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Continental Congress Kickoff Part 1
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Jun 5, 2025
Bob Schulz explains his plan for a Continental Congress in Philadelphia among representatives from all of the states to discuss action plans for dealing with violations of the Constitution. Jon Roland
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things going my name is Hank goals I'm with people here in Texas our main speaker is going to be Bob
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Schultz he's the chairman of We the People foundation for constitutional education and we're going to talk about
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how we get back to our constitutional republic Bob Bob can probably give you a bio if
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if people are often are not familiar and want to know something I don't know if he wants to go through all that but uh
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maybe a little a little short one but um let's just welcome him Bob Schultz from
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weed people Foundation
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thank you all very much for coming it's good to be back thank you Ron for
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opening up the facility again this might be my fourth or fifth time here over the
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years um pretty important uh issue I think to be
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most important for in my life I've been addressing government wrongdoing for a
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long time but this project that we're embarking on now is hands down the most serious and
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important of them all our constitution our Republic is I'm
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sure I don't have to tell Patriots In This Crowd that are been aware of what
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has been happening to the country but the Republic is um
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endangered it's hanging out the Constitution is hanging by a threat there are
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people running in government that are seem to be bent on transitioning
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our constitutional republic to a democracy everything is getting couched in political terms we don't like what's
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going on vote for somebody else is what we're being led to believe so what we're going to do is talk a
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little bit about what the Constitution is what it isn't and what the founders
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did when they found themselves in a very similar situation
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and um what the uh what they did to hold the
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government accountable what they tried to do before they eventually separated decided for separating and then what I
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think we have to do to I see no other choice I've been doing this kind of work
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for a long time and we've been attempting to hold the government accountable by uh constitutional means
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non-violent means using the right to petition Clause provision which we find in both
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our state and federal constitutions so just in a nutshell I don't have to tell you all for sure
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um Constitution is a set of principles what I'm holding here is put out by the Cato Institute that's got the
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Declaration of Independence and which is the chart and the Constitution which is the bylaws
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and those are the founding documents we by the terms of these documents we
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the people have set up the government by the terms of these documents we have enabled the government to do its job but
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we've also heavily prohibited and restricted to government from doing a lot of things okay so the
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gov this constitution is a set of principles to govern the government we're not mentioned except when do
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people adopted and it's all that stands between us and total tyranny and despotism
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uh what we're going to what I'm going to do is uh ask we've got a couple of
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PowerPoint presentations to facilitate the discussion move it right along
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um both the the first one of these is on our website now our web if you want to
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know more about us and the foundation uh it's all in this corporate brochure that we have if you need if you'd like some
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more of these let me know I have plenty of them in the van this is the first of um
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meetings across the country uh where if the city every day now
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we have plenty of these on hand they're not obviously not to be easily
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discarded we put a lot of effort into these a lot of expense and we pay royalties as you'll see on some of those
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Graphics that are included so that tells you pretty much who we are if you have questions about my personal
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background and what I've been doing um just there'll be plenty of time for
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questions and answers we can get into that for those of you who don't already know
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um all right what we're going to do is uh begin first with a PowerPoint
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presentation that is already on our website and then we're going to switch to a
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PowerPoint presentation that had put together for this tour that we're on
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a little bit of overlap but we'll get through these pretty quickly you'll get the pretty good idea of
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the project that we're embarking on this continental congress not to be confused with a constitutional convention they
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are different things entirely okay people are because using them Continental Congress
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the first one the founders after well let me back up the French and Indian War
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ended in 1763. and the French are out of here the English are left with a standing
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army standing armies elsewhere around the globe the ruler you see has been the most powerful government on the face of
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the Earth and they decided to treat the early Americans differently than they were treating their people back
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and our people Jefferson in particular would submit petitions for redressing
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grievances to these uh to the government and as the Declaration explains their
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repeated petitions were answered only with repeated injuries and that eventually caused them to
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separate but what they did back in 1774 they didn't decide to separate they
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decided to send a few delegates representing the 13 colonies to Philadelphia to Independence Hall just
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to talk about those readences that were building up that they were
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filing with the government and the government was not responding responsibly
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so they got together to talk about that and to decide on a course of action that's all they did and that's all they
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decided to do when they headed out to Philadelphia and it was only during the course of that Continental Congress
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particularly with the Persistence of atoms that eventually they decided to
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separate and there was no choice but to separate them yes I could hold Mike for
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a little closer so we can get on here yes okay that's a good idea all right
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so um uh and we find ourselves in the in the same position we have been those of you
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who are familiar with our organization I'm sure most many of you have been petitioning your government in one way
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or another for a redress of grievances particularly grievances
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dealing with a violation of your state or federal constitutions and maybe not happy with the response you got well we
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as an organization me in particular have been petitioning our government intelligently
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rationally professionally our federal government for 20 years I did that with some measure of success but in the late
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90s I began to petition the federal government because of its violations of the
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Constitution maybe not expecting the relief we were asking for
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but clearly setting out to establish a record just as the founders did they were justified in taking the action they
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did because they could point to a record of repeated
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infringements on their rights and their repeated attempts for redress for remedy
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redressing its remedy and governments abuse of them answering their petitions
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only with repeated injuries as the cons as the Declaration of Independence explains
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so we set out some years ago and have been petitioning with the assistance of
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constitutional scholars in a very professional intelligent rational women we have been submitting either to the
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petitioning either the Judiciary or members of the executive and legislative
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branches directly and Congress O'Connor was the president and so forth and without a response clearly without a
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responsive response um and so we have reached this point where we think we need to bring
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up to three people from all the 50 states together in Philadelphia not an Independence Hall but they have a new
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facility a few years old called Constitution Center on the other side of the Liberty Bell that's now sits between
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the Constitution Center and Independence Hall to discuss these violations of our
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Constitution are repeated attempts for remedy to these grievances governments
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continued abuse their deaf ear that they've turned to
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this and and then settled on a course of action but at the same time and this is
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key at the same time communicating back to the people in their states through
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State websites which will become the sort of the pot Valley stove around which people will gather and no matter
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discussion boards and chat rooms and so forth these delegates in
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Philadelphia will populate their state websites they'll have a responsibility of doing
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that every day those people back home will know what these delegates have been discussing what they've been debating
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what they've been deciding and then when they settle on the course of action hopefully there'll be five percent uh or
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more of the population that is properly up to speed and willing to collectively
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participate in a collective action to put a collective foot down against the tyrants of our day
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so with that is an introduction Hank if you could uh a little run through these pretty
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quickly to give you some basic grounding in some of the principles that are involved here
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the First Amendment in its entirety it reads Congress on making the law of respect in the
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establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or
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of the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances so there are
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five freedoms guaranteed by the first amendment in the order that they mentioned it's worship speech press
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assembly as we're doing here today and then petition for a redress of grievance
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petition for a remedy of grievances Everyone by now is familiar with the
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first four of those freedoms they're familiar with the rights of the people and the obligations of the government under the first Four Freedoms they have
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been the subject matter of lots and lots of lawsuits gone all the way to the Supreme Court lots of people have chimed in and you
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know and so we by now we pretty much know the full Contours of the meaning of
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those first Four Freedoms unfortunately the last of those five freedoms the
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right to petition for the redress for a remedy of grievances especially violations of the Constitution
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no court in an entire history of America has ever declared what those mean what
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are the rights to people of the obligations of the government under those last ten words it is those ten
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words are the accountability clause there are benches over here or steps if
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someone would like to sit on students yes
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cheers up over here we get a couple of hands to set some chairs up
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foreign
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thank you okay so what does the uh these last ten words what do they really mean where they come from what role did those
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the right to petition for redress play in the uh traveling in the country and what should
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it play what meaning should we be given to it today so we'll talk about the
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right to petition next life you can't read this but the first
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recorded mention of the right to petition what it means you find in the
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Magna Carta the Magna Carta was signed in 1215. remember back then the monarchy
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had absolute power the king and queen I mean they could do whatever they wanted he couldn't sue them
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um absolute power they were considered representatives of God you know on Earth and so forth could do no wrong and so
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it's a pretty historic significant thing that the Magna Carta is the Cradle of Liberty everything evolved you know
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since then and uh to give you some idea of the meaning of the right to petition
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we find six section 61 of the Magna Carta in breeds and this thing the king
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sign this document I mean this is it was signed of course
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he was confronted with some of the Barons and of course
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some of the community people in the community they had their pitchforks and so forth and so there was sort of a you
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know a little threat behind all of this but the fact of the matter is the king did sign it and it says in section 61 if
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we are chief justice we meaning the monarchy he and the queen or our chief justice our officials or any of our
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servants offended any respect against any man or transgress any of the Articles of the
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piece or of this security and the offense is made known to four of
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the said 25 Barons they shall come to us or in our absence from the kingdom to
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the Chief Justice to declare and claim immediate redress so the people if they
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feel their rights of being violated they can petition uh the monarchy
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if we are in our actions abroad to Chief Justice makes no redress within 40 days
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Reckoning from the day on which the offense was declared to us or him the Chief Justice the forbearance
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shall refer the battle to the rest of the 25 Barons who made the strain upon and assail Us in every way possible
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with the support of the whole Community or of the land by seizing our castles lands possessions or anything else
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saving only our own person and those of the queen and our children until they
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have secured such redress as they have determined upon having secured redress the redress they may then resume their
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normal obedience to us pretty significant here you have the monarchy saying if you people if the people have
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some great that feel we're infringing on there natural rights bring your petitions to
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us we have 40 days to respond if we don't you have the legal right
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to take everything we own our lives our castles everything except my life the life of the queen of the life of our
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children and the life of the chief job and then once you've secured your remedy then you are obligated to restore
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your allegiance to us pretty significant what do you think of it
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next slide so we have in um and and following that
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day the right to petition grew and grew and was applied and followed and give
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you a little story in around 18 uh 16 um
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between 16 15 1650 um the king had leanings towards wrong
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Catholicism and so he thought he'd do a pretty cool thing he would he issued a proclamation and he said the people of
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the Kingdom have the right to worship any way they want to worship and I would
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like this Proclamation read from every pulpit in you know England on this particular day and there were Bishops
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Cardinal that thought oh gee wait a minute there's a problem with this uh if we go along with this we will be
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admitting that this right to worship comes from the King rather than from God so they sent a contingent of six Bishops
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to talk to the king about this and the King heard they were coming and he was Delight until they got there and they told him
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what was on their mind and he immediately put them in the dungeon and and there was a trial thank God there
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was a trial and they obtained the services of a
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and they the virus to argued among other things that gee they were just petitioning they came for a redress of
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this grievance and the jury acquitted them so the the right to petition uh the
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government for a remedy to grievances uh grew and grew and found its way to our Shores and was very much a part of our
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founding documents and very much a part of our system of government here for
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many years up until around 1830 uh if people if you had a a grievance against
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your government whether it's County state or federal say
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you submit your petition for redress to your Congressman until about 1830 your
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petition for a redress of a grievance always went to a committee
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look in Congress every Monday was the day they dealt with petitions for redress agreements and you always got an
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answer compare that with today okay and so what happened in 1830 to begin to
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change all this the southern Congressman prevailed they had it you know with these
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petitions for redress from abolitionists to end the practice
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of slavery and so they prevailed that they got a rule passed in the house that any more of these petitions from
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abolitionists would be permanently tabled first time government on these
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Shores ever went on record saying we don't have to listen or respond to the people and it's sort of been you know
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sort of downhill is this right to petition has it took John Quincy Adams eight years to get that rule repealed
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but the damage of course had been done so now we fast forward to
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1774. again the founders the 13 colonies set some Representatives
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off to Philadelphia to talk about their Grievances and what they could do about it and while they were in session the
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Continental Congress in session they one of the acts they passed unanimously was
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an act entitled a continental congress to the inhabitants of Quebec it was an act to
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be sent up there to encourage them to get to get behind this developing
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Revolution uh in our uh country or and uh
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if we can um well today page Act and um
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in this eight page Act which ought that little uh you don't have to click on a hang but this little
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PDF was sibled out here if you click on there when you go to the website click on there you'll get the full text of the eight page act but in this a page act
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the founders are talking about the great rights the grand rights of individuals
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and in talking about the first of those what they call the Grand rights the right to government based upon the
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consent of the people they said this it's it's down in the right there but if
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you go to the next slide you'll get a larger Titan okay you want to advance it once
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these words are in that act if money is wanted by rulers who have in
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any manner oppressed the people they may retain it they may retain their money until the aggrievances are redressed and
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thus peaceably procure relief without trusting to despise petitions or disturbing the public tranquility and
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you find that in the the same page Act passed unanimously by the Continental Congress
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you find it in journaled one of the Continental Congress on page 105. so what are they saying here they're saying
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um retaining your money if you have Grievances and you've petitioned and the
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government is is violating your rights you have the right the fundamental right to retain your money uh
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thus peaceably procuring relief it's a non-violent solution to problems that we
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have with our government without trusting to despise petitions they knew of course for the Magna Carta
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run forward they knew that the people had the right to petition but they also do equipment doesn't like opposition for
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many quarter in fact they despise these petitions when they get them from us right so without trusting to the
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despised petitions we can retain our money and procure relief without disturbing the public tranquility
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next slide in Jefferson very good with words it
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wasn't much of a public speaker but he could really write and this is where he put it well the privilege of giving or
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withholding our money is an important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative which left altogether
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without constraint may be exercised to our great oppression and all history shows how efficacious its intercession
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for redress of grievances and establishment of Rights and how in Provident would be the surrender of so
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powerful a mediator there how dangerous how wrong it would be to give up this
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power that the people have of giving and retaining their money in order to redress Grievances and establish rights
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next these uh this uh
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you'll find this there's a lot of text but what this says in effect is this
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all these other rights that you find in the First Amendment are derivative
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rights they all derive from the pre-existing essential right to hold the government
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accountable by petitioning for redressing as the the
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historical record shows and everything is noted here and so on as the record
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shows Parliament what good is the right to petition the
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king if Parliament couldn't get together and talk about it
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I mean you know the king had the right to dissolve parliament and put another one in if he didn't like what they were doing and he did it often
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so the right to free speech derived from the
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pre-existing right to petition for redress and what good is the right to petition for redress if you couldn't
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write about it or get together and talk about it in Parliament or anywhere else so these
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other these fundamental rights that we do know about speech press and assembly their
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derivative rights they derive from that fundamental right to be able to hold your government accountable
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think about it what the founders had given us this wonderful system of governance in the
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founding documents without giving us the people some means
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within the Constitution itself to hold the government accountable
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non-violently of course there's the Second Amendment but would they have given us without
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that those ten words right to petition government for redress of grievances
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it was put in there as a critical element of the overall balance of power
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between the people and their government next slide thank you
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also it's clear from the historical record that Congress the government
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anyone petitioned whether it's the Judiciary or the president or the
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Congress members they are obligated to respond and we clearly prove that with
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our historical documentation on our it's all part of this PowerPoint presentation
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um on the website go ahead honey so then we uh bring that brings us to
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the uh 1776 and the Declaration of Independence
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uh Hank if you could click on the PDF it'll bring up the Declaration
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we don't have a white screen here which is a real disadvantage but um
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you see the PDF right there on the screen yeah oh yeah okay you want to scroll up
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move it to the right a little bit and scroll up
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you've been moving it to the left can you move it to the right all right well I can do it this way
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all right uh I'll paraphrase um so there they were the founders that
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went to Philadelphia to talk about their problems and what to do about them they started in 1774 by 1776 they had
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come to the conclusion uh that they were going to have to separate and the doc the Declaration of
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Independence what it says in in essence is look we owe it to the world to
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explain why we're doing this right a respect for the opinions of mankind
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leads us to want to explain why we're doing this and so in the first March
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paragraph you have some of the words you're all quite familiar with of course go back just a little bit get it there
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yeah okay so we hold these truths we sell that oven and all men are created equal they are
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endowed by they're created with certain unalienable rights that's key of course our rights don't come from government
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your rights or individual rights you have them simply because um you're alive
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um and and where people become alive is debatable in our society I understand
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but we have them because you have life and they don't come from government
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they're unalienable they're endowed by their creator they do not depend upon
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the will of any majority whether it's a majority of the people voting on Election Day or whether it's a majority
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of the people voting in the halls of Congress or whether it's a majority of the people voting on the on the bench at
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the Supreme Court your individual rights do not depend upon the will of any
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majority please understand I'm sure most of you do but that's not what's happening in our
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country today we're transitioning to a democracy and and oh gosh let's not uh
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hold um Mr Obama's uh to the natural born citizen Clause let's not have improve
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his eligibility under the Metro board citizen Clause of the Constitution because uh to do so would be to overturn
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the will of all of those 65 million people that voted for him you know it
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just drives me crazy but anyway um all right so um
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the property Pursuit of Happiness that to secure these rights governments
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are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the government that whenever any form of
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government becomes disruptive of these engines right of the people to alter our fellowship Institute and so forth then
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we have um you want to scroll down now we have a
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listing of the Grievances if the Declaration of Independence is
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five pages in here three of those pages are devoted to a listing of the Grievances okay we don't have to go
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through all of them but just go down slowly Hank so people can get a feel for what those grievances are and you really
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should go back today and spend a little time just review that Declaration of Independence
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because that's where we are again we've reached that point we've got to get together and discuss these issues and
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what we're what as a free people what we're going to do about it
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many of these grievances they had back then are being Revisited upon us you'll see as you go through your
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versions of your copy of the Declaration okay scroll to the
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keep going I'll tell you when to stop Hank
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keep going
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okay now a little a little higher yeah that right there now after that
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listing of grievances this paragraph that is two sentence paragraph that
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begins in every stage of these impressions the scholars call that
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the Capstone grievance it is clearly the grievance which kept
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all the others it is the grievance more than any other that led to the separation here's what it says
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in every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms
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our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury a prince whose character is thus marked by
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Every Act which would Define a tyrant is unprofit to be the ruler of a free people
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they would consider themselves free and they petitioned over these violation of their rights
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their repeated petitions were answered only with repeat and injury and they decided that a prince or a
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government whose Every Act is is a defines a tyrant it's unfit to be the
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ruler of a free people and the rest of it of course goes on and and says basically you know we're out of here if
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you don't like it come get us so that's the Declaration of Independence you want to go to the next
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go out of that PDF and go back to the PowerPoint thing okay
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and so here are those words the Capstone grievance and every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for
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redress in the most humble terms our repeated petitions have been answered only with repeated injury a princess
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character was thus marked by Every Act which may Define a tyrant is thus unfit to be the ruler over Free People
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the Capstone rhythms next slide egg next slide there's a preamble to the
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Bill of Rights it essentially says that you know they were passing the Constitution out to be ratified by the
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13 states and um the preamble to the uh
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constitution in effect says a number of the states want a a Bill of Rights
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before they'll approve the Constitution and so so that they would be
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in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers a
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a Bill of Rights that further declares and restricts we've had more restrictive
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Clauses should be added and so forth okay egg what's interesting I find and checked
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all the state constitution but I like the New Hampshire Constitution it has this um it's still there it was put in there
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initially and it's still there today here's what it says um it's article 10 it's the right of
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Revolution government being instituted for the common benefit protection and security of the whole community and not
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for the private interest or emolument of any one may and family or class of men
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therefore whenever the ends of government are perverted and public Liberty manifestly endangered and all
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other means of redress are ineffectual the people may and of right ought to form uh reform the old or establish a
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new government the doctrine of non-resistance this is key the doctrine
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of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd slavish
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and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind that it is nuts to
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be abused have your rights trampled on and to adopt the doctrine of
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non-resistance it just doesn't work um so much for the New Hampshire
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Constitution Act of course the Ninth Amendment
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um if here's what um
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we have come down to believe those ten words mean in its simplest form
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based upon our review thorough research of well it's common sense but I mean our
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review of all the written record both overseas and here it means this if we
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have some evidence that government is violating some provision of the Constitution
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and we call them on it by petitioning for a redress and if they don't respond
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or if they respond with repeated injury that we have the right to withdraw our
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support from that government and it's in effect they have said this doesn't matter anymore well if that
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doesn't matter anymore then why would we want to continue supporting them right that's what those that accountability
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clause in the First Amendment means and if there's any some people say
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you know we've had this issue in court some people say well gee it's Bob it says right here
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that um people have the right to petition the government for redressing grievances it
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doesn't say the government has to respond okay fine let's go to the 26th amendment
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it says the people have the right to vote it doesn't say the government has to count the votes no of course of
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course every right that is not enforceable is not a right you know of course uh uh there was an implied uh
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requirement on the government why put it in there if Government didn't have to pay attention to it
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so but if we have to we can always resort to the Ninth Amendment the enumeration
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of the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to denyers disparage others retained by the people well okay if you don't think it's
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embedded in the those 10 words then how about you know the Ninth Amendment we claim it
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okay and of course the next slide is one other accountability clause and
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that's the second amendment a well-regulated militia for being necessary to the security of this free
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state the right of the people to keep the bear arms shall not be infringed being necessary to the security of a
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free state if that isn't a demand that the obese well-regulated state
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militias uh then what is it
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so the absence of well-regulated state militias today is unconstitutional
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and the and the National Guard is not the well-regulated state militia that's
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uh referred to in the Constitution first of all there are many reasons but what I
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like to give is first of all the weapons are over there in that Armory they're supposed to be over our you know mantles
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or in our home someplace okay um let's go to the next slide Hank
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on our website we have uh 10 or 11 law review articles which thoroughly discuss
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the history of two of them in particular the first one up there is the vestigial Constitution by out of Gregory Mark a
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professor Adam Fordham but it was he's out of Rutgers but his law review
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article was published in the Fordham law review and another one um on here by here it is the rights as
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it comes to Bill of Rights as a constitution by Aquila Marth Yale very thorough historical reviews of the right
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to petition so on our website you can find your way they're all there and read
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these floor review articles on that address the rights petition Hank
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we have as I say been petitioning for redress agreements uh doing a we think
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with the assistance of constitutional Scholars we have petitioning the the
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Judiciary and petitioning Congress and the executive branch directly as we have
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evidence of violations of the Constitution and these petitions were
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redressed at least the ones the form that we prepare them in we view them as
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depositions each one of these petitions for redress agreements is we have a series of one
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sentence statements of fact so one sentence this is a fact we can support that we have evidence that that is true
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and we add two words up front of each one of those single sentences admit a deny so government admit or deny this
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admitted denying this and so forth facts um and so there's a series of questions
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embedded in each of these petitions and they've all been served on the government and they refuse to respond
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most recently on June 30th of this year every member of the House of the Senate
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and the president were served by these petitions for redress of
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grievances by one or more of their constituents
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so constituents serve these people they didn't have the excuse of saying oh you know something comes in the office
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as they like to as they'd like to do oh that's not for one of my constituents and they trash it okay
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okay so we had these uh served on them and with proofs of service the person in the congressman's office who served it
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who received it signed that they received it and the person serving it assigned so this proofs of service that
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they were all served and no one has responded Rod ball did something different from
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the others he submitted it to the clerk of the house to be given to the speaker they
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are to be discharged according to the will of the house I had a intense
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hour and a half discussion no one else in the office the Washington office of
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Ron Paul but his chief of staff Tom Masala and we went through this there's
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a reluctance on the part of the staff to respond to petitions for redress
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agreements why because if we respond to your petitions then
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everybody else is going to be submitting petitions for redress and they're going to be looking more away you know you're responded to we the peoples why don't
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you respond to ours and they'll come in over the transom will be overwhelmed we don't have the staff we don't have the
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budget and so forth excuse me you know I said Tom look yeah it might be a little busy at first but
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once we get the government under control things will slow down you know every now and then there'll be a
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petition for a redress but in any event it was a real bureaucratic response from
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Franz spam and it was wrong it doesn't relieve Ron Paul of the response
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individual responsibility of responding to these petitions in fact in 2001 I was
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on a hunger Fest in Washington and we held a press conference down there with
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Ron's help and Congressman to other house triangle because they weren't
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responding to the first of these petitions we submit we submit and um Ron and Congressman
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Bartlett were there and Ron made the statement there is an inherent right in
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those 10 words that government must respond government has the obligation he
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said to respond it's all part of the inherent right of petitioning for redress but nonetheless the staff he
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really depends on his staff entirely and the staff prevailed
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so you'll find these petitions on our website part of this PowerPoint presentation and
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otherwise we have a petition for a redress it is
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unconstitutional to apply the Armed Forces of the United States and hostility overseas without a declaration
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of war it is unconstitutional do that the last time we declared war was World War II of course we haven't really won
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any War since then but um and so Ron Paul did a great job when
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uh you know the it's well understood now that President Bush has from day one has
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always wanted to go into Iraq for whatever reasons and um and eventually someone you know said
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well what about Congress and so because of the Constitution and so they prepare the White House prepared What's called
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the Iraq resolution and they sent it over to Congress to be passed and then
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to come back to him for a signature and if Congress passed that it would have been uh
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I wish they went out ahead it would transfer the power of congress to declare war it would give the power to
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the president essentially saying to the president you decide if we're going to go into Iraq and win and so forth instead of Congress doing their job but
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the way it's designed to work if the president feels we have to apply the Armed Forces of the United States and hostilities overseas there's supposed to
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be a debate on the floor of the house and the Senate and they're supposed to ask all the tough second and third order questions again to the bottom of things
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and then declare war but that's not you know what they did so this Iraq
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resolution that bush sent over to Congress fell to the house in in October
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of 2002 so five months before we went into Iraq it fell to the house of the
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national Relations Committee chaired by Henry High and on the second day October 3rd Ron
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Pauls is a member of the committee his attorney came to speak and he did a really great job you know it's all in
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the transcript we have it on our website we could easily get the full transcript of that hearing by going to house.gov
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and then go into the appropriate House International Relations Committee then going to uh October of September 3rd of
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2002. um but what he did was say to them look you're debating the wrong resolution
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here and he said I'd like you to I'd like to substitute a resolution for
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the one that came over from the White House if you pass this you'll be declared more and he made a great he did a great job
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of quoting the Constitution the meaning of the War Powers close quoting Madison and so forth but when he was finished
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is an indication of the problem we are now facing when he was finished uh
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Henry Hyde said this events have overtaken the Constitution the Constitution is anachronistic and
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inappropriate so in other words we're changing it so because you know we think it's
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appropriate to do so so they passed went on and voted Ron's Amendment down and
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then passed the White House Iraq resolution and there's nothing in the Constitution that gives one branch
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the authority to transfer its power to another branch and yet that's what they do they have the White House the
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president often these days more often usurping the power of congress and
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Congress acquiescing all right so the Federal Reserve System uh we won't go through all of these but
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the clearly the Federal Reserve System is unconstitutional
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and for many reasons not the least of which is uh the money is not backed by
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uh precious metals gold and silver the USA Patriot Act is unconstitutional it
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violates the Privacy Clauses the Federal Reserve System Of course violates the money Clauses of the Constitution
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scroll down a bit Hank there are tax Clauses in the
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Constitution the current direct unapportioned tax on labor is unconstitutional
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the um in Article 2 not only is which deals
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with the power of the president not only is he required to take an oath to uphold the Constitution but he's also required
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to quote Faithfully execute the laws now there are laws on the books
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immigration Naturalization laws they've been there a long time whatever your belief or feelings about
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immigrants illegal immigrants
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um these laws are on the books and they're not enforced well neither party wants to
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enforce those laws because they don't want to offend the Latino vote that's what it gets down to but they're there
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if you don't like it reveal them but we're a nation under law let's obey the Constitution it's another area where the
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country you know every time there's a an issue in the country and quick to go to the say what's new
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what's the Constitutional connection here is this a political question
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or is it a constitutional question if it's a political question as an organization we don't get involved
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if they if government has the authority to do what it is they want to do
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and it's a whether say the state sales tax goes from six percent to 700 7 and and under the state
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constitution they have the authority to oppose the state sales tax then whether it's a six or seven percent uh figure
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that's a political question for the give and take of society we don't get involved in that we only get involved
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when there are violations of the Constitution to hold the government accountable so when these issues come up
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and who could fail to recognize how intense this
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immigration this illegal immigration issue is has become over these last few years and so you know we just go to the
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Constitution and we say well what's the what's the Constitutional link here is there a violation of the Constitution
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well there it is it's the Faithfully execute clause the governor if the president would
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Faithfully execute the laws that congress passed then this problem will go away
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okay North American Union there's no Authority in the constitution for the
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government to stealthfully or otherwise develop a North American Union which
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would in in essence eliminate the North and Southern barriers of the country there's no
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authority to do that and so there's a petition for redress that's been uh
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with the assistance of that Viera has been put together served and ignored the
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right to keep the bear arms not only are the federal gun control laws unconstitutional but the absence of a
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well-regulated state militia is also unconstitutional institution and foreign policy I for one
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believe that because of uh and alcohol because of our presence and our
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involvement in interfering in the internal affairs of foreign countries overseas propping up governments that are very
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impressive in those people are fighting their government and it's true say in the Middle East and
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elsewhere people are the same everywhere you know they want individual freedoms and Liberties and so they're always at
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loggerheads with their government and if they so the government is the enemy as
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Ronald Reagan said government is the enemy of Freedom that's true and if those people begin to see that you know
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this government is what it is in large part because of the United States
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foreign policy and so forth and it's Farm being the rest of it then maybe um that what happens is people begin to
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see and say well the friend of my enemy is my enemy and they begin to direct their hostilities towards us and as they
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direct their hostilities towards us we get a war on terror a war on terror
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gives us a police state and it's all downhill so maybe we you know and so
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there is a clause in article one right before the enumerated powers of Congress
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that say look and doing all of these things that you're authorized to do here keep in mind the general welfare of the
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country and the defense of the country right well is it is it in our general welfare does it serve our national
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interest you know to interfere in the internal affairs of all of these countries around the globe if by
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interfering they're directing their hostilities towards us that we get a police state out of it I don't think so
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I don't think that's International best interest so anyway there's a petition for redress on our foreign
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policy and of course since this list was prepared we have the bailout of AIG and
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the 700 Bill to kind of bailout and all these
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