The Weekly Sam: America Started with Educational Freedom By Samuel L. Blumenfeld

Published January 14, 2024 | By campconstitution

 

One of the reasons why the United States of America got off to such a great start is
because we had total educational freedom. When the Constitution was written, there was
already by then a great variety of teaching institutions. The Dames Schools were colonial
preschools in which children were taught the three R’s in preparation for going on to an
academy. The academy was a private school run by an educational entrepreneur. It
prepared students for higher learning or a trade or profession. They were considered the
most appropriate educational institution for a free people. Their responsibility was to the
parents who put their children in the academy.

Home tutoring was also very common in those days. There was no such thing as
“compulsory school attendance.” Parents were free to provide their children with any
fonn of education which met their needs. Children were taught to read and write in the
Dames Schools, which were keenly aware that Biblical literacy was an absolute necessity
in a society based on the teachings of the Bible.

In New England, laws had been passed requiring parents to educate their children. This
spurred the creation of Common Schools throughout the region. Towns hired teachers to
run such schools. Their main function was to prepare the students for future studies in
the colleges. They were owned and operated by the local folks who usually paid the
schoolmasters with commodities rather than money.

The beauty of this high degree of freedom was that education was practical, its
foundation based on reality. Whatever was taught was intended to improve the
knowledge, skills, and aptitudes of the students. The community’s basic purpose in
education was to pass on to the future generation the knowledge, wisdom, religion and
morals of the previous generation. There was no such thing as religious neutrality. The
United States was a Christian nation and all agreed that children should be inculcated in
the tenets of Christianity. And anyone who went into the education profession knew its
spiritual purposes.

But then the question arises: why did Americans give up educational freedom so early in
their history when its benefits were so obvious? Believe it or not, it had nothing to do
with economics or poor teaching. Literacy was very high and education was available to
everyone. There were even excellent charity schools that provided education for the
children of the poor. There was no need for the government to get involved in education.
But in Boston, the government did get involved in establishing the Boston Latin School,
an elite school to prepare students for Harvard. It was funded by the city even though the
. parents of the students could easily have paid its costs. But the liberals in Boston were
already looking to government to establish an elite institution separated from the church.
What happened to create this state of mind? It was the rise of the Unitarian heresy at
Harvard among the descendants of the Puritans. Intellectual pride became the spearhead
of religious Liberalism.

The Unitarians no longer believed in the Trinity or in the divinity of Christ. If Christ was
divine it was in the sense that we are all divine. But while Christ was considered a great
teacher, he was not considered to be the source of salvation. The Unitarians also rejected
Calvin’s view of man as being innately depraved who needed to be saved by Jesus Christ.
The Unitarians believed that man was basically good, and that all he needed was a good
secular education to achieve moral perfectibility.

And so the Boston Unitarians launched a strong campaign to create government primary
schools in which Calvinist teachings would be eliminated. They were successful because
they learned how to influence the press, control the legislature, and get what they wanted.
As the public school movement grew, the orthodox were in a dilenuna as to whether or
not to support it. In 1849, the orthodox General Association of Massachusetts decided in
favor of support with this very important stipulation. They wrote:
If after a full and faithful experiment, it should at last be seen that fidelity to the
religious interests of our children forbids a further patronage of the system, we
can unite with the Evangelical Christians in the establishment of private schools,
in which more full doctrinal religious instruction may be possible.

There is no question that the “full and faithful experiment” has been a colossal failure,
and that millions of Christian children have been spiritually harmed. While many parents
have taken their children out of the public schools, and hundreds if not thousands of
church schools have been founded, the vast majority of Christian parents still put their
children in these anti-Christian public schools. In other words, we have still to learn the
lessons of history.

 

The Blumenfeld Archives

The following article is from the Sam Blumenfeld Archives.  It was written in the early 2000s. A link to the archives: https://campconstitution.net/sam-blumenfeld-archive/   

It has been a few weeks since we have posted a  “Weekly Sam article due to an upgrade of the system.

 

Camp Constitution Instructor Professor Willie Soon Interviewed by Tucker Carlson

Published January 9, 2024 | By Hal Shurtleff

 

Our good friend and Camp Constitution instructor Professor Willie Soon was interviewed by Tucker Carlson.  A link to the interview on X:    https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1744777758507504061

At about 46:58, Professor Soon promotes Camp Constitution.  We have been blessed by having Professor Soon and his family attend and teach at our week-long family camp since 2017.  Here is a link to a YouTube playlist of Professor Soon’s classes at our camp:

https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PL7jnzBzBiNYDpYp8KORgRjO5tIsDsjyh-/videos

 

New research finds the natural seasonality of coronaviruses had more influence on the COVID-19 pandemic than government interventions

Published January 9, 2024 | By campconstitution
 
 

A new international study on the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in six northern European countries has unexpectedly discovered that the pre-existing seasonal nature of coronaviruses may have played more of a role during the pandemic than any of the government public health intervention policies – including vaccinations, lockdowns, masks and travel restrictions. The scientific study was published in the peer-reviewed journal, Journal of Clinical Medicine.

 

The international team of scientists and medical experts used 10 years of human coronavirus monitoring data collected in Sweden before the pandemic to estimate the seasonal variations in coronavirus incidence in northern Europe. They then used publicly available data on the COVID-19 pandemic for six northern European countries (Ireland, UK, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland) to compare the relative contributions to the progression of the pandemic in each country of: (1) seasonality; (2) vaccination programmes; and (3) other public health measures. They studied the various waves of the pandemic from early 2020 until May 2023, when the WHO declared the public health emergency over.

 

The authors found that the increases and decreases of each wave consistently followed the natural seasonal behaviour of coronaviruses – increasing during the winter “cold and flu season” and decreasing during the summer. In contrast, the scientific team were surprised to find no clear or consistent influence from either the vaccination programmes or the many public health interventions that were implemented.

 

A summary of the key findings of the study are provided in the table below:

 

The lead author, Dr. Gerry Quinn, a research scientist specialising in microbiology and immunology, described the significance of these surprising findings as follows:

“Since the start of the pandemic, governments and societies around the world have been implementing unprecedented measures in an attempt to control the spread of the virus. Whenever cases began to fall, many people believed that this was due to the public health interventions. But, a careful examination of all the available data shows that this belief was mistaken. It now transpires that most of the changes were probably due to natural seasonal changes of coronaviruses.”

Another author of the study, Prof. Karol Sikora (Medical Director of Cancer Partners International and Consultant Oncologist; former Director of the WHO Cancer Programme), emphasized:

“The finding that most of the apparent successes of the government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic were actually due to the natural seasonality of coronaviruses makes the negative health impacts of the lockdowns and other interventions even more disturbing. In the UK, we are still reeling from the harms these policies caused for cancer treatment and diagnosis and many other health concerns throughout the pandemic. Now, it seems that these dramatic health interventions did not even noticeably alter the progression of the pandemic.”

Prof. Norman Fenton, a Professor Emeritus of Risk at Queen Mary University of London and a mathematician who specializes in data analysis and statistics, was also a co-author. He warned that,

“From the beginning of the pandemic, there have been major problems in the interpretation of the publicly available COVID-19 data. During the first waves, health agencies were still developing, changing and increasing testing capacity. This meant that initial attempts to evaluate the COVID-19 public health measures were hindered by inconsistencies in the official data. Ambiguities in the definitions of COVID-19 vaccination statuses also led to considerable confusion in assessing the impacts of the vaccination programmes. Another problem was that many of the model-based studies only considered either the first or the second wave.
However, this comprehensive new study overcame many of these statistical challenges by considering five different indicators of the pandemic and separately analyzing each country over multiple waves of the pandemic. The results show that the overwhelming influence of seasonality created a false, and scientifically invalid, confidence in the many previously untested public health interventions that most governments used.”

The study was published on 6th January 2024.

 

For media inquiries, please contact Dr. Gerry A. Quinn (Centre for Molecular Biosciences, Ulster University) at g.quinn@ulster.ac.uk or Dr. Ronan Connolly (Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences) at ronan@ceres-science.com.

 

Links to the open access study and the journal citation details are below:

  • Gerry A. Quinn, Michael Connolly, Norman E. Fenton, Steven J. Hatfill, Paul Hynds, Coilín ÓhAiseadha, Karol Sikora, Willie Soon and Ronan Connolly (2024). “Influence of Seasonality and Public-Health Interventions on the COVID-19 Pandemic in Northern Europe”. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 13(2), 334; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm13020334

Visit Camp Constitution’s On-Line Shop

Published January 7, 2024 | By Hal Shurtleff

Camp Constitution has an on-line shop where we offer books, yard signs, pins, and bumper stickers.  Here is a sample of some of the items in the shop:

We just added a Ten Commandments Yard Sign:

https://campconstitution.net/product/ten-commandments-yard-sign/

Teach your children how to read using phonics or encourage members of your church, friends, neighbors and extended family members to use phonics by getting a copy of Sam Blumenfeld’s “Alpha-Phonics:

https://campconstitution.net/product/alpha-phonics-by-sam-blumenfeld/

A Camp Constitution Press reprint of a 1958 book written by a former black communist with a foreword by  Rev. Steve Craft, Camp Constitution’s chaplain.  If you want to understand what is happening today it is important to understand what happened a generation ago.  The names change but the plan is the same:

https://campconstitution.net/product/color-communism-and-common-sense-by-manning-johnson/

A first edition paperback on the classic None Dare Call It Conspiracy: https://campconstitution.net/product/none-dare-call-it-conspiracy-paperback-1st-edition/  

This came out in a time when it was “unfashionable to acknowledge that there was a Deep State.

While Communist China may own many American politicians, there were many in the Unted States that helped the communists take over China.  This book tells the story:  https://campconstitution.net/product/again-may-god-forgive-us-2/

These are just a sampling of the many items available from our on-line shop.  All proceeds from the sale of the books and other items goes to support Camp Constitution.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Our Friends at the Article V Convention Alert Team: End of the Year Report

Published January 3, 2024 | By campconstitution

 

End of Year Update
Thank you for hanging in there with us and responding to the blasts. This will be our 9th year following legislation bankrolled by those who have proved they’ll do just about anything to get their hands on our Constitution.

Get ready to be bombarded, as State Legislatures have already started to roll out. On the positive side, 2024 is an election year, and legislators should be anxious to get back home to raise money and campaign.

During 2023, we followed 127 Article V Convention bills in 44 States—mostly Applications—but also Rescission, Rules changes, Repeal of sunsets, and Delegate bills. And we issued 105 alerts for 18 States where we felt citizen action was necessary.

Only two Article V Convention applications passed: in Oklahoma (Term Limits) and in California (Gun Control). Oklahoma’s wasn’t important, as it was already being counted toward the requisite 34 states, having passed the BBA and COS applications in prior years. California’s application appears to have been a ploy to get attention by California Gov. Newsom who claimed he wasn’t seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. We should know soon enough if any Democrat states follow suit.

Convention of States (COS) applications are the most important to defeat because of COS’s penchant for buying hype and hoopla to feign a groundswell of public support. Fortunately, our side was able to stop COS in all 26 states they attempted in 2023. A couple of those applications may come to life again in 2024. We must be vigilant.

In Kansas, COS got a majority floor vote on both its House and Senate applications. But they failed to get the 2/3 majority required by the Kansas Constitution. Pro-convention legislators were so accommodating as to change their rules to make it easier for Meckler to win in federal court should he follow through with his vow to sue Kansas for complying with their own Constitution. 

But Meckler never went to court, possibly because a federal court opinion in Meckler’s favor and against the Kansas Constitution, might highlight the fact that State Legislatures can’t control an Art. V convention! Months after they lost Kansas, COS Leadership simply boosted their state count from 19 to 20. Few noticed.

In that vein, CON Lobby counterparts in DC declared victory in 2022. They announced that the 34-state threshold had been crossed by Nevada’s passing an application for a BBA in…(drum roll)…1979! No matter that Nevada’s BBA had been rescinded 5 years before the announcement! Incredibly, the CON lobby found a congressman to introduce legislation to that effect with a straight face. H.CON.RES. 24 (2023) is a congressional call for a convention under article V which validates all state applications passed since 1788, regardless of subject, obsolescence, age, constitutionality, having since been rescinded, etc—as long as 2/3 of the states ever had a non-rescinded application on record at the same time. If H.CON.RES 24 passes, the Con lobby will get the unlimited convention it’s been salivating over for the past decade.

In June, we celebrated the success of our liberal friends’ rescission of all previously-passed A5C applications in Oregon. That makes 12 States to date with no active applications. Assuming we can defeat H.CON.RES. 24 and rescind in 5 more states, there won’t be 34 states left for Congress to count!

Thank you again for your activism in defending our Constitution. Without your part in helping to fight, the CON Lobby might have feigned enough momentum by now to steal our Constitution. It’s amazing that truth and logic have thus far held their own against unlimited dark money and the forces of evil. You have made a difference.
Thank you for defending our Constitution!
In Liberty,Judi, Andy, and Lynette
And the A5C Action Alert Team

Camp Constitution works with this group and shares its alerts.

           Camp Constitution Announces Its 16th Annual Family Camp

Published January 3, 2024 | By campconstitution

   Camp Constitution will hold its 16th Annual Family Camp at the Singing Hills Christian Camp https://www.singinghills.net/ Plainfield, NH. from Sunday July 14 to Friday July 19, 2024

 Returning instructors include Pastor David Whitney of the Institute on the Constitution; Professor Willie Soon, world renowned astrophysicist and climate realist; Catherine White of The Constitution Decoded; Alex Newman, author and host of the Sentinel Report, and Rev. Steve Craft, Camp Constitution’s chaplain.
   Guest instructors include Tucker Carlson, and Julie Wilkinson who played the abortion nurse in the movie “Unplanned:  The Abby Johnson Story.”   In addition to the classes, the camp will offer marksmanship courses, martial arts, hiking, basketball, volleyball, wiffleball, and optional field trip and swimming, chess, gaga and corn hole tournaments.  Campers and staff end the day with an evening campfire.

 (Camp Constitution instructor Professor Willie Soon with Tucker Carlson.)

 Camp Constitution’s annual camp is a family camp open to entire families, unaccompanied minors, and adults. The cost for the week which includes lodging, meals and class handouts is $300 for those 13 and over. $200. For campers 12 and under, and three and under with parents are free.  The camp offers an “Early Bird” discount of $50, per person by registering by May 1.   A link to the camp registration:  https://campconstitution.net/camp-registration/

 Can’t attend but would like help a worth young person or family attend?  Consider making a donation earmarked for camp fee.  Donations may be made via our PayPal account accessed from our website’s homepage  https://www.campconstitution.net or a check payable to Camp Constitution and sent to Camp Constitution Director Hal Shurtleff 146 Powder Mill Rd. Alton, NH  03809


Battle of Princeton: “Washington advanced so near the enemy’s lines that his horse refused to go further” – American Minute with Bill Federer

Published January 3, 2024 | By campconstitution

 

 • Battle of Princeton: “Washington advanced so near the enemy’s lines that his horse refused to go further”

Frederick the Great of Prussia called these ten days “the most brilliant in the world’s history.”
After winning the Battle of Trenton, Christmas Day evening, 1776, George Washington’s 1,200 man force faced General Cornwallis’ 4,500 man British army.
Washington was fighting the army of the globalist King of Great Britain — the most powerful military on the planet.

On the night of January 2, 1777, Washington left his campfires burning and marched his army around the back of a portion of Cornwallis’ army – the 1,400 British troops camped at Princeton, New Jersey.
He ordered his soldiers to march in absolute silence, even wrapping their guns with heavy cloth to lessen the noise of troop movement.
British commander Lord Cornwallis ordered Colonel Mawhood to join his regiments to the rest of the British army.
This providentially, resulted in the British ceasing to patrol the very roads Washington was marching on.
At daybreak, January 3, 1777, Washington attacked the British from behind.
This was similar to what the British did to the Americans at the Battle of Brooklyn Heights a little over four months earlier.
At the Battle of Princeton, the surprised British immediately fought back, sending forth a bayonet charge which killed dozens of American soldiers.
One of those killed was General Hugh Mercer, who had fought with Washington in the French and Indian War, and in the Battle of Trenton.
Hugh Mercer’s descendants included WWII General George S. Patton.
After Mercer was killed, the British pressed their counter-attack.
The American militia under General John Cadwalader began to panic and flee.
To stop the retreat, General George Washington immediately rode to the front of the line and ordered the soldiers to stop running away.
He commanded them to turn around and follow him back to the front lines.
Washington rode extremely close to the British, within just 30 yards.
Turning and facing his men, Washington yelled:
“Halt!”
“Aim,”
then “Fire!”
The British immediately fired a volley in return.
The field of battle was filled with a cloud of smoke.
Many thought Washington was surely shot, as he was exposed to fire from both sides.
Irishman John Fitzgerald, who was an American aide-de-camp, pulled down his hat down to cover his eyes so as to not see Washington killed.
But when the smoke cleared, to their dismay, Washington was seen on his horse, waving to his men to charge ahead.
The Americans charged and won a great victory at the Battle of Princeton.
An estimated 100 British were killed or wounded, and over 300 captured, as compared to only 23 Americans killed and 20 wounded.
Enthusiasm swept America. Though it took nearly seven more years of fighting till the Revolutionary War ended, this battle was a major turning point.
British historian Sir George Otto Trevelyan wrote of the American victories at Trenton and Princeton:
“It may be doubted whether so small a number of men ever employed so short a space of time with greater and more lasting effects upon the history of the world.”
President Calvin Coolidge stated October 28, 1925:
“Distinguished military critics have described Washington’s campaign of Trenton and Princeton as a military exploit of unparalleled brilliancy.”

The equestrian statue at Washington Circle in Washington, D.C., depicts General Washington at the Battle of Princeton.
At the statue’s dedication in 1860, sculptor Clark Mills stated:
“… at the Battle of Princeton where Washington, after several ineffectual attempts to rally his troops, advanced so near the enemy’s lines that his horse refused to go further, but stood and trembled while the brave rider sat undaunted with reins in hand.
But while his noble horse is represented thus terror stricken, the dauntless hero is calm and dignified, ever believing himself the instrument in the hand of Providence to work out the great problem of liberty.”
Yale President Ezra Stiles described General George Washington as the American version of the Israelite commander Joshua, in an Election Address before the Governor and General Assembly of Connecticut, May 8, 1783:
“Congress put at the head of this spirited army, the only man, on whom the eyes of all Israel were placed …
… This American Joshua was raised up by God, and divinely formed by a peculiar influence of the Sovereign of the Universe, for the great work of leading the armies of this American Joseph …
and conducting this people through the severe, the arduous conflict, to liberty and independence …”
Ezra Stiles continued:
“In our lowest and most dangerous estate in 1776 and 1777, we sustained ourselves against the British army of sixty thousand troops commanded by Howe, Burgoyne, and Clinton, and other the ablest generals Britain could procure throughout Europe, with a naval force of 22,000 seamen in above eighty British men of war …
… This was sealed and confirmed by God Almighty in the victory of General Washington at Trenton,
and in the surprising movement and battle of Princeton; by which astonishing effort of generalship, General Howe and the whole British army, in elated confidence and in open-mouthed march for Philadelphia, was instantly stopped, remanded back, and cooped up for a shivering winter in the little borough of Brunswick.
Thus God turned the battle to the gate; and this gave a finishing to the foundation of the American Republic …”
Stiles ended:
“Who but a Washington, inspired by Heaven, could have struck out the great movement and maneuver of Princeton? …
The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.”
—

American Minute is a registered trademark of William J. Federer. Permission granted to forward, reprint, or duplicate.

  Camp Constitution’s Annual Report for 2023

Published January 2, 2024 | By Hal Shurtleff

 

 Camp Constitution in the News:

We continue to be mentioned in the media as local Christian’s petition to have the Chrisitan or Pro-Life flags fly on town or city halls. 1819 News in Alabama as Christian activists interviewed us are in the process of having Montgomery declare Christian Heritage Month and have the Christian fly in front of City Hall for a month:

https://1819news.com/news/item/montgomery-city-council-delays-american-christian-heritage-month-resolution-again

Christians in Torrington, CT raised the Christian flag on their city hall with over two hundred people including the mayor on hand:

And in Billerica, MA,  Deedee Clark Dorrington and members of her group Fly the Pro-Life Flag with the help from our friends at the Massachusetts Family Institute were able to get the town selectmen vote 4-1 in favor of flying the Pro-Life flag for two weeks in October:  MFI’s Advocacy Leads Billerica to Raise Pro-Life Flag on Town Property – MFI | Massachusetts Family Institute (mafamily.org)

The Claremont, NH Eagle Tribute did a story on our annual family camp:  https://www.eagletimes.com/news/camp-takes-on-swimming-and-the-bill-of-rights/article_e3f74b08-0d14-545d-b9a0-876343786082.html  The reporter asked us how we teach the Constitution to five year olds, we sent him a link to this video of our Junior Campers led by Mrs. Edith Craft singing a song about the Constitution  https://youtu.be/_Tw6Lz2QoOk?si=wVvNeZ2EayAtzSiX

We received some national media attention from NBC and Fox News with the appearance of presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswami at our annual family camp.

Special Projects: 

We partnered with the Massachusetts based Pro-Life Legal Defense Fund in a project to raise the Pro-Life flag in towns and cities across the state.  We had a float in the annual Old Home Week Parade in Alton, NH, and we presented their salute to America event held at Alton Bay. We had info tables at numerous events including the Crown of Maine Balloon Festival, the Mid-Atlantic Reformation Society’s Future of Christendom forum, the National Heritage, and the Mass HOPE homeschool convention where we also conducted a workshop on the Sam Blumenfeld Archive. We co-sponsored a Patriot Day Camp in Maine led by Mrs. Jessica Whitworth.

In April, Camp Constitution donated 1,500 pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution to the Alton-Barnstead, NH School District, and in January, we donated 1,100 copies to the Laconia Junior and High School, Laconia, NH Junior High, and High Schools. This has opened up the doors to other donations to schools in the region.

We hosted a group of homeschoolers at the Lane House for a field trip overnight to take in the Midnight Night Ride and Battle of Lexington Reenactments.

We hosted the Hillside College’s Constitutional Study Course in Alton, NH and Lebanon, ME.

Camp Constitution Media:

We videotaped all of the classes and some of the activity at our annual family camp and at our second weekend retreat the Lexington Reenactment, Alton, NH’s Memorial Day Parade, speeches as our 3rd Annual Memorial Day Weekend Barbecue in Lexington, the classes and activities at our annual family camp, and speeches of our speakers Julie Wilkinson, Pastor William Levi, and Charl van Wyk.

 

YouTube, Rumble Channels and Bitchute Channels

Since we started our YouTube channel, we have received 1.6 million views. While we used to receive 65,000 views per month until we were demonetized, and YouTube has taken down some of our videos due to its content, we still managed to have 100,000 thousand views on our YouTube Channel this year.  We have  8,000 subscribers overall.   We have been downloading some of our videos from YouTube expecting to have our channel deleted and uploading them to Rumble.   Our Rumble channel has received 6,388 views this year with seven likes, and our Bitchute channel has 2,3126 views this year.

Camp Constitution Press: We are finally getting the Planned Parenthood book published.  It is an the printer awaiting a final edit.  Thanks to Bill and Barbara McNally, who edited a draft of Sam Blumenfeld’s from the 1960s. we will also soon be publishing Sam’s “Did the KGB Kill Kennedy?  And, thanks to the PDF efforts of our camp newspaper editor Mark Affeck, we reprinted  “Let’s Learn About Money.”

 

The Sam Blumenfeld Archive:

•        713,016 Hits

•        3,779 Alpha Phonics Workbooks

•        2,921 Alpha Phonics Manuals

•        9,000 Is Public Education Necessary Book

•        4,550 Marlow-Shakespeare Book

•        1,039 Crimes of the Educators

•        About 300 Online Alpha Phonics Lesson 1

•        About 850 Phonics Intro Video

 Our friend Godknows Matizirofa principal of Nottingham School in Harare, Zimbabwe, is building a new school and will name it in honor of Sam Blumenfeld. We have been donating copies of Sam’s Alpha Phonics to the school. We also donated a case of “Alpha-Phonics” to the National Black Home Educators.

If you haven’t already, please visit and subscribe to the archives: https://campconstitution.net/sam-blumenfeld-archive/

 

Camp Constitution Radio on Podomatic: 
8,000 Downloads
1,200 Plays

And, we remain in Top Ten for the “Conservative-Right Category. Please visit and follow:  https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal   We recently interview Liz   producer of “The Fall of Minneapolis” and uploaded close to 80 speeches and lectures from Gary Allen, Alan Stang, Charlie Smith, Ed Griffrin, Julia Brown and others.

 

 Facebook Page:

We continue to average fifty likes per month. We also admin about eight groups including Friend of the Constitution in ME, NH, MA, CT, RI. PA, VT, and Stop the Constitutional Convention.

Speaker’s Bureau:

We had over sixty speaking engagements in 2023.   We recently held six engagements for Charl van Wyk author of Shooting Back in MA, NH, and ME. In September, we spoke to the Mid Atlantic Reformation Society, and we were one of the featured speakers at the Norfolk County (MA) Second Amendment Rally and Constitutional Day Celebration. We spoke at the Michigan Republican Party’s Mackinac Island event where we shared a podium with the likes of Alan Keyes and Jim Caviezel. We had speaking engagements in Maine including being the featured speaker at the Homeschoolers of Maine Annual State House Day, and presentations in New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Loudon, NH. We hosted four engagements for Juli Wilkinson who played the abortion nurse in the movie Unplanned. And we hosted Mrs. Bau Chau Kelly at the Lane House. Mrs. Kelly described life in Communist Vietnam.

Camp Constitution’s Website:

•        31,000 Views

•        185 Blog Articles

•        New Downloads: “How to Win A Gunfight Even if You Are Not a Good Shot” and Coloring Book “Learn About Money

•        Two New Sponsors  https://www.campconstitution.net

 

Camp Constitution Book Sales:        

 Amazon book sales were down from 2022 but I think that it is a trend.                     

We have raised close to $4,000 from donated books from our Amazon, Facebook page, and on-line bookstore. https://campconstitution.net/shop/

  Article V Convention: 

We worked with legislatures to have an Article V rescission resolution introduced in the New Hampshire House in 2024. Despite the onslaught of Article V resolutions all over the U.S. not a single one passed. We helped defeat two Article V resolutions in New Hampshire, several in Maine, and authored articles on the subject in on-line and print media and participated in a national conference call hosted by Tamara Scott who hosts a show on Frank Speech. One article we published was an expose on the leadership of the Convention of States. https://granitegrok.com/mg_lakesregion/2023/04/poisoning-the-well-is-not-working-in-new-hampshire-but-we-cant-help-ourselves  We worked with legislatures to have an Article V rescission resolution introduced in the New Hampshire House in 2024.

 

 Radio and Cable TV: 

We were a first time guest on several radio shows including the Chris Arn Show based in Carliyle, PA, and returned to the  the Duke Pesta Show:  https://www.freedomproject.com/2023/05/30/dds53023/ and earlier  in the year, we were guests on “Chattin with Janine: a popular Cable TV Show hosted by NH State Rep and long-tine friend Janine Notter. And  appeared as a guest on Tamara Scott’s show on Frank Speech, https://frankspeech.com/video/tamara-scott-show-joined-hal-shurtleff-camp-constitution and an appearance on the Ed Martin Radio Show which is nationally syndicated:  https://www.phyllisschlafly.com/constitution/wynk-back-to-basics-with-hal-shurtleff/       And, we had an appearance on the Chris McCarthy Show in New Bedford, MA generating a speaking engagement in January.

 

 

      Camp Constitution Ladies Group:

The Third Annual Spring Fling took place May 5-7 at the Singing Hills Christian Camp. Speakers include Valerie McDonnell, the youngest elected official in the United States and former abortion nurse turned Pro-Life activist Julie Wilkinson. Julie played a role in the movie “Unplanned.”  

                                      

Julie Wilkinson                                     Valerie McDonnell

 

Our friend and Camp Constitution camp parent Steve Wanager has relocated to Indiana and donated one of his replica cannons to Camp Constitution. We are now the proud owners of a replica Revolutionary War howitzer. Contrary to the view of Mr. Biden, the 2nd Amendment does not prevent us from owning a cannon.

Camp Constitution’s 15th Annual Family Camp

We had another successful family camp with  a full house, and two new guest instructors: author and documentary producer Vince Ellison, and, for the first time in our history, a presidential candidate: Vivek Ramaswamy.  Mr. Ramaswamy’s appearance at our camp brought  reporters from Fox News, ABC and NBC.

 

(Vivek Ramaswamy speaking at our 2023 camp

Second Annual Family Retreat:

We help  our 2nd Annual Weekend Family Retreat which ran from Friday September 29 to Sunday October 1. At Camp Sentinel in Tuftonboro, NH. Guest instructors were Jim Perloff and former Gubernatorial candidate Karen Testerman. Returning instructors included Catherine White, and Rev. Steve Craft. Jessica Whitworth conducted the program for the junior campers.

Looking into 2024:

The Racist Roots of Planned Parenthood Book Promotion Tour

A number of groups have booked us for speaking engagements.

Already signed up for two homeschool shows.

Full Page Ad in Boston Broadside to promote our events and the Blumenfeld Archive

Speaking Engagements for Vince Ellison in May of 2024 in MA and NH

Ladies Retreat April 12-14 Alton Bay:

Our 16th Annual Family Camp.  Guest instructors include Julie Wilkinson and Tucker Carlson.

 

(Camp instructor Willie Soon and Tucker Carlson)

And our 2024 Weekend Retreat:

 

How you can help Camp Constitution grow:

* Keep Camp Constitution and our nation in your prayers.

* Become a donor. Monthly and/or one-time donations can be made via our PayPal account accessed from our website https://www.campconstitution.net

* Host one of our speakers

Host a Constitutional Study Course

*  Introduce Camp Constitution to family and friends.

*Author an article for our camp blog.

Thank you for all you did in the freedom movement, and for helping to make Camp Constitution possible.

May the Lord grant all of  you a very Happy New Year.

Hal Shurtleff, Director
Camp Constitution

 

A link to an audio presentation:  https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal/episodes/2024-01-01T10_03_25-08_00

 

 

Our Most Popular YouTube Video in 2023-A Republic, Not A Democracy by Dan Smoot

Published December 30, 2023 | By Hal Shurtleff

 

Camp Constitution’s most popular video for 2023 is Dan Smoot’s “A Republic Not A Democracy” a film clip just under eleven minutes long   We received close to 33,000 views and gained over 500 new subscribers.   Dan Smoot, authored several books including The Invisible Government-one of the first books exposing the globalist Council on Foreign Relations, and The Business End of Government and his autobiography People Along The Way- copies of the later are available from our on-line shop: https://campconstitution.net/shop/?product-page=1  He also hosted “The Dan Smoot Report” which aired on a number of T. V. stations.   This video is from one of his “Dan Smoot Report” programs.

Please view, share this video and others from our channel, and become a subscriber.

Ezola Foster Rediscovered

Published December 29, 2023 | By Hal Shurtleff

 

I have a YouTube channel- Hal Shurtleff- which I seldom use.  It only has45 subscribers.  Yesterday, I got word that my video of  Ezola Foster on that channel received 500 views in less than a day.  And, today,  December 29, 2024, our friend and instructor Professor Willie Soon sent me a link to another video of Ezola Foster.   So, I reposted her October 1997 speech which we hosted at the Endicott Estate in Dedham, MA on Camp Constitution’s YouTube channel.  Dr. Mildred Jefferson introduced her, but her comments weren’t recorded.  Ezola was Pat Buchanan’s running mate in the2000 Presidental election.  She authored What’s Right for All Americans.  The book She passed way in 2018.

 

Ezola was the featured instructor at a camp I managed in Rindge, NH Summer of 1997.

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