December 23, 2005

Hungering For Redress

Fulfilling America’s Promise

Approximately 2,005 years ago a brilliant star appeared in the Eastern sky. Wise men followed the star and were guided to the source of eternal truth, freedom and peace on Earth.

Almost 1800 years later, the Creator provided another star to guide His People —that star was America’s Founding Documents.

The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution together set forth what our Founders believed to be the Creator’s design for lawful civil government. These Founding Documents represented a revolutionary concept of limited servant government based on the principles of individual liberty, equal justice and respect for private property.

America’s Founding Documents defined a radical departure from the prevailing culture of “State Worship”, or the belief that the State is somehow superior to the individual man. Instead, America’s founders envisioned a new form of civil government--one that would serve as the Creator’s Minister of Truth And Justice; one that would honor personal freedom and equal justice under the law; one that would recognize the individual as Sovereign over his own life and his lawfully acquired property; one that would be strictly limited by written constitutions approved by the People.

Tragically, a large segment of our population has rejected America’s heritage of faith and freedom. Many Americans believe the principles of limited government, individual liberty and personal responsibility are no longer relevant, much less worthy of devotion. We have reached the moment in America’s history where human desire for wealth and power is no longer constrained by the rule of law; where society has rejected any minimum standard of moral conduct and common decency; where the institutions of government, academia and commerce have become widely populated by arrogant, intellectually dishonest and morally corrupt men and women who view America’s heritage of faith and freedom with contempt.

Do not be confused. We are dangerously close to severing the ties that have held us together as one nation for over 225 years.

The non-believers in the Founding Documents who have achieved positions of significant power and influence in our society are legion. They have no allegiance to the faith and ideals of our Founding Fathers. They believe that any Rights that we enjoy are nothing more than privileges selectively distributed and administered by the State. They believe that the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights are merely “pieces of paper”, and “living documents”, subject to fraudulent usurpation and selective interpretation by ignorant politicians and dishonest judges.

They do not believe that government power and control over the People should be strictly limited by our Federal and State Constitutions, or by the ultimate Sovereign Power from which they derive their legitimate lawful authority on Earth.

When we consider the state of the union today, we are forced to conclude that these non-believers have bought and weaseled themselves into positions of significant power and influence over the foundational institutions of our society, and are now in the process of assuming absolute control over the People.

For instance, consider what the non-believers did in 2005 to the sacred and unalienable Individual Right of Property. First, the non-believers in the judicial branch declared, citing the man-made doctrine of “eminent domain,” that the State can seize an individual’s real property and turn it over to another private person or corporation if the State receives a promise of more tax revenue from the forced transaction. Non-believers in the state and federal legislative branches then stepped into the fray with great fanfare as the “People’s benefactors”.

Our elected representatives passed laws giving “them” the power to regulate the government taking of our property for private purposes. In an unprecedented affront to America’s Founding Principles these so-called public servants have finally succeeded at undermining 225 years of constitutional protection and judicial restraint by converting the People’s Creator-endowed Right to Private Property into a State-granted privilege.

It is true: the most pernicious form of tyranny is that which disguises itself as a benefactor of the People.

Consider also America’s undeclared wars, un-enforced immigration laws, judicial corruption, vote fraud, monetary fraud and the rapidly expanding police state with all of its Orwellian spying on the People.

Consider also the fact that every working person in America is now forced to turn over more than one-half of his or her earnings to the non-believers and their constituents who control our government. By using force and intimidation to seize the first fruits of the ordinary American’s labor (who must pay financial tribute to the non-believers before he is allowed to clothe, shelter and feed himself), the government has assumed absolute power and control over his life and property--the complete opposite of the limited servant government guaranteed to the People by our Founding Documents. By controlling his means of independence and self-reliance, the government reduces the average American worker to the position of indentured servant—forced to support those who produce nothing.

Finally, consider this. In 2005 the United States District Court for the District of Columbia erroneously dismissed WTP’s Right to Petition lawsuit, relying on specious reasoning and off-point case law. Astoundingly, the federal district judge in this historic case stated that the government, “does not have to listen or respond” to the People’s grievances.

By its decision, the court has attempted to effectively abolish, by judicial fiat, the People’s Right to Petition our servant government for Redress of our Grievances.

If allowed to stand, this blatantly arrogant and unconstitutional lower court decision would establish a formal legal precedent by which government at all levels could ignore with impunity the constraints imposed on its conduct by our Constitution and Bill of Rights, and consequently destroy America’s unique heritage of popular sovereignty—that is, government of, by, for and accountable to the People.

The time has come for the tireless minority of believers in the star of 1776 to act to preserve, protect and defend the Founding Documents and the essential Principles that have defined and sustained us as a free nation and free People for over two centuries. Be not afraid.

2006: The Pivotal Year

For years, the WTP organization has stood and listened as large numbers of organizations and individuals issue increasingly urgent cries, lamenting the continued erosion of our Republic and Fundamental Principles of Liberty for which she stands.

Although we too lament and despise the growth of this tyranny, the We The People Foundation has, uniquely, been determined to do something about it.

Unlike most organizations, ours has fully committed to, and has successfully executed, a wide program of civic education and Constitutional activism (in all its non-violent forms) to counter the otherwise unchecked abuses of power by our servant government.

Over the last half-decade the activism of the We The People Foundation has garnered a substantial level of national attention, including that of the national media, the White House and the U.S. Congress, including the Senate Finance Committee. Tens of thousands of ordinary Americans have watched -- and supported -- our organization as together we have put forth a far-reaching program of non-political education and direct, high-visibility confrontations with the non-believers -- all in the interest of accountability in government.

One only need flip casually through the cable channels or Internet media sites to see that over the past few years, there has been a growing cacophony of troubling national and world events – including bold, and gross violations of our Constitution by our own government, trending toward, in no uncertain terms, the significant possibility that our form of governance – initially manifest by our Founding Fathers in 1776-1791, may be extinguished during our generation. In short, our Constitutional Republic is being methodically “morphed” into a democracy, where the majority can vote away Individual Rights and the ballot box is the only way to hold government accountable.

At the heart of all these events lies a simple, but profoundly disturbing truth: the government of the United States, has for decades, vilely abused the most important functions of legal authority that have been delegated and entrusted to it by a trusting, if not naive and apathetic People, and that government has grown beyond the practical control of the People.

Worse yet, our government has become beholden to the unseen faces and forces of political corruption, corporate influence and financial benefactors that feed from the public fisc.

The worst of these enemies are the institutions of the government itself. Guided not by a compass aligned with the limitations of a written Constitution, but by the selfish interests of a well-entrenched bureaucracy, staffed and served by those who thirst for power and money, and feed off the table of those that produce everything.

Our servant is taking over our house, virtually uninhibited by legal, moral or geographical boundaries.

Because the non-believers in our servant government have gone so long without concerted, serious challenges by the People, it is apparent that those that control our government now think nothing of committing crimes -- constitutional or otherwise -- to secure their reprehensible ends.

In fact, for those paying the slightest attention to the leading news stories of our day, e.g., the fraudulent Iraq War, the Patriot Act, illegal immigration, vote fraud, abuses of property rights, government spying, judicial corruption, social security funding, etc., it is not beyond credulity to suggest that only extraordinary means by We The People will check our government back into Constitutional Order.

This Brings Us To 2006.

How much longer do We – as a sovereign People – risk the total annihilation of the Principles of popular sovereignty, separation of powers, and government accountability, as we stand idly by, worshipping false idols and consumed by the daily chatter, activities and distractions of our lives?

Are we to continue to blindly trust those in power and their claims that all is okay as we move philosophically from a “just enough” to a “never enough” economy, while the “termites of tyranny” consume the timbers that support our Republic, gutting the Bill of Rights, and leaving only the symbolic gesture of our flag, raised above a vast fascist and totalitarian state to which all but the elite are enslaved?

Are our personal priorities and transitory endeavors so fixed and permanent in our family and professional lives that we can no longer set them aside – and sacrifice, even for a relatively short period, our resources and our commitment to serve a larger good – even if that good includes the defense of the Divinely inspired Founding documents and Principles?

If not now, when?

When will be the time to acknowledge that our most significant threats come from INSIDE our own nation and our own government? When will be the “right” time to get serious, to begin, in earnest, exercising our Right of Popular Sovereignty (our most precious, individual, natural Right) to restore the Constitution by holding our public servants accountable?

When will it be time to recognize that “I” must make this a priority in “my” life by taking a personal stand, by making a personal commitment that requires a personal sacrifice?

Dare we risk waiting longer?

To these questions, We The People resoundingly answers: The time is now.

2006: A Year of Bold Action
& Personal Commitment

In 2006, the We The People Foundation and the We The People Congress intends to provide the leadership needed to peacefully restore governmental accountability and Constitutional Order before it is lost for all time, absent future conflagrations, civic upheavals and bloodshed.

In 2006, with your prayers and support, a great revival will will rise forth across America. With your participation, the world will witness as Americans give new luster to its 230 year-old star. By the end of April, the world will begin to learn about our Divinely inspired Founding Documents and who really holds the ultimate power in America.

By the end of April, the non-believers in our servant government will know that their days of freely abusing our magnificent gift and failing to provide honest responses to the People’s Petitions for Redress of Grievances are now numbered.

Toward these ends, the We The People Foundation For Constitutional Education today presents to you, the People, its Operations Plans for 2006, including objectives, strategies and activist events for 2006.

Over the next few days, two additional presentations will be forthcoming. The first will be the 2006 Operations Plan for the We The People Congress. We believe you will agree that the plan represents a very significant step-change in our effort to institutionalize citizen vigilance and to organize, nationwide, for non-violent civic action. The other presentation involves an overview of the substantial level of mission-critical Right-to-Petition related litigation that WTP has been in the thick of for the past year or so, with virtually no public discussion from our organization.

WTP Foundation Operations Plan and Budget

Below are highlights of the Foundation’s 2006 Operations Plan. This is your Foundation. We urge everyone to read the full planning document, including Mission Statement & Strategy, organizational chart and fiscal year operating budget.

To begin, the WTP Foundation intends to radically reorganize and bolster its staff and Board of Directors to include the deployment of several full-time professional staff positions to manage projects and programs, communications, public relations, information technology, office administration and finance/fund-raising.

Crucial to this reorganization is the complete and permanent relocation of the WTP headquarters from upstate New York to the Washington, DC area. This relocation will enhance the Foundation’s ability to interact with government officials, the dominant media and other organizations that are allegedly focused on protecting and preserving individual Liberties, Rights and Freedoms. The move to DC will also enhance the Foundation’s ability to manage its DC based events.

Next April, the Foundation will stage two major events in Washington, DC that, prayerfully, will attract the attention of the national media, the People, and the non-believers to the matters at hand.

First, the Foundation will host its next national Give Me Liberty conference, GML2006. This conference will build directly off the momentum and focus established during last year’s conference (GML2004) and will feature an array of internationally renowned figures and organization leaders gathered to specifically address the Petition for Redress as the “capstone” Right, and the sound reliance that can be placed on that Right as a means of resolving all constitutional oppressions and grievances by government. The planned dates for this event are Friday, April 21 through Sunday, April 23.

On Monday, April 24, 2006, immediately following the GML2006 conference, our “Hungering for Redress” event will commence on the front steps of the People’s House. The vision is hundreds, if not thousands of individuals participating in a two-week hunger strike to draw national attention to the fact the government non-believers have instigated a constitutional crisis by first refusing to answer the People’s formal Petitions for Redress of Grievances, and then, by formally declaring that if the People want to hold the government accountable the only way they can do so is by the ballot because the government “does not have to listen or respond” or otherwise recognize the Sovereign People or their unalienable Rights.

Never before in our history have the People gathered anywhere in America for a mass hunger fast. Never before have so many Americans been alienated by a loss of their unalienable Rights. Never before have the People staged a mass-hunger strike on the steps of the Capitol. Not since the Revolution has the issue of Popular Sovereignty been the focus of a large scale popular Natural-Rights struggle.

”Hungering for Redress” will be a first-of-a-kind civic protest event and holds the potential to draw significant national attention to the Right-to-Petition issue and our battle to restore Constitutional Order. We urge you to clear your schedule and begin to make plans to come to DC.

To gather support and participation for the April “Hungering for Redress” event, the Foundation is holding a series of regional public meetings around the country each weekend between late January and early April.

The schedule is as follows:

Saturday January 28: Tucson, Arizona
Saturday February 4: Denver, Colorado
Saturday February 11: Austin, Texas
Saturday February 18: Florida
Saturday February 25: California
Saturday March 4: North Carolina
Sunday March 5: South Carolina
Saturday March 11: Washington State
Sunday March 12: Oregon
Saturday March 18: Illinois
Saturday March 25: New Hampshire
Sunday March 26: Vermont
Saturday April 1: New York
Sunday April 2: New Jersey
Saturday April 8: Virginia

Friday, April 21 – Sunday, April 23
Give Me Liberty 2006 National Conference,
Washington, DC

Monday, April 24 – Sunday, May 7
“Hungering for Redress” WTP protest event
Washington, DC.

During 2006, WTP will also pursue its appeal of the District Court’s decision in the landmark Right-to-Petition lawsuit. The case is docketed and will be heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Whoever loses in the Court of Appeals can be expected to petition the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Foundation also plans to radically rework its website configurations and deploy ever-advancing Internet technologies in conjunction with the bold new WTP Foundation and WTP Congress Operations Plans. Chief among the initiatives are: the continued production of Liberty Hour video streaming series (following the DC relocation and readying of the in-house production studio); the adaptation of “blogging” and video-conferencing technologies; the redesign of the WTP Internet resources to include a WTP “portal page” and a separate site for the WTP Congress; and, the production of a number of educational DVDs focusing on the mission of the Foundation and its Plans, Projects and Programs.

The total operating budget for the Foundation for 2006 is planned at $1.1 million dollars, of which approximately $105K is reserved for office, equipment and relocation; $325K for professional full-time staff and $750K for projects, programs, and outside professional services.

RIGHT-Click to download the Foundation's 2006 Operations Plan. (180 KB .pdf)
RIGHT-Click to download the design for the new WTP "portal" web page. (660 KB .pdf)

Your Financial Support
& Participation Are Critical

Much is at stake as the battle over the Constitution and “originalism” rages and the non-believers in government become increasingly desperate to cling to their ill-gotten power.

Our organization, unlike any other, has professed and established a proven “track record” of an unwavering commitment to preserving the Individual Rights of the People and returning Constitutional Order to our Republic through civic education and non-violent, but forceful confrontations against those non-believers in government service that abuse their limited authority.

We are non-political and not-for-profit. Over the last six years we have accomplished much armed with your support and only a handful of dedicated and tireless People working in the office.

However, more, much more, now needs to be done. More of the People’s Ultimate Power must now be summoned, displayed and applied to the tasks of civic education and civic action. More in the way of organization, power and money are now needed. To be successful, we must augment the professional staff, and we need a fresh commitment to the Foundation by those that have made our work possible thus far.

WTP is poised to provide its share of the required leadership. Progress and success with the mission will depend on how well WTP is able to spread the word and how well the People respond. We will either hear the Creator’s admonition and rise together to protect, preserve and enhance His gift to America, or we will continue worshipping false idols and continue our descent into debt, dependency and decay -- America’s darkest age -- with adverse consequences for both us, and the generations that will bear our legacy.

Although it is easy to become paralyzed by the sheer scale of the problems facing our nation and the real potential that all our efforts may be for naught, nonetheless – those of us that receive this message know deep in our hearts, that despite our fears, we must act – and act decisively.

The fact remains that since the dawn of history, it is only the dedication of small groups and very determined individuals that ultimately change the course of history. Those moments of change are far and few between – but when they happen, the Heavens open, Justice prevails and the world changes for the better.

We believe another such moment is almost upon us. During the next year, we all have an opportunity to share our collective burden and commit just a portion of our time and resources to a common, peaceful goal that is achievable and stands to potentially alter the course of our nation.

With personal commitments of money and time, we can send the word far and wide, getting many People to work together, and then assemble together in Washington to create a public spectacle that has never been witnessed before in this nation: a thousand Americans going hungry simply because their servant government refuses to be held accountable to the People by answering some questions about its behavior viz-a-viz our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

At some point, We the People have to take a stand together -- or we will lose everything and be judged harshly, we believe, by future generations.

Remember, there is no one that will send us - or any other organization, an engraved invitation to certify the perfect time, place or manner that an act of defiance should occur. There is no history book or political scientist that can tell us the opportune time to strike.

Our Founding Fathers faced the same dilemma: When is enough, enough? When must the People act, to do or die? When is the best moment for courage, and to stand as men, braving the consequences? When does personal sacrifice pale against the compelling needs of the larger good?

We believe 2006 is the time.

We believe, just as it was with King George, the Right to Petition will once again influence the course of history, because within the exercise of this Right lies nothing less than Sovereignty or servitude.

We believe WTP has established the necessary legal and organizational framework and experience from which to launch and achieve its comprehensive plan of civic education and civic activism.

We believe that you believe in the wisdom and commitment of those that manage the Foundation, and the ability of WTP to lead us toward the achievement of our objectives. Although far from perfect in its operations or management, the Foundation is guided by a moral and spiritual “compass” that cannot be compromised.

And finally, we believe that you also believe that our nation is in grave peril and that something extraordinary must be done now to repel the non-believers that seek to destroy it.

We pray that you search your hearts and commit to our righteous work.

Please begin by studying our Plan and then sending, by year’s end, a significant tax-deductible donation to the Foundation.

Then, clear your schedule for late April through early May. Please plan to be in DC to participate in the two-week “Hungering for Redress” event. We know you will have many questions about evening shelter, what to wear and carry, how to obtain water and other care and necessities. We will provide more information at the regional meetings and as we advance our preparations during the coming months. Much will depend on our budget constraints.

Then, after sending your tax-deductible year-end donation, please consider making a meaningful recurring “subscription” donation so that the Foundation can have a predictable, manageable flow of donations through the balance of 2006.

Keep in mind that if 2,000 people committed to a modest subscription donation of $50 per month, the Foundation could meet its entire $1.1 million funding goal for 2006. With more, the Foundation could make the stars that are our Founding Documents and the hearts of We the People shine all the more brilliantly.

Please, as you can, let as many others as possible learn about our organization and our plans for America. Together in 2006, We the People will change the course of history.

At what price Liberty?

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