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Camp Constitution’s Third Quarter Report for 2025
Our Annual Family Camp
While our numbers were down from last year’s camp, we still had an excellent turnout with attendees coming as far as Alaska, Wyoming and Utah.
Returning instructors included Professor Willie Soon, one of the world’s top atmospheric scientists, who attended with his family, Pastor David Whitney of the Institute on the Constitution, Rev. Steve Craft who serves at the camp chaplain, Mrs. Catherine White of the Constitution Decoded, Dr. Felecia Nace, author of several books, and author and host of the Liberty Sentinel program, Alex Newman. Guest instructors included Michelle Gallagher, author of A Guide to the Forefather’s Monument, Mr. Kurt Hyde, an expert of election fraud, and Mr. Chris Burke who taught an optional class on the use of HAM Radios. A link to our YouTube playlist of classes and activities at our camp:
https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PL7jnzBzBiNYDeD_94loNG8mUcUMFM2m2N/videos
Camp Constitution Ladies Annual Spring Fling
We had our largest turnout for the Ladies “Spring Fling held for the 2nd year at the Alton Bay Christian Conference Center in early May. Our guest speakers were Karen Testerman, author and gubernatorial candidate, and Sue Ianni, a January Sixer. The ladies also took a field trip to the Belknap County Sportsmen’s Club to do some marksmanship training.
Camp Constitution in the News
The publisher of the Rochester Voice, an on-line news for Greater Rochester, NH gave us a monthly column. -the Camp Constitution Report. Our monthly article now runs in four media outlets “The Boston Broadside” ‘The Weirs Times.” “The Granite Grok” and “The Rochester Voice.”
Our lawsuit “Shurtleff v Boston” continues to be mentioned in media outlets around the country especially during “Pride” Month. “Shurtleff v Boston” lawsuit was decided but it continues to be mentioned in the news around the country. Our case was recently cited in a decision by the University of Massachusetts Amherst when the “Pride” flag was removed from a building, and in February our case was mentioned in a controversy at the Marblehead, MA High School.
Camp Constitution on the Air
In September, we were interviewed by Landry Crawford a 16 year-old homeschooler who hosts HisStory podcast. We were return guests on the Duke Pesta Show, The Sentinel Report hosted by Alex Newman, The Chuck Moscowitz Show, and the Tamara Scott Show. And first time New Hampshire Gospel Radio, and by Shawn Crenshaw, the host of the Biblical Conservative Show on the subject of Planed Parenthood.
The Camp Constitution Report
In late August we received this E-mail regarding our podcast:
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As a result, we have received some interesting requests for interviews.
We did eighteen shows including interviews with Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer of the White House Faith Initiative, Adam Swart, founder of Crowds on Demand Jody Underwood of New Hampshire Educational Options, Karen Siegmund, President of the American Freedom Alliance, Woodrow Johnson, CEO of Revere Solutions, Michelle Gallagher, author of The Forefathers Monument Guidebook, Elena Barbera, producer and director of the documentary “American Groomer. This show airs on our YouTube Channel, Rumble, Podomatic, Spotify, and about five other podcast formats: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal/episodes/2025-05-22T05_29_44-07_00
We are working with the Matric Coalition, a New Hampshire based entity whose mission is to donate poster of the Forefathers Monument, and copies of The Forefathers Monument Guidebook to local schools. We donated several copies of the book and framed copies of the poster to Manchester Public Schools. We donated hundreds of pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution to Cornerstone Christian School in Ossipee, NH, and two Trail Life Troops in MA and NH.
We had floats in the Alton, NH Old Home Day Parade where we distributed 400 pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution, and a float in Lexington. MA’s 250 Anniversary Celebration of the Battle of Lexington. The evening before the Lexington Parade, we hosted our 3rd Annual Patriot’s Day Overnight at the Lane House where we took in the reenactments of the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and the Battle of Lexington. We had information tables at six New Hampshire Education Options expositions. The Freedom Project Academy led by our friend Dr. Duke Pesta sponsored an essay contest for his students and offered three families free tuition at Camp Constitution’s annual family camp. We had the opportunity to conduct an on-line class for a group of students both national and international. The topic was the U.S. Constitution. We did a video for the Potomac Tea Party that was aired on Independence Day.
For the 17th year in a row, (with the exception of the Covid lockdown) we had info tables at the Mass HOPE homeschool convention, Homeschoolers of Maine, and the Crown of Maine’s Balloon Festival in Presque Isle. For the 2nd year in a row, we had an info table at the Londonderry, NH’s Old Home Day, and we co-sponsored Patriot Camp- a day camp program in Rockport, Maine hosted by Camp Constitution instructors Jessica Whitworth and Victoria Buckland.
Camp Constitution Media
We videotaped presentations made at the Sixth Annual Christian Education Initiative held in Lynchburg, VA in September, events at the last day of Patriot Camp held in Rockport, Maine, the classes and activities at our family camp, the Memorial Day Parade in Alton, NH sponsored by the American Legion and a presentation .by Dr. Chris Gnanakan of Liberty University.
YouTube, Rumble and Bitchute
We got 361 new subscribers for the 2025 giving us close to `17,200 subscribers overall. We received 87.1 thousand views this year. We uploaded 145 videos and now have 1,700 videos uploaded.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN7ME18Q1xiqcrPEn5h5FbA
Our Rumble channel received 4,792 views the first nine months of the of the year. We have uploaded some documentaries including “Operation Keelhaul” and “MAAFA 21 Black Genocide in the 2oth Century” as well as some classic anti-communists movies.
https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all
We have A Bitchute channel but haven’t uploaded many videos. We were happy to discovered that we are getting thousands of views of our videos and will be uploading more videos in the future: https://www.bitchute.com/profile/kiuIedaV8Erk
Camp Constitution Report on Podomatic and Other Platforms
We have received 204 plays and 1,333 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 Dan Smoot, Gary Allen, and E. Merrill Root. A link to our show: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal
Camp Constitution Press
We reprinted in an 81/2” x 11” format, the free market classic “Frogs and Freedom”:
A link to purchase copies of these: https://campconstitution.net/product/frogs-and-freedom-free-market-classic/
Speakers Bureau
In September, we spoke at the Goffstown, NH Homeschool cooperative. We spoke at the August meeting of the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Massachusetts chapter. Also in August, we did three presentations in Aroostook County, Maine titled “Borders and Banners: The Biblical View.” We gave a presentation at the Homeschoolers of Maine’s annual convention in May. We were the keynote speaker at the Berkshire (MA) Republic Committee’s annual Lincoln-Reagan where we gave a presentation on our Christian flag lawsuit to a very receptive group. Rev. Steve Craft was a speaker at an event sponsored by the Massachusetts Republican Assembly in late March.
Website
We have received 16.1 thousand views with 8.3 thousand visitors. Twenty percent of our views come from foreign nations We published eighty-six articles on our blog. https://www.campconstitution.net
Sam Blumenfeld Archives
We received over one million visits and 683,000 views. Our all-time stats from its creation in 2017: 4.5 million visits, 3.6 million views. views. We introduce the archives to folks at all of our info tables and public events.
The Blumenfeld Archives
Facebook Page
We have close to 3.5 thousand likes l and over 3,600 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 helped defeat an Article V Convention resolution and a “faithful delegate bill in New Hampshire.” We are part of a nationwide movement to protect the Constitution from an Article V Convention. Thousands have read our articles, blogs and videos on the subject as well as downloaded our on-line resources.
Looking into the next quarter
We are hosting a field trip to the Forefathers Monument in October, will have info tables at several NH Education Options fairs, a table at Harvest Happenings in Alton, NH , and hosting our annual Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners at the Lane House in Lexington, MA.
How You Can Help
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.
And, please keep Camp Constitution in your prayers.
Thank you for helping to make Camp Constitution possible.
Blessings.
Hal Shurtleff, Director
Camp Constitution
Alton, NH
Why Won’t the Lasker Foundation Admit That Its Founders Were Militant Racists and White Supremacists
Members of the Left love to find racism where it doesn’t exist. We have racist roads, and racist trees. Being on time is a racist construct. Hard sciences are racist. Everything and everyone are racists. But the leftists race mongers and hustlers have overlooked the racism of the founders of the Lasker Foundation-Albert and Mary Lasker. The foundation’s website tells us little of Albert. He was more than a “pioneer adverting executive” he was the main funder of Margaret Sanger’s Negro Project. And his “saintly wife, Mary not only ran one of Sanger’s birth control “clinics” but was a close friend of Sanger, a racist and moral degenerate.
Recently, we called the Lasker Foundation to ask why their website doesn’t mention the face that they were hard core racists. Te nice lady who answered our call had no idea but will look into it and have someone call us back. We don’t expect a call back but we suggest that readers give the foundation a call and respectfully ask then about it. Their number is 212-286-0222. You can find information about the Lasker’s in the book The Racist Roots of Planned Parenthood and Its Legacy of Death. A free PDF download is available here: https://campconstitution.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Racist-roots-of-planned-parenthood-proof.pdf
The Weekly Sam: An Open Letter to American Jews by Sam Blumenfeld
(The following is from the Sam Blumenfeld Archives. It was written in 1960 during the Kennedy-Nixon Campaign, but if he were alive today, he could have written a letter warning Jews and Americans of the anti-Semitic polices of Kamala Harris. Sam was the founder of American Friends of Algeria.)
Recently. three prominent Jewish leaders protested to Vice President Nixon because his press secretary had brought to their attention an editorial in an Israeli newspaper urging American Jews to vote for Nixon. The Jewish leaders were somewhat shocked because they were appealed to as Jews and not simply as Americans, and in their protest, they termed the press secretary’s action as Han insult to our faith.” This protest, the Jewish leaders asserted. was a personal action on their part and did not represent the opinions of the membership of their organizations. However, the protest as carried and reported in the press gave readers the impression that these leaders were speaking for the entire Jewish community. It is for this reason that I feel compelled to address this letter to ~ coreligionists who are somewhat dismayed and confused by this whole incident and who suspect that in all of this smoke there may be some fire.
As an American Jew I do not consider it an insult to my faith to be informed of opinion in security-sensitive Israel concerning our Presidential candidates and their policies. The Israeli newspaper, in its awkward way, was trying to say what a great many Americans of all faiths firmly believe that Kennedy’s foreign policy does represent a line of appeasement which could ultimately lead to the destruction of Israel and the West. Do I speak as a biased Republican? No, for I am a registered Democrat who this November will be voting Republican for the first time. Am I making groundless assertions or distorting Senator Kennedy’s words? Again, no. for the record is there for everyone who wants to see it in a. collection of the Senator’s ‘speeches entitled Strategy for Peace, and the Senator has not repudiated one word of it. Take, for example, the matter of Algeria–whose fate in a geopolitical sense has a very direct bearing on the future security of Israeli
The Senator has made his views quite clear on Algeria. In a startling Senate speech in 1957 strongly echoing the line of the. American Friends of the Middle East–an organization dedicated to the advancement of Arab nationalism and the. destruction of Israel–Senator Kennedy urged the United States to betray its major ally France in favor of the FLN terrorists who seek to establish their dictatorship over all of Algeria. Now, Algeria is not a purely Moslem country. It is, in fact. a multi-religious community which has been for the last 100 years a legal part of the French Republic and whose inhabitants are French citizens. The Moslem terrorists who seek to separate Algeria from France do not have the popular. support of their own people. They are a minority faction using terror. extortion and assassination as the means to achieve domination. Until now they have murdered and injured over 30.0000! their fellow Moslem civilians. This has made their cause anything but popular with the inhabitants of Algeria. Yet, this is the· group to which Senator Kennedy urged the United States to lend its support jeopardizing our military alliance with France as well as a close association and friendship which goes back to the days of Washington and Jefferson.
Now. you may ask, what bearing does this have on Israel or American Jews? The answer is this: Should Senator Kennedy’s policy be adopted after his election and should it succeed~ it would mean the expulsion of France from Algeria, the consolidation of Nasser’s Pan-Arab empire in North Africa, the inevitable destruction of French Algerian Jewry, and the enlistment of Algeria in the economic blockade against Israel. It should be noted that the Algerian rebels have taken part in all of the Arab League conferences dealing with Israel and are in full accord with general Arab aim of destroying Israel. Now, in what way would an independent” Algeria hasten the destruction. of Israel. One, it would add Algeria and its vast resources to the strength of the Arab block. Two, it would free Arab energies .to concentrate on the ultimate goal of destroying Israel; three, it would deprive Israel of France~ a military ally. Algerian France would no longer find it necessary to come to the aid of Israel in case of an attack from Nasser. France, it should be remembered, supplied. Israel with the Jets and tanks which made a victory in Sinai possible; four, it would add Algeria to the Arab bloc in the United Nations and enlist her in the general Arab campaign to spread anti-Semitism throughout Africa and the rest .of the world.
These are only the more direct effects which Kennedy’s policy, if successful, would have on the security of Israel. But what would this policy mean in the greater world picture to betray France would not only serve to aggravate and weaken our ally, but also to cause a serious rift in the Western alliance, which is exactly what the communists have been trying to achieve since the formation of NATO. As for anti-Semitism, there is no doubt that it would increase dangerously in France where, for some strange self-destructive reasons, such distinguished Jews as Mendes-France and Servan-Schreiber have openly espoused the cause of the Algerian nationalists, despite the glaring fact that the vast majority of Algerians of all religious communities have in two massive referendums expressed their determination to remain French.
This is just a brief outline of the effects which only one of Senator Kennedy’s future actions might have in the realm of foreign policy. Several indications. however, become very clear in the various remarks and speeches the Senator has made in his first decade for example, he has an almost obsessive hostility toward France, which does not augur well for the Western alliance. This hostility has manifested itself in the many anti-French statements the Senator has made concerning Indochina. Algeria and NATO. In one speech Sen. Kennedy made the amazing remark that the French atomic bomb was aimed at Washington and not Moscow. This would lead one to conclude that the Senator considers France a greater menace then Russia.
Now, what does this mean for Americans, particularly those who area1~o Jews1 Jews should be reminded that France is Israel’s only military friend and should therefore be given as much support as possible by them. Kennedy’s anti-French policy is, indirectly. an anti-Israel policy, for in effect it accomplishes the same thing: it strengthens Arab nationalism and weakens Israel’s defense position. Kennedy’s anti-French policy also weakens the West in general and strengthens the communist hand in Western Europe and North Africa.
It is no secret that the communists have been supporting the Algerian nationalists since the beginning of the rebellion and hope to reap the benefits of an FLN victory. As the reader will notice I have not had to mention Quemoy or Matsu in criticizing Senator Kennedy’s policy of appeasement. The Israelis, on the other hand, have found reason to be wary of the Senator. They see their security position from a world view, and it is quite understandable for them to want to influence their fellow Jews in voting for a President whose policies will have a very direct bearing on their future security. Now, of course, Jews as Americans are free to vote for whomever they please and for whatever reasons they see fit. However, if history has taught the Jews any lesson, it is that they cannot afford the luxury of a homegrown isolationism which, in a national election, shuts off everything from view but local party loyalty. It is clear to anyone who follows international developments that the security of Israel will not be strengthened by a Kennedy victory. In fact, the opposite will be the result.
It is incumbent upon the Jews of America that they be properly informed before they vote on November 8th. I have written this letter because I have felt it a duty to bring these views to the attention of my coreligionists who, through a coalition of deceitful forces, are being prevented from seeing the true facts of the world situation.
October 26,1960 SAMUEL L BLUMENFELD
The Blumenfeld Archives
UN, EU, ICJ, Climate Cabal want to keep world’s poor impoverished
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Camp Constitution Instructor Alex Newman Gives a Tribute to Charlie Kirk at the Sixth Annual Christian Education Initiative
Camp Constitution instructor Alex Newman and friend of Alex, gives a tribute to Charlie Kirk at the sixth annual Christian Education Initiative held in Lynchburg, VA Friday September 26, 2025.
The Weekly Sam: Darwin Versus Intelligent Design By Samuel L. Blumenfeld
Back in 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a 1981 Louisiana law which
mandated a balanced treatment in teaching evolution and creation in the public schools.
The Court decided that the intent of the law “was clearly to advance the religious
viewpoint that a supernatural being created humankind,” and therefore violated the First
Amendment’s prohibition on a government establishment of religion. In other words, the
Court adopted the atheist position that creation is a religious myth.
In speaking for the majority, Justice William J. Brennan wrote: “The legislative history
documents that the act’s primary purpose was to change the science curriculum of public
schools in order to provide an advantage to a particular religious doctrine that rejects the
factual basis of evolution in its entirety.”
The learned Justice seemed unaware that some of the world’s greatest scientists were and
are devout Christians and, that dogmatic atheism, not religion, is destroying true science.
Also, though his job requires him to uphold the Constitution, Justice Brennan willfully
ignored the historical fact that, to the Founding Fathers who wrote the Constitution, an
“establishment of religion” meant a state church, such as they have in England with the
Anglican Church, which is the official church of England. Belief in God is not the same thing as establishing an official government-sponsored
religious denomination. Belief in a supernatural being who created mankind is not an
establishment of religion.
What exactly is the Theory of Evolution? For the answer, we must go to the source:
Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the
Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, published in 1859. In his book,
whose racist subtitle has been suppressed in modern editions for obvious reasons, Darwin
claimed that the thousands of different species of animals, insects, and plants that exist on
earth were not the works of a Divine Creator who made each of the “kinds” in its present
immutable form, as described in Genesis (e.g., frogs produce frogs, not princes), but are
the products of a very long natural process of development from simpler organic forms to
more complex organisms.
Thus, according to Darwin, species continue to change or “evolve,” through a process of
natural selection in which nature’s harsh conditions permit only the fittest to survive in
more adaptable forms. However, while controlled breeding can produce varieties inside
the dog species, from Chihuahuas to Great Danes, dogs are still dogs. “Survival of the
fittest” is incapable of turning one species into another. Whatever external conditions we
may provide for a dog, these will not change its basic dog DNA.
Darwin also believed that all life originated from a single source – a kind of primeval
slime in which the first living organisms formed spontaneously out of non-living matter
through a random process – by accident.
The first false idea in Darwin’s hypothesis is that non-organic matter can transform itself
into organic matter. Although this belief in “spontaneous generation” was common at the
time, Pasteur and others have conclusively disproved it. Life does not arise from non-life
at the macro level, and at the micro level all the laboratory experiments that claim to
produce “building blocks” of life have failed to do so, in spite of all the hype to the
contrary. See the book Icons of Evolution by Dr. Jonathan Wells for some eye-opening
debunking of this and other myths still taught in your local school’s textbooks.
Justice Brennan called evolution “factual,” which simply indicates the depth of his
ignorance. There is no factual basis to evolution. The fossil record shows no intermediary
forms of species development. We’ve never seen it happen, either. No scientist has been
able to mate a cat with a donkey and get something in between. And modern genetics has
shown us that we need complex “programs” to grow from a single cell into a human
being. But mutations, which destroy information, can’t add more complexity to
succeeding generations. So neither Darwin’s simplistic belief in the inheritance of
acquired characteristics nor our newer knowledge of genetics provides any way
species-to-species evolution could ever happen.
The enormous complexity of organic matter precludes accidental creation. There had to
be a designer.
There is now a whole scientific school devoted to the design theory. William A.
Dembski’s book, Intelligent Design, published in 1999, is the pioneering work that
bridges science with theology. Dembski writes:
“Intelligent design is three things: a scientific research program that investigates the
effects of intelligent causes; an intellectual movement that challenges Darwinism and its
naturalistic legacy; and a way of understanding divine action. It was Darwin’s expulsion
of design from biology that made possible the triumph of naturalism in Western culture.
So, too, it will be intelligent design’s restatement of design within biology that will be the
undoing of naturalism in Western culture.”
Dembski proves that design is “empirically detectable,” because we can observe it all
around us. The birth of a child is a miracle of design. The habits of your household cat
are a miracle of design. All cats do the same things. These are the inherited
characteristics of the species. The idea that accident could create such complex behavior
passed on to successive generations simply doesn’t make sense. The complexity of design
proves the existence of God. Dembski writes:
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Indeed within theism divine action is the most basic mode of causation since any other
mode of causation involves creatures which themselves were created in a divine act.
Intelligent design thus becomes a unifying framework for understanding both divine and
human agency and illuminates several long-standing philosophical problems about the
nature of reality and our knowledge of it.”
So why are the courts and the schools so fanatically opposed to even allowing children to
know there are arguments against evolution? Because evolution provides the perfect
“scientific” excuse for keeping the God of the Bible out of public education. It’s not the
idea of design per se that worries them; it’s Who the Designer is. That’s why the media
are showing increasing support for the “life came from outer space” theory and even the
“life came from intelligent aliens who seeded our planet” theory. Evolution is tottering,
and the search is on for any Designer except the real one.
So, while what the Intelligent Design movement has to say can be helpful, let’s just
remember that the real issue is not whether there was a Designer or just a bunch of
Random Accidents.
(The above article is from the Sam Blumenfeld Archives:
The Blumenfeld Archives
Happy Birthday U.S. Constitution
Today, Wednesday September 17 marks the 238th anniversary of the end of the Constitutional Convention which created what Daniel Webster said was the “works of the purest patriots and wisest statemen that ever existed.” He, of course, was referring to the U.S. Constitution. Sadly, far too many Americans know little to nothing about the Constitution.
Here is a condensed version of a recent encounter I had to reenforce my statement:
On Saturday August 16, we-Camp Constitution-had an information table at Londonderry’s Old Town Day celebration. A woman in her mid-sixties came by the table expressing her initial approval of our presence. She was critical of Trump’s tariffs and told me that his tariffs “were not constitutional.” I agreed saying that under Section 1, Article 8 of the U.S. Constitution, Congress has the power to impose tariffs. The specific wording:
“The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises to pay the debts…” Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 1.”
I told her that while I approved of tariffs in general, Trump should have received the approval of Congress. At this point she was still an ally. I then explained that the New Deal Democrats in Congress unconstitutionally gave some power to levy tariffs to Franklin Roosevelt. It was called the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934. Congress passed two more bills in 1962 and 1974 granting even more power to the President. All three bills were passed in Democrat controlled Congresses.
The lady didn’t like to hear that Democrats were the ones that enabled Trump. Her pleasant countenance changed from friendly to confrontational. She asked me who I thought were Constitutionalist in Congress. “There are not very many” I replied, “Thomas Massie in the House, and Rand Paul in the Senate are two that come to mind” They both score 90% and above on the Freedom Index while Chris Pappas is a dismal 5%. https://thenewamerican.com/freedom-index/
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She told me that she supports Chris Pappas. “You denounce Trump for his unconstitutional tariffs but support Pappas who almost always violates his oath of office,” I responded. “I am very angry,” was her reply and she left in a huff. She is typical of far too many voters in New Hampshire, and the U.S. They know nothing about the U.S. Constitution. They only regurgitate talking points from the Democrat Party and their allies in the corporate media. At least Trump used laws passed by Democrats to justify his tariffs with the intent of it protecting the American worker-something that both major parties failed to do over the past fifty years.
A week earlier, we had a float in Alton’s Old Home Week Parade as we have for the past five years where we pass out pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution to spectators. The local Democrat Party also had a float and, to our surprise, also passed out pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution. What was even more surprising was that they were passing out copies obtained from the National Center for Constitution Studies (NCCS)-the same ones that we use.
While I doubt that anyone will be denouncing the local Democrats as Christian Nationalists, and members of a far-right fringe group, the Democrats should have consulted with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) before passing them out. The SPLC considers the NCCS as far right. By the way, the SPLC has us listed on their Hate Map as an anti-government organization but in the wrong state: https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map/?hm_year=2024&hm_state=NC
Here are some quotes contained in that version that we and the Democrats passed out:
“[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Province as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.”
George Washington
“I regard it [the Constitution] as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesmen that ever existed aided by the smiles of a benignant Providence…; it almost appears a Divine interposition in our behalf.”
Daniel Webster
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of master.”
Benjamin Franklin
Let’s honor the memory of those 38 delegates who signed the U.S. Constitution not by paying lip service to them, but by learning about the document they blessed us with and then ensuring that we hold our elected officials at all levels accountable to their oath that they took to defend it.
Today, there are many organizations that offer instruction on the Constitution which include:
The National Center for Constitutional Studies https://nccs.net/
The Institute on the Constitution Institute on the Constitution | Online Constitution Classes
Hillsdale College https://online.hillsdale.edu/courses
And Camp Constitution https://campconstitution.net
Readers who would like a free pocket copy of the Constitution can E-mail me at campconstitution1@gmail.com
Happy Birthday U.S. Constitution
Camp Constitution Chaplain: Charlie Kirk A True Martyr
To all those “Who have Ears to Hear”
Our Brother Charlie Kirk has gone to his Heavenly Home to be with his Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
He was a Christian Brother in the Battle for Truth. He never wavered in speaking the truth no matter the cost.
Charlie was a man who saw the times in which we live, who loved truth enough to say the hard thing and who believed that boldness and courage must rise in the pulpit and in the public square!
I am reminded of the Apostle Paul’s words in 2 Timothy 4:7, ” I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith”. This is Charlie’s testimony, and now it is our call. !!!
Satan will not quit, his lies will not stop, the war for truth, faith, and family must go forward. We must rise up and take up the “blood-stained banner” that Charlie left us and carry the vision forward!!
So, we must not show fear, we must not shrink back, we must not compromise, but we must run our own race in Christ Jesus with the same boldness that our brother Charlie Kirk has been faithful to complete!
Charlie has now received his Martyr’s Crown! May we all do likewise!
Sincerely in Christ Jesus
Reverend Steven Louis Craft, Chaplain Camp Constitution.
Remembering Charlie Kirk by Sarah Krutov
In 2019, I attended my very first Turning Point USA (TPUSA) event in Washington, D.C. That’s where I bumped into
Charlie Kirk in the exhibit hall and met him for the first time. I remember asking if it was possible
to pursue both music and a career in politics. He gave me an honest answer: “Choose one or
the other.” I chose the latter, but that moment planted something in me that changed my life.
During that conference, I realized I had a genuine passion for politics and for my generation.
From then on, I worked with TPUSA to help countless students find their voices on campus, and
eventually had the honor of serving on the team to help 47 win.
If it hadn’t been for attending TSAS in 2019 and meeting Charlie, I wouldn’t have met some of
my closest friends, experienced the incredible opportunities that shaped my path, or discovered
the conviction to stand firm in my beliefs and use them as a force for good.
Charlie was truly a man of God who loved his family, his country, and the next generation with
everything he had. His mission wasn’t just about politics—it was about people. He wanted to
build a stronger America not only for his children, but for my generation and those to come. He
cared deeply about helping students on hostile campuses find their voices, and about pointing
everyone he encountered closer to Jesus.
Charlie Kirk had a tremendous impact on the lives of millions of young people. He gave Gen Z
the courage to stand up for what they believed in within a system that too often tried to silence
them. He valued conversation and connection, once saying: “When you stop having a human
connection with someone you disagree with, it becomes a lot easier to want to commit violence
against that group.”
Charlie Kirk will forever be remembered as a man of strong faith who loved his country and
worked tirelessly to make America a better place. The Christian conservative movement will feel
his absence deeply, but his legacy will continue in all of us who keep fighting for the values he
lived for.
Rest in peace, Charlie Kirk.
(The author was a camper and then served as a counselor at Camp Constitution.)
