“You will never know how much it has cost my generation
to preserve your freedom.
I hope you will make good use of it.”
The world still believes in the American experiment in self-governance. The Davos oligarchs [World Economic Forum] have demonstrated their gross incompetence to all the world over the last 2 years. They have neither right nor ability to govern America and Americans. We are a free people. And we have governed ourselves for almost 250 years now based on a Constitution developed by self-reliant farmers, tradesmen, shop owners, and landholders. These forefathers rejected a foreign monarchy and oligarchy and instead created and fought for a political structure which remains an inspiration for the world… a shining city on the hill…This is OUR country. We own this amazing gift. But we must defend it if we wish to keep it.– Dr. Robert Malone speech at the DC Rally on Jan 23, 2022, 10 days ago
Prov 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Dear Representative,Representative Theisfeldt asked me at the public hearing on AJR 77,“How is it a violation of our Oath of Office to use a legitimate provision within the Constitution?”
Here is the rest of my answer:While technically, your application to Congress is a Constitutional procedure, you are misinterpreting – and misusing it. You believe that YOU, the State Legislature, will rein in the federal government through the Convention process and YOU will be in charge of every aspect of Convention AND the ratification process.That. Is. Not. Article V.You’ve constructed something in your mind that is not true, doubtless placed there by the lies and flattery of the lobbyists. It seems you have erected, so to speak, an Article V in your own image, your own likeness, to suit your own ideas of the states being in charge, under the pretense of invoking the Founding Fathers’ Constitutional provision.Let me tell you what the REAL Article V state application says it is – the trigger to put Congress. In. Charge.——————Again, an Article V state application is the trigger to put Congress in charge of calling a Convention, who will doubtless form a new Constitution and a new government. That IS what it’s there for, the Founders recognized it is our right to alter or abolish and establish new government. None of us want THIS Congress or their handlers doing that.If you go ahead and STILL vote in favor of AJR 77 or other Convention applications, which is the trigger to put Congress in charge, I’m not sure what your motives could possibly be, but by process of elimination, it can’t be to protect the Constitution, can it? Also interesting to note, every Wisconsinite from across our state registered AGAINST and spoke AGAINST AJR 77, you had not one in favor of AJR 77.So yes, you are putting our Constitution in great peril. That is NOT protecting our Constitution, and I firmly believe that IS violating your oath of office, and that is why I CANNOT withdraw my statement.My brother put it well when he talked about those of you voting in favor of convention resolutions,“They are directly ignoring the indirect destruction of the Constitution.”– Brian Bakash, WI
Chair Wichgers brought up another point that I think needs to be addressed. Establishing “Intent”.The State legislature is forever assuring us the Convention will be safe, limited, controlled, accountable because they are establishing INTENT with attorneys.So what?What good is establishing INTENT for the states to be in charge, when the rock of the Constitution clearly states Congress IS in charge?At the Assembly hearing, legislative counsel admitted:“There is legal uncertainty about whether those expressionsof the legislature’s intent from the statewould carry the day over, you know,competing with a call by Congress stating something else.”There’s nothing uncertain about it. Congress will carry the day.Article 1, Section 1All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.Article 1, Section 8The Congress shall have power…To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the forgoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.Article 5,“The CONGRESS… shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which…shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by…legislatures of three-fourths of the several states OR by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the CONGRESS”And Congress has been writing & holding hearings about how they would run a Constitutional Convention for 60 years in the Congressional Research Report. 1378 pages.They know they will be in charge. Make no mistake.Please work to rescind the Convention applications Congress already has from WI and kill any future convention applications in committee.”My name and address
I think it’s downright creepy how these Covid vaccines are being shoved down our throats – but it is also downright creepy how ANY and EVERY angle is being tried to get this Convention called.” Theresa Henderson, WI
As one of my fellow defenders of the Constitution says,“Storm the gates of Heaven with your prayers that the out-of-state bad actors don’t recruit all 34 States!”
Let us face reality.The Framers have simply been too shrewd for us.They have outwitted us.They designed separate institutions thatcannot be unified by mechanical linkages and frail bridge tinkering.If we are to turn the Founders upside down
we must directly confront
the Constitutional structure they erected.“
[Council on Foreign Relations] Robert P. George, a Member of [Mark Meckler’s] Convention of States Legal Advisory Board, has co-authored a new “conservative” Constitutionwhich grants massive powers to a new federal government and imposes gun control!” – Publius Huldah https://www.thestandardsc.org/joanna-r-martin/cos-board-member-drafted-new-constitution-that-imposes-gun-control/
“And since any new Constitution will have its own new mode of ratification (such as a national referendum), it’s sure to be approved.” – Publius Huldah
Prov 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Camp Constitution firmly opposes identity politics, but since Joe Biden announced that a black woman and only a black woman will be his choice to replace Justice Stephen Breyer, we have a few recommendations:
Dr. Felecia Nace is a New Jersey Native. A former language arts teacher at the Montclair Public School District New Jersey, Dr. worked as an education specialist for the New Jersey Department of Education, five years as an adjunct professor for Mercer County Community College’s English department, and his currently the executive director of Partners 4 Change, and education consulting firm. Nace is an international consultant, speaker/presenter, and has many published articles on the topic of systemic change. She is the author of several books including Top-Down Confusion: Is Grey the New Pink in Education

Mrs. Edith Craft: Born and raised in New Orleans, Mrs. Craft is a retired schoolteacher who serves as Camp Constitution’s program director for its junior camp. She is married to Camp Constitution’s chaplain Rev. Steve Craft. She is a mother and grandmother

Kalasia Richer is the New England Faith Representative for Turning Point USA. She works full time serving and supporting pastors/members of the faith community in MA, NH, VT, ME, and upstate New York in the restoration of their God-given liberties. Kalasia is originally from Woonsocket, RI and currently lives in Boston, MA. She graduated in 2020 from Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI with a BA in Political Science and Communications. While in college she served as the President of the RWU College Republicans and Vice President of Christian Student Fellowship. She also worked as a staffer for an RI gubernatorial campaign and interned at the Rhode Island State House. In addition to working full time for Turning Point USA, she currently serves as an ambassador for Future Female Leaders.

And Barbara From Harlem:
“Barbara From Harlem” is a community and political activist in New York City. Born in the Bronx and raised in Harlem, she raised five children as a single mother. She has also been a small business owner and has run several nonprofits helping inner-city youth.
Barbara earned her nickname in the mid-90s from then-WABC talk radio host Jay Diamond. She was a frequent caller about the O.J. Simpson murder trial, which she thought was wrongly decided.
She has since become a well-known voice of black conservatism in New York City and across the country. She has been called the “godmother of black conservatives” by fellow podcaster Darius Mayfield.
She is the author of the book “Escaping the Racism of Low Expectations” (Simon & Schuster, 2018). In it, she explained:
I was a liberal by default. I asked no questions. I had no answers… But my eyes were opened to reject victimhood and lack of accountability. My journey has proven to me that when you have clarity of conscience, love of God and a deep-seated belief in America’s goodness, your life will be enriched and your focus will change to one of accountability.
With her daughter Bebe, Barbara has co-hosted the “Our Urban Story” podcast since 2014; it streams live on Saturday afternoons.

Dr. Lee Button explains the power to declare war under the U.S. Constitution. This is from a weekly show that aired in New Hampshire and hosted by the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal/episodes/2022-01-28T15_15_03-08_00
For information on the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies, please visit their website http://www.nhccs.org
Show me the data! Show me what’s in the shot, the lot numbers, I don’t care what you SAY, SHOW ME THE DATA – If we can get some data, we can start to heal these people – as long as there’s breath, there’s life.” BRILLIANT scientist Dr. Judy Mikovits

I’ve been through outbreak after outbreak – I’ve never seen anything like this: integration, harmonization, and enforcement. It is overtly authoritarian and it’s coming down from above, and its coordinated, and they’ve developed a bunch of different vehicles to reinforce this dominant narrative and make it so no other information is available to people so that people behave the way that the Health and Human Services and World Health Organization want them to behave. This is behavior control. It’s really psyops, is what’s happening, it’s applied psychological operations to control people and their behavior so they will accept these products, which are still experimental, based on technology that has never been deployed at this level, and as the data are coming out, it becomes more and more clear that these products are NOT completely safe…“The entire HHS system has been corrupted. The system is deeply corrupted and can no longer be counted on to perform its intended function. Then we go to a higher level, the media is corrupted and coordinated, the government is corrupted and coordinated…with the pharmaceutical industry basically buying access to the Hill and the regulatory capture we’ve seen across multiple agencies.“With the decisions that the pharmaceutical industry advocated for… that the FDA would be funded largely, directly, by fees from the Pharmaceutical industry – has created a situation in which they’re dependent on that Pharmaceutical money.In the case of CDC, it has a dual function, it’s there to promote the industry and to regulate the industry. It promotes vaccines, it’s a specific part of its mandate, and yet it also has the mission to regulate and oversee the safety of vaccines. Those two are in conflict. (And the mission that is more highly funded at the CDC is ‘promoting vaccination’).”
I got a lot of whistleblowers…these are heros. This is the only hope that we have because the government is so corrupt and lying so badly, we would never have it [proof].” Attorney Tom Renz
Do not be afraid of the truth. Face it head on with power, love, and a sound mind. Too much is at stake to ignore the evidence presented in this series of the lies, lies, dances of deceit.
Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation,
continuing instant in prayer”“God hath not given us the spirit of fear,
but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”“The truth shall make you free.”“Jesus Christ is the same
yesterday, today, and forever.”“Jesus saith unto him,I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
Author and homeschool pioneer Sam Blumenfeld appears as a guest on “The Great Education Struggle” hosted by Isaac Moffett:
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal/episodes/2022-01-28T12_53_30-08_00
You can find this audio among most of Sam’s writings on the Sam Blumenfeld Archive: https://campconstitution.net/sam-blumenfeld-archive/


I am fed up to my burning ears with the carte blanche castigation of plastic. Plastic is one of the greatest inventions ever, not only for modern society, but also for the environment. If plastic seems to now pose an environmental threat, it’s not plastic’s fault – but the fault of the environmental movement itself.
The use of plastic reduces the need for other natural resources. Plastic bags, cups, and plates save the need for more paper. It saves the tress the greens are so concerned about. Plastic tables and chairs and lamps also save the demand for wood. Plastic bumpers on cars eliminate the need for chrome, a natural mineral the greens worried about a couple of decades ago – plastic provided the saving solution. And the use of plastic in cars makes them lighter and therefore more fuel efficient. Plastic makes heart transplants possible. Plastic is used in a wide variety of medical devises, without which people would either die or be denied happy, useful lives. There is no natural wood, paper, or glass substitute.
It’s interesting to note that the decade-old American obsession with bottled water resulted from environmentalist scares over possible chemicals in municipal tap water. Green radicals like the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) spewed horror stories of tap water full of rocket fuel, arsenic, germs, feces, lead, and pesticides. Plastic bottles provided the solution. Now the pendulum has swung and we’re all supposed to forget the earlier scaremongering over tap water and obey the new scare over water bottles. Crisis to crisis – whatever keeps up the green fundraising and power-building. It’s also interesting to note that one of the biggest promoters of the return to tap water is the National Conference of Mayors. Many cities are now taxing each bottle used. A classic move – right out of the government handbook. Vilify it and then tax it.
So, the mantra goes, plastic bottles and products are filling the landfills. Says one ad (by a water filter company with an ulterior motive to compete with plastic water bottles), America uses enough plastic water bottles to ring the earth several times in a year. Plastic bottles don’t degrade, they say, so they will be in the ground forever. The collectively acceptable answer, of course, is that we simply must ban them and any other use of plastic, if possible.
One corporation using the anti-plastic propaganda is the Whole Foods supermarket chain which forces its suppliers to provide “sustainable” and recyclable packaging for their products or they will be banned from the store’s shelves. The chain also does not use plastic carrier bags. Instead, it uses either paper bags or encourages customers to bring in their own reusable cloth bags. Whole Foods is a large enough force in the grocery market that such policies force other chains to follow suit. That, of course, is its political strategy.
Whole Foods CEO, John Mackey, is a full-fledged promoter of Sustainable Development as a political policy. He talks of corporations “doing good,” through a policy of “Conscious Capitalism.” I love the use of those words, “responsible;” “good,” “conscious.” Says who? Rather than a businessman, Mackey is ultimately promoting his own political agenda on the buying public. That isn’t free enterprise; it’s a form of activism designed to covertly enforce behavior modification techniques on the buying public.
In addition, Mackey’s drive to “do good” has a lot of unintended consequences. First, he has helped to perpetrate lies and prejudices to encourage lawmakers to ban valuable products. That causes job loss in that industry. Second, he is taking away the right of choice from those who don’t accept his position. Third, all so-called sustainable policies lead to one specific conclusion – higher prices for consumers. Fourth, his actions may well lead to endangering the health of many consumers. For example, removing plastic bottles for shampoos and conditioners and replacing them with glass bottles will be a hazard in the bathroom when they inevitably fall on the floor.
Finally, there is a growing hypocrisy from the do-good faction. Some governments, such as in Fairfax County, Virginia are now charging 5 cents tax for every plastic bag, with the intention of returning us to the paper bags that were banned in the name of environmental protection for trees. The difference now is that the government will get to fill its coffers from the unnecessary regulations it imposed.
Of course, when political power is at stake, consumers are simply pawns to be manipulated. In San Francisco, where the city government banned the use of plastic bags, one resident wrote, “I remember when it began to rain last year while I was carrying my groceries home in a paper bag. As I chased my cans down the street, I cursed our idiot mayor and whoever among his stooges had decided to ban rainproof plastic bags in San Francisco. Paper is certainly biodegradable, for the process started even as I was carrying the bag home.” Where was her freedom of choice?
When one is driven by political correctness or globally acceptable truth, one has a hard time looking past the “allowable” thought patterns to ask obvious questions. Are plastic bottles really a threat to landfills? Is there another way to dispose of plastic other than throwing it in landfills? Is there any other reason landfills are filling up, and is there a solution? There are answers to these questions, but they will surely make the greens choke on their tofu as they read them.
The fact is, according to a 2010 report by Angela Logomasini of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, plastic bottles are not filling up landfills. They represent less than one percent of landfill waste. She goes on to agree that they don’t degrade, “but nothing does.”
In addition, we have an artificial shortage of landfills because environmental regulations prevent new ones. We have no lack of land in America and could open numerous new landfills to meet growing needs. Angela Logomasini agrees that we have plenty of landfill space and adds, “one large landfill 44 miles by 44 miles could manage 1,000 years of our waste. Simple enough, but completely politically in-correct in today’s attack on logic. It’s much more acceptable to regulate and ban valuable products. That has become the American way.
Those old landfills, once full, could be used for other uses. By researching the subject, I found a list of 10 former landfills around the nation that were converted to parks, golf courses, playgrounds, soccer fields, and shopping centers. One in Virginia Beach, VA, was converted into a full-blown city park called Mount Trashmore. We’re supposed to envision landfills as a no man’s land of devastation and waste forevermore (hence the need to block the creation of new ones). But, again, it’s not true.
Finally, there are at least two possible scientific solutions to the disposal of plastic — first, heat. Plastic products are produced and shaped through the use of heat. It melts at a very low temperature. Instead of throwing massive amounts of money into propaganda to destroy the plastics industry, those concerned over the disposing of plastic could develop and purchase heat-generating machines (without smokestacks) and place them at every landfill. Then, melt the plastic into reusable liquid. Well, perhaps that’s not as much fun as bullying us with anti-plastic police forces.
In 2020, scientists working at the University of Portsmouth developed and even better solution. According to their findings, Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) is the most common thermoplastic, used to make single-use drink bottles, clothing, and carpets. Usually, PET takes hundreds of years to break down in the environment, the leading attack against plastic. However, scientists have re-engineered a plastic-eating enzyme called PETase into an enzyme cocktail. Incredibly, this new PETase process can shorten those hundreds of years of plastic breakdown into a matter of days. That will revolutionize plastic recycling and eliminate the environmental danger.
However, as many now understand, little in these attacks against industrial revolution products have anything to do with science or truth. The roots of the environmental movement’s agenda lay in the determination to destroy free markets. The use of fear of ecological Armageddon creates political power and massive funding for them. So, actually solving the problem means losing the power and the money. That’s why no headlines have promoted solutions beyond banning the products.
Instead, there is now a steady march by the stores, which have always provided the bags (whether paper or plastic) for free, to embrace government regulations that will ban the bags. Providing those bags for free to every customer is a considerable cost for the store. Now, however, with the government’s new tax, in the name of environmental protection, they are succeeding in getting consumers to purchase their own “reusable” bags which the store now sells to you for a profit. It’s a new profit center built on environmental guilt. “Conscious Capitalism,” indeed. Partnerships between government and private corporations, for the sake of political power, is more accurately called fascism, and truth and liberty always lose in that game.


Darrell Pack is the hosts Restore the Intent Constitution Study Group in Alton, NH and is the owner of Lakes Region Cabinet Company.
H. L. Mencken once said, “For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”
Mencken’s words aptly apply to a “Convention of States,” also known as an “Article V Convention,” “Constitutional Convention,” — or as I have known it for 30 years, the “Con Con” — the cure-all hoax to “fix the federal government” that takes root among some grassroots activists every time a Democrat occupies the White House.
It offers the quick fix and masks a danger worse than any Socialist proposal to the Biden or Pelosi agenda.
Promoters of this terrible idea would have you believe the answer to all that ails us is clear — all we have to do is pass new amendments at a Constitutional Convention to limit what the federal government can do.
They’ll tell you this solution is simple, and contrary to the belief of some “fearful” nay-sayers, nothing bad will happen.
First of all, the Constitution already does this… which politicians and courts too often ignore.
How will new “rules” change that? They won’t. If you cannot force change now, (and you CAN… that is what FACL teaches you, but it takes time, effort, and organization) you will not force change then.
Worse, the Con-Con itself will be manned by career politicians (from Red and Blue states) and Leftists (at least from Blue states). Once assembled, they will do as THEY please, not as you or I please. No “rule” will prevent it. History shows again and again that conventions write and rewrite their own rules.
The arguments are so absurd for a Con-Con, I struggle to try to be fair to the sincere but misguided folks who promote the agenda.
If you’re receiving this email, chances are you’ve been actively fighting FOR liberty legislation and AGAINST threats to liberty at the state level for a while now.
So it should be obvious to you that state legislators are at least as big a threat to your liberty as their federal cohorts… if not more so.
One only need examine what the states have done in response to COVID-19 to get a sense of how little they can be trusted with your liberty.
After all, it was Governors — Democrat AND Republican — who forced businesses to close, robbed children of over one year of their lives, and authorized jailing mothers, fathers, grandmothers, and grandfathers for trying to open their businesses so they could pay rent and put food on the table.
And most state legislatures — Democrat AND Republican — refused to do a single thing about it.
Despite that, the “Convention of States Project” would have you believe these very same turncoat state politicians can, and should, be trusted to open up the U.S. Constitution for alterations at a convention.
To be sure, there are some limited-government champions in states across the country.
But they are not in the majority. If they were, you wouldn’t have to work so hard to kill bad bills and pass good ones!
What’s more, these few champions of liberty will likely not even be invited to a convention.
In fact, some states have already made clear their intention to send the very same State House and Senate leadership that you struggle against every legislative session.
Can a convention really be limited?
In recent years, Con-Con promoters have spent millions of dollars from wealthy donors to enlist a team of so-called “experts” to reassure conservatives that a convention will be safe because it will be “limited,” and delegates will be “forced to follow rules” their own state legislators will set.
They go on to insist the rules of the convention itself will bind them down further and will likely follow Mason’s Manual, which is currently used in most states.
This includes Nebraska, where Con-Con operatives recently succeeded in bringing their resolution back from the dead by “suspending the rules” and vote trading.
You see, the resolution was nearly dead in committee, so an attempt was made to usurp the normal process. When that attempt failed to garner the required votes, it was fully dead under the rules.
So the bill sponsor, Republican Senator Steve Halloran, traded some votes and agreed to support some Big Government legislation if opponents of the convention would agree to vote to break the rules and bring his Convention of States resolution back to life.
Yes, the bill sponsor voted to GROW the government so he could maybe one day LIMIT the government — and he broke the rules to do it!
And they were able to do that under Mason’s Manual, the legislative procedure most argue would be used at a convention.
In Kansas, a state which also uses Mason’s Manual, Con-Con politicos have been frustrated by the State Constitution, which requires a voter-ratified two-thirds majority to pass this type of legislation, a threshold they have never been able to achieve.
So Convention of States insiders conspired with the Kansas Senate President, Ty Masterson (also a Republican) — in direct violation of the State Constitution and the will of the people of Kansas — to “deem” the resolution passed if a simple majority was achieved (it wasn’t). This is the same trick-play Nancy Pelosi uses in Washington.
If Convention of States Project political operators and their own hand-picked bill sponsors can’t be trusted to follow the rules, just how can you expect anyone to follow so-called “rules” convened to rewrite the Constitution?
It defies all logic!
What they did in just those two states is a perfect example of the vote trading and rule breaking that will happen if a convention is called and your fundamental rights are on the line.
And it will not be conservatives trading and cheating then… it will be the hard-Left, bankrolled by George Soros and others. In fact, they also fund groups calling for a Con-Con (for Left-wing purposes).

(Mark Meckler founder of Convention of States with Joanne Blades of the Soros funded MoveOn.Org)
Let’s take a look at the Red Fox Four Score on this issue.
*** More money/people: -1
Both sides will raise some money on this issue, but it can (and does) divide liberty activists into opposing camps, leaving support for vital projects that can actually advance liberty or thwart Big Government in the lurch.
The fact is, Convention of States is overwhelmingly funded by a handful of wealthy donors, not grassroots donations. Consistent conservative leaders who oppose the Con-Con risk alienating some of our own donors who, in honest frustration and fear, have been taken in by the Con-Con hype and happy-talk.
*** Help friends: -3
This is where it gets painful. Good legislators who support great causes get wrapped up in these fights, become a danger to liberty, and then can’t be trusted as a bill champion on vital legislation.
And good legislators who do not support the Con-Con are branded as enemies by convention supporters. This further waters-down what was already a very small “champion” universe.
*** Hurt enemies: -5
No liberal has ever lost his or her seat over this issue — this is almost exclusively a fight within the conservative movement. If the Left ever sees the very real opportunity to seize power at a convention, this might change.
And tax-and-spend Republicans love this issue because they can cover up the truth of their liberal voting records by focusing on their support of “limiting” government, and then they don’t have to worry as much about primary election problems.
*** Policy Ratio: -10/0
If it passes: -10. This is speculative, but Congress already tries to openly ignore the Bill of Rights. This gives Big Government lackeys the opening to repeal what they don’t like, edit what suits them, and pass things like packing the courts, ending the electoral college, and installing a Universal Basic Income.
There is no upside to a convention. The dangers of a runaway convention are very real, especially since the media and billionaire Leftists like George Soros WILL be involved.
(Does anyone really believe hard-core Leftists will simply walk away dejected and consider themselves down for the count if a Con-Con is called?)
If it fails, then nothing happens. There is NO upside to this battle for conservatives, except to stop it in order to protect our liberties from frustrated “friends.”
*** SCORE: -19 to -9 — one of the worst scores I have ever seen for a serious proposal.
Whenever Democrats take control of the federal government, going all the way back to President Jimmy Carter, their cries for a convention reach a fever-pitch.
They’ll tell you they don’t support either side in D.C., but then celebrate when Big (federal) Government RINOs like Senators Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio proclaim their support!
There is no doubt that D.C. is broken.
Federal government power has far exceeded its constitutional authority.
But it can’t be fixed by sending a bunch of modern-day politicians to a convention so they can modify (or do away with) our founding document.
The states have allowed the federal government to become the behemoth it is today.
They have done so by accepting Big Government federal “mandates” just so they can get their hands on more federal taxpayer dollars.
States need to get their own houses in order and start fulfilling their own constitutional duties.
They can shrink the federal government — right now — by refusing to accept and spend federal taxpayer dollars on unconstitutional Big Government programs.
To sum up, there is no way to predict what constitutional amendments the delegates to a convention might adopt.
The only Constitutional Convention in U.S. history — in 1787 — went far beyond its mandate. Charged with amending the Articles of Confederation to promote trade among the states, the convention instead wrote an entirely new governing document. A convention held today could set its own agenda too.
Now, if America’s leaders looked like Washington, Madison or Henry, maybe, maybe it might be OK (though even Patrick Henry opposed the final product, even AFTER the Bill of Rights was added).
But as the late Supreme Court Justice Warren E. Burger said, “[T]here is no way to effectively limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention. The Convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda. Congress might try to limit the Convention to one amendment or one issue, but there is no way to assure that the Convention would obey. After a Convention is convened, it will be too late to stop the Convention if we don’t like its agenda.”
It is past time for this harebrained scheme to die and for all limited-government advocates to band together and clean up their own local and state governments.


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Author and homeschool pioneer, Sam Blumenfeld conducts a presentation on teaching penmanship where he stresses cursive first.
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal/episodes/2022-01-22T15_14_09-08_00
Please visit Sam’s archive where you can find this and hundreds of other works or late friend:
https://campconstitution.net/sam-blumenfeld-archive/

Liberty Counsel hosted several events prior to and after oral argument of Shurtleff v Boston https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/shurtleff-v-boston/

On Monday night January 17, we participated in a prayer vigil and on Tuesday morning, a rally was held prior to the oral argument. Speakers included Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler, Tim Goeglein (Focus on the Family), Dean Nelson (Frederick Douglass Foundation), Kalisia Richer (Turning Point USA), Barbara from Harlem, Patrick Mahoney (Christian Defense Coalition), Mario Diaz (Concerned Women for America), Jeremy Dys (First Liberty), Larry Cirignano (Choose Life), Pastor David Whitney (Institute on the Constitution), Andrew Beckwith (Massachusetts Family Institute), Adrian Jones (Mordecai Mission), Hal Shurtleff, Rev Steve Craft and Earl Wallace (Camp Constitution), and Liberty Counsel attorneys Harry Mihet, Roger Gannam and Jonathan Alexandre.
9A link to an audio of the oral argument: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal/episodes/2022-01-20T12_52_59-08_00
This is a news release from Liberty Counsel:
Supreme Court Heard Religious Viewpoint Case Today
Jan 18, 2022
There are three flagpoles outside City Hall that fly the U.S., Massachusetts and Boston flags, plus a fourth flag on Congress Street, which runs parallel to City Hall. For 12 years from 2005-2017, Boston approved 284 flag-raisings by private organizations with no denials on the flagpoles that it designated as a “public forum.” Had the flag been referred to as anything but Christian, the city would have approved it. The flag itself was not the problem; it was the word “Christian” describing it in the application that was the issue. The year before Camp Constitution’s application (2016-2017), Boston approved 39 private flag-raising events, which averaged three per month. In 2018, Boston approved 50 private flag raising events, averaging nearly one per week. One included a flag of a private credit union.
Boston now argues that despite the policy and longstanding practice, the private flag raisings are actually government speech.

Liberty Counsel Legal Team and Client Hal Shurtleff
Today, the Supreme Court seemed united in favor of Liberty Counsel’s argument that this censorship is unconstitutional, and that Boston was wrong to deny the Christian flag, a white banner with a red cross on a blue background in the upper left corner.
During today’s argument, Boston’s attorney, Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, admitted that if the High Court finds that if the city created a public forum, then Boston has no defense.
When the city’s attorney attempted to justify the policy to fit their agenda, Justice Alito said, “You did some after-the-fact gerrymandering of your policy and reverse engineered it.”
Hallward-Driemeier also stated that the city’s “goal is to foster diversity of communities” and “commemorate events or occasions.”
In response, Justice Clarence Thomas stated that if Christians are not a part of that diversity the city purports to support, “that’s limited diversity.”
Justice Amy Coney Barrett also asked the city attorney, “Isn’t celebrating Constitution Day considered an event?”
Justice Brett Kavanaugh also acknowledged that it seems the Establishment Clause is not the issue in this case since there has not been equal treatment of religious groups or religious speech.
Justice Neil Gorsuch also noted that the city cast religion into the same category as speech deemed offensive by censoring the religious viewpoint.

Liberty Counsel’s Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “Today is a historic day and I was honored to present this religious viewpoint case before the U.S. Supreme Court. This case is so much more significant than a flag. Boston cheated when it opened the flagpoles to all applicants and then excluded Christian viewpoints. The city then claimed that the flagpoles never were a public forum despite its history and express policy. The city’s censorship is clearly unconstitutional, and government cannot censor religious viewpoints.”
For more information on the case, visit www.LC.org/flag.
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