Christians Discriminated on Cape Cod: Local Media Silent
Since our 9-0 U.S. Supreme Court victory Shurtleff v Boston, http://lc.org/flag numerous people from around the country have reached out to me for advice. One group Concerned Christians of Bourne (Cape Cod, MA), contacted me last year explaing that their Council on Aging (COA) has eight “Progress Pride” flag decals. I suggested that they get equal space for the Christian flag decals. What follows is a recent letter to the editor that was not published by their local media, and a message to Alliance Defending Freedom-a Chrisitan legal group that, like Liberty Counsel who were our legal team, take cases pro bono
Video link of Trustees meeting on Feb 28 that affirmed the LGBTQ+ decals and rejected our request for Christian decals:
Letter-to-the-Editor to the Bourne Enterprise was rejected outright (and dishonestly). After 4 weeks, no one in town knows that the Trustees meeting took place, let alone its subject matter. This is the letter to the Editor that gives a good description of what went on:
” Dear Editor,
On May 2, 2022, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Boston had to also display the Christian flag along with the LGBTQ+ flag. Fitchburg and Plymouth have also had to do the same. A Christian group in Bourne requested of Bourne’s Town Administrator for the same policy here in regard to the LGBTQ+ decals being displayed on the Council on Aging windows in the Bourne Community Building and elsewhere. The Town Administrator sent the matter to the Trustees of the Community Building.
The Trustees held their regular meeting on February 28th at the Community Building, this time to consider the LGBTQ+ Pride decals and the request by the Concerned Christians of Bourne for them to also include a Christian Flag decal there. The Town Counsel, Bryard Bertram, began his presentation with, “In my opinion”, rather than with what the Constitution says. Our group did not ask that the LGBTQ+ decal be removed; however, the LGBTQ representative criticized our group for “having a prejudice against us”. The Bourne Executive Administrator testified that she had told the Council on Aging to place the new “Progressive” LGBTQ+ decals on their windows, in accordance with a state law and the Fenway Institute LGBTQ+ policy (included in the law). The “+” in the Progressive LGBTQ+ designation “is inclusive of contemporary sexual behaviors”, and the Fenway Institute is the largest LGBTQ+ organization in the country. The Fenway Institute for Research, Training, Education and Policy Development for LGBTQIA communities was founded in 1971, has 700 employees, an annual budget of $131,000,000 and in choosing them the state and Bourne have chosen their “viewpoint” and must now allow the Christian Decal viewpoint as well, as cited in the Supreme Court May 5th decision.
The one speaker for the LGBTQ+ decal (in addition to some Trustees) was Pam Washburn. She gave out her “business” card as “the She/Her” President of Cape Cod Pride in Mashpee”. She thanked the Trustees for their adopting the LGBTQ+ decal and described for the Trustees the meaning of the colors in the Progressive Pride decal in the COA windows. The flag contains the red, orange, yellow, green, indigo and purple of the old Pride flag but in the “Progressive” version, as the speaker explained, it also contains black, brown, pink, baby blue and white which represent:
Black represents black people
Brown ” brown skinned people
Pink ” transgendered
Baby blue ” pan sexual
White ” other sexual behaviors
Trustee William Doherty strongly criticized a speaker who felt this discriminated against Christians and then said that many members of St. Margarets and St. Johns Parishes in Pocasset accept the LGBTQ+ positions. The Trustees then, with no discussion, voted 5 to 0 to retain the LGBTQ Progressive Pride decals and to deny the request of the CCC of Bourne to include their Christian decal. They stated that it did not come under the referenced Supreme Court decision and that it was solely their choice to make. The real problem for Bourne that we see is that this is only the beginning. We see the LGBTQ+ agenda appearing in the schools (which has already begun), the library, treatment of town employee and in many other Town facilities.
The Trustee meeting was recorded, the subject was highly controversial and there was a large audience, almost all of which supported including the Christian decals. Because of this we felt a letter-to-the-Editor was necessary, as nothing has been said about this Trustees meeting or the controversial new Town policy for several weeks, and the video of the meeting had been held up for 2 weeks. If you would like to see this video, go to <02.28.23 Community Center Trustees Meeting Recording (2).mp4>. If you disagree with the Trustees on their decision, let them know now and in the next election.
Sincerely,
Concerned Christian Citizens of Bourne,
Fran Cichowski, Kari MacRae, George Seaver, Alice Zinkelvich
plus 40 more signatures”
Video link of Trustees meeting on Feb 28 that affirmed the LGBTQ+ decals and rejected our request for Christian decals:
This is a “Googlelink” which requires an account and password. If that does not work for you, I can send (by mail) a hard copy.
The Ten Commandments Remain in Place Due to Death of “Lemon Test”
(The following is a news release from Liberty Counsel)
U.S. Congressman William Findley (1741-1821) observed that the Ten Commandments were “incorporated in the judicial law.” In fact, 12 of the 13 original colonies adopted the Decalogue into their civil and criminal laws. For example:
- The First Commandment states, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” In 1610, Virginia required its leaders to give “allegiance” to God, “from whom all power and authority is derived,” and who is the “King of kings, the Commander of commanders, and Lord of hosts.”
- The Second Commandment forbids the making of idols. The 1780 Constitution of Massachusetts stated in Part I, Article II, “It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the Supreme Being, the great creator and preserver of the universe.”
- The Third Commandment prohibits taking God’s name in vain. This Commandment was adopted into law by Virginia in 1610 (“That no man blasphemes God’s holy name upon the pain of death”) and by Connecticut in 1639 (“If any person shall blaspheme the name of God the Father, Son, or Holy Ghost . . . he shall be put to death”).
- The Fourth Commandment states, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.” The Fourth Commandment was adopted by Virginia in 1610, New Haven in 1653, New Hampshire in 1680, Pennsylvania in 1682 and 1705, South Carolina in 1712, North Carolina in 1741 and Connecticut in 1751.
- The Fifth Commandment exhorts children to honor their parents. A 1642 Connecticut law cited to the Fifth Commandment for the proposition that children should honor their parents.
- The Sixth Commandment states, “Thou shalt not kill.” Courts have been very candid in tracing the prohibition against murder from colonial times to the present laws back to the Sixth Commandment.
- The Seventh Commandment states, “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” A 1641 Massachusetts law declared, “If any person committeth adultery with a married or espoused wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. Ex. 30.14.” Similar laws were enacted by Connecticut in 1642, Rhode Island in 1647, New Hampshire in 1680 and Pennsylvania in 1705.
- The Eighth Commandment states, “Thou shalt not steal.” Not only have the laws against theft been derived from this Commandment, but also laws protecting the integrity of elections.
- The Ninth Commandment prohibits perjury or bearing “false witness.” This Commandment became the foundation of America’s judicial system. Connecticut enacted a perjury law in 1642, Massachusetts in 1641, Rhode Island in 1647, and New Hampshire in 1680. The Oregon Supreme Court stated, “No official is above the law. ‘Thou shalt not bear false witness’ is a command of the Decalogue, and that forbidden act is denounced by the statute as a felony.”
- The Tenth Commandment prohibits coveting. This Commandment has been cited as the basis of civil laws against defamation, laws preventing election fraud, laws targeting white collar crime, and laws targeting modern forms of cattle rustling.
There are also many historic displays of the Ten Commandments embedded in the architecture in Washington, D.C. Near the top of the U.S. Supreme Court building is a row of famous lawgivers, and each one is facing Moses who is standing in the middle holding the Ten Commandments. Inside the High Court, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower part of the door and a display is also right above where the Justices sit. There is a prominent display at the Library of Congress as well as engraved in bronze on the floor of the National Archives. The Ten Commandments are also on the outside of the Ronald Reagan International Trade Building. Moses is engraved in stone over the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Ten Commandments is in the seal of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
However, there have been many rulings by judicial activists in recent years striking down Ten Commandments displays on public property because of the “Lemon Test,” the legal test which came out of the ruling in Lemon v. Kurtzman that has been used to determine if a law violates the First Amendment Establishment Clause.
For example, in 2001, Roy Moore, then chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, installed a 5,280-pound granite monument depicting the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of the state’s judicial building. On October 30, 2001, three Alabama attorneys filed suit against Judge Moore alleging that the monument was a violation of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause by endorsing religion. On November 18, 2002, U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson ruled that the monument violated the Establishment Clause, citing Lemon v. Kurtzman as precedent. Eventually, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the trial judge and that the monument should be removed. Judge Thompson ordered Judge Moore to remove the monument and he refused. On November 13, 2003, the Court of the Judiciary removed Judge Moore from office and the Ten Commandments monument was removed on November 14, 2003.
In McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union (2005), the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky sued two Kentucky counties for displaying framed copies of the Ten Commandments. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Ten Commandment displays in two county courthouses violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Writing for the majority, Justice David Souter focused on the history of the display and the lack of a secular purpose demonstrated by that history. The High Court invoked the “Lemon Test,” stating that the purpose analysis in that test is meant to ensure government neutrality regarding religion. Yet the same day, the High Court decided 5-4 in Van Orden v. Perry (2005) that a monument of the Ten Commandments in a Texas public park did not violate the Establishment Clause.
However, all those rulings to remove the Ten Commandments from America’s landscape are no longer valid because of two major victories at the U.S. Supreme Court last year.
On May 2, 2022, Liberty Counsel’s 9-0 victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in Shurtleff v. City of Boston involved censorship of Christian viewpoints regarding flag raisings. The High Court unanimously ruled that the city of Boston violated the Constitution by censoring a private flag in a public forum open to “all applicants” merely because the application referred to it as a “Christian flag.” The High Court unanimously rejected Boston’s use of the “Lemon Test” to censor Christian viewpoints.
In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, Liberty Counsel argued in its amicus brief that since the Establishment Clause provides no justification for suppressing Coach Joe Kennedy’s private, religious speech to silently pray on the football field after games, the “Lemon Test” should be overruled. Then on June 27, 2022, the High Court ruled 6-3 in favor of the high school football coach and also finally buried the court-made “Lemon Test” citing Liberty Counsel’s 9-0 decision handed down in Shurtleff v. City of Boston involving the Christian flag.
The Kennedy ruling stated, “This Court long ago abandoned Lemon and its endorsement test offshoot… In place of Lemon and the endorsement test, this Court has instructed that the Establishment Clause must be interpreted by ‘reference to historical practices and understandings.’”
Liberty Counsel’s Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “As a result of the Shurtleff and Kennedy decisions, the Ten Commandments now can be freely displayed on government property as a reminder of the significant role these biblical guidelines play in the development of American law and policy as well as their impact on our culture and society. No activist court can ever remove them again.”
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Evacuation Day March 17
Today, March 17, 2023marks the 248th anniversary of the British evacuation from Boston and General George Washington’s 1st victory. After the Battle of Bunker Hill which took place on June 1775, Boston was under siege from the newly formed Continental Army. In early March of 1776, cannons captured at Ford Ticonderoga transported to Boston, under the leadership of General Henry Knox. and used to fortify Dorchester Heights in South Boston. This allowed the Continental Army to be able to fire cannons unopposed by the British. After viewing the efforts of the Colonialists, British General William Howe said “The rebels have done more in one night than my whole army would have done in a month.” Howe who didn’t want to see a repeat of the Battle of Bunker Hill which was won by the British but at a high cost of lives, decided to vacate Boston.
Every year, the Henry Knox Color Guard of the Massachusetts Sons of the Revolution, https://www.massar.org/ , celebrate this important day in our history with a ceremony on Dorchester Heights. This ceremony took place on March 17, 2021. Camp Constitution was on hand:
Roger Sherman, and the importance of Gold & Silver – American Minute with Bill Federer
He was the only person to sign all four of these America’s founding documents:
- Articles of Association, 1774;
- Declaration of Independence, 1776;
- Articles of Confederation, 1777;
- U.S. Constitution, 1787.
Who was he?
Roger Sherman.
At age 19, Roger Sherman’s father died and he supported his family as a shoe cobbler, helping his two younger brothers to attend college and become clergymen.
Roger Sherman was a surveyor and merchant, but when a neighbor needed legal advice, he studied to help, only to be inspired to become a lawyer.
Sherman was elected a state senator, a judge and a delegate to the Continental Congress.
He was on the Committee to draft the Declaration of Independence, along with Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and Livingston.
Roger Sherman is pictured second from the left in John Trumbull’s famous painting which hangs in the Capitol Rotunda.
He helped draft the Articles of Confederation and helped draft the instructions given to an embassy headed to Canada, which stated:
“You are further to declare that we hold sacred the rights of conscience, and may promise to the whole people, solemnly in our name, the free and undisturbed exercise of their religion.
And … that all civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.”
On October 17, 1777, when news that British General Burgoyne had surrendered 6,000 British troops to American General Horatio Gates after the Battle of Saratoga, Roger Sherman exclaimed:
“This is the Lord’s doing, and marvelous in our eyes!”
Sherman made 138 speeches at the Constitutional Convention.
He helped to draft the New Jersey Plan and the Connecticut Compromise, which broke the deadlock between how the large States and small States would be represented in the new government.
Patrick Henry described Roger Sherman as one of the three greatest men at the Constitutional Convention.
Roger Sherman is the author of Article 1, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution:
“No State shall … make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts.”
He wrote in A Caveat Against Injustice or, An Inquiry into the Evils of a Fluctuating Medium of Exchange, 1752:
“Suppose a man comes to a trader’s shop in this colony to buy goods, and the trader sells him a certain quantity of goods and tells him the price is so many pounds, shillings and pence … to be paid at the expiration of one year … but there is nothing said either by seller or buyer, what currency it is to be paid in …
… Now I ask: What does the creditor have a right to demand for a debt so contracted? …
The debtor says that Bills of Credit on the neighboring governments have for many years passed promiscuously with the Bills of Credit on this colony as money …
And the creditor … says that such Bills of Credit are of no intrinsic value, and their … value is fluctuating and very uncertain, and therefore it would be unjust that any person should be obliged to receive them in payment as money …
for money ought to be something of certain value, it being that whereby other things are to be valued.”
James Madison wrote:
“Paper money is unjust … It is unconstitutional, for it affects the rights of property as much as taking away equal value in land.”
George Washington wrote Thomas Jefferson, August 1, 1786:
“Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.”
Jefferson wrote to Colonel Edward Carrington, May 27, 1788:
“Paper is poverty … it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.”
In 1817, Jefferson predicted paper money will bring:
“… abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, make a lottery of all private property.”
Jefferson insisted in 1784:
“If we determine that a Dollar shall be our Unit … we must then say with precision what a Dollar is.”
In 1792, the Coinage Act declared a dollar worth 371.25 grains of pure silver or 24.75 grains of pure gold.
In 1862, during the emergency of the Civil War, Lincoln issued unbacked fiat “Greenback” currency.
When his cabinet asked if they should put “In God We Trust” on them, as was engraved on U.S. coins, Lincoln responded, “If you are going to put a legend on the greenbacks, I would suggest that of Peter and Paul, ‘Silver and gold I have none, but such as I have I give to thee.'”
On April 5, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an Executive Order 6102 demanding that everyone in the nation surrender their gold to the Federal Government by May 1, 1933.
On August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon ordered the treasury “to suspend temporarily” the dollar being backed by gold, which became permanent.
Congressman Rep. Ron Paul of Texas wrote:
“The Latin term ‘fiat’ roughly translates to ‘there shall be.’ When we refer to fiat money, we are referring to money that exists because the government declares it into existence …
Fiat money is exchanged in the economy as long as there is faith in the government that issues it …
History has shown that fiat money, or ‘faith-based currency’ always fails, because when governments claim this power, they always behave irresponsibly …”
He continued:
“When government has the ability to create and spend all the money it wants … budgeting, as most Americans know it, loses all meaning.
Hand a teenager a credit card, and tell him there is no limit and no accountability for what he spends, and the effect would be the same.
The government becomes the reckless teenager with the credit card, and in the end, the taxpaying citizens get the bill …
This is why our founding fathers considered, but decidedly rejected the creation of a national central bank.
They understood that … even the best of governments, cannot control spending …”
Rep. Paul concluded:
“Every dollar created and spent by government makes the dollars in your pocket worth less and less.
Eventually any currency controlled by government will be debased to worthlessness, and will wipe out the savings of the citizens who put faith in that currency.
Hard currencies, on the other hand, force governments to remain in check, strictly limited to the revenues they can raise from the country’s economic health.”
Rolf Nef of Global Research wrote “Falling Empires and their Currencies,” January 15, 2007:
“When empires fall, their currencies fall first …
The common thing is that the currencies of each and every one of these falling empires lost dramatically in value …
Authorities debased their currency which presaged (warned of) the fall of the Empire.”
Devalued currency and out-of-control debt contributed to the decline of:
- Han Dynasty of China;
- Roman Empire;
- Byzantine Empire;
- Kublai Khan’s Yuan Dynasty;
- Spanish Hapsburg Dynasty;
- Ottoman Empire;
- French Empire;
- British Empire;
- Soviet Union;
- Zimbabwe;
- Venezuela.
Newsweek columnist Niall Ferguson, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, wrote in “How Economic Weakness Endangers the U.S.” (3/13/10):
“This is how empires decline. It begins with a debt explosion …
Habsburg Spain defaulted on all or part of its debt 14 times between 1557 and 1696 and also succumbed to inflation due to a surfeit of New World silver.
Pre-revolutionary France was spending 62 percent of royal revenue on debt service by 1788.
The Ottoman Empire went the same way: interest payments and amortization rose from 15 percent of the budget in 1860 to 50 percent in 1875.
And … the last great English-speaking empire. By the interwar years, interest payments were consuming 44 percent of the British budget, making it intensely difficult to rearm in the face of a new German threat …
Without radical fiscal reform, it could apply to America next.”
Richard W. Fisher, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, told the Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, May 28, 2008:
“We know from centuries of evidence in countless economies, from ancient Rome to today’s Zimbabwe, that running the printing press to pay off today’s bills leads to … inflation that results from the flood of money into the economy (which) turns out to be far worse than the fiscal pain those countries hoped to avoid.”
Roger Sherman wrote in Caveat of Injustice, 1752:
“No government has the right to impose on its subjects any … currency to be received in payments as money which is not of intrinsic value …
because in so doing they would oblige men to part with their estates for that which is worth nothing in itself and which they don’t know will ever procure him any thing.”
Support for a stable unit of financial exchange is in the Old Testament Book of Leviticus, which stated in verse 19:36:
“Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have.”
The Book of Proverbs stated in verse 11:1:
“A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.”
Because of the irresponsibility of governments inflating their currencies, and manipulation by international currency traders, many have explored using Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, but as this cannot be controlled, central governments view them as a threat.
The globalist alternative is a government trackable CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) which potentially could be turned off by the government if a company or individual’s ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) score is not politically-correct enough.
In 1788, as a member of the White Haven Congregational Church, Roger Sherman was asked to use his expertise in revising the wording of their creed.
In his own handwriting, he wrote:
“I believe … that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are a revelation from God, and a complete rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy Him …
That He made man at first perfectly holy, that the first man sinned, and … all became sinners in consequence … and on account of sin are liable to all the miseries of this life, to death, and to the pains of hell forever.
I believe that God … did send His own Son to become man, die in the room and stead of sinners and thus to lay a foundation for the offer of pardon and salvation to all mankind, so as all may be saved who are willing to accept the Gospel offer.”
Roger Sherman helped convince the state of Connecticut to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
He was elected from Connecticut as a Representative to the first session of U.S. Congress.
When the First Amendment was introduced, Sherman thought it was unnecessary as religion was under each individual States’ jurisdiction.
Elected as a U.S. Senator at age 70, Roger Sherman died JULY 23, 1793.
The State of Connecticut placed a statue of Sherman in the U.S. Capitol.
Sherman’s statue is also on the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford.
Inscribed on Roger Sherman’s tomb is:
“He ever adorned the profession of Christianity which he made in youth and … died in the prospect of a blessed immortality.”
(The above is reposted by permission of the American Minute https://americanminute.com/blogs/todays-american-minute
HCR 4: A “Bait and Switch? and Out-Of-State Lobbyists
On Thursday March 16, the New Hampshire House of Representatives should be debating and voting on HCR 4-a resolution applying for an Article V Convention for a term limit amendment. There is no reference in Article V which limits a convention to a specific amendment or topic. Legislators who support this amendment have been told by out-of-state lobbyists that an Article V Convention can indeed be limited, but they have no historical precedence to back up their claims since the U. S. has never held an Article V Convention. Just believe them because they trot out well paid spokesmen who say so.
One of the out-of-state lobbyists is Mr. Ken Quinn. He works for Term Limits USA but once worked for Convention of States (COS). He spends a good amount of his time denouncing and smearing all Republicans who dare oppose an Article V Convention. Back in 2016, his organization accused NH State Senator Kevin Avard of bribery-a total lie, but it demonstrates the lengths that some of its leadership are willing go to get their resolutions passed. Senator Avard Accused of bribery by COS
It looks like COS has not learned its lesson:
Attorney Mike Ferris, a co-founder of COS openly advocated for “structural change” of the U.S. Constitution. In the Spring of 2016, Mr. Quinn not only defended “structural change” of the Constitution but claimed that the Constitution was flawed because elected officials could ignore it. In his own words:
Last month, the New Hampshire House rejected COS’s resolution-HCR 1, Let’s hope they do the same to HCR 4.
Term Limit Amendment:
“Throw the bums out” is the emotional call of some term limit amendment supporters but a term-limit amendment will throw all members of Congress out- not just the “bums” If passed and fully implemented, 12 to 15 years from now, will give us a permanent lame duck Congress, and likely do nothing to change the ideological make-up of new members of Congress.
Repent Congressman Jamaal Bowman Says Camp Constitution’s Chaplain Rev. Steve Craft
Rev. Steve Craft, Chaplain for Camp Constitution, calls Congressman Jamaal Bowman of New York to repentance. Bowman is a socialist who promotes the racist and Marxist Critical Race Theory. Rev. Craft pointed out that the “we have a sin problem not a sit problem. Like all of the black Democrat members of Congress, Mr. Bowman supports abortion and Planned Parenthood. Rev. Craft points out that Planned Parenthood is a racist organization whose founder hated blacks. In the video, Rev. Craft recommends several books written by black authors that refute the Marxist narrative including two by Vince Ellison titled 25 Lies: Exposing Democrats’ Most Dangerous, Seductive, Damnable, Destructive Lies and How to Refute Them, and The Iron Triangle Inside the Liberal Democrat Plan to Use Race to Divide Christians and America in their Quest for Power and How We Can Defeat Them
Camp Constitution Mails Liberty to Socialist Congressman Jamaal Bowman After He Sends Marxist Books to Governor DeSantis
Recently, Congressman Jamaal Bowman, a member of the Democrat Socialists of America who wants to defund the police, sent Governor Desantis some Marxist, and racists books including White Fragility. Bowman made a video placing the books and mailing the box in a post office. In the video, he made some outrageous accusations against Desantis who signed a bill banning Critical Race Theory in the state’s high schools and is working to ban it in public colleges.
(Congressman Jamaal Bowman D-NY
After watching the video, I thought that we would make our own video and send Mr. Bowman a few liberty books which include The Law, Cliches of Socialism by Frederic Bastiat, Color, Communism and Common Sense by Manning Johnson, and a copy of Sam Blumenfeld’s Alpha-Phonics.
The Weekly Sam: John Dewey’s Plan to Dumb Down America by Sam Blumenfeld
in 2013, Camp Constitution Press, at the recommendation of Sam Blumenfeld, reprinted John Dewey’s article from May of 1898 titled “The Primary-Education Fetich” (sic) in which the life-long socialist and enemy of Christianity how he and his fellow socialists would dumb-down America. Sam wrote the preface and we include a link to the a PDF version of the entire reprint:
Preface to John Dewey’s Plan
to Dumb-Down America
By Samuel Blumenfeld
The dumbing-down of America is no accident. It is not the result
of uncontrollable natural forces floating in the air we breathe or the
water we drink. It is the result of a planned scheme launched in 1898
by Progressive-in-Chief John Dewey outlined in an article titled “The
Primary-Education Fetich” (sic). Dewey was a diehard socialist with
a deep hatred of capitalism, individualism, and orthodox Christianity.
He, and his small army of academic followers, were determined to
turn America into a humanist collectivist society and he figured out
that the best way to separate Americans from their constitutional
freedoms and individualism was to dumb them down.
And the easiest way to do this was to change the way children were
taught to read in their primary schools. Get rid of intensive phonics,
the foundation oflanguage mastery and independent intelligence, and
put in its place a “sight” or “look-say” method that teaches children
to read English as if it were Chinese. Have them memorize a sight
vocabulary so that they develop a whole-word reflex and cannot see
the phonetic structure of our alphabetic words. Thus, they will become
reading disabled, dyslexic, or simply low-level readers.
Need proof? Look no further than what happened to the four
Rockefeller boys back in the 1920s when John D. Rockefeller Jr.
put his four sons-Nelson, Laurence, Winthrop, and David-in the
Progressive Lincoln School in New York. As a misguided admirer of
John Dewey, Rockefeller donated three million dollars to the school
which then turned his four sons into dyslexics. Mr. Rockefeller’s
ignorance condemned his sons to lives ofliterary frustration. Yes, they
had plenty of money, but their life-long reading handicap deprived
them of the great pleasures of reading.
Dewey’s vision of an egalitarian, socialist America was based on
a novel written by Unitarian journalist Edward Bellamy, Looking
Backward. The novel is a fantasy of America becoming a socialist
paradise in the year 2000. Economic planning replaced free-market
competition, and Americans became members of a regimented
industrial army, all paid by the government.
Of course, Dewey knew that Americans would not voluntarily give
up their economic and individual freedoms, so he told his colleagues:
“Change must come gradually. To force it unduly would compromise
its final success by favoring a violent reaction:’ And so, wholesale
deception became the modus operandi of the progressive movement.
We are reprinting Dewey’s article because it is important for
Americans to understand how they’ve been deceived by their so-called educators. The plan to deliberately dumb down the nation
has been hidden from the public for almost 100 years. Reading it
today is to become finally aware of the deceit and treachery behind
this treasonous conspiracy to destroy the intellect of millions of
Americans behind the benign fa<;:ade of Progressive education.
When you consider the misery, frustration, despair and humiliation
these teaching methods have caused in millions ofAmerican children,
it becomes clear that the professional educators behind all ofthis were
diabolically inspired.
Can we repair the damage done by Dewey’s plan? Only if the will
is there and Americans are willing to face the fact that they have been
betrayed by their educators.
Dewey, of course, is long dead, but his disciples control American
public education, and whether they know it or not they are continuing
to implement Dewey’s plan. And we see the results every day. In
2007, the National Endowment for the Arts released its report on the
decline of American literacy. Its chairman, Dana Gioia stated:
“This is a massive social problem. We are losing the majority of
the new generation. They will not achieve anything close to their
potential because of poor reading:’
The only way to reverse this situation is to make sure that every child
in every American school is taught to read with intensive, systematic
phonics. We know how to restore high literacy to America. But is
there the will to do it? Many parents are doing it by homeschooling
their own children. But will it be done in the schools? It will be
done only if there is enough of an outcry from concerned parents and
citizens. That is why we urge readers ofthis article to distribute copies
of it to as many people as possible. If this article is read by millions of
Americans, it will have an impact that the educators and politicians
will not be able to ignore.
A link to a PDF version of our 2013 reprint: https://campconstitution.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/The-John-Dewey-Plan-to-Dumb-Down-America.pdf
Camp Constitution Announces New Instructors for its 15th Annual Family Camp
Camp Constitution Announces New Guest Instructors Valery McDonnell, the Nation’s Youngest Elected Official, and Vince Ellison, author, and documentary producer for its 15th Annual Family Camp
Camp Constitution is pleased to announce that Miss Valery McDonnell of Salem, NH, the youngest elected official in the nation, and Mr. Vince Ellison, author of several books including 25 Lies.
Vince Everett Ellison was born on a cotton plantation in Haywood County, Tennessee. His parents at that time were sharecroppers. Through hard work and a belief in Jesus Christ, his parents pulled him and his seven siblings out of poverty. His family started the Ellison Family Gospel singing group, where Vince sang and played multiple instruments as a child and young adult. Vince worked for five years as a Correctional Officer at the Medium/Maximum Kirkland Correctional Institution in Columbia, SC. Afterward, Vince worked in the nonprofit arena.
In 2000, Vince received the Republican Party nomination for the South Carolina 6th Congressional District. In 2019, Vince wrote The Iron Triangle: Inside the Liberal Democrat Plan to Use Race to Divide Christians and America in their Quest for Power and How We Can Defeat Them, which became an Amazon #1 bestseller. He has appeared numerous times on Hannity, The Laura Ingraham Show, Newsmax, OAN, The Joe Pags Show, The Brian Kilmeade Show, The Howie Carr Show, and many other radio and television programs.
Vince is a member of Project 21 and has written numerous articles for American Greatness magazine, Bizpacreview.com, and other publications. He is the producer of the soon to be released documentary Will You Go to Hell For Me https://willyougotohellforme.com/
Valerie McDonnell was born to parents Brian McDonnell and Pauline McDonnell in 200 She is a native of Salem, New Hampshire[2]
McDonnell graduated from Salem High School in 2022 She is a . sophomore at Southern New Hampshire Universi, where she is majoring in political science with a minor in professional writing. In 2021 and 2022, McDonnell was the New Hampshire state champion and a National Finalist of the American Legion Oratorical Contest. Her website: https://mcdonnellforsalem.com/
Camp Constitution’s15th Annual Family Camp runs from Sunday July 16 tp Friday July 21 the Singing Hills Christian Camp.
Returning instructors include Pastor David Whitney of the Institute on the Constitution; Professor Willie Soon, world renowned astrophysicist and climate realist; Catherine White of The Constitution Decoded; Alex Newman, author and host of the Sentinel Report, and Rev. Steve Craft, Camp Constitution’s chaplain. Mrs. Edith Craft returns to direct the program for the Junior Campers. In addition to the classes, the camp will offer marksmanship courses, martial arts, hiking, basketball, volleyball, wiffleball, and optional field trip and swimming, chess, gaga and corn hole tournaments. Campers and staff end the day with an evening campfire.
Camp Constitution’s annual camp is a family camp open to entire families, unaccompanied minors, and adults. The cost for the week which includes lodging, meals and class handouts is $300 for those 13 and over. $200. For campers 12 and under, and three and under with parents are free. The camp offers an “Early Bird” discount of $50, per person by registering by May 1. A link to the camp registration: https://campconstitution.net/camp-registration/
Don’t plan on attending but would like to help send a young person or a family attend? Please consider a donation which may be made vis our PayPal account accessed from our website’s homepage https://www.campconstitution.net
