Wtp Case For Continental Congress 2009

We The People Foundation Continental Congress 2009

Part 1

Welcome and Pledge of Allegiance “Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” -Thomas Jefferson 1

Bob Schulz, Chairman Biography EDUCATION:  Engineering Degree from the United States Merchant Marine Academy  Masters Degree in Business Administration from Xavier University  Ph. D. Coursework in Public Administration, Graduate School of Public Affairs, SUNY, Albany CAREER:  Key leadership positions at General Electric  New York and Connecticut State Government  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)  Wall Street Prudential-Bache  CEO management consulting group  Talk Show Host at WROW in Albany, New York  “Freedom Keeper”–Over 30 Years, Litigation Re Unconstitutional Acts PERSONAL:  Wife, Four Children, Nine Grandchildren, Lake George, NY 40 Years 2

Introduction and History We The People Foundation HISTORY:  We The People Foundation was incorporated in 1997 in New York  501(c)3 Non-Profit Organization  Provides Constitutional Education to the General Public  Protects and Defends America’s Federal and State Constitutions  Not concerned with Politics or Personalities in Public Office  Objective is to return America to its Founding Principles RECENT INITIATIVES:  Questioning the Federal Government’s Abuse of its Constitutional Powers • Debt Based, Fiat Currency • Taxing Labor • Private Bailouts • Undeclared Wars • Election Integrity • Police State 3

Introduction and History We The People Congress HISTORY:  We The People Congress was incorporated in 1997 in New York  501(c)4 Non-Profit Organization  Based on Life’s Work of Thomas Jefferson  Nationwide, Non-Partisan Membership Organization  Organized into State and County “Ward Republics” RECENT INITIATIVES:  Constitutional Activists Committed to “Institutionalizing" Citizen Vigilance • Civic Education • Government Monitoring • Organizing Grassroots Movements • Demonstrating Peaceful Civic Resistance  Resurrecting the 1st Amend “Capstone Right” to Petition For Redress  Continental Congress 2009

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Introduction and History

Continental Congress HISTORY:

The first Continental Congress which was convened in Philadelphia’s Carpenters Hall on September 5, 1774 sought to right the wrongs that had been inflicted upon the Colonies by Britain. Comprised of delegates elected by the people and colonial parliament, the delegates debated and discussed their respective state’s interests and developed a statement of principles that were common to all Colonies. The Second Continental Congress followed in May 10, 1775, shortly after the start of the American Revolutionary War. The majority of the delegates who attended the first meeting, also attended the second. In July, 1776, the Resolution of Independence was drafted and was followed by the United States Declaration of Independence. In the years that followed, the Colonies agreed on the Articles of Confederation, held a Constitutional Convention and ratified the United States Constitution. 5

Introduction and History

Continental Congress 2009 REPEATING HISTORY: The 2009 Continental Congress is being organized to allow delegates, three from each state, to represent their state’s interests and to discuss the Constitutional violations and the People’s repeated attempts to Petition for Redress. Comprised of 150 elected citizen representatives, the delegates will agree upon a peaceful course of action that will put the power back into the hands of “We The People,” restore our freedoms and preserve our Constitutional Republic. More details relating to the Continental Congress and how it will advance the causes of other like-minded, Patriotic Groups and Organizations will be discussed in Part 2 and in the Citizen Networking Session in Part 3. 6

Question for The Audience What Motivated You To Attend This Meeting? GENERAL CONCERNS:

 Recent Job Loss and/or Rising Unemployment  Loss of Home Value  Credit Crisis and/or the Ability to Qualify for a Home Loan  Crippling Tax Increases  Rising Costs of Operating a Small Business  Instability of the Stock Market  Losses to 401K and Other Investments  Expanding Role of Federal Government  Risks to State Sovereignty  Taxpayer-Funded Loans and Bailouts to Private Industries  Pork-Filled Legislation Disguised as Economic Stimulus  Federal Reserve, Fiat Currency and a Central Banking System  Amnesty Proposals and Federally Funded Programs for Illegal Aliens  Presidential Eligibility “Natural Born Citizen”  Infringement of Right to Bear Arms  Fear of Martial Law 7

Explanation Unconstitutional Conduct and Lack of Governmental Accountability UNCONSTITUTIONAL CONDUCT:  Federal Income Tax  Federal Reserve and Bailouts  Iraq Resolution  Patriot Act  North American Union  Illegal Immigration  Gun Control Laws  Computerized Vote Counting LACK OF GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTABLITY: • Repeated Failure to Respond to the People’s Petitions for Redress • Failure to Account for and Appropriately Use Taxpayer Funds • Failure to Honor Freedom of Information Requests • Failure to Verify the Presidential Eligibility of Candidates 8

Citizenship Duties and Responsibilities DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES:  We must Exercise our Duties as Citizens  Understanding our Duty is as Important as Comprehending our Rights  Citizenship allows us to be Part of a Society  We exist for the good of Ourselves and our Society as a Whole  Citizenship requires the execution of our Responsibilities  Citizenship requires adherence to our Constitution

It shall be the duty of every citizen of the United States of America to abide by, protect and preserve our Constitution, to respect the ideals of our Founding Fathers and to create institutions that provide law and order in our society in preservation of our Constitutional Republic. 9

A Call to Action Restore Our Constitutional Republic “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson

Fellow Citizens, If you are ready to perform your duties and responsibilities as Citizens of our Great Country, please

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Citizen Action Form For those of you STANDING, thank you for making a commitment to take the action that is needed to preserve Our Constitutional Republic. We realize everyone of you standing has limited time due to outside obligations, however, we believe you are here today because you realize that if we don’t start working together, we won’t have a Constitutional Republic or a United States of America to stand up for in the future. Please be seated and take the next 5 minutes to complete the Citizen Action Form that we have included in your information packet. This form will help us determine how much time you have available, and what type of action you are committed to taking. We need both leaders and people to work behind the scenes, so please commit to doing what you can. Please bring your completed CITIZEN ACTION FORM up to the front before you leave for BREAK. Thank you for your cooperation. 11

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Part 2 People’s Right To Petition For Redress 12

History and Background

People’s Right To Petition For Redress THE MAGNA CARTA - ENGLISH COMMON LAW:

“If we, our chief justice, our officials, or any of our servants offend in any respect against any man, or transgress any of the articles of the peace or of this security, and the offence is made known to four of the said twenty-five barons, they shall come to us - or in our absence from the kingdom to the chief justice - to declare it and claim immediate redress. If we, or in our absence abroad the chief justice, make no redress within forty days, reckoning from the day on which the offence was declared to us or to him, the four barons shall refer the matter to the rest of the twenty-five barons, who may distrain upon and assail us in every way possible, with the support of the whole community of the land, by seizing our castles, lands, possessions, or anything else saving only our own person and those of the queen and our children, until they have secured such redress as they have determined upon. Having secured the redress, they may then resume their normal obedience to us.” 13

History and Background

People’s Right To Petition 1774 Act, Journals of the Continental Congress (unanimously passed)

“ If money is wanted by Rulers who have in any manner oppressed the People, they may retain it until their grievances are redressed, and thus peaceably procure relief, without trusting to despised petitions or disturbing the public tranquility." - Journals of the Continental Congress, 1:105-113

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History and Background

People’s Right To Petition Reply to Lord North, 1775. Papers 1:225.

“The privilege of giving or withholding our money is an important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative which if left altogether without control may be exercised to our great oppression; and all history shows how efficacious its intercession for redress of grievances and establishment of rights, and how improvident would be the surrender of so powerful a mediator." -Thomas Jefferson 15

History and Background

People’s Right to Petition REPEATED INJURY:

“In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by with repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is thus unfit to be the ruler of a free people….” -Declaration of Independence 1776 16

New Hampshire Constitution

People’s Right To Revolution [Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.]

“Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.” June 2, 1784 17

Explanation

People’s Right to Petition RIGHT TO PETITION :

“Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, freedom of the press; or the Right of the People peaceably to assemble, and to Petition the government for a redress of grievances.” - FIRST AMENDMENT, UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION-1791

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Explanation

People’s Right to Petition The Right to Petition is a distinctive, substantive Right, from which other substantive First Amendment Rights were derived. The Rights to free speech, press and assembly originated as derivative Rights insofar as they were necessary to protect the preexisting Right to Petition. • Free speech Rights first developed because members of Parliament needed to discuss freely the Petitions they received. • Publications reporting Petitions were the first to receive protection from the frequent prosecutions against the press for seditious libel. • Public meetings to prepare Petitions led to recognition of the Right of Public Assembly. 19

Timeline

People’s Petitions For Redress  PETITION 1 (1995): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to the Bailout of the Mexican Peso in violation of the Money Clauses  PETITION 2 (1999): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to the Bombing of Kosovo Without a Congressional Declaration of War  PETITION 3 (July 1999): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to the Direct Un-Apportioned Tax on Labor  PETITION 4 (April 2000): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to the Direct Un-Apportioned Tax on Labor  PETITION 5 (July 2001): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to the Direct Un-Apportioned Tax on Labor  PETITION 6 (Nov 2002): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to Iraq Resolution  PETITION 7 (Nov 2002): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to the USA Patriot Act and the “War on Terrorism”  PETITION 8 (Nov 2002): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to the Federal Reserve System 20

Timeline

People’s Petitions For Redress  PETITION 9 (Nov 2002): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to the Direct Un-Apportioned Tax on Labor  PETITION 10 (March 2003): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to Forced Withholding of Pay  PETITION 11 (July 2004): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to abuse of Accountability (Redress) Clause of the 1st Amend.  PETITION 12 (2008): Petition for Redress of Grievances Relating to Computerized Vote Counting  PETITION 13 (June 2008): Petition for Redress of Grievances Regarding Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms  PETITION 14 (June 2008): Petition for Redress of Grievances Regarding the North American Union  PETITION 15 (June 2008): Petition for Redress of Grievances Regarding the failure of the President to enforce the Immigration Laws. Read More About the Petitions Served On The Government

www.GiveMeLiberty.org/Revolution

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Overview

Supreme Court Action In July 2004 almost two thousand ordinary Americans filed suit in federal court asking the judiciary to declare - for the first time in history - the constitutional meaning of the First Amendment Petition clause.

Why won't the U.S. Supreme Court tell us what the last ten words of the First Amendment really mean? …. and to Petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

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Purpose and Overview

Continental Congress 2009 Mission: The Mission of the Continental Congress is to end and reverse violations of the Constitution of the United States of America by educating Americans on the issue of petitions for redress. We will do this by acting in a proactive, non-violent, constitutionally based course of action to restore the original intent of our Founding Fathers for the free people of our Constitutional Republic. Who? The People’s Representatives (3 Delegates Elected from Each State) What? End and Reverse Constitutional Violations When? 2009 Where? TBD How? Proactive, Non-Violent, Constitutionally Based Course of Action Why? Restore the Original Intent of Our Founding Fathers 23

Purpose and Overview

Continental Congress 2009 Vision:

The ultimate Vision is to create a platform in which representatives from each of the United States can progress through a course of deliberations and discussions and develop a renewed commitment to our Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Delegates will determine and acknowledgement the repeated violations against the Constitution which threaten our Republic. Delegates will review the People’s repeated efforts to petition the Government for a Redress of Grievance and determine the most appropriate, non-violent, constitutionally based course of action to address and resolve the people’s concerns. The Continental Congress will become a major catalyst through which the people of America will seek Constitutional obedience from elected officials, create greater governmental accountability and a complete restoration of our Constitutional Republic. 24

Q&A Continental Congress 2009

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A Call for LEADERS to Help Restore Our Constitutional Republic Fellow Citizens, If we’ve learned anything from the Nov 4, 2008 election, we’ve learned how a coordinated grassroots movement can effectively change the course of a Nation. If you are concerned about where our Nation is heading, and you have an interest in taking the LEAD to organize volunteers in your STATE or COUNTY in an effort to take back our Country, please

Stand Up and Step Forward Please take 5 minutes to complete the Meeting Evaluation Form in your information packet and bring the completed form to the front before you leave for the BREAK 26

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Part 3 Citizen Networking Session Please Learn More: We The People Foundation – www.wethepeoplefoundation.org We The People Congress – www.wethepeoplecongress.org Petition For Redress of Grievances – www.givemeliberty.org

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