Hal Shurtleff

Director and Co-Founder of Camp Constitution.

The Weekly Sam: Sam’s Most Important Work-“Alpha-Phonics”

  Our late friend and mentor Sam Blumenfeld authored over 12 books but his most important in my opinion, was his Alpha-Phonics. Since the creation of the Sam Blumenfeld Archives, thousands of people around the world but mainly in the United States have downloaded this book.  When visiting the archives and clicking onto the link to Alpha-Phonics, this letter comes up:

” Welcome to the “Alpha-Phonics workbook by Samuel L. Blumenfeld. This book has been used by thousands of parents who have taught their children to be excellent readers, which includes my children. It is arranged in 128 easy to follow lessons. Sam rightfully pointed out that pictures of puppets popping out of trash cans are not needed to teach children how to read. This book may also be used for adults who have been taught the whole word or look-say method and therefore are functionally illiterate.

While this is a free resource, we would like to be able to make this resource known far and wide. A donation of $3.00 would go a long way, and you can donate more to help our cause, too. Go to https://campconstitution.net/product/alpha-phonics-workbook/ to acquire it.  Additional donations to the Camp can be made via your PayPal account accessed from our website’s homepage: https://www.campconstitution.net

Hal Shurtleff, Director Camp Constitution 

We encourage readers to share this resource far and wide.  Hard copies are available via our on-line shop:  Alpha-Phonics By Sam Blumenfeld | campconstitution.net

 

Books You Are Not Supposed To Read

 

This list I have compiled isn’t in any particular order, except the last book, and are just a handful of many books that may reenforce, challenge and/or change the readers’ worldview.  All of them are either in print and/or available on Amazon except one which have been banned by Amazon but available from its publisher.

Richard Nixon The Man Behind the Mask

As a young junior high school conservative, I defended Richard Nixon against my liberal classmates.  At the age of twenty-nine, a friend loaned me Nixon:  The Man Behind the Mask by Gary Allen.   Allen points out that Nixon was not a conservative to say the least.   Under the Nixon Administration, we got the unconstitutional Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which has wreaked havoc on American manufacturing.  He opened up Communist China which eventually led, not only to diplomatic recognition, but to Communist China’s global dominance.  Nixon allowed technological transfers to the Soviet Union making it possible for the Soviets make nuclear missiles with multiple warheads.  After reading the book, I stopped defending Nixon.  This book opened my eyes to the influence and power of what is now known as the Deep State.

 

 The Best Enemy Money Can Buy:

This book, written by Professor Anthony Sutton of the Hoover Institute, documents how    elements in our U.S. government have been funding, aiding, and abetting The Soviet Union even before the Bolshevik Revolution.  We are still aiding and abetting our enemies.  Sutton wrote a series of books that I also recommend including Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler and Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution.

 

Memoirs by David Rockefeller

Published in 2002, Memoirs, is an autobiography of David Rockefeller whom I consider one of evilest Americans that lived in the last 100 years. (Armand Hammer, Henry Kissinger, and Zbigniew Brzezinski are three more.)   Why do I draw that conclusion?  In David’s own words from his biography:

“For more than a century, ideological extremists, at either end of the political spectrum, have seized upon well-publicized incidents, such as my encounter with Castro, to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal, working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists,’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years……It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past centuries.”

Rockefeller makes an admission of treason, but the Department of Justice wasn’t interested in prosecuting him.

The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin

I had the honor of helping to sponsor a speaking tour of the author back in the mid-1990s.  This powerful and well documented book exposes how the Federal Reserve Bank was created in complete secrecy.  It explains how the Fed creates money out of thin air, how it manipulate the economy, how it is an instrument of war, and that the Fed is not an arm of the U.S. government but a cartel between bankers-not your local bank, however- and the government.

 

 

The Health Hazards of Homosexuality

This book, like most books that present factual info on this subject, have been banned from Amazon.  Most Americans have been bullied into silence lest they be accused of being called some type of “phobe” with new phobias being minted on a regular basis.  We are not supposed to bring up facts like those who engage in unsafe sexual practices generally have shorter lifespans that those who don’t.   Indeed, we are told by governments at all levels that we must celebrate these lifestyles and governments are spending millions of dollars doing just that.  Thankfully, those that lead this movement have been experiencing some pushback.  A book like this will help those pushing back with much needed information.  The book is available from Mass Resistance:  massresistance.org

 

 Death by Government by R.J. Rummel

This book, authored by a liberal professor from the University of Hawaii, demonstrates the deadliness of government.  Professor Rummel proves that more people have been murdered by totalitarian governments in the 20th century in peacetime than in all of the wars of the 20th Century.  Professor Rummel coined the word “democide.”

 Tornado In a Junkyard

This book, authored by a friend and a former atheist, and written in layman’s terms, refutes evolution, one the most destructive ideas that mankind has faced leading to the loss of faith in God. While Mr. Perloff doesn’t claim that all evolutionists are racist, he shows the readers its racist roots.  Perloff also points out that evolution influenced Joe Stalin leading him to reject Christianity and embrace communism.

 

 

Christianity and the Constitution The Faith of Our Founding Fathers

Colonel John Eidsmoe, a friend and Constitutional attorney, refutes the argument that the framers of the U.S Constitution were deists.  He makes the case that John Calvin was one of the founders of the United States.  Calvin, of course, lived long before the U.S. but his Biblical concept of innate depravity led to the founders to have a separation of powers.  Colonel Eidsmoe contents that the U.S. Constitution could only have been written by those with a Christian worldview.  John Adams affirms Colonel Eidsmoe when he said the  U.S. Constitution is for a “moral and religious” people.

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

This book is an antidote for self-loathing whites who believe that our nation’s founders were all white supremacist who invented slavery.  Professor Thomas Sowell, now a nonagenarian, writes that slavery has been around since recorded history and that it wasn’t until close to the end of slavery was racism used to justify it.  He also explains how Muslins introduced slavery to Black Africa and  Great Britian, and the United States had a leading role in ending slavery.  I also recommend his YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhSaV999ZAA

Debunking Howard Zinn  Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America

Mary Grabar, a Camp Constitution instructor, exposes the blatant anti-Americanism promoted by Howard Zinn.  Zinn’s book,  Peoples History of the US. has been used in our nation’s government schools to promote a hatred of our nation and its history.  Zinn has a particular hatred of Christopher Columbus   Mary sets the record straight on the great explorer.

 

The U.S. Constitution

While not a book, it is something that most elected officials, especially those at the federal level, don’t want you to read this because it will show that they, while claiming to uphold it, have been spending most their political careers, violating it.  Don’t believe me?   Just get on a mailing list of any of our federal elected officials.  Almost everything they brag about in their E-mails is blatantly unconstitutional, but they know that the vast majority of the voters know nothing about the proper role of members of Congress.  (For a free pocket copy of the U.S. Constitution, E-mail me at campconstitution1@gmai.com)

The Bible

I put this book, which I believe is the Inspired Word of God, last because it is the most important.  For centuries, enemies of God have done their utmost to keep it from you.  There are at least 52 countries-Muslim and Communist-where the Bible is illegal.  While it is still legal in Western Europe, and Canada, one can go to jail for proclaiming some of the teaching of the Bible.  I will let some of our nation’s founders make the case for the Bible:

“The Bible contains the most profound philosophy, the most perfect morality, and the most refined policy that ever was conceived upon earth.” John Adams

“[The Bible] is of all books in the world that which contributes most to make men good, wise, and happy.” John Quincy Adams

“Were you to ask me to recommend the most valuable book in the world, I should fix on the Bible as the most instructive, both to the wise and ignorant.””  Elias Boudinot, President of the Continental Congress, and Director of the U.S. Mint

“Let us therefore persevere steadfastly in distributing the Scriptures far and near, and without note or comment. We are assured that they ‘are profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness (2 Tim. 3:16).’” John Jay

“The Bible contains more truths than any other book in the world.” Benjamin Rush

I am offering free copies of the Bible until my supply runs out. Use the same E-mail listed above if you would like one.

 

 

 

Camp Constitution Loses One of its Co-Founders and Camp Manager with the Passing of Charles Everett

We are sad to report the passing of our dear friend and Camp Constitution’s co-founder and manager, Charlie Everett.  I knew Charlie since 1990, when we spent a few days training me for my new job as field rep for the John Birch Society.  In December of 2008, when I got word that its summer camp program-then named Freedom Generation-was being canceled, Charlie was the first person I called to see if he would be on board with our own camp program.  He immediately answered in the affirmative, and his first job was to contact a local lawyer friend to get some legal advice.

Among his duties as camp manager-a volunteer position- Charlie would handle and process all of the camp applications, the bank transactions, insurance for camp events, and prepare the annual report for the State of New Hampshire.

Our prayers go out to his wife Linda, his three daughters, and his grandchildren.

Countering the Marxist Hate Group Southern Poverty Law Center By New Tolerance Campaign’s Hate Map

This is a news release from New Tolerance Campaign which exposes left-wing hate groups and counters The Southern Poverty Law (SPLC) which has Camp Constitution on its hate map.  They have us listed as “antigovernment” and based in Charlotte, North Carolina. https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map?state=NC We tried to let them know that we are New Hampshire based a few months ago but they didn’t make the correction.

I am sure that the map below will be filled with many more left-wing hate groups.

 

 

New Tolerance Campaign Launches Hate Map Documenting Political Violence by Leftist Organizations

“We are committed to upholding true tolerance and providing a resource that ensures all hate in the United States is addressed, regardless of political affiliation.”

Washington, DC — The New Tolerance Campaign (@New_Tolerance) today announced the launch of its groundbreaking “Hate Map,” a comprehensive resource documenting instances of political violence perpetrated by leftist organizations across the United States.

This interactive map aims to fill the gaps left by traditional civil rights organizations, such as the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which have largely overlooked or ignored such acts.

Click here to view the NTC Hate Map.

Watch the launch video below:

The NTC Hate Map is designed to be a vital tool for journalists, researchers, and news organizations seeking to understand and report on the full spectrum of political violence in the country. Unlike other resources that selectively highlight certain types of intolerance, NTC’s map provides an unbiased, detailed account of incidents, ensuring a more balanced and thorough perspective.

“For too long, groups like the SPLC have failed to address the violence and intolerance stemming from the far-left,” said Gregory T. Angelo, President of New Tolerance Campaign. “Our Hate Map is a critical step towards exposing and documenting leftist hate and violence.  We are committed to upholding true tolerance and providing a resource that ensures all hate in the United States is addressed, regardless of their political affiliation.”

The map includes detailed profiles of numerous leftist groups known for their violent activities, such as ANTIFA chapters nationwide, Black Lives Matter affiliates, and various radical organizations. It features incidents ranging from vandalism and physical assaults to threats and intimidation, providing a comprehensive view of the political violence landscape.

Key features of the NTC Hate Map include:

  • Extensive Coverage: Documentation of incidents across the United States, providing a wide-ranging view of leftist political violence.
  • Regular Updates: The map will be continually updated to include new incidents and developments, ensuring it remains a current and reliable resource.
  • User-Friendly Interface: Designed for ease of use by journalists and researchers, with intuitive navigation and detailed incident reports.

“Traditional civil rights groups have been selective in their condemnation of hate and intolerance, often turning a blind eye to violence from the left,” Angelo continued. “Our Hate Map addresses this imbalance, providing a crucial resource for anyone committed to understanding and combating all forms of political violence.”

The NTC Hate Map is now live and accessible to the public on the New Tolerance Campaign website. NTC encourages all interested parties to utilize this resource to gain a more comprehensive understanding of political violence in America and to support efforts in promoting true tolerance.

Media requests: communications@newtolerance.org

The Best Enemy Money Can Buy: A Presentation by Alex Newman

Author and journalist, Alex Newman conducts a class at Camp Constitution’s 16th annual family camp.  This presentation explains how elements in the US. government have aided, abetted and promoted our nation’s enemies from the Bolshevik Revolution to present day.

Mr. Newman hosts a show called the Liberty Sentinel which airs on Frank Speech and other platforms:

https://libertysentinel.org/alex/

The Weekly Sam: Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Israel By Samuel Blumenfeld

What makes Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama think that peace is
possible between Israel and the Palestinians so long as Iran threatens to nuke Israel, is
rearming Hisbullah in Lebanon, and arming Hamas in Gaza, which is still determined to
destroy Israel?

What makes the Obama administration think that the Palestinians want peace when they
propose that Israel no longer maintain itself as a Jewish state and insist that it take in over
three million descendants of the 700,000 Arabs who once lived there? Forgotten are the
800,000 Jews expelled from Muslim countries after the 1948 war.
All the fuss being made by Biden and Clinton over the building of 1,600 new housing
units in Jerusalem is a case of misplaced indignation. Short of Israel committing suicide,
the Palestinians under Abbas are not about to assume the responsibilities of statehood
which would require it to behave like a legitimate sovereign nation. And that is why
they have rejected every offer the Israelis have made in the pursuit of peace.
The Palestinian government is the recipient of world charity which makes it unnecessary
for it to create anything of value. As the recipient of billions in free money, why bother
to work for a living? And as long as there is no peace agreement, they can continue to
launch suicide attacks against Israel at will.

Ever since the Oslo peace process began in 1993, Israel has had to make concession after
concession in the interest of peace. The Palestinians saw this as the successful result of
their intifada waged from 1987 to 1993. Many Israelis saw the Oslo process as the road
to a real peace that would bring untold prosperity to the region.
After President Clinton’s famous Camp David summit in the summer of 2000 between
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Yasir Arafat, Barak offered the Palestinians the
most generous peace terms any Israeli government could ever offer: 88 percent of the
West Bank and most of East Jerusalem. The response? The second intifada of
2001-2002 in which over 1,000 Israelis were killed in terrorist and suicide bomber
attacks.

In 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza, destroying the homes, farms, and
businesses of over 8,000 Israeli citizens. Did this disengagement bring peace? From the
date of withdrawal to the 2009 war, Gazan terrorists fired about 6,000 rockets and
mortars into Southern Israel. And even after the Gazan war, Hamas is still rearming
with the help of Iran, and Al Qaida has made inroads in the territory.
In September 2008, Prime Minister Olmert offered to withdraw from 94 percent of the
West Bank and create international Muslim control over Jerusalem’s holy sites. This
far-reaching offer was also rejected by the Palestinians.
Israel’s unceasing efforts to achieve peace in order to demonstrate to America that it truly
believes that peace is possible flies in the face of the intransigent realities on the ground.

The simple fact is that more and more Israelis are beginning to acknowledge that peace,
seemingly so near at hand, yet so elusive, is in the long run unachievable. Why?
Because the pre-conditions set by the Palestinians are simply impossible to meet.
Another fact is that despite the absence of peace, Israel has not only survived for 61
years, but has become a high-tech powerhouse, achieved a high standard of living, and
has managed to fare much better than most countries during the world financial crisis.
Yet, sixteen years of piecemeal concessions made under pressure from America and the
Europeans have convinced Israel haters that the Jewish state is quite vulnerable. Thus,
Israel’s yearning for peace and willingness to uproot its own people in Gaza and the
so-called settlements in Judea and Samaria, has encouraged its enemies to go for the
jugular.

And that is why what Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton hotly said in response to the notice
of the building in Jerusalem will provide ammunition to those who claim that it is Israel
that stands in the way of peace. Israel wants to please its American ally, but suicide is
not the most practical way to do it.
It should be noted that Israel now has a population of over 7 million inhabitants, of which
1.5 million are Muslim citizens of Israel, most of whom would object to becoming
citizens of a Palestinian state. Meanwhile, no Jews are permitted to be citizens of
Palestine. So much for a democratic, multicultural Palestinian state. There were even
Israelis in Gaza willing to live under a Palestinian government provided they were not
persecuted by that state.

Why doesn’t the American government insist that the projected Palestinian state permit
Jews to live in it? Unfortunately, the Palestinians would have to stop hating Jews, and
Barack Obama is not about to impose on the Palestinians their Allah-given imperative to
hate and kill Jews.

This article was from the Sam Blumenfeld Archives:  https://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/

The Blumenfeld Archives      

Camp Constitution’s Third Annual Weekend Family Camp Friday September 27 to Sunday September 29

 

Camp Constitution’s third annual weekend family camp will be held from Friday September 27 to Sunday September at Camp Sentinel in Tuftonboro, NH.  https://www.campsentinel.org/

This year’s weekend instructors include  Rev. Steve Craft, author of  America:  Home of the Brave or Land  of the Slave, Michael King of the Massachusetts Family Institute, and New Hampshire State Rep. Paul Terry.  Mrs. Jessica Whitworth will run the Junior Patriot Camo for children 4-12.

Recreational Activities include canoeing, basketball, gaga and a field trip to the Wright World War II Museum and Apple Picking.  Cost is $150. Per person.  A link to the application: https://campconstitution.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Family-Weekend-Release-form-2024.pdf

For more information, please contact Hal Shurtleff at (857) 498-1309 or E-mail campconstitution1@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

Camp Constitution Six Month Report for  2024

                                                                                      Camp Constitution in the News

Our lawsuit “Shurtleff v Boston” continues to be mentioned in the news around the United States.  Our case was cited in defense of the recently passed law in Louisiana that calls for the placing of the Ten Commandments in the state’s public school classrooms.   Cities and towns across the United States cited our case when passing ordinances banning all third-party flags including Lockhaven, PA, Enfield, CT and LaRue, TX.   While other towns and cities, due to our case, have allowed the flying of Christian, and Pro-Life flags including Waltham, MA, Hartford, CT and Nashua, NH.

 

    Camp Constitution on the Air

We had two appearances on the Duke Pesta Show. Duke plans to have us on his show on a regular basis. We had two appearances on the Tamara Scott Show which airs on Frank Speech, two appearances on the Pro-America  Report hosted by Ed Martin of  the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, an appearance on the Chris McCarthy Show on WBSM New Bedford, an appearance on Red Pill Politics which airs on Republic Radio, and for the first time, an appearance on  the George Hale–Ric Tyler Show on WVOM FM Maine.  We also appeared as a guest on Chattin with Janine- TV Show which airs on Merrimac, NH’s cable station, and hosted by New Hampshire State Rep Janine Notter.  We also co-hosted a show on the newly rebooted Catching Fire News, and an appearance on Alex Newman’s Sentinel Report. Vince Ellison appeared on the Grace Curley Show WRKO Boston on our behalf, and as mentioned in the last report, Camp Constitution instructor Willie Soon appeared as a guest on the Tucker Carlson Show and promoted Camp Constitution leading to thousands of views on our website, unsolicited donations and about thirty new family camp attendees including a familu from Frankfort, Germany.

 

Special Projects and Events

    We had information tables at the Mass HOPE and Homeschoolers of Maine annual conventions.  We participate in a flag raising ceremony of Resurrection Sunday in front of Nashua, NH’s City Hall.  Nashua residents Beth Scaer and Marc Vatter sponsored the event.  We had our Spring Clean Up at our two miles of road on Alton, NH.

We hosted our 2nd Annual Homeschool Patriots Day Overnight at the Lane House in Lexington, MA:

Thanks to two generous donors, we were able to run radio spots promoting the Sam Blumenfeld Archive, and Ladies Weekend Retreat on WRKO, the most popular AM talk radio show in New England, and WORD Radio WSEW in Rochester.  The spots also ran free on  New Hampshire Gospel Radio WVNH, WANH, and WJNHA link to the radio spot:     https://youtube.com/shorts/CC7MaLHpQPQ?si=3wzZlG6P49CQ6NU6

                                                                                YouTube, and Rumble

We received 327,000 views for this reporting period and as well as 6,832 new subscribers giving us close to 15,000 subscribers.  Since creating our channel, we have received 1.9 million views.   Our Rumble channel had 3,864 views and 800 likes.   If you haven’t already, please subscribe to these two channels and share the videos:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN7ME18Q1xiqcrPEn5h5FbA

https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all

                                                      Camp Constitution Radio on Podomatic and Other Platforms

Since January 2015, our 30-minute radio show has been airing on WBCQ The Planet, and for the past six years, we have uploaded our shows on Podomatic, and linking the show to Amazon, I-Heart, Spotify, and several other platforms. Due to the passing of one of our donors, we had to cancel our radio show at the end of June.  We will replace it with a podcast called The Camp Constitution Report which will offer interviews and commentary.

For this reporting period,  we have received 651 plays and 1,79 downloads of our shows.  We continue to be in the top ten for the category of conservative-right.  In addition to our weekly show, we have uploaded some classic interviews and speeches by the likes of Dan Smoot, Gary Allen, and E. Merrill Root. A link to our show:  https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal

                                                                              Camp Constitution Press

We published The Racist Roots of Planned Parenthood and Its Legacy of Death and Art and Revolution, and we had another printing of Alpha-Phonics, and The 1928 U.S. Army Manual. Thanks to the efforts of Bill McNally and his daughter, Barbara, who edited an unpublished manuscript on the JFK assassination written by Sam Blumenfeld in 1965, we will be publishing Sam’s work titled Did the KGB Kill Kennedy?  Bill and Barbara are also working on a more difficult edit of Sam’s  Did the Communists Create the Neo-Nazi Movement in America

                                                                                         Speakers Bureau

We had 27 speaking engagements including five engagements by best-selling author Vince Ellison, and two for Willaim Brown and Phil Zodhiates of Save the Persecuted Christians.

                                                                                                        Website

75,000 views and 28,000 visits on the site.

                                                                                       Sam Blumenfeld Archives

354,000 Hits with over 1,000 Alpha Phonics workbooks downloaded.  As mentioned above, we reprinted 200 copies of  Alpha Phonics and ran 30-second promotional spots on several radio stations including WRKO, and WORD Radio in Rochester, NH:

https://youtube.com/shorts/CC7MaLHpQPQ?si=Hh2QeYh7qOP0buV7

The Blumenfeld Archives

 

                                                                                                 Facebook Page

We have 3,200 likes and over 3,500 following our page.  We also manage six other groups and one other page-all of them growing in members

                                                                                   Stopping An Article V Convention

We testified against HCR 8 a resolution introduced by  the far-left group Wolf PAC  in New Hampshire’s House and it was soundly defeated, and we testified in favor of HCR 9, a resolution to rescind New Hampshire’s only Article V application.  It passed the House by a voice vote which surprised many pundits but was not taken up in the Senate.  In Maine, we helped defeat a resolution for an Article V Convention.  On the morning before the vote, we appeared as a guest on WVOM-the Voice of Maine to discuss the issue.  A link to the interview: https://youtu.be/g72_f6vk1ts?si=7R8Mg2aog5ZRFBVr

Ladies Spring Fling

We held our 5th annual ladies “Spring Fling” in early April held at the Alton Bay Christian Conference Center.  Guest speaker was Dr. Felecia Nace.

                                                                                    Looking Into the Next Six Months

We are co-hosting a Patriot Camp in Maine.  We will have an info table at the Crown of Maine Balloon Festival in Presque Isle, Maine.  Our third annual Family Weekend Retreat returns to Camp Sentinel in Tuftonboro, NH. We have tentative plans to attend a patriot rally in Texas.  We have a ladies fall retreat in early November which will be held at the Alton Bay Chrisitan Conference Center.

 

                                                                               Our 16th Annual Family Camp

Our camp starts up next week.  We have a full house with over 150 signed up.

 

                                                                                       How You Can Help

Pray for our nation and for Camp Constitution.

Host a Camp Constitution speaker.

Subscribe to our YouTube and Rumble channels and follow us on Podomatic.

View and share our videos and podcasts.

Make a monthly donation or a one-time donation. Donations may be made via our PayPal account accessed from our website’s homepage https://www.campconstitution.net

If you own a business or are involved with a non-profit, consider a sponsorship for a minimum of $100. A year.

A thanks to all of you who have helped make our camp program possible and my position possible.

 

Blessings.

 

Hal Shurtleff, Director

Camp Constitution

Independence Day – “GREATEST REVOLUTION that has ever taken place IN THE WORLD’S HISTORY”

 

American Minute with Bill Federer
Independence Day – “GREATEST REVOLUTION that has ever taken place IN THE WORLD’S HISTORY”-Ronald Reagan
Read American Minute

38-year-old King George the Third ruled the largest empire that planet earth had ever seen – “on which the sun never sets.”

He was a one-world government globalist, with him at the top, ruling through mandates …. continue reading …

Download as PDF …

GIFT EDITION – Miracles in American History-50 Amazing Stories of Answered Prayers

President Ronald Reagan declared May 9, 1983:

“The Founding Fathers understood that only by MAKING GOVERNMENT THE SERVANT, not the master,

only by positing SOVEREIGNTY in THE PEOPLE and not the state,

can we hope to protect freedom …

In 1776, the source of government excess was the crown’s abuse of power and its attempt to suffocate the colonists with its overbearing demands.

In our own day, the danger of too much state power has taken a subtler but no less dangerous form.”

Twenty-seven abuses of King George the Third were listed in the Declaration of Independence, signed JULY 4, 1776.

These abuses included:

A two-tiered justice system:

“… He has made judges dependent on his will alone …”

Weaponizing bureaucracy:

“… He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance …”

Imposing martial law:

“… He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies …

… To subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution …

… For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us …”

Targeting political opposition:

“… For imposing taxes on us without our consent …

… For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of trial by jury …

… For … establishing … an arbitrary government …

… For … altering fundamentally the forms of our governments …”

Turning law enforcement and military against his own subjects:

“… He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

… He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny …

… He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us,

and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”

33-year-old Thomas Jefferson’s original rough draft of the Declaration also contained a line condemning slavery, as the King of England was part owner of the Royal African Company:

“He has waged cruel war against human nature itself … in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither …

… suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce determining to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold.”
Unfortunately, a few delegates from southern states objected to this line.

Since everyone was in a panic as the British were invading New York and the city was in flames, and since the Declaration needed to pass unanimously, the line in Jefferson’s original draft condemning slavery was tragically set aside.

John Hancock, the 39-year-old President of the Continental Congress, signed the Declaration first, reportedly saying “the price on my head has just doubled.”

Next to sign was Secretary, Charles Thomson, age 47.

70-year-old Benjamin Franklin said:

“We must hang together or most assuredly we shall hang separately.”

When the King infringed upon people’s Creator-given rights, the founders went above the King’s head, appealing in the Declaration directly to God as the author of individual rights:

“Laws of Nature and of NATURE’S GOD …”

“All Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their CREATOR with certain unalienable Rights ..”

“Appealing to the SUPREME JUDGE OF THE WORLD for the rectitude of our intentions …”

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of DIVINE PROVIDENCE, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”

The line “all men are created equal” fundamentally changed government, as kings did not believe everyone was created equal.

They believed they were created extra special. It was called “the divine right of kings,” namely, that the Creator gives rights to the king and he dispenses them at his discretion to whoever he wishes.

The Declaration of Independence bypassed the King, declaring that the Creator gives rights directly to each individual person.
Many of the 56 signers sacrificed their prosperity for their posterity.

Of the signers:

11 had their homes destroyed;

5 were hunted and captured;

17 served in the military; and

9 died during the war.

27-year-old George Walton signed, and at the Battle of Savannah was wounded and captured.
Signers Edward Rutledge, age 27, Thomas Heyward, Jr., age 30, and Arthur Middleton, age 34, were made prisoners at the Siege of Charleston.
38-year-old signer Thomas Nelson had his home used as British headquarters during the siege of Yorktown. Nelson reportedly offered five guineas to the first man to hit his house.
Signer Carter Braxton, age 40, lost his fortune during the war.

42-year-old signer Thomas McKean wrote that he was “hunted like a fox by the enemy, compelled to remove my family five times in three month.”

46-year-old Richard Stockton signed and was dragged from his bed at night and jailed.

50-year-old signer Lewis Morris had his home taken and used as a barracks.

50-year-old signer Abraham Clark had two sons tortured and imprisoned on the British starving ship Jersey.

More Americans died on British starving ships than died in battle during the Revolution.

53-year-old signer Rev. John Witherspoon had his son, James, killed in the Battle of Germantown.
60-year-old signer Philip Livingston lost several properties to British occupation and died before the war ended.
63-year-old signer Francis Lewis found out that the British plundered his home and carried away his wife, Elizabeth, putting her in prison.

The British wanted to make an example of her, so they denied her a change of clothes, a bed, and gave her nothing but the most meager food. She was treated so harshly that she died shortly after being released.

65-year-old signer John Hart had his home looted and had to remain in hiding, dying before the war ended.
41-year-old John Adams wrote:

“Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.”

Regarding the day the Declaration was signed, John Adams wrote to his wife:

“I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding generations, as the great anniversary Festival.

It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by SOLEMN ACTS OF DEVOTION TO GOD ALMIGHTY.

It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shews, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this time forward forever more.”

Gustave de Beaumont, a contemporary of Alexis de Tocqueville, wrote in Marie ou L’Esclavage aux E’tas-Unis, 1835:

“i have seen a meeting of the Senate in Washington open with a prayer, and the anniversary festival of the Declaration of Independence consists, in the United States, of an entirely religious ceremony.”

John Adams continued in his letter to his wife:

“You will think me transported with enthusiasm but I am not.

I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States.

Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is more than worth all the means.

And that Posterity will triumph in that Days Transaction, even although we should rue it, which I trust in God we shall not.”

When 54-year-old Samuel Adams signed the Declaration, he said:

“We have this day restored THE SOVEREIGN to whom all men ought to be obedient.

He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.”

34-year-old James Wilson signed the Declaration. He later signed the Constitution and was appointed to Supreme Court by George Washington. James Wilson stated in 1787:

“After a period of 6,000 years since creation, the United States exhibit to the world THE FIRST INSTANCE of a nation … assembling voluntarily … and deciding … that system of government under which they and their posterity should live.”

Senator Daniel Webster stated in 1802:

“Miracles do not cluster, and what has HAPPENED ONCE IN 6,000 YEARS, may not happen again.

Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.”

John Jay was President of the Continental Congress, 1778-1779, and later nominated by George Washington to be the First Chief Justice of Supreme Court. John Jay wrote in 1777:

“The Americans are THE FIRST PEOPLE whom Heaven has favored with an opportunity of … choosing the forms of government under which they should live. All other constitutions have derived their existence from violence or accidental circumstances …

Your lives, your liberties, your property, will be at the disposal only of your Creator and yourselves.”

Yale President Ezra Stiles, 1788:

“All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one: and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.”

At the time of the Revolutionary War, nearly every other country on Earth was ruled by a king.

Dr. Pat Robertson wrote in America’s Dates with Destiny, 1986:

“On September 17, 1787, the day our Constitution was signed, the absolute monarch Ch’ien Lung, emperor of the Manchu (or Ch’ing) Dynasty, reigned supreme over the people of China … Revolts were put down by ruthless military force.

In Japan the shogun (warriors) of the corrupt Tokugawa chamberlain Tanuma Okitsugu exercised corrupt and totalitarian authority over the Japanese.

In India, Warren Hastings, the British Governor of Bengal, had successfully defeated the influence of the fragmented Mogul dynasties that ruled India since 1600.

Catherine II was the enlightened despot of all the Russias.

Joseph II was the emperor of Austria, Bohemia and Hungary.

For almost half a century, Frederick the Great had ruled Prussia.

Louis XVI sat uneasily on his throne in France just years away from revolution, a bloody experiment in democracy, and the new tyranny of Napoleon Bonaparte.

A kind of a constitutional government had been created in the Netherlands in 1579 by the Protestant Union of Utrecht, but that constitution was really a loose federation of the northern provinces for a defense against Catholic Spain …

What was happening in America had no real precedent, even as far back as the city-states of Greece.

The only real precedent was established thousands of years before by the tribes of Israel in the covenant with God and with each other.”

President Theodore Roosevelt stated in 1903:

“In NO other place and at NO other time has the experiment of government

of the PEOPLE,

by the PEOPLE,

for the PEOPLE,

been tried on so vast a scale as here in our own country.”

President Calvin Coolidge stated in 1924:

“The history of government on this earth has been almost entirely … rule of force held in the HANDS OF A FEW.

Under our Constitution, America committed itself to power in the HANDS OF THE PEOPLE.”

A King has “subjects” who are subjected to his will.

The word “citizen” is Greek, and it means a co-ruler, a co-regent, a co-king.

America’s founders, for all their faults, gave a present to all future citizens, namely, each person gets to be king of their own life, and all citizens together are the co-kings of the country!

A republic is where the people are king, ruling through representatives.

America is a republic where WE THE PEOPLE get to rule ourselves.

Silence Equals Consent – the sin of omission: Speak Now or Forever Lose Your Freedom

When someone protests the flag, what they are effectively saying, is, that they no longer want to be king.

They protest this system where they participate in ruling themselves.

They want someone else to rule their life.

President Ford stated in Rock Hill, South Carolina, October 19, 1974:

“What they don’t tell us when they propose all these benefits that they are going to give you from our Government …

that a government big enough to give us everything we want is a government big enough to take from us everything we have.”

Ronald Reagan opened the Ashbrook Center, Ashland, Ohio, May 9, 1983:

“From their own harsh experience with intrusive, overbearing government, the Founding Fathers made a great breakthrough in political understanding:

They understood that it is the excesses of government, the will to power of one man over another, that has been a principle source of injustice and human suffering through the ages .”

John Adams wrote in his notes on A Dissertation on Canon & Feudal Law, 1765:

“I always consider the settlement of America … as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence for … the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.”

John Jay noted in 1777:

“This glorious revolution … distinguished by so many marks of the Divine favor and interposition … and I may say miraculous, that when future ages shall read its history they will be tempted to consider a great part of it as fabulous …

The many remarkable … events by which our wants have been supplied and our enemies repelled … are such strong and striking proofs of the interposition of Heaven, that our having been hitherto delivered from the threatened bondage of Britain ought, like the emancipation of the Jews from Egyptian servitude.”

Franklin Roosevelt stated in 1939:

“Rulers … increase their power over the common men. The seamen they sent to find gold found instead the way of escape for the common man from those rulers …

What they found over the Western horizon was not the silk and jewels of Cathay … but MANKIND’S SECOND CHANCE — a chance to create a new world after he had almost spoiled an old one …

The Almighty seems purposefully to have withheld that SECOND CHANCE until the time when men would most need and appreciate liberty.”

Ronald Reagan stated 1961:

“In this country of ours took place THE GREATEST REVOLUTION that has ever taken place IN THE WORLD’S HISTORY — Every other revolution simply exchanged one set of rulers for another …

Here for THE FIRST TIME in all the THOUSANDS OF YEARS of man’s relation to man … the founding fathers established the idea that you and I had within ourselves the GOD-GIVEN RIGHT AND ABILITY to DETERMINE OUR OWN DESTINY.”

Donald Trump stated July 3, 2020:

“Each of you lives in the most magnificent country in the history of the world …

Our Founders launched not only a revolution in government, but a revolution in the pursuit of justice, equality, liberty, and prosperity.

No nation has done more to advance the human condition than the United States of America. And no people have done more to promote human progress than the citizens of our great nation.

It was all made possible by the courage of 56 patriots who gathered in Philadelphia 244 years ago and signed the Declaration of Independence.

They enshrined a divine truth that changed the world forever when they said: “All men are created equal” …

Our Founders boldly declared that we are all endowed with the same divine rights — given to us by our Creator in Heaven. And that which God has given us, we will allow no one, ever, to take away — ever …

Seventeen seventy-six represented the culmination of thousands of years of western civilization …”

Trump explained the left’s “identity theft” of America’s history:

“And yet … there is a growing danger that threatens every blessing our ancestors fought so hard for, struggled, they bled to secure.

Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children.

Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our Founders, deface our most sacred memorials, and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities.

Many of these people have no idea why they are doing this, but some know exactly what they are doing. …”

He added:

“One of their political weapons is “Cancel Culture” — driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters, and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees.

This is the very definition of totalitarianism, and it is completely alien to our culture and our values, and it has absolutely no place in the United States of America …”

Silence Equals Consent – the sin of omission: Speak Now or Forever Lose Your Freedom

Trump spoke further:

“We will expose this dangerous movement, protect our nation’s children, end this radical assault, and preserve our beloved American way of life.

In our schools, our newsrooms, even our corporate boardrooms, there is a new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance.

If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras, and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted, and punished. It’s not going to happen to us.

… Make no mistake: this left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution.

In so doing, they would destroy the very civilization that rescued billions from poverty, disease, violence, and hunger, and that lifted humanity to new heights of achievement, discovery, and progress …

They are determined to tear down every statue, symbol, and memory of our national heritage …

The violent mayhem we have seen in the streets of cities that are run by liberal Democrats, in every case, is the predictable result of years of extreme indoctrination and bias in education, journalism, and other cultural institutions …

… Our children are taught in school to hate their own country, and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but that were villains.

The radical view of American history is a web of lies — all perspective is removed, every virtue is obscured, every motive is twisted, every fact is distorted, and every flaw is magnified until the history is purged and the record is disfigured beyond all recognition ..

No movement that seeks to dismantle these treasured American legacies can possibly have a love of America at its heart …

No person who remains quiet at the destruction of this resplendent heritage can possibly lead us to a better future …”

He continued:

“The radical ideology attacking our country advances under the banner of social justice. But in truth, it would demolish both justice and society.

It would transform justice into an instrument of division and vengeance, and it would turn our free and inclusive society into a place of repression, domination, and exclusion …

We will not be silenced … We declare that the United States of America is the most just and exceptional nation ever to exist on Earth …

Our country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and we understand — that these values have dramatically advanced the cause of peace and justice throughout the world …

We believe in equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal treatment for citizens of every race, background, religion, and creed.

Every child, of every color — born and unborn — is made in the holy image of God.

We want free and open debate, not speech codes and cancel culture … We only kneel to Almighty God …”

President Trump concluded:

“Those who seek to erase our heritage … seek to dissolve the bonds of love and loyalty that we feel for our country, and that we feel for each other.

Their goal is not a better America, their goal is the end of America …

Our opponents would tear apart the very documents that Martin Luther King used to express his dream, and the ideas that were the foundation of the righteous movement for Civil Rights …

It is time for our politicians to summon the bravery and determination of our American ancestors ..

It is time to plant our flag and protect the greatest of this nation, for citizens of every race, in every city, and every part of this glorious land. For the sake of our honor, for the sake of our children …

Americans must never lose sight of this miraculous story … We will raise the next generation of American patriots.”

British Edwardian writer G.K. Chesterton stated in “What is America”:

“America is the ONLY NATION IN THE WORLD that is founded on creed.

That creed is set forth … in the Declaration of Independence …

that all men are equal in their claim to justice, that governments exist to give them that justice …

It certainly does condemn … atheism, since it clearly names the CREATOR as the ultimate authority from whom these equal rights are derived.”

Calvin Coolidge stated July 5, 1926:

“THE PRINCIPLES … which went into the Declaration of Independence … are found in … THE SERMONS … of the early colonial clergy …

They preached equality because they believed in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.

They justified freedom by the text that we are all created in the Divine image.”

Lincoln stated in his Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863:

 

“Our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

Henry Cabot Lodge, who filled the role of the first Senate Majority Leader, warned the U.S. Senate in 1919:

“The United States is the world’s best hope …

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance … for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.”

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