December 31, 2005

WTP Congress Operations Plan

Bold, But Doable
 

We announced that we were going to develop the We The People Congress to become “the nationwide force that will institutionalize and organize citizen vigilance.” 

Thousands of people joined the Congress as Members. Hundreds signed on as voluntary County and State coordinators.

After two years of fits and starts and admittedly limited progress, the Congress has finally readied a bold and achievable business plan, based upon a fundamental redesign and reorganization of its core strategy and management structure. With the support of the membership, the Plan will enable the Congress to quickly “step up” and become the nationwide, organized force of Constitutional activists originally conceived.

To begin, it is time to recognize that the mission of the Congress will not, and cannot be achieved solely through volunteers -- no matter their level of commitment. Such is not in the natural order.

The battle for Freedom and Liberty with order is, in truth, an on-going struggle of major proportions, not unlike that of any war. It requires managers (i.e., “generals”) and a professional organization of skilled, fully dedicated personnel to assemble and organize the available resources, plan the tactics, support the troops and execute the attacks.  And as in war, the army and its operations must also be adequately financed -- ultimately by those who seek its protection.

We trust you will agree that the time has come for a significant step-change in the activities of We The People Congress, if it is to fulfill its Mission and become an instrument of the People to restore the Constitution to its rightful place of honor. With your help we will further the concept of assembling a critical mass of People, under a common, professionally managed organization, dedicated to repelling all acts that would weaken the Constitution, by institutionalizing civic education, monitoring of government, and organized resistance against unconstitutional and illegal behavior by government officials.


2006: Capitalizing The Congress

Central to the 2006 Congress Operations Plan is the application of capitalism to finance the work of the Congress and enable it to pay, as independent contractors, its full-time county and state coordinators and its full-time professionally staffed Operations support team. 

The full-time management team will include an upper-tier group of coordinators, including a National Director, seven Regional Coordinators and fifty State Coordinators. This group will direct and organize, the County Coordinators and local WTP volunteers to meet the objectives of the Congress. The phased implementation plan is based upon the distribution of a significant portion of the Congress’s income to those whose performance results in growth for the Congress.

The full-time operations support team will consist of professional staff positions to provide communications, technology, administrative, financial and organizational support.

The funding and management model also provides for County Coordinators and individuals to receive significant monetary compensation in remuneration for their personal efforts in growing the Congress, and to offset the costs of their time and Congress-related expenses.  

There are practical management, training and budgetary constraints to ramping up the Congress. These constraints will not enable the complete activation of this plan for some months. However, key aspects of this Operations Plan, including the process of screening applicants for coordinator positions and implementing the coordinator payment plan will get underway in January, 2006.

We trust you will agree that the We The People Congress now has a Plan for its work and a will to work the Plan, a Plan that will enable the Congress to sustain itself and function as a stable, national organization, as robust as any successful organization, and able to achieve its mission of institutionalizing citizen vigilance against governmental tyranny. 


2006: Details of the Plan

As previously announced, the Congress is headed by National Director Tim Randolph, who hails from northern California.  Randolph came to our organization last year from the private sector bringing significant managerial experience and the vision now known as the “Plan-of-Record”, or POR.  The POR is premised significantly on the Congress adopting professional business methodologies and systems of organizational accountability.  

As part of Tim’s bold reorganization strategy, all existing county and state coordinator positions are being temporarily vacated so that Randolph can coordinate with other lead Congress managers to place well-qualified individuals into these critical, compensated positions through a qualifying and selection process.  The individuals that will perform in these key positions will provide the essential leadership, managerial direction and personal involvement necessary for the Congress to achieve its objectives. 

The process of filling these roles will begin with the regional and state coordinator positions and utilize personal interviews and written disclosure/questionnaires that focus on personal and professional qualifications, talents and experiences, commitment to the cause of Freedom and the organization’s principles, as well as a candidate’s practical ability to serve in the capacity as a WTP Coordinator.  Individuals receiving remuneration from WTP will not be employees as such, but will be legally treated as independent subcontractors to the WTP organization. More details about the Coordinator selection process will be provided in the near future.

To build the operational environment necessary for achieving accountability, each County, State and Regional coordinator will be required to adhere to the standards established in a WTP Congress Policy and Procedures Manual. The manual will document basic operating procedures and methods related to its mission. The early content will focus on conducting local meetings and the distribution of educational materials. Eventually, the manual will provide policies and operating procedures to guide and assist the review and documentation of the unlawful actions of local, state and federal government officials.  Finally, it will cover the tools and methods to evaluate possible options for use in resisting unconstitutional or illegal behavior by government officials.

As with the WTP Foundation, the Congress 2006 plan calls for a restructuring of its Board of Directors to reflect the national mission of the Congress and the introduction of an Advisory Board.

The Congress will relocate its offices permanently to the Washington, DC area, giving it ready access to the seat of the federal Government and the other Freedom-oriented organizations based in the Capital area.

The Plan also calls for significant investments in Information Technology during 2006. On the list of technology projects is a new separate WTP Congress web site and WTP “portal page”, a dedicated WTP Congress “blog” site, video streaming, live video-conferencing capabilities and an integrated Congress project management and status reporting system.  An Internet based system enabling all Congress Coordinators to e-mail their respective geographical constituencies (members, volunteers, WTP contacts, etc.) has just been released for production use.    

The WTP Congress will continue to be guided by the work of the WTP Foundation.  Among the projects currently in motion are the Foundation’s upcoming (April) Give Me Liberty 2006 conference and the most important “Hungering for Redress” event immediately following the GML2006 conference. It is crucial that Congress members and Coordinators commit themselves to supporting and participating in these watershed events.

Besides funding its coordinators, the Congress will provide significant financial support to the WTP Foundation and will initially draw upon the resources and manpower of the Foundation until it (the Congress) is able to independently fund its own office and professional support. 

The total 2006 Congress budget of approximately $ 532,000 is based on very conservative income planning assumptions that realize only the first two phases of the eight-phase POR plan. The 2006 plan anticipates expenses of approximately $304K reserved for Foundation project support and shared office/equipment/support staff, $40K for Congress-only project initiatives, and $188K for “Plan-of-Record” compensation payments (primarily to Regional and State Coordinators.) 

It is important to note that as the POR plan progresses through its phases, the relative level of compensation for all Coordinators rises sharply, correlating directly with the amount of memberships and donations generated for the Congress.  By the end of the POR’s phased implementation, all Regional and State coordinators will be effectively full-time compensated positions, with State Coordinator compensation approaching $60,000 per year. County coordinators will receive lesser amounts, but will have additional incentives available to them to directly contribute to the growth of the Congress. Coordinators will have the option of accepting their payments in Liberty Dollars, a privately issued, silver-backed depository currency.

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WTP Congress 2006 Operations Plan,
including the “POR” w/ plan overview
& financial projections (187 KB, .pdf format)


Upcoming Events
& Regional Meetings

As covered in our very important last update, April 2006 may well prove to be a pivotal month in the history of Freedom.

First, the Foundation will host a 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 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. The planned dates for this event are Friday, April 21 through Sunday, April 23.

Next, on Monday, April 24, 2006, immediately following the GML2006 conference, our “Hungering for Redress” protest 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 our servant government has instigated a constitutional crisis by refusing to respond to the People’s formal Petitions for Redress of Grievances, and by formally declaring that the People can only utilize the “ballot box” to secure accountability 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.  Not since the Revolution has the issue of Popular Sovereignty been the focus of a large-scale, popular uprising in the interest of enhancing their natural Rights. 

”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 struggle 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 also 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.

(Meeting details will be released
as they are available)

 
Your Ideas Are Important
To Our Success

Your Foundation and Congress are beginning to move more aggressively. The tasks ahead will not be easy. We are going to be faced with many challenges and opportunities requiring many decisions. We recognize the need to hear from you, our members and supporters, regarding your degree of approval or disapproval of our policy and programmatic decisions.

Our Plan includes an on-line survey questionnaire, to be sent at least quarterly, to our full mailing list. However, “our door is always open.” Never hesitate to let us know what you think of our plans and performance.

Your Donations Are Important
To Our Success

Early support from our friends and supporters is needed if we are to be sustain our operations and achieve even the relatively modest plans that have been set forth.

Please consider how few organizations have the “Acta Non Verba” motto that we have, how few have done more than talk about the threat to the essential principles of Liberty.

Those in government and the compromised worlds of political persuasion, corporate influence and financial corruption that seek to preserve “business as usual” control a great many things -- but they do not control the truth, and they do not control most of us.

It is incumbent upon every American that receives our message to carefully reflect on how best to invest his or her precious time and personal resources in the on-going struggle for Freedom. 

Bob Schulz has a 27-year public track record in his defense of his State and federal Constitutions. The WTP organization has a 6-year track record on the national scene. You have now witnessed enough of the We The People organization to trust our character, integrity, and determination to restore the Constitution.  We trust that you believe that our organization has a fighting chance to make a real difference. We trust that you believe that our organization can deliver the leadership necessary to make it happen.

In the end though, it becomes a matter of personal priorities and choices.

We sincerely hope that we are misinterpreting the signs of the times and that our Freedoms are not on the verge of being irretrievably lost and those in control will not begin a final siege on Individual Rights.  However, the signs are so strong that we may be hoping against hope.

Soon, it may matter very little what tangibles you now possess or what distractions you strive for in your life because, in the end, they will quickly pale in importance when faced with the cognizant, and perhaps, irretrievable loss of the intangibles that are the essence of Freedom and the Founding Principles that gave birth to our nation over two centuries ago.

If that dreaded moment were to come, we all will suffer the loss of our Fundamental Rights, Freedoms and Liberties; we may well experience street violence as the yoke of oppression is tightened; and God forbid, we may someday have to answer the question, “Granddaddy, what did you do in the war?” 

Although that moment appears to be drawing near, together we can stem the tide by opening the eyes of Americans to the acts of those who would steal our freedom under the guise of caring for us. With your help, and as an organized force of committed individuals, we can prevent violence and still fulfill the promise that is uniquely, America.   

Please make it your New Year’s Resolution to make 2006 a year of significant sacrifice to the WTP organization and encourage others to do the same. We promise to do you proud. 

Please give your deepest consideration to helping defend Freedom by supporting the work of the We The People organization.  There are so few of us and we need to work together to achieve success.

We need your support: -- get involved, join the Congress, spread the word,
become a Coordinator, educate your community, volunteer to help, etc. etc.

We need your personal participation -- Get to Washington, DC for the April events, GML2006 and “Hungering for Redress.”  Freedom is not a spectator sport.  Our organization is on the
front-lines directly confronting the federal tyrants. Stand and be counted. Let them see who
we are and let America know the faces of real patriots and that dissent if the truest form of patriotism.

We need your ongoing financial support -- Please consider one last substantial year-end
donation to WTP.  Donations to the Foundation are fully tax-deductible. 

Remember to date your check before 1/1/06  when you mail it. Then, sign up for a monthly “subscription”       donation to the Foundation and the Congress. The bottom line: WTP makes your dollars count
 -- and without them we cannot move forward. And just like any other family, the organization cannot  
remain stable or successfully operate without a manageable, adequate source of income and budget.   
  

Acta Non Verba.
Deeds, Not Words.

Please Remember, It is only your generous support that keeps us moving forward.

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