Articles of Freedom - Pledge for Constitutionally Limited & Accountable government

dear friends, family and government representatives:

the Articles of Freedom website is now launched!  the Articles of Freedom is the product of the 2009 Continental Congress.

all we have to do now is follow the advice of the founding fathers by peacefully and legally demanding Constitutionally Limited and Accountable government through our unalienable right to Petition for Redress of Grievances over Constitutional violations.

the US Federal Government has thus far ignored the mandate of We the People to obey the limitations set forth within the US Constitution, therefore, on various counts it continues to violate the law of the land.  this has all been documented throughout the last decade or so, and through the efforts of the 2009 Continental Congress.

besides arrogantly saying the First Amendment "Accountability Clause" does not mandate Redress for Grievances (even though that's what it says), the Supreme Court has even refused to perform its function in officially defining the clause, as stated in the last 10 words of the First Amendment: "... and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

... yet many Americans continue to believe we are somehow not living in a state of tyranny?

as a reminder, let us once more contemplate what the founders said within an act of the 1774 Continental Congress regarding Petitioning for Redress of Grievances (aka: First Amendment "Accountability Clause"):

"If money is wanted by Rulers who have in any manner oppressed the People, [the People] may retain [their money] until their grievances are redressed, and thus peaceably procure relief, without trusting to despised petitions or disturbing the public tranquility."

Founders' Advice:  No Redress, NO TAXES!

pretty simple, no?  even a child can understand this.  only a fool would argue against this simple principle rooted in our American history.

and it really doesn't matter what kind of legislation the government has created over the years to usurp our unalienable individual rights, because it doesn't have the power to do so -- it only has the power We the People give it, or allow it to exert!

so Americans are now left with no excuse.  the question is simple: do We the People desire Constitutionally Limited and Accountable government... or not?

if you ARE happy with living in a nation where the government refuses to obey the law, then do nothing, or keep complaining if it makes you happy.  and keep supporting the same old authoritarian "liberals" and "conservatives" who hold allegiance to their political party and benefactors, rather than holding allegiance to LIBERTY in taking their Oaths of Office to protect our unalienable individual rights in defending the Constitution.

if you ARE NOT happy with living in a nation where the government refuses to obey the law, we simply need millions of Americans to sign the Pledge of support for the Articles of Freedom, and then follow through in de-funding the federal government (as according to the law of the land) once we have enough supporters.


so, stop complaining about unlimited government, continued Constitutional violations, and your once favorite authoritarian duopoly political party -- sign the Pledge of support for Constitutionally Limited and Accountable government NOW!

the Revolution is now.  the Revolution is peaceful.  the Revolution is legal.

if you think legal American government is important to the future of your own children, then share this with everyone you know.

in liberty...

8-)

bernard baruch carman

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Isn't it finally time to focus on LIBERTY?

excerpts from a recent email notification of a genuinely concerned American:

It is necessary that we come together and decide how to proceed, and encumber ourselves with appropriate goals to better ensure success...  This year, we will lay the groundwork for conservative community organization...  This will be the skeleton necessary to build a community organization effort into solid existence here in Asheville...  This is your opportunity to become a part of something larger than all of us combined...the very fight for freedom itself.

for the life of me, i continue to be perplexed with how the "fight for freedom itself" can be advanced by trying to rally "conservatives".  after all, have the myriad of Constitutional violations and actions usurping various unalienable rights of the individual not been by the hands of both "liberals" and "conservatives" at all levels of American government?

i'm really trying to be encouraging of these various new non-partisan grassroots groups who seem to be getting on board the American Liberty Movement, but i just don't see there being a drive for unity and inclusion around the same old partisan polarization deception which has been sold to the masses for so very long -- at least, not enough unity to make any real effective difference in the fight for freedom and against tyranny.

i guess it's so very difficult to break out of this deeply rooted deception that so many will just continue along the lines of "liberals" vs. "conservatives".  while both "sides" in power continue to advance tyranny through authoritarian government, many Americans don't seem to recognize that there IS an alternative battle plan, so they fall back and punt, hoping that this time things will be different and change is somehow possible by doing the same thing, over and over again.

need i remind ourselves of Albert Einstein's popular definition of insanity?  8-)

as i see the passion and drive of various fellow concerned Americans in these new groups, i don't know what else i can do when i see them take a misdirected course, except to continue sharing my thoughts on the subject with as many who will listen and take heed that the real battle is not "left" vs. "right", but rather liberty vs. tyranny.

i do not write this email to merely be critical of those attempting to fight tyranny under a "conservative" yet non-partisan banner.  my intent is to continue to advance the idea that rather than continuing along the same repetitive and fruitless efforts in advancing liberty, perhaps trying a different philosophical focus might be in order.

please consider which of the following statements is true and which is false:

1. the American founding fathers gained much support in opposing tyranny in their day by rallying around the philosophy of a conservative form of government.

2. the American founding fathers gained much support in opposing tyranny in their day by rallying around the philosophy of a Constitutionally Limited & Accountable form of government.

to the same leaders who are advocating that the "fight for freedom itself" can be advanced around a "conservative" agenda, please also consider which effort of the following they would be more willing to support if McCain had been elected and continued more the same un-Constitutional actions of the Bush administration, as has the Obama administration (along with the previous ones):

1. in hopes of reforming America to be OF, BY, and FOR the People, we have organized this new liberal grassroots group and we want you to join!

2. in hopes of reforming America to be OF, BY, and FOR the People, we have organized this new Constitutional grassroots group and we want you to join!

between the two, you wouldn't think twice about it, eh?  8-)

so therefore, what kind of political-philosophical positioning do you think would have a better opportunity of gaining major growth among a much broader political tent of Americans, and thus also have the potential of actually changing the growing tide of tyranny in America?

i'm definitely not suggesting the forming of a new political party, at least not at this time.  i am suggesting that all non-partisan grassroots groups who identify with being part of the American Liberty Movement work within the current political and social structures, but unify around a bigger tent liberty message and philosophy than has been exemplified since the founding of America.

to answer one of my energetic local leaders among the various non-partisan grassroots groups new to the American Liberty Movement, i do not wish to debate "liberal" vs. "conservative" -- to the contrary, i'm advocating that we all dispense with such terms which have been woven into the partisan polarization deception and begin to re-focus around the same, true and uniting philosophy as did the American founding fathers:

Constitutionally Limited & Accountable government!

let us therefore seek to inspire Constitutionalists among us to engage in the various areas of liberty activism!

remember the true principle, United We Stand – Divided We Fall!  therefore, let us stand and not fall so we might better work together to thwart tyranny in our day as best we can, as did the American founding fathers.

in liberty,

8-)

bernard baruch carman

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Third Parties Don’t Work In America

i thought i'd share this article, "Third Parties Don’t Work In America", by Mark Metzger from the blog A Constitutional Right, along with my thoughts on the subject.

the writer, Mark Metzger, makes a good point about not trying to create a political party out of the non-partisan and grassroots Tea Party, which would potentially split the 2010 vote.  however, i believe he is somewhat off base on a couple of areas, which seems to be a common error among many Americans, according to what i've recently been hearing.

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i agree with Mark's article in part.

  however, the primary reason why "third" parties in America are unsuccessful is not because they don't represent the mainstream ideal -- that's certainly an issue, but not the primary one.



after being involved in political activism within the LP for a while (i am no longer), i discovered that it is the Plurality Voting system which is mostly to blame for only allowing for a 2-party political system.



if America changed its voting system to Range Voting (aka: Score Voting), it would allow for multiple parties and/or independents to compete on a ballot, because there would no longer be a "wasted vote syndrome" which coerces people to vote for the "lesser of two evils".



on another note, i feel strongly that if the Tea Party focuses merely on "conservatizing" the Republican Party, the movement will turn out to be a complete failure.



the "left/liberal - right/conservative" political landscape is a complete deception: being ALWAYS liberal or ALWAYS conservative does NOT maximize liberty.



i believe the Tea Party should rather concentrate on attracting more activists who seek Constitutionally limited and accountable government.



in the effort of reforming government in that way through the legislature, the Tea Party should encourage those activists who wish to run for a political office to do so strategically in whatever race makes sense, regardless of the "political banner" under which they run.



if over time the Tea Party becomes large enough to potentially displace one of the duopoly parties, then it should consider not converting to a political party, but spin off a political party so that the heartbeat of the "Tea Party" remains non-partisan and grassroots.

however, if the Tea Party decides to continue playing the "left/liberal-right/conservative" political polarization game which has been played now for perhaps a century, then we can look forward to more of the same of what we have grown to expect in "Neo-American" government by the Neo-Cons AND Neo-Libs.

elaborating slightly...



because of Plurality Voting which leads to a 2-Party system, Mark is correct in saying that "Third Parties Don't Work In America".



the ONLY way to make such a massive change in the political landscape is to grow a new party large enough to DISPLACE one of the current duopoly parties and then take the place of it.  

i believe this CAN happen, but i doubt it can happen very soon, or by the 2010 election.

right now, the Tea Party seems to be fractured into camps which differ a bit too much in not only direction, but perhaps more importantly, focus.



in one faction, we have folks who are longing for more "Conservatives" to rally and reform the GOP.  in another we have what i might call "Constitutionists" or "BIG TENT Libertarians" who want to do the same.  then in yet another we have these Constitutionists who don't play the political polarization game and long to start a new party.



whichever strategy the movement decides to take, it has first got some serious decisions to make about its focus.  

it's going to take a LOT of Americans to drastically alter the political landscape, and therefore in order to do so we must find a common denominator of general consensus which WILL reach the mainstream ideal (as Mark put it).



does the Tea Party want to play the same political polarization game which has been going on in America for far too long?

seems to me, the real heart of the movement belongs NOT to "Conservatives", but to "BIG TENT Libertarians" who seek Constitutionally limited and accountable government.



keeping the Tea Party non-partisan keeps the message of liberty in focus.  as soon as the movement decides to play the political polarization game, it loses its focus, and therefore loses its heart -- a cause with no heart is no cause at all.



by now we should all know this to be true.  most of us have seen the difference between a REAL Tea Party and one which has been usurped by partisans.



so before the Tea Party decides it has enough solidarity of focus to step into the American political duopoly system, it had better come to a consensus on what its focus really is.

8-)

bernard baruch carman

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April 15th Tax Day STRIKE!

i just created a NEW NON-Partisan Facebook group in hopes of helping to better organize an annual April 15th Tax Day STRIKE which will get MORE mainstream media attention NATIONALLY!

i've already invited all my Facebook friends and posted a link to download the most recent version of the Tax Day STRIKE flier i created, along with my, i think excellent, idea for getting MAJOR mainstream media attention NATIONALLY next April 15th, in hopes of educating more Americans about our rights and powers, according to the founding fathers:

"V" Across America!

if we could get the Tea Party on board with this, along with all the other non-partisan groups who are part of the PEACEFUL American Liberty Revolution, i think it would be a MAJOR pivotal point in the overall movement.

as the American Founding Fathers emphasized, in order to maintain LIBERTY the Federal Government NEEDS to FEAR We the People!  by using the V costume, it sends a STRONG message about this truth while remaining peaceful in our protests, and simultaneously reminds government of the potential future civil war ahead if it continues along the course of tyranny.

ALSO, not everybody need be dressed as V.  the mere fact that some Americans will attend this NATIONAL event all across America as V and others won't is perfect -- it shows that "normal" Americans also support the mandate for LIMITED government according to the Constitution!

so if you fancy the idea, please join the Facebook group and invite all your Facebook friends to do likewise and let's go VIRAL!  and while we're being liberty advocates, let's have FUN with this! in liberty,

8-)

bernard baruch carman

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No Change - Just More of the Same!

i'm sure everyone will be getting copies of the following emails being distributed around the internet. well, you guessed it folks, they are simply more lies, part of the greater deception which is tearing America to shreds in a system designed to perpetuate a false dichotomy of the "political right & left".

it's RUBBISH folks -- it's a DECEPTION -- WAKE UP! the real battle is not over the X axis, but the Y:

if the People are going to be truly active against tyranny, we have to stop falling into the trap of "political partisan folly" and simply address the real problem. paramount is the complete lack of a Constitutionally limited government and accountability when government violates the LAW!

rather than attempting to blame the new First Lady for following the apparent precedent of having an unreasonably large number of attendants, these emails should point out that the new administration is continuing in the footsteps of the previous ones in bureaucracy, waste, and corruption.

for details on sources regarding the apparent modus operandi:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/firstlady.asp

so again, no change, but more of the same: Republican & Democrat bureaucrats alike -- all authoritarian destroyers of America.

too bad these emails are created and then propagated without being confirmed, for they merely serve to decease the credibility of the non-partisan American patriots who opposes government waste and corruption and are striving to do something about it.

the assertion that Democrats are foolish and Republicans are wise is such a deception among Americans. when will We the People wake up? based on our track record, apparently never!

if you are one who favors an increase of liberty in America, then consider dispensing with advocating one anti-American political party over the other anti-American political party and begin advocating LIBERTY itself!

8-)

bernard baruch carman

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two erroneous emails:

Talk about change!

First Ladies do have assistants.

Michelle Obama : twenty-two !!!!!!!!!!!!
Laura Bush : one
Hillary Clinton : three
Jackie Kennedy : one

First Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants! July 7, 2009 Dr. Paul L. Williams

"In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much," she said. "See, that's why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service, " Michelle Obama

No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn't perform any official duties. But this hasn't deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great Recession.

Just think Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary. How things have changed!

If you're one of the tens of millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Ms Michelle are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by John Q. Public

1. $172,200 Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects for the First Lady)

3. $113,000 Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
4. $102,000 Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. $100,000 Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7. $84,000 Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deput y Social Secretary)
11. $64,000 Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator for the First Lady)
13. $60,000 Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. $57,500 Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary to The First Lady)
16. $50,000 Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide to the First Lady)
17. $45,000 Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
18. $43,000 Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. $35,000 Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $35,000 Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)

(total = $1,591,200 in annual salaries)

There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady's social life. One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense, when even;

• Hillary Clinton only had three;
• Jackie Kennedy one;
• Laura Bush one; and
prior to Mamie Eisenhower, social help came from the President's own pocket.

Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and "First Hairstylist" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe .

Copyright 2009 Canada Free Press.Com
canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12652

Yes, I know, The Canadian Free Press has to publish this because the USA media is too scared they might be considered racist. Sorry America SICKENING.........ISN'T IT?

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Subject: Why does Michele Obama need 24 people working for her?

Is she abusing her power? How many are White? How many are Black? Any of Obama's relatives working for her? Is this a FORM OF WELFARE?

Does it really cost American Tax Payers about $1,750,000?

Does Michele Obama know that Americans are losing their Jobs and Homes? I know people that can not afford to buy food. I always thought that the White House looked after The American people!

Soon after the minor brouhaha erupted, Factcheck.org looked into the matter and discovered that there are 16 White House staffers with the term "first lady" in their job title, along with eight additional staffers who also provide support to Michelle Obama, bringing the total number of paid first lady aides to 24, two more staffers than the number noted in the aforementioned chain email circulated by Obama critics. Michelle Obama's press secretary, Katie McCormick Lelyveld, confirmed that 24 was an accurate count of staffers working for the current first lady.

So just what does a staff of 24 do for Michelle Obama? Well, for starters there are the 32,000 pieces of mail that have flooded the East Wing since Michelle Obama took occupancy in January, but the main official duty of the first lady is to tend to the care and maintenance of the White House and its seemingly endless social functions. Of course some first ladies, like Michelle Obama, maintain a higher profile than others, and with that comes the need for people to help write speeches, arrange travel and security details, handle media inquiries, etc. About the myriad tasks and responsibilities handled by White House staffers, Anita McBride, Laura Bush's former chief of staff, recently said, "There's never enough people to do the amount of work that has to get done."

The Patriot from Florida.....October 30, 2009.

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When the LIE is just not good enough...

... make it even more deceptive!

but i must say that this one takes the cake -- "competitive option"? how stupid do these clowns think we are?

how is it possible for any private market to compete with the federal government which has a seemingly endless supply of money? (money that belongs to We the People and also to our children for generations to come.)

perhaps a large faction of Americans have been so deceived by their public education indoctrination to go on thinking that Pelosi is correct in saying that taxpayers won't foot the bill for socialized health care, but even the most hardcore Neo-Libs will generally buckle when confronted with the truth of the matter that we all must share in such a burden.

therefore, right in step with previous such deceptive titles of Amerikan legislation as the USA PATRIOT ACT, No Child Left Behind, and Pick-Your-War-On-Anything-Having-No-Victory-Conditions, i presume We the People should simply take it as granted that whatever bills submitted for Congressional review mean exactly opposite as what their titles suggest.

thank you, all you bureaucrats for being so predictable!

8-)

bernard baruch carman

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(moved to so comment by the following article)

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5izXjKtp5u0gY44BatryqKA_5tN8gD9BIUSR80

Pelosi: Health care 'public option' needs new name

(AP) – 56 minutes ago

SUNRISE, Fla. — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says a government-sponsored public option for health care lives. But it may be going by a different name.

In an appearance at a Florida senior center Monday, the Democratic leader referred to the so-called public option as "the consumer option." Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida Democrat, appeared by Pelosi's side and used the term "competitive option."

Both suggested a new moniker might get them past any lingering doubts among the public, consumers and competitors.

Pelosi says the term has been misrepresented and creates the impression that taxpayers will foot the bill for health care. Wasserman Schultz says she expects the speaker to give the new wording a test drive when she returns to Washington.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Finally A Sensible Gun Registration Plan That Will Work

a savvy twist on sensible gun registration -- i love it! make the non-gun owners pay their fair share!

8-)

bernard baruch carman

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Finally A Sensible Gun Registration Plan That Will Work

Vermont State Rep. Fred Maslack has read the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as Vermont 's own Constitution very carefully, and his strict interpretation of these documents is popping some eyeballs in New England and elsewhere. Maslack recently proposed a bill to register "non-gun-owners" and require them to pay a $500 fee to the state. Thus Vermont would become the first state to require a permit for the luxury of going about unarmed and assess a fee of $500 for the privilege of not owning a gun. Maslack read the "militia" phrase of the Second Amendment as not only affirming the right of the individual citizen to bear arms, but as a clear mandate to do so. He believes that universal gun ownership was advocated by the Framers of the Constitution as an antidote to a "monopoly of force" by the government as well as criminals. Vermont 's constitution states explicitly that "the people have a right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the State" and those persons who are "conscientiously scrupulous of bearing arms" shall be required to "pay such equivalent." Clearly, says Maslack, Vermonters have a constitutional obligation to arm themselves, so that they are capable of responding to "any situation that may arise." Under the bill, adults who choose not to own a firearm would be required to register their name, address, Social Security Number, and driver's license number with the state. "There is a legitimate government interest in knowing who is not prepared to defend the state should they be asked to do so," Maslack says. Vermont already boasts a high rate of gun ownership along with the least restrictive laws of any state .. it's currently the only state that allows a citizen to carry a concealed firearm without a permit. This combination of plenty of guns and few laws regulating them has resulted in a crime rate that is the third lowest in the nation. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." This makes sense! There is no reason why gun owners should have to pay taxes to support police protection for people not wanting to own guns. Let them contribute their fair share and pay their own way!