Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown October 19, 1781
Washington instructed the Marquis de Lafayette, who was in Virginia with an American army of around 5,000 men, to block Cornwallis’ escape from Yorktown by land. In the meantime, Washington’s 2,500 troops in New York were joined by a French army of 4,000 men under the Count de Rochambeau. Washington and Rochambeau made plans to attack Cornwallis with the assistance of a large French fleet under the Count de Grasse, and on August 21 they crossed the Hudson River to march south to Yorktown. Covering 200 miles in 15 days, the allied force reached the head of Chesapeake Bay in early September.
Meanwhile, a British fleet under Admiral Thomas Graves failed to break French naval superiority at the Battle of Virginia Capes on September 5, denying Cornwallis his expected reinforcements. Beginning September 14, de Grasse transported Washington and de Rochambeau’s men down the Chesapeake to Virginia, where they joined Lafayette and completed the encirclement of Yorktown on September 28. De Grasse landed another 3,000 French troops carried by his fleet. During the first two weeks of October, the 14,000 Franco-American troops gradually overcame the fortified British positions with the aid of de Grasse’s warships. A large British fleet carrying 7,000 men set out to rescue Cornwallis, but it was too late.
On October 19, General Cornwallis surrendered 7,087 officers and men, 900 seamen, 144 cannons, 15 galleys, a frigate and 30 transport ships. Pleading illness, he did not attend the surrender ceremony, but his second-in-command, General Charles O’Hara, carried Cornwallis’ sword to the American and French commanders. As the British and Hessian troops marched out to surrender, the British band played the song “The World Turned Upside Down.”
Although the war persisted on the high seas and in other theaters, the Patriot victory at Yorktown effectively ended fighting in the American colonies. Peace negotiations began in 1782, and on September 3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed, formally recognizing the United States as a free and independent nation after eight years of war.
This is from This Day in History: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cornwallis-surrenders-at-yorktown
The Associated Clergy of Cape Ann: Serving ‘No Kings’ — Not the King of Kings by Alex Destino
The following was reposted with permission.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) is an openly atheist organization and a major funder of the national “No Kings” movement. For decades, this same group has fought to remove prayer from schools, crosses from public property, and any mention of God from public life.
And yet, right here in Gloucester, the Associated Clergy of Cape Ann — a group of local ministers and priests — has chosen to partner with them. This same clergy group is sponsoring the “No Kings” event this Saturday, standing with those who reject the very faith they claim to represent.
If you claim to follow Christ, you cannot walk with those who seek to erase Him from our culture or from our children’s hearts. You cannot serve two masters.
Scripture calls believers to be bold in faith. The Constitution guarantees our freedom to live that faith openly. Yet these clergy stand with those who reject both — abandoning their duty as shepherds and citizens.
Where were they when Biden’s FBI spied on Catholics and Christian parents? When Christian pregnancy centers were firebombed? When Obama sued the Little Sisters of the Poor? When chaplains were punished for praying in Jesus’ name, or crosses stripped from federal sites? When the Obama administration ordered Christian schools to open girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms to biological males — in direct violation of Christian teaching and parental rights?
It seems the only thing this clergy group truly shares with the atheists at the FFRF is their hostility toward President Trump.
People of faith across Cape Ann — it’s time to wake up. Stand for truth. Stand for life. And stand with Christ, not with those who deny Him.
Alex Destino is a businessman who is life long resident of Gloucester, MA.
Get Your Children Out of Public Schools Warns A Public School Teacher: An Interview with Ramona Bessinger
Hal Shurtleff, host of the Camp Constitution Report, interviews Ramona Bessinger, a long-time public-school teacher who is now speaking out against public schools. From her website: Teacher Ramona Bessinger July 2021, I spoke out against the harmful anti-American curriculum platforms that had entered Rhode Island Schools and k12 schools across the nation. It is my sincere hope to raise awareness and educate parents on what precisely is happening in their children’s schools and to offer solutions and ways to work with schools to mitigate any harm that may come to any child affected by these changes. https://www.ramonabessinger.com/
Columbus Day Celebration Hosted by Pine Tree Institute- New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women
This event took place at Murphy’s Taproom and Carriage House Bedford, NH Columbus Day Monday October 13, 2025. It began with a reading of President Trump’s Columbus Day Proclamation. Speakers included Drew Cline of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, NH State Senate Tim McGough, Hollie Noveletsky, Business owner, and candidate for U.S House of Reps, Scott Brown, former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to New Zealand, Lily Tang Williams, candidate for Congress, NH State Rep. Brian Cole, and Christine Peters of the New Hampshire Federated Republican Women. The MV was Bill O’Brien, former NH Speaker of the House.
Miscalculation of Global Proportions led Columbus to attempt a a westward voyage – American Minute with Bill Federer
Miscalculation of Global Proportions led Columbus to attempt a a westward voyage
Columbus was looking for a SEA route to India and China because nearly 40 years earlier Muslim Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453 cutting off the LAND routes.
A biography of Columbus was written by Washington Irving in 1828, titled A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus.
In it, Irving created an imaginative dialogue of Europeans arguing over whether the Earth was round or flat. His book was so popular, that people actually thought such a debate took place when it had not.
Washington Irving was known for mixing entertainment with history and legend.He wrote Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hallow, and Diedrich Knickerbocker’s A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, filled with tales of visits from St. Nick coining to New York City, which he nickname “Gotham.”
Europeans knew the Earth was round.Pythagoras had speculated that the earth was a sphere in the 6th century BC, and Aristotle validated it in the 4th century BC.
In the 3rd century BC, Eratosthenes computed the circumference of the earth with amazing accuracy.
He had heard that at Aswan, Egypt, the sun cast no shadow down a well at noon on the summer solstice, June 21, yet at the exact same moment in Alexandria, Egypt, a column cast a shadow with a 7.2 degree angle.
7.2 degrees is 1/50th of a 360 degree circle.
It was known that the distance between Alexandria and Aswan was 5,000 stadia, approximately 500 miles, or 800 kilometers.
All Eratosthenes had to do was multiply 500 miles times 50, which equals 25,000 miles, just 99 miles off from the Earth’s actual circumference of 24,901 miles (or 800 km x 50 to equal 40,000 kilometers, just 75 kilometers less than the actual 40,075 km circumference).
Eratosthenes also calculated distance to the sun and moon, the tilt of the earth, and created the first world map with parallel latitude and meridian longitude lines.
In the 1st century BC, Posidonius used stellar observations at Alexandria and Rhodes to confirm Eratosthenese’s measurements.
In the 2nd century AD, astronomer Ptolemy had written a Guide to Geography, in which he described a spherical earth with one ocean connecting Europe and Asia.
St. Isidore of Seville, Spain, wrote in the 7th century that the earth was round.
Around the year 723 AD, Saint Bede the Venerable wrote in his work Reckoning of Time that the Earth was spherical.
The Book of Isaiah 40:22 states:
“It is He that sitteth upon the globe of the earth.” (Douay-Rheims Bible)
Columbus knew the Earth was round, but the question was, how far around.
The confusion was over the length of a mile.
Columbus read Cardinal Pierre d’Ailly’s “Imago Mundi,” which gave Alfraganus’ estimate that a degree of latitude (at the equator) was around 56.7 miles.
What Columbus did not realize was that this was expressed in longer Arabic miles rather than in shorter Roman miles.
Therefore Columbus incorrectly estimated the Earth to be smaller in circumference, about 19,000 miles, rather than the actual nearly 24,901 miles.Columbus knew there was land to the west, as he may have read Ptolemy’s account, written in 150 AD, of the Greek sailor named Alexander, who visited the Far East port city of Kattigara, beyond the Malay Peninsula — Golden Chersonese.
He could have heard of the Roman traveler, during the reign of Roman Emperors Antoninus Pius or Marcus Aurelius, who made his way to the court of the Chinese Emperor of the Han Dynasty.Indeed, Roman glassware and medallions dating from this period were found at Guangzhou along the South China Sea, and at Óc Eo in Vietnam, near the Chinese province of Jiaozhi.
Great amounts of Roman coins were found in India, indicating there was Roman sea trade.
Columbus most likely heard the story of Irish monk St. Brendan, who sailed west in 530 AD to “The Land of the Promised Saints which God will give us on the last day.”Columbus would have known of the Christian Viking Leif Erickson’s voyage in the year 1000 to Vinland (Newfoundland), called Markland in the Nordic Grœnlendinga Saga.
A Dominican friar in Milan, Italy, named Galvaneus Flamma, wrote an essay titled Cronica universalis, c.1345, in which he referred to the Icelandic description of a wooded land far to the west called Marckalada.
Columbus owned a copy of Marco Polo’s travels to China and India in 1271.He studied Pliny’s “Natural History,” Sir John Mandeville, and Pope Pius II’s “Historia Rerum Ubique Gestarum.”
There were accounts that after the Crusades had ended, some Swedes in 1362 sailed to Greenland, and possibly beyond to North America, being the alleged background for the Kensington Runestone.
Columbus may have possibly seen maps, rumored to have been in Portugal’s royal archives, from China’s treasure fleets which were sent out in 1421 by Ming Emperor Zhu Di, led by Admiral Zheng He.Columbus corresponded with Florentine physician Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, who suggested China was just 5,000 miles west of Portugal.
Based on this, Columbus estimated that Japan, or as Marco Polo called it “Cipangu,” was only 3,000 Roman miles west of the Canary Islands, rather than the actual 12,200 miles.
Since no ship at that time could carry enough food and water for such a long voyage, Columbus would have never set sail if he had known the actual distance.
As a young man, Columbus began sailing on a trip to a Genoese colony in the Aegean Sea named Chios.
In 1476, he sailed on an armed convoy from Genoa to northern Europe, docking in Bristol, England, and Galway, Ireland, and even possibly Iceland in 1477.
When Muslim Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453 and hindered land trade routes from Europe to India and China, Portugal, which had been freed from Islamic occupation for two centuries, began to search for alternative sea routes.
W.L. Grant, Professor of Colonial History, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, wrote in the introduction of The Voyages
and Explorations of Samuel de Champlain (published 1911, The Courier Press, A.S. Barnes Company):
“The history of Western Civilization begins in a conflict with the Orient, a conflict of which it maybe the end is not yet.
But the routes between East and West have been trodden by the caravans of trade more often even than by the feet of armies.
The treasures of the East were long brought overland to Alexandria, or Constantinople, or the cities of the Levant, and thence distributed to Europe by the galleys of Genoa or of Venice.
But when the Turk placed himself astride the Bosporus, and made Egypt his feudatory, new routes had to be found.”
Socialist historian Howard Zinn admitted in A People’s History of the United States (1980):“Now that the Turks had conquered Constantinople and the eastern Mediterranean, and controlled the land routes to Asia, a sea route was needed.
Portuguese sailors were working their way around the southern tip of Africa.
Spain decided to gamble on a long sail across an unknown ocean.”
Portugal, under Prince Henry the Navigator, led the world in the science of navigation and cartography (map-making), and developed a light ship that could travel fast and far, the “caravel.”
During Portugal’s Golden Age of Discovery under King John II, Columbus sailed along the west coast of Africa between 1482-1485, reaching the Portuguese trading port of Elmina on the coast of Guinea.
In 1498, Portuguese sailor Vasco de Gama did make it around South Africa to India.
But six years before that, in 1492, the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella defeated Muhammad XII of Granada and drove the last of the Islamic Nasrid Dynasty out of Spain.
The Spanish Monarchs then joined the quest for a sea trade route to the India and China.
They backed Columbus’ plan.Though Columbus was wrong about the miles and degrees of longitude, he did understand trade winds across the Atlantic.
On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail on the longest voyage to that date out of the sight of land. Trade winds called “easterlies” pushed Columbus’ ships for five weeks to the Bahamas.On OCTOBER 12, 1492, Columbus sighted what he thought was India.
He imagined Haiti was Japan and Cuba was the tip of China.He called the first island he saw “San Salvador” for the Holy Savior.
W.L. Grant continued in the introduction of The Voyagesand Explorations of Samuel de Champlain (1911, The Courier Press, A.S. Barnes Co.):
“In the search for these were made the three greatest voyages in history, those of Columbus, of Vasco da Gama, and greatest of all of Magellan.
In his search for the riches of Cipangu (Japan), Columbus stumbled upon America.
The great Genoese lived and died under the illusion that he had reached the outmost verge of Asia; and though even in his lifetime men realized that what he had found was no less than a new world.”
In his journal, Columbus referred to the native inhabitants as “indians” as he was convinced he had successfully arrived in India:
“So that they might be well-disposed towards us, for I knew that they were a people to be … converted to our Holy Faith rather by love than by force, I gave to some red caps and to others glass beads …
They became so entirely our friends that … I believe that they would easily be made Christians.”
Reposted with permission of American Minute
President Trump’s Columbus Day Proclamation
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Today our Nation honors the legendary Christopher Columbus — the original American hero, a giant of Western civilization, and one of the most gallant and visionary men to ever walk the face of the earth. This Columbus Day, we honor his life with reverence and gratitude, and we pledge to reclaim his extraordinary legacy of faith, courage, perseverance, and virtue from the left-wing arsonists who have sought to destroy his name and dishonor his memory.
Born in Genoa, Italy in 1451, Columbus quickly emerged as a titan of the Age of Exploration. On August 3, 1492, following years of intense study, preparation, and petitioning, Christopher Columbus secured funding from the Spanish Crown to set out on a daring expedition that most believed to be impossible. Commissioned by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, Columbus and his crew boarded three small ships — the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria — to set sail on a perilous voyage across the Atlantic. He was guided by a noble mission: to discover a new trade route to Asia, bring glory to Spain, and spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to distant lands.
Just over 2 months later, on October 12, 1492, Columbus made landfall in the modern-day Bahamas. Upon his arrival, he planted a majestic cross in a mighty act of devotion, dedicating the land to God and setting in motion America’s proud birthright of faith. Though he initially believed he had arrived in Asia, his discovery opened the vast frontier and untold splendors of the New World to Europe. He later ventured onward to Cuba and other islands in the Caribbean — exploring their coasts and engaging with their people.
Guided by steadfast prayer and unwavering fortitude and resolve, Columbus’s journey carried thousands of years of wisdom, philosophy, reason, and culture across the Atlantic into the Americas — paving the way for the ultimate triumph of Western civilization less than three centuries later on July 4, 1776.
Outrageously, in recent years, Christopher Columbus has been a prime target of a vicious and merciless campaign to erase our history, slander our heroes, and attack our heritage. Before our very eyes, left-wing radicals toppled his statues, vandalized his monuments, tarnished his character, and sought to exile him from our public spaces. Under my leadership, those days are finally over — and our Nation will now abide by a simple truth: Christopher Columbus was a true American hero, and every citizen is eternally indebted to his relentless determination.
As we celebrate his legacy, we also acknowledge the contributions of the countless Italian-Americans who, like him, have endlessly contributed to our culture and our way of life. To this day, the United States and Italy share a special bond rooted in the timeless values of faith, family, and freedom. My Administration looks forward to strengthening our long and storied friendship in the years to come.
This Columbus Day, more than 500 years since Columbus arrived in the New World, we follow his example, we echo his resolve, and we offer our gratitude for his life of valor and grit. Above all, we commit to restoring a Nation that once again dares to tame the unknown, honors our rich cultural inheritance, and offers rightful praise to our Creator above.
In commemoration of Christopher Columbus’s historic voyage, the Congress, by joint resolution of April 30, 1934, and modified in 1968 (36 U.S.C. 107), as amended, has requested the President proclaim the second Monday of October of each year as “Columbus Day.”
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 13, 2025, as Columbus Day. I call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. I also direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all public buildings on the appointed day in honor of the great Christopher Columbus and all who have contributed to building our Nation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.
DONALD J. TRUMP
American Minute with Bill Federer Battle of Lepanto and Miguel de Cervantes’ Man of La Mancha
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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
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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
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And, please keep Camp Constitution in your prayers.
Thank you for helping to make Camp Constitution possible.
Blessings.
Hal Shurtleff, Director
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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
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