Harris-Walz: Joy and Freedom – or misery and tyranny?
Will their radical left administration undo damage inflicted by Biden-Harris? Or make it worse?
Kamala Harris desperately wants to be “unburdened by what has been” – the Biden-Harris policies she helped develop and implement. She wants voters to focus on the “joy” and “freedom” she insists would be America’s future if voters elect her, Tim Walz and their Biden-Harris-Obama “advisors.”
However, she was the “last person in the room” with President Biden for major decisions and is super-glued to what she says are “still my values” about energy, climate, immigration, rioters and police.
She cannot run away from the horrendous Biden-Harris record on energy and food price inflation; letting illegal immigrants, criminals, spies, terrorists, and child, sex and drug traffickers stream into our country; weaponizing federal agencies against political opponents and private citizens; and the Afghanistan departure debacle that killed thirteen US service members and left 90% of our Afghan allies behind.
As a 2019 presidential candidate she supported taxpayer-funded “gender-transitions” for illegal migrants. In 2020, Senator Harris was ranked to the left of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Vice President Harris proudly cast the deciding “yea” vote on the Inflation Reduction Act, the massive $4-trillion spending spree on “Green New Deal” wind, solar and battery projects. The list goes on and on.
Major accomplishments? Senator Elizabeth Warren said Harris was the first VP to visit an abortion clinic.
That’s why she’s dodging interviews and presenting platitudes instead of policies. All with the happy collusion of legacy and social media and ABC debate moderators. All while anonymous campaign staffers assert that she no longer plans to ban fracking, offshore drilling, gasoline cars, gas stoves, plastic straws – or free speech by anyone who might question or criticize her policies.
Perhaps her nameless staffers are correct. Harris-Walz might not ban fossil fuel production and use. They might not ban misinformation, disinformation and “malinformation” from experts and citizens who disagree with administration assertions and policies.
But Harris-Walz and its Deep State bureaucrats don’t have to outright ban anything. They could just tax, regulate, delay, denounce, disincentivize, coerce, threaten and penalize our energy, freedoms and living standards into oblivion.
They could continue the Biden-Harris practice of using the FBI, IRS and Justice Department to harass, intimidate, prosecute and jail political opponents. They could continue colluding with the media and Big Tech to amplify Democrat viewpoints and marginalize opposing views.
Ms. Harris insists that her “values” and “concerns” haven’t changed. But even her official website says nothing about what her policies would be. It says only that she would create an “opportunity economy,” provide a pathway to the middle class, end price gouging (she called it “price gauging”), champion other progressive causes, and ensure Israel’s right and ability to “defend itself” (but “it matters how” Israel does so, and she will dictate those terms), while helping the Palestinian people “realize their right to dignity, security, freedom, and self-determination.”
Nowhere does her website or recent debate performance explain how she would make any of this happen.
Ms. Harris’s proclamations about lowering energy costs and tackling the climate crisis are equally vacuous and specifics-free. We learn only that Harris-Walz would build on the “historic work” and “international climate leadership” launched by Biden-Harris, to “unite Americans” in tackling the global climate crisis, lower skyrocketing Biden-Harris-era energy costs, “advance environmental justice,” hold polluters accountable, create millions of new jobs, and increase resilience to climate disasters.
How she would actually convert that pablum into her promised utopia remains a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a word salad. Equally unclear is why the sitting Vice President has made little or no effort to change the Administration’s disastrous energy, economic, immigration and foreign policies. There’s still time for policy reversals and executive orders; Ms. Harris simply has no interest in seeking them.
What is clear is that she doesn’t want to talk about what she would actually do as president – and that much of the mush on her website was copied and pasted from the Biden-for-President 2024 website. However, the posts suggest Harris-Walz would inflict more economic, domestic and global chaos.
President Trump should have driven all these points home during the debate. He failed to do so. Now his interviews, campaign ads, rally speeches, and JD Vance speeches and interviews must do so – and show how they will fix our energy, economic, immigration, and Middle East, Russia and China problems.
A closer look at the Harris climate and energy record provides valuable information for voters.
Senator Harris co-sponsored the 2019 Green New Deal legislation, which would have “fundamentally transformed” America’s entire economy, in the name of fighting “dangerous climate change.” During her 2020 presidential run, she advocated a total transition to electric vehicles (personal, commercial and transport) by 2035. She supports mandating electric stoves and home and water heating.
Her all-electric economy would require tripling electricity generation – while her plans to replace coal and gas power plants with massive wind and solar installations would cause reliable, affordable electricity to plummet. Soaring prices for unpredictable, weather-dependent home, hospital, business and factory electricity would be paired with repeated blackouts, chaos, and heatwave and frigid-weather deaths.
Eliminating coal and gas power plants would also mean replacing their reliable, affordable baseload and backup electricity with enormous grid-backup battery installations costing tens or hundreds of trillions of dollars – and posing constant risks of chemical-fueled infernos.
Ms. Harris remains enthralled by “climate equity” and “environmental justice” – to address the disparate impacts the “climate crisis” allegedly has on women and people of color.
She would ban plastic straws but is committed to wind and solar technologies that create millions of times more plastic and fiberglass-epoxy trash that cannot be recycled and ends up in enormous landfills.
A single 350-feet-long offshore wind turbine blade weighs 140,000 pounds. The Biden-Harris green energy plan calls for 30,000 megawatts of offshore turbines – 2,500 turbines with 7,500 blades. The US Department of Energy says generating 20% of America’s electricity from wind would require 54,000 MW of offshore turbines; that’s 4,500 turbines with 13,500 blades weighing a combined 1.9 billion pounds!
Has she calculated how many plastic straws (or plastic bags) the United States and world would have to banish to equal that offshore wind trash – much less the entirety of Green New Deal trash?
VP candidate Tim Walz is equally radical on these and other issues. He opposes fracking, supports banning gasoline vehicles, and signed a law requiring that Minnesota generate only “carbon-free” electricity by 2040. Even without including the exorbitant price of grid-backup batteries for windless-sunless periods, that law will likely cost his state nearly $350 billion.”
The Harris-Walz “New Way Forward” on energy, climate and the economy has no connection to reality. It is devoid of any financial, engineering or ecological analysis. It is a disaster waiting for ill-informed voters to inaugurate next January.
Joy and Freedom? Harris-Walz is a highway to Misery and Tyranny.
The Trump-Vance campaign team, candidates for other political offices and each of us individually must do all we can to ensure America’s legal (and illegal) voters learn the truth before they cast their ballots.
Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of books and articles on energy, environment, climate and human rights issues.
The weekly Sam: Are Compulsory School Attendance Laws Good for America? By Samuel Blumenfeld
Should a child be forced to attend a public school that will turn him into a functional illiterate? Since no public school will guarantee that a child will be taught to read in a manner that will help him achieve high literacy, why should a parent send a child to that kind of school? Indeed, why should compulsory school attendance laws force parents to do something that wil1 harm their children? It is assumed by the vast majority of Americans that the issue of compulsory school attendance is a settled matter, part and parcel of every civilized nation-state, and a prerequisite of a democratic society.
We all acknowledge that a representative form of government requires an educated electorate for its survival. But what happens when that government’s schools no longer know how to teach children to read and write, when those schools turn children not into civilized citizens, but into barbarians? What happens when millions of parents feel compelled to remove their children from government schools in order to make sure that their children do get an education? What happens is that the basic premises of compulsory attendance and government education come into question. The glaring fact is that despite our compulsory attendance laws, we now have more illiteracy and more ignorance among Americans than before such laws were enacted. The first compulsory school attendance law was passed in Massachusetts in 1852 and by 1918 every state in the Union had such a law. Yet, the fact is that these laws have merely increased the amount of time children spend in school, not the amount of learning or knowledge they acquire.
The Way It Was To find out how much better educated Americans were before compulsory attendance laws and government schools existed, all we have to do is read DuPont de Nemours’ fascinating little book, National Education in the United States of America, published in 1812. He writes:
“The United States are more advanced in their educational facilities than most countries. They have a large number of primary schools; and as their paternal affection protects children from working in the fields, it is possible to send them to the school-master–a condition which does not prevail in Europe. “Most young Americans, therefore, can read, write and cipher. Not more than four in a thousand arc unable to write legibly–even neatly .. .. “England, Holland, the Protestant Cantons of Switzerland more nearly approach the standard of the United States, because in those countries the Bible is read; it is considered a duty to read it to children; and in that form of religion the sermons and liturgy in the language of the people tend to increase and formulate ideas of responsibility. Controversy also has developed argumentation and has thus given room for the exercise of logic. “In America, a great number of people read the Bible, and all the people read a newspaper. The fathers read aloud to their children while breakfast is being prepared–a task which occupies the mothers for three quarters of an hour every morning. And as the newspapers of the United States are filled with all sorts of narratives… they disseminate an enormous amount of information.”
Obviously, back in the very early days of this republic, education was a family affair closely connected to religious practice. A nation built on Biblical principles had to ba a highly literate one. In addition, all of this education was achieved without any government involvement, without any centralized educational bureaucracy, without any professors of education, or accrediting agencies or teacher certification. And, most significantly, without any compulsory attendance laws. The Way It Is Contrast that happy picture of complete educational freedom and high literacy with the present situation in which the State has assumed the function of educator, at great expense to the taxpayer, with all sorts of laws and regulations forcing the population to patronize a system that is turning out functional illiterates by the millions.
According to an article in the Spring 1989 issue of Education Canada, published by the Canadian Education Association:
“It is currently estimated that one million Canadians are almost totally illiterate and another four million are termed ‘functionally illiterate.’ In the United States these figures are estimated respectively at 26 million and 60 million.”
Both Canada and the United States have had compulsory attendance laws for decades. The purpose of these laws was to make certain that every child was educated. The laws were particularly aimed at the children of the poor, and yet it is they who have suffered the most at the hands of government education. Even Secretary of Education Cavazos, in 1989, admitted in the frankest terms that the government education system was failing the American people. In his sixth annual report card on American schools, he repeated the well-known litany of failures that still plague American education: declining SAT scores, declining interest in math and science, declining literacy, and a soaring dropout rate in Washington, DC. He said that we were still wallowing in a ‘tide of mediocrity,” and that “we must do better or perish as the nation we know today.”
Has anything changed since 1989? Yes, it has all gotten worse. In fact, it was an alarming report on American literacy issued in 2007 by the National Endowment for the Arts that informed Americans that the reading problem had deteriorated further since Secretary Cavazos issued his own alarming assessment. The chairman of the Endowment, 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 Endowment report revealed that the number of 17-year-olds who never read for pleasure increased from 9 percent in 1984 to 19 percent in 2004. Almost half of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 never read books for pleasure. Why? Because reading has become a painful, tortuous exercise that they wish to avoid. The simple truth is that literacy is not at all difficult to achieve, provided the schools use the right phonetic teaching methods. Indeed, the home-school movement has already proven that parents can actually do a better job of teaching reading than our high-priced professionals. It has also been shown that children progress better academically when taught at home, and that the cost of educating a child at home is less than $1,000 a year.
So why do we need compulsory attendance laws? We need them so that the ruling liberal elite can dumb down the population and make sure they can’t read. For proof of this, listen to the words of Professor Anthony G. Oettinger of Harvard University, given in a lecture to an audience of Telecom executives in 1982:
“The present ‘traditional’ concept of literacy has to do with the ability to read and write. But the real question that confronts us today is: How do we help citizens function well in their society? How can they acquire the skills necessary to solve their problems? “Do we, for example, really want to teach people to do a lot of sums or write in ‘a fine round hand’ when they have a five-dollar hand-held calculator or a word processor to work with? Or, do we really have to have everybody literate–writing and reading in the traditional sense–when we have the means through our technology to achieve a new flowering of oral communication? “What is speech recognition and speech synthesis all about if it does not lead to ways of reducing the burden on the individual of the imposed notions of literacy that were a product of nineteenth century economics and technology? .. “It is the traditional idea that says certain forms of communication, such as comic books are ‘bad.’ But in the modem context of functionalism, they may not be all that bad.”
I doubt that there are any parents in America who send their children to school to learn to read comic books. If anything, they want their children to be taught to read and write in the traditional manner. They don’t consider learning to read as a “burden imposed on the individual.” Rather, if taught in the proper phonetic manner, learning to read becomes a joyful experience for children eager to expand the use of their minds and language.
Although the compulsory attendance laws were enacted to make sure that everyone learned to read, their new application by the likes of Professor Oettinger and his liberal colleagues is to make sure that the population can be controlled and manipulated by schools that serve the agenda of the ruling elite. There is no longer any need for compulsory attendance laws since the ruling class no longer believes that literacy is for everyone, the poor and the rich. In reality, the compulsory attendance laws are the linchpin in the plan for a socialist world government. Such laws have been used by every modern dictator to control the people and mold the minds of the children. Such laws are not only not needed in a free society, but ultimately lead to its demise.
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We Will Never Forget 9-11, 2001
We are reposting this blog from 2021:
Camp Constitution was honored to participate in the Tri-County Republicans’ candlelight vigil that took place in Alton Village, Alton, NH to commemorate the terrorist attack on 9-11, and the recent tragic deaths of American servicemen and women at the Kabul Airport. The event was led by Priscilla Terry, director of the Tri-County Republicans, and the speakers included Greg Anthes, Ric Perrault, and Jason English. Mr. Russ Sample led the attendees in “America the Beautiful” “God Bless America,” and “Amazing Grace.” Pastor Sam Hollo of the Community Church of Alton offered the prayer.
For more information on the Tri-County Republicans: tricountyrepublicans@gmail.com
Nashua Sued in Federal Court for Viewpoint Discrimination by Steve MacDonald Managing Editor of the Granite Grok
Regular readers will know that the Donchess regime in Nashua is very selective about the flags it allows on the citizen’s pole—almost, dare I say, partisan in its rejection. Most recently, Stephen and Beth Scaer (who both write for GraniteGrok) asked the city to fly the de-trans flag. It was rejected, and an appeal to the mayor was denied.
Jim Donchess said no.
The story didn’t end with the mayor’s rejection. Beth and Stephen Scaer are suing the city in Federal court.
This is a clear case of viewpoint discrimination, one in a series of many such partisan rejections, so I’m excited to see this case take shape.
From the opening of the complaint.
The City of Nashua reserves a “Citizen Flag Pole” in front of city hall for people “to fly a flag in support of cultural heritage, [to] observe an anniversary, honor a special accomplishment, or support a worthy cause.”
Unless city leaders dislike the message. According to the city’s written flag policy, only speech which Nashua “wishes to express and endorse”—speech that is “in harmony with city policies and message” and in “the City’s best interest”—is allowed. Thus, while officials have allowed Nashua residents to fly flags celebrating causes such as Indian Independence Day, Lutheranism, Pride Month, organ donation, and women’s suffrage on the “Citizen Flag Pole,” they have forbidden Bethany Scaer from commemorating the 249th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill by raising the Pine Tree Flag, a traditional patriotic flag flown by New England troops during the American Revolution.
Likewise, officials have denied Beth’s husband, Stephen Scaer, permission to raise a Detransitioner Awareness Flag to observe Detrans Awareness Day (March 12). Stephen1 wishes to support gender detransitioners and call attention to the threats, ridicule, discrimination, and medical expenses that they often suffer, but city officials apparently do not want him to be allowed to express support for detransitioners. Nashua’s flag policy is unconstitutionally vague and overbroad, and it imposes an arbitrary prior restraint on use of the Citizen Flag Pole. The First Amendment does not allow municipalities to turn the government speech doctrine into a cover for favoring some private speakers and censoring others. Such viewpoint discrimination is anathema to the constitution. Plaintiffs Beth and Stephen Scaer are entitled to relief securing their fundamental right of free speech.
As we’ve written repeatedly, Hal Shurtleffs’ 9-0 free speech victory at the US Supreme Court in the Boston City flagpole case made it clear that Nashua would get sued for the same reason sooner or later. Despite that ruling, Mayor Donchess and company responded as they do to any challenge by assuming no one would ever invest the time and treasure to challenge them—and besides, it’s not their money if they lose.
And here we are.
You can follow the case history here and check back on the ‘Grok for updates.
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The Weekly Sam: How to Use Education Reform Effectively as a Campaign Issue By Samuel L. Blumenfeld
All candidates for office promise to “improve education,” but when they are elected, they
haven’t the faintest idea of how to proceed from there. That’s because the whole idea of
education reform is based more on the deliberate falsehoods produced by the educators
than on the reality of why our schools are the way they are.
I have been writing critically about education for the last forty years. My books include
The New Illiterates, How to Tutor, Alpha-Phonics, NEA: Trojan Horse in American
Education, The Whole Language Fraud, Homeschooling: A Parents Guide to
Teaching Children, The Victims of Dick and Jane, and Revolution via Education.
In those books I showed that every problem we have in public education today has been
deliberately caused by the educators themselves, and that no true education reform is
possible as long as we rely on the educators to create and implement those reforms.
Here are the realities that you as a candidate or concerned citizen should be aware of:
1. The public schools were taken over in the early 20th century by a cabal of progressive
educators whose goal it was to use the schools as a means of turning children into little
socialists who would then bring about a socialist society. The plan for all of this was
outlined by John Dewey in an article entitled “The Primary-Education Fetich”
written in 1898 and published in Forum magazine, May 1898. In it, Dewey
advocated changing the way children were taught to read so that they could be
deliberately dumbed-down. High literacy was considered an obstacle to socialism
because it developed independent, individualistic intelligence not conducive to
collectivist group think.
2. The new “sight” or “look-say” method of teaching reading was put in the schools in
the 1930s, and by 1955 the reading situation had become so bad that Dr. Rudolf Flesch
was compelled to write Why Johnny Can’t Read. In it he explained, “The teaching of
reading–all over the United States, in all the schools, in all the textbooks–is totally
wrong and flies in the face of all logic and common sense.” And believe it or not, the
situation is as bad today as it was in 1955. In fact, in 2007 the National Endowment for
the Arts issued a report on America’s declining literacy, Reading at Risk. Endowment
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.”
3. In order to implement these new socialist programs in the schools, the Progressive
Cabal decided to take over the National Education Association and turn it into a powerful
political instrument in order to pressure the Federal Government to pour billions of
dollars into the public schools. Their success has been achieved. Back in 1967, the
NEA’s executive secretary proclaimed: “NEA will become a political power second to no
other special interest group….NEA will organize this profession from top to bottom into
logical operational units that can move swiftly and effectively and with power unmatched
by any other organized group in the nation.” In short, the NEA is a political
organization attached to the radical left-wing of the Democratic party.
4. The Progressive program has been fully implemented in the public schools, paid for
by the taxpayer who is barely aware of what is going on. Thus American children are at
risk in four ways in the public schools: academically, spiritually, morally, and physically.
Academically because of the reading programs that create dyslexia and reading failure;
spiritually, because of the undermining of the children’s religious beliefs through the
philosophy of secular humanism; morally, because pornographic sex ed, drug ed, and
moral relativism; and physically, because of school shootings and massacres, violence,
and school-bus accidents.
5. So what is a conservative candidate to do or say when it comes to education? He or
she must support the idea of educational freedom, the right of parents to home-school,
and the right of entrepreneurs and religious denominations to create good private schools.
A conservative can support the idea of the charter school, which in reality is a public
school, provided that the charter issuing board will approve of schools with traditional
teaching programs.
As for the public schools, the conservative candidate should advocate the complete
reform of the primary school curriculum so that it includes intensive, systematic phonics,
cursive writing instruction, and basic arithmetic. It is in the primary school where the
greatest damage is done to the children. Therefore a detailed plan to completely revamp
the primary school curriculum should be the basic educational reform offered by a
conservative candidate. Such advocacy would be an excellent way to gain the support of
parents in the community. It would be very difficult for your opponents to argue against
such reforms.
(Editor’s Note: This article was written over 20 years ago but stands the test of time. For more articles like this, and PDF versions of most of Sam’s books, please visit the Sam Blumenfeld Archive: http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/main.htm
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Hey Southern Poverty Law Center: Get Your Hate Straight
Back in February, we became aware that the well-funded Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has placed Camp Constitution on its infamous “Hate Map” listings us an anti-government group. However, they have us listed in Charlotte, North Carolina.
We went to the website of SPLC explaining to them that we are a New Hampshire based organization and they need to make a correction. We added that an organization that receives millions of dollars from scared white liberals and woke corporations should be able to afford staffers that could have easily verified our proper address. We explained that our camp manager, who formerly resided in Rindge, NH moved to Charlotte a number of years ago, and the only reason why his address is on the website is due to the fact that he manages the applications for our annual family camp. We told SPLC that he is an elderly man living with his wife, and we didn’t want them to be targets of some of SPLC’s more violent supporters. Back in 2012, one of SPLC’s supporters Floyd Le Corkins II tried to conduct a mass shooting of the D.C. based Family Research Council because SPLC had the group on their hate map. We received an acknowledgement of our message, but they took no action.
Yesterday, Thursday September 5, 2024, I placed a call to SPLC asking them to make a correction. (Sadly, as mentioned in an earlier blog, our camp manager, co-founder, friend and mentor, Charlie Everett passed away.) Here is an audio of that call and conversation: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal/episodes/2024-09-05T16_58_33-07_00 My conversation with the SPLC staffer begins at about 5:01.
While there are indeed many hate groups, most of which are on the Left side of the political spectrum and not included in the SPLC’s hate map, SPLC lumps legitimate hate groups like Neo-Nazis with hundreds of conservative and Chrisitan groups whose only crime is to be hated by the Marxists who run the SPLC. We think Camp Constitution was placed on the SPLC’s hate list due to our lawsuit against the City of Boston which we won in a 9-0 U.S. Supreme Court decision http://www.lc.org/flag
We consider is a badge of honor to be listed by the SPLC and say to like-minded groups -with tongue in cheek have not made the list: “You need to hate harder.” We also want to acknowledge that the Granite Grok is on the SPLC’s hate map.
The Heatwave of 1910-1911 Halley’s Comet and the Titanic by Tony Heller
Climate historian Tony Heller discusses the heat wave of 1910-1911 which led to icebergs melting and the sinking of the Titanic. Temperatures in Maine got up to 112 degrees and thousands died- facts that the high priests of today’s climate cult refuse to acknowledge.
Mr. Heller’s; website is realclimatescience.com
Tony’s bio from his website:
My name is Tony Heller. I am a whistle blower. I am an independent thinker who is considered a heretic by the orthodoxy on both sides of the climate debate.
I live in Columbia, Maryland – an amazing city where I can ride my bicycle everywhere through the forest, and never need to get in a car.
I am a lifelong environmentalist. I testified at my first Congressional subcommittee hearing at age 15 in Kanab, Utah, in support of a wilderness area – very close to the one which President Obama recently set aside. I worked to get the Clean Air Act passed. I worked as a volunteer wilderness ranger for two summers in the Cibola and Santa Fe National Forests in New Mexico. I worked on the Safety Analysis Report for DOE’s nuclear waste disposal site in New Mexico. I probably have the smallest electricity bill in Columbia, Maryland because I am very careful not to waste. I have never turned on my heat or air conditioning.
I have degrees in Geology and Electrical Engineering and worked on the design team of many of the world’s most complex designs, including some which likely power your PC or Mac. I have worked as a contract software developer on climate and weather models for the US government.
I do not receive any funding other than small donations on my blog, which have worked out well below minimum wage. I have tried to obtain funding, but skeptics with money are terrified of political attacks directed by the White House and/or being targeted by the IRS. They openly state this to me.
The Weekly Sam: Sam’s Most Important Work-“Alpha-Phonics”
Our late friend and mentor Sam Blumenfeld authored over 12 books but his most important in my opinion, was his Alpha-Phonics. Since the creation of the Sam Blumenfeld Archives, thousands of people around the world but mainly in the United States have downloaded this book. When visiting the archives and clicking onto the link to Alpha-Phonics, this letter comes up:
” Welcome to the “Alpha-Phonics workbook by Samuel L. Blumenfeld. This book has been used by thousands of parents who have taught their children to be excellent readers, which includes my children. It is arranged in 128 easy to follow lessons. Sam rightfully pointed out that pictures of puppets popping out of trash cans are not needed to teach children how to read. This book may also be used for adults who have been taught the whole word or look-say method and therefore are functionally illiterate.
While this is a free resource, we would like to be able to make this resource known far and wide. A donation of $3.00 would go a long way, and you can donate more to help our cause, too. Go to https://campconstitution.net/product/alpha-phonics-workbook/ to acquire it. Additional donations to the Camp can be made via your PayPal account accessed from our website’s homepage: https://www.campconstitution.net
Hal Shurtleff, Director Camp Constitution
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We The People By Kevin Bushey Tactical Civics Aroostook County, ME Chapter
It’s the first line of our Constitution. But do we really know what it means?
Dave Zuniga, author of the 2024 book, Now When We Rise, searched for years to discover the
meaning of these 3 words handed down by our founding fathers as they created our U.S.
Constitution. Zuniga states:
“Now I have a definition of We the People; of the collective sovereign as the first chief justice of
the supreme Court, John Jay, called us in his ruling in Chisolm v. Georgia, the first important
ruling of our servant high court. We The People refers only to the subpopulation of Americans
who take responsibility to oversee our servants and to enforce the Constitution against violations
by those servants, at all levels from school boards to DC.”
This supreme Court ruling is packed with some truly revealing facts. First, Americans are a
collective sovereign that requires individuals to work “collectively” to maintain its sovereign
status. And what is the first order of business? Enforcing the supreme law of the land and that
happens to be our U.S. Constitution. Equally important is the fact that every state has a state
Constitution. When an elected official repeats their oath of office, they commit themselves to
upholding, protecting and defending the Constitution (and their state Constitution for state
offices).
Secondly, it emphasizes the term “subpopulation of Americans who take responsibility to
oversee our servants and enforce the Constitutions”. What does this mean? I believe the court is
saying, the subpopulation of “We the People” are the enforcers (the bosses) of elected officials
who are our servants, NOT the current system that federal and state governments operate by
where they do as they please in ignoring the constitutions and nobody holds them accountable
for violating their oaths. That has to change. And no Presidential election will do that. It will
require We The People, as collective sovereigns, to stand up to the cabals of DC right down to
our local towns and enforce constitutional governance.
So, how do we learn how to implement such a plan? Zuniga, along with his brain trust of
repentant men, have created a long term plan, called Tactical Civics. The goal of TACTICAL
CIVICS™ is to restore a repenting remnant of We the People to implement constitution
enforcement utilizing the two law enforcement tools stipulated in the Constitution. One of the
first objectives is to launch and build a TACTICAL CIVICS™ chapter in every county.
Aroostook County has a chapter. Learn more about the mission, goals and objectives and how
you become a chapter member by visiting https://tacticalcivics.com. You can contact us via
email at: tcaroostook@gmail.com
Second Fakest July on Record
The Daily Mail and other media outlets recently reported that we have experienced the 2nd warmest July in history, and we should expect a warmer than usual fall. But our friend Tony Heller from Real Climate Science https://realclimatescience.com/#gsc.tab=0 exposes the story in this short video “Second Fakest July On Record”: