from each other, manipulated for the profit of corporations and their cronies. It is bad and when we look into the future there is little to spark hope; The meltdown of the economy and the narrowing of what is permitted us grows daily more frightening.

Like someone trying to restart their car as it rolls towards the cliff, we all face the same crying need whether we recognized that years ago or last week. We need to reactivate the Constitution as the law of the land. That awareness might have grow slowly but it has now reached a tipping point.

It was the Constitution, intended to limit government, never us, and the Common Law that were to stand between us and tyranny. They are the foundation of our freedoms, the tools we need desperately today to check the unbridled greed of those who are caging us in to a perpetual serfdom.

When we get in our cars, when we see a law enforcement officer we feel fear, not relief. It is wrong; it violates the intentions of our Founders and the spiritual direction intended for us as the people who would govern themselves.

We are being pitted against those sworn to protect and defend. This threatens us and also those who follow orders intended to use them as weapons against us. This is the pause point, when action is still possible without violence. Those in law enforcement must be recalled to their duty and to an essential understanding of their oath and the Constitution. It can be done.

We can thwart the attempt to use local law enforcement as a tool to oppress us. To do that we need to let them know directly that the Constitution was not canceled, as so many have been told. This morning I had a conversation with a friend in DC who was shocked speechless to discover that a year ago local police were beginning to lump 'Constitutionalists,' and those who talk about their rights along with gangs. I heard this in a local luncheon meeting of the National Federation of Republican Women from a deputy sheriff who waxed eloquent on the subject. Being a Constitutionalist myself I began to worry.

A few days ago another friend of mine was told by a local policeman that he did not have to pay attention to the Constitution. It was just a piece of paper

Most judges do not sign the oath of office mandated by the Constitution. Like Thomas Anderle of Santa Barbara, they act like they are the law.

When someone, or thousands of someones like those employed in law enforcement, are so seriously mistaken then it is time to take rapid action. In this country today those in law enforcement are being aimed at us, manipulated to do ugly things to us and our neighbors. Those training them are telling them this is what it means to be in law enforcement. It is wrong.

When the system is this far out of line you need to make sure they get the message. But that message must be non-violent; most of those in law enforcement are not rocket scientists and they, too, are at risk. Law Enforcement officers who violate their oath can and will end up in jail, lose their pensions, and be bankrupted by civil actions. And if they do not draw back that is what we need to make sure happens.

But it is far better for all of us to send them a word of caution and advise now.

So this is what we propose.

In every county in the US we need to serve everyone working in law enforcement with a demand letter requiring that they read the Constitution and be bound by it. We need to spell out the consequences for ignoring that demand, for their sake as well as our own.

If you have read Richard Mack's book, “The Proper Role of Law Enforcement,” or heard him speak you know about his story and how he was awakened to his obligation to follow the Constitution while he was still a cop writing traffic tickets. One day while writing a ticket he was struck by the fact that the woman had done nothing that endangered anyone or anything. He could not continue writing. Turning away, his mind in a tumult, he went into the station house, found the oath he had signed, and read it carefully. Mack said of that moment, “In the oath I gave my word and promise to protect and defend and obey the U. S. Constitution and the Utah Constitution as well. I had never read either and knew virtually nothing about them.” It changed his life. He began to study the Constitution. When Richard Mack became a sheriff himself he insisted each officer carry the small book with them. Those officers began calling it, “Mack's Bible.”

That moment of insight became the moment that turned back the threat of the Brady Bill, creating the Supreme Court Decision that affirmed the right of the sheriff in the local county to uphold the Constitution. The issue of that moment was the 2^nd Amendment but the larger issue was the obligation of the county sheriff to uphold the Constitution despite orders from Washington D.C.

We need every officer to confront the choices they will be asked to make before harm is done. We can do that now.

We have put together a simple set of instructions and some resources so you can gently remind law enforcement in your community that the Constitution of their duty and the danger they may face if they fail to choose honorably. You can find that site at Constitution Your County.

Although the future looks bleak we actually stand at a point in time that makes change more possible than you might imagine.

Americans are the people who fought to establish for all time the right to govern themselves. They fought and died to pass on to us that wisdom. The wise understand that hope is a place on the horizon towards which they look, that draws them to become greater than they imagined possible. The future looks bleak, but it can be wonderful, if we make it so. This can become the launch point for an America that takes us back to hope and on to a vibrant reality we live and leave our children. Together, we can make it so

Barak Obama is not qualified to be President. The REAL 13th Amendment

You walk in the kitchen and your four year old is standing next to the counter. The top is off the cookie jar and his face is suspiciously lumpy; the little mouth is working wildly, the throat is bobbing up and down. “Arthur, have you been into the cookie jar?” You go through the motions of asking, even if what is going on could not be more obvious.

“No, Mommy,” Arthur says through that last mouthful of cookie, “The top just fell off.” Then he looks at you to see if it is going to work. This is a defining moment. If you let it go the raids on the cookie jar will leave it empty. Good Moms know what to do.

Today Americans are experiencing just such a moment. The facts are out there in plain sight but it is painful to admit just how lacking in simple decency and honor those in positions of trust have been and for how long. There need to be consequences.

It is not such a reach from President, judges, congressmen et al to that four year old. They all saw the opportunity; they tested the limits. The four year old and the rest all use the Big Lie and Denial; the second grouping also use other methods, for instance misdirection into war and other techniques just as ugly. But now we are going to dig into the back story just a little. We are going to see just how obvious this all could have been if generations had not lapsed from the time the top came off the cookie jar until now. Sometimes the answers reside in the questions you did not ask. But given the imminent bankruptcy facing us today it was time you know.

You probably could not tell anyone what the 13^th Amendment says to save your life. You would be surprised to know that, even if you look, the real amendment, the one ratified by the Virginia General Assembly on March 12, 1819, is very different than the one you find today. It's rediscovery was a fluke through the research of archival research expert David Dodge late in 1983. Dodge was looking for evidence of government corruption in the public records sequestered in the Belfast Library in Maine when he and former Baltimore police investigator Tom Dunn came upon a copy of the U. S. Constitution printed in 1825. It included the text of the ratified 13^th Amendment, then the last amendment to that document.

They read, “If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from any Emperor, King, Prince, or foreign Power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them."

A title of nobility from an Emperor, King, Prince, Foreign Power? By taking away their citizenship our Founders showed they were very serious about the matter.

The title they aimed to eliminate was 'Esquire.' The allegiance they intended to make impossible for any American citizen was membership is the BAR Association. BAR means British Accredited Registry. It is a title of nobility, which explains a lot, given how most of lawyers act. All Bar Associations are directly affiliated with the international Bar Association. That organization is located at the Inns of Court at Crown Temple at Chancery Lane behind Fleet Street in London. As the District of Columbia is not part of any state and Vatican City is not part of Italy so this part of the Banking and Judicial system of the City of London is set apart, making it a sovereign and independent territory to Great Britain. Great Britain came under the control of the Rothschilds at the close of the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium on Sunday 18 June 1815. During the uncertainty of the battle the Rothschilds raided the funds that held the wealth of Britain, leaving Britain heavily in debt. Then they turned their eyes to America.

If you understand the history of Bar Associations in America the intentions of those who removed nearly all of the original Constitutions becomes clear, just like a clever four year old putting the top back on the cookie jar. No BAR associations were formed or operated in the United States for the period between 1822 and 1867. By then most Americans who understood had died.

The faux 13^th, actually the 14^th Amendment, was passed unlawfully, proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Thirty-eighth Congress, on the 31st day of January, 1865 at the close of the Civil War. Naturally, many states were not represented.

It was not an accident. After that time the infestation of lawyers began to rise and the power of the people began to diminish as statute law was used to displace the use of Common Law, which had remained securely in the hands of the people. The Common Law was one of the essential checks to runaway power that our Founders never imagined would be displaced.

Elections and direct control of the justice system are essential if a free people are to govern themselves. Those who have been raiding the cookie jar for so many generations now need slap down and the 13^th Amendment and a forensic audit of the books of every county in the US are the tools that will provide the whipping.

No one who is a member of the Bar Association can lawfully be in office. Those who are members of the Bar are not eligible to hold office. Those who would nominate Barak Obama, take note and also demand the medical records for John McCain. Each party must nominate someone who is sane and qualified, not vanilla and chocolate fascists. The same is true for nearly all judges, for instance Thomas Anderle of Santa Barbara Superior Court who, along with being a member of the Bar also rewrote his 'oath of office' in a way that now makes far more sense. The 'oath' Anderle signed excised the following:

"And I do further swear (or affirm) that I do not advocate, nor am I a member of any party or organization, political or other wise, that now advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of the State of California by force or violence or other unlawful means; that within the five years immediately preceding the taking of this oath (or affirmation) I have not been a member of any party or organization, political or other wise, that advocated the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of the State of California by force or violence.”

Anderle did not want to be liable for a membership that stripped him of US citizenship and left him accountable for treason. He wanted to continue to profit from a systematic and outrageous interlinkages of corporations from which he profits mightily along with the favored category of 'government employees' who have been bleeding America dry for generations.

Most county employees are oblivious, and rightly so. They do not profit much from the system. Those profits go to a small number of individuals occupying such positions as 'judge,' as in the case of Tom Anderle in Santa Barbara. Most employees are not 'participating' in the pension funds that are collected from tax payers. They receive a pension but that is a tiny mite of money compared to the monumental flood of wealth that flows through those funds into investments in pharmaceuticals, war munitions, banking and petroleum industries through the 'corporations' that place those funds for the benefit of those few. The habits of bankers are very contagious.

You might have wondered why the world seems upside down, how Anderle and others in his position could profit.. This is how it happens. The slight of hand is in the incorporating, the voracious greed that sees no need to concern itself with consequences, and the kind of people who will do anything to occupy positions of trust.

A county or city incorporates to immunize itself from accountability. Incorporating is a shield from liability for those involved in the biggest scam ever visited on a trusting people. Like the 13^th Amendment, the scheme was worked out over time, before our eyes, enabling those we trusted to ignore the Constitution and original court system, displacing the courts intended to remain in the hands of the people with the 'courts' you see today staffed with 'judges' whose allegiance is not to the legitimate government of America but to, surprise, the Municipal Corporation of the District of Columbia and to their Bar Association, and so by affiliation to the International Bar Association in Britain.

The profits were a real temptation. In California, for instance, those amount to millions, and millions of dollars paid out to each judge. Firemen and police receive a pittance in comparison and all of it is paid for by the people who have returned to the status of serfs, laboring day and night to pay tithes to those who have placed themselves in positions of nobility.

And 'Judge Anderle' eats his long lunch at the University Club, farts happily, while belching and considers a portfolio that continues to grow long from a poverty imposed by stealth, theft, and more ugliness than you can imagine.

Americans have been reduced to a condition of ryot tenure, also called 'soft slavery' that gives the illusion of freedom while tied to the land, forced to pay to live. Today government, through FEMA, is buying up food in anticipation of what is to come. A company in Washington State that sells freeze dried food was forced just a short while ago to sell its entire stock to FEMA, despite the contracts it had signed to supply that food to ordinary Americans. As our food now comes largely from abroad you will soon have to surrender to eat.

The cookie crumbs are all over their faces and it is time to get out the rod and teach them that crime does not pay.

Americans can be free; Start now; take back your county. Free yourself of your illusions, then get busy.

What Law Enforcement Needs to Know

There is no Nuremberg Defense for those who violate the Constitution – Take Note.

Nuremberg delivered a message that is very much on point today for those in government; If you are employed in law enforcement, take heed. Most police and sheriffs today have been lied to, sold a bill of goods. Most believe that they do not have to uphold the Constitution; they believe they are safe from prosecution and accountability if they follow orders. That principle was debunked in Nuremberg and will be again.

Cops hear it from 'up the chain of command,' they hear it when they go into court to testify. But as they violate the rights of those their oath promises to preserve and protect they walk on thin ice. They are listening to lies, putting reliance in falsehoods. Americans are slow to anger but anger is coming. If you swore to uphold the Constitution, take note.

Most judges sitting on the bench today are there unlawfully. An example is Thomas Anderle, who is 'on the bench' in Santa Barbara County. Anderle, an exemplar of all that is wrong with the system; he has ignored his obligation to affirm the oath of office mandated by both the State of California and the US Constitution. Full of arrogance, he rewrote the pledge, eliminating its most important parts and has posted no bond, paid for by himself. This noticed, all decisions he rendered are void. Anderle and other judges understand this. Today, many are frantic to set up trusts that immunize them from what will come so they can keep their ill-gotten gains. Those who set up off shore trusts for individuals report increasing trade from clients in government. Those in law enforcement remain oblivious; they are unaware of the liabilities they face.

Judges knowingly encourage law enforcement officers to commit unconstitutional acts, for instance traffic tickets. Most in law enforcement are less well educated and used to just taking orders. The incomes of judges are heavily dependent on the monies squeezed out of Americans in this and other ways – and selling verdicts is profitable. Compliant cops are essential to those profits. Cops will be left flat-footed, mouths gaping when called to account for their actions. They should not expect support from those who are now giving the orders. Bush will be in Paraguay, which has no extradition; No accident.

But a few courageous individuals have always been willing to stand up for the rights granted, not by government but by God, as set out in the Declaration of Independence. These examples stiffen the spine and show us the way.

Charlie Sprinkle insisted on a jury trial when he refused to take out a driver's license in 1973. The jury later told him they would have found him innocent if the judge had not directed them to find him guilty. That, in case you did not know, also violated the Constitution. The Constitution was written to be used with the Common Law and that system of justice, in use for over a thousand years, relies on the ability of the jury to determine matters of both law and fact. That was affirmed in our Constitution because of the Zenger Case heard in New York in 1735. Zenger broke the law; that law was publishing the truth about the Royal Governor in New York. That case gave you the 1^nd Amendment and the case was alive in the minds of our Founders when they wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The truth needs no excuse and makes no apology. Law and fact are both determined by the jury in the Common Law. Juries are intended to exercise veto power over legislation that violates the Constitution. Both by elections and the law, the power was to remain in the hands of the people.

During Charlie's attempts to resist compliance with the fine the court had demanded the judge leaned forward and said, “I know we are committing treason but there is nothing I can do about it. If I let you comply with the Constitution the US will be broke in three days.” Charlie again refused. “No, Sir,” said Charlie, “The Constitution does not give government the right to force Americans to have licenses. I'm not going to do it.” And he didn't.

Eventually, Charlie went to jail because he refused to pay the $35.00 fine mandated by the court for not complying and having a driver's license. Charlie was and is a Constitutionalist. He knew perfectly well that the Constitution does not give the government the right to force people to have a license to drive.

After refusing to pay the first time Charlie was asked to come back in thirty days after he had considered whether or not he would pay. Returning in one month, Charlie informed the court he did not have $35.00 in legal tender. Legal tender was, Charlie informed the judge, gold or silver coin, as stated in Article 1, section 9 of the U. S. Constitution. To pay in Federal Reserve Notes would be to conspire with the court in treason, a criminal act. When you see what is right, you do it. Charlie did that.

Charlie went to jail because his conscience allowed him no alternative. Today there are more decent men and women serving time in jail than there are in law enforcement or on the bench or in any area of 'public service.'

That is one reason we need more men like Charlie and Sheriff Richard Mack.

Decent and honorable men like Sheriff Mack have tried to warn us and get the word to law enforcement officials. While still a cop handing out traffic tickets Richard Mack saw that what he was doing violated the oath he had taken to uphold the Constitution. Until then he had not read that document. When he saw that he changed how he did his job. He became a peace officer, working to serve and protect.

In 1994 it was Sheriff Mack who filed against the Brady Bill, overturning that unconstitutional law with the Mack-Printz Decision in 1998. There have always been individuals who stood up and did the right thing. Mack is still speaking out today and he will never be silenced.

When Charlie got out of jail in 1973 he filed a law suit against Ronald Reagan, then governor of California, and his wife, Nancy. He called Nancy a welfare queen sucking at the public trough. After the law suit was filed, and after the lawyers failed three times to have the suit dismissed, Charlie received an offer. He was then living in the low rent district of Ventura, California.

A sleek black limo rolled up to Charlie's door. Charlie was watching the neighborhood; he knew the authorities were a touch annoyed with him. Two guys got out of the car dressed in dark suits. They came to the door and asked for Charlie. Charlie today confessed to being a little cautious. The two men told Charlie that if he did not pursue the law suit he would never be molested again. Charlie considered this and told the two men he would think about it.

Charlie let 15 minutes go by. Then he got in to his car and took off for the 101 Fwy heading north towards Santa Barbara going 90 miles an hour. He passed a CHP car and then pulled over, waiting for the CHP to stop, which it did.

The officer asked for Charlie's license. Charlie told the officer he did not want or need a license.. The officer asked for his name. Informed, the officer asked if there was anything he could do to help. Charlie declined and the officer nodded and returned to his car. Today Charlie still does not have a license.

That should be all of us. Together, it can be. Know your rights, stand up for them.

It does not matter if you are an American. All of us are invested with inherent rights before any government existed. Government did not give you your rights; it cannot take them away. Each of us is sovereign over ourselves but over no one else. America is the nation made up of the people who govern themselves. If someone tells you different refer them to Thomas Jefferson.

Those in law enforcement need to understand that the people are the government. We are slow to anger, slow to act. As Thomas Jefferson said so eloquently,

“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

Freedom is not free, but it is worth the price, We paid that price once and we can do it again.

Restore the Constitution; Indict Thomas Anderle.

We live in a world where the handicapped are tazered sitting in their wheelchairs; where Americans will be forced to wear an electronic bracelet to travel on a plane; where our conversations are recorded though the phones for which we pay, and where the prison system is viewed as a profit center for government. This should give you pause. As you watch, the banks that held the sweat and earnings of lifetimes are melting down into nothing. Our funds are disappearing into the already bulging coffers of foreigners. It is time to take stock, to look baldly at where we are and consider what it means to be an American.

On the 4th of July you probably watched fireworks, a distraction. Instead, listen as someone reads aloud the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration is the mission statement of a people who rejected the idea that government was sovereign, instead fulfilling the vision of a people who governed themselves.

How long has it been since we had an honest election? For how long have you accepted the pablum dished out as patriotism without understanding that being an American means not flags and fireworks but insisting that the power of government remain directly with people?

After years of war those long dead revolutionaries adopted a Constitution intended not to govern them but to strictly limit what government could do in their names. One of the most important safeguards they included was an Oath of Office, to be signed and kept on file for every one of those employed to do the work assigned to government.

Today as many as 90% of those elected to positions of trust ignore that Oath. They have their reasons, and those reasons would incite our Founders to action. They should move us to action as well.

Included with this mailing is a copy of the complaint and demand filed with the District Attorney for Santa Barbara County, Monday July 14th, 2008. The matter to be taken up is the unlawful presence of Thomas Anderle, sitting as a judge of the Superior Court of Santa Barbara. “Judge” Anderle placed on file a truncated Oath of Office, failed to pay for a bond, and otherwise violated the law and the Constitution of the State of California and the U. S. Constitution.

George Bush has said that the Constitution is just a piece of paper. What do you think? How do you feel when you read about another attack on Americans by our own government? If you think the Constitution is just a piece of paper then you are wrong. It is the bulwark intended to protect you from corruption. Today we need to make sure it is fully in force.

On the 4th of July you should have read the Declaration of Independence. Remind yourself what it means to be free and an American. Then read the complaint being filed against Thomas Anderle below. No one can be free unless they free themselves from illusion first.

“”Addendum of Complaint and demand for Grand Jury against Thomas Anderle, sitting unlawfully as a judge of the Superior Court of Santa Barbara.

Cause of Action:

  The Constitution of the State of California requires that an oath be signed
for any elected official to be lawfully in office.  Additionally, the official must
provide a bond, paid for by himself. The wording of the Oath of Office is mandated by
law.  In California that wording, found in the,  “CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE 20
MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS is as follows:

"I, ______, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States
and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith
and allegiance to the  Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California; that I take
this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully
discharge the duties upon which I am about
to enter.

     "And I do further swear (or affirm) that I do not advocate, nor  am I a member of any party or
organization, political or other wise, that now advocates the overthrow of the Government of the  United States
or of the State of California by force or violence or other unlawful means; that within the five years immediately
preceding the taking of  this oath (or affirmation) I have not been a member of any party or organization, political
or other wise, that advocated the overthrow of the Government of the  United States or of the State of California
by force or violence

   or other unlawful means except as follows:
   ________________________________________________________________

       (If no affiliations, write in the words "No Exceptions") and that during such time as I hold the office
of ______________

   ________________________________ I will not advocate nor become
           (name of office)
 a member of any party or organization, political or otherwise,  that advocates the overthrow of the
Government of the United  States or of the State of California by force or violence or other unlawful means."

 
The Oath of Office was taken very seriously by our Founders. For any elected
official, including all judges, to lawfully occupy an elected office, the Oath
must be signed by a notary and the seal present. Even then the Oath is not binding
if not accompanied by a Bond, paid for by the individual himself.  The bond provides
insurance for litigants against corruption or incompetence by the judge. A record of
that bond must be on file and available for public scrutiny. Every litigant should
demand this proof to ensure that the judge is acting lawfully.
 
Each of these specific requirements must be in place and on file. Failure to fulfill
any of the above is a felony. 
 
In the case of Thomas Anderle, presently sitting on the bench of the Superior Court
in Santa Barbara, the Oath of Office fails all of these requirements.  First, it
has been intentionally altered.  The second paragraph is missing, entirely excised.
On this alone Anderle is occupying the office of judge unlawfully.  But there is more.

 
The document has at the top “corrected” and this poses the question of why such a
notation would have been made and, given the many discrepancies with the document,
what the word, “corrected,” was intended to explain.
 
The evidence  is a copy of the Oath on file. (see copy reproduced on the last page).

 
The Oath is itself evidence of a felony.  Anderle is guilty, caught in the act.
 
A copy of this complaint is being sent to the media, both in Santa Barbara and
nationally and to the Office of the Attorney General for the State of California
and to all Federal officials who are required by their own Oaths to take action
in the matter.  Anderle had been elected to positions of trust by the legal
community, bringing into question their honor and judgment as well.  Since the
rectitude and honor of the entire system must now be in question it is essential
that this inquiry be open to the greatest possible scrutiny.
 
That this has been allowed to take place must, necessarily, bring much more into
question.
 
The lack of the Oath of Office, a simple requirement intended to ensure compliance
with the Code of California, the State Constitution and the Constitution of the
United States, has effectively removed accountability for all decisions rendered.
No one whose career has been in law can argue ignorance, the facts and bald, glaring.
The next question is whether or not Anderle altered the oath and failed to post his
bond because he had reason to fear he would be opened up for other charges.  Since
the part of the Oath Anderle removed was included in the second paragraph it is
reasonable to consider the content of that section for indications of what he
intended to evade.  That section reads,

"And I do further swear (or affirm) that I do not advocate, nor am I a member of any party or organization, political or other wise, that now advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of the State of California by force or violence or other unlawful means; that within the five years immediately preceding the taking of this oath (or affirmation) I have not been a member of any party or organization, political or other wise, that advocated the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of the State of California by force or violence.”

Excising the part of the Oath that makes it actionable to be a member of a party or
organization that advocates the overthrow of the government by means political or
otherwise, brings Anderle's motives into critical focus. The Grand Jury should
scrutinize every part of Anderle's life and that of his family and professional
associates and clients.  
 
However, some matters leave no doubt  Thomas Anderle, has never been lawfully on
the bench of the Superior Court of Santa Barbara, this being his second term, many
cases have been decided;  Therefore all decisions rendered in every case must be
deemed vacated.  All litigants who came before him must be notified immediately.
At a minimum all cases need to be relitigated.  The costs and damages for this
fall strictly and entirely on Anderle and on those who were derelict in their
duty, acting under color of law.  Anderle as an individual and those others who
ignored their duty must be held accountable, not the taxpayers.  The proof here
presented is irrefutable.
 
The Grand Jury must be called; an investigation undertaken.  The oaths of all
officials involved  must be examined.  Are their own Oaths in order?
 
Failure to act in this instance is, itself, actionable.
 
The Supreme law of the United States is the Constitution.  In California it
resides in the State Constitution.  Ultimately, the government in all of its
parts resides in the people; when the honor of any part of the institutions
elected by the people are in question, the power to change it is theirs. 

This matter goes beyond one rogue judge to questions for which the people must have

answers; That accounting must be rendered.””

It is time that we, the people, examined every Oath of Office by every judge
and other official.  It is time for the accounting to begin.
 
Benjamin Franklin said this, “Those who give up essential liberty to purchase
a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.”  What you do now
will tell your children and grandchildren if you, yourself, deserved freedom -
and it will determine everything about their future.

The Trial of George Bush for Treason in your County

Today is the 4^th of July. Remember the Revolution, Read the Declaration of Independence. Consider the world that confronted those now dead. Then charge George Bush with Treason and Murder. We were once free and we can be so again. We have the tools, if we will use them.

Restoring the Constitution is a need that is long past the band aids of opeds and education. To keep it from dying Americans must use it to restore the government, taking control into their own hands. That will be a battle in itself, but it can be done. Americans have been hammered, subjected to a disinformation campaign, intended to remove from use the Common Law and the Constitution intended to limit government, not the rights of the people. Remember that. The Constitution was to limit not you but the government. This, government may do only these things and no more; that was the message then, it is the message today.

Restoring the freedoms that the Revolution was fought to protect and affirm means not just acquainting us with that document but putting the law our Founders intended us to use to enact justice for ourselves in our own communities into use. That is the Common Law. CopperCards shows you how to use the Constitution and Common Law together, as intended by our Founders.

Today you can do that. You can use the Common Law to form juries in your county. A jury of twelve people can hear charges and the accused can be summoned to hear those charges and defend himself against the truth presented.

There is a reason they attacked those who understand the Common Law. The truth is dangerous to those use government to steal. “The Anti-Government Movement Guidebook,” Guns are not the first weapon they wanted to take out of your hands. The Constitution and Common Law are what they fear most.

You could charge George W. Bush with Treason. You can charge him with murder. The evidence overwhelmingly supports those charges. Will you come forward to establish a Common Law Court in your county? We can show you how.

If you were forced to pay taxes to support the War in Iraq you have a legitimate cause of action against those who took Americans to war, killing millions. If someone you loved died, you have the means in your hands to take action. The Founders put the power and means in your hands. You can be heard; justice can be done. The perpetrator can be tried, convicted, sentenced, and that sentence carried out.

Today you can begin. Nearly every statute passed by those elected violates the intentions of our Founders. The Constitution was intended, remember, to limit them, not us.

Declare your Independence with a new beginning where you live. Will yours be the first county in America to find George Bush guilty? If your sheriff refuses to obey the law will yours be the first county to remove him from office? Most of those elected to office today sit in those positions of trust illegally. Most have no Oath of Office on file. Many have removed the part of the Oath. Few pay for the bond required. All of these Oath, complete, signed and notarized, bond paid, are required. If they are not present the judge, sheriff, commissioner, magistrate, or other Oath-bound official, is sitting in violation of the Constitution. You can remove them; their pretense is itself a felony.

If enough officials are removed, you can constitute a committee to hold an election and elect people to office who will honor their Oaths and the Constitution. Make sure Black Box and those others who understand are involved. Make sure your precincts elect their precinct committee. Use only a paper ballot. Count at the precinct and tally transparently. Then, you will know it was honest.

The power is in your hands because the Declaration put it there. No people will govern themselves unless they know that theirs is the power. Know it.