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Adrienne watched a government commercial on TV  to “help restore America” and asked me to look into it. It is http://serve.gov/ and turns out to be a site that offers one a chance to either pledge one’s time and money to any one of many government or privately sponsored projects or register a project of your own.  As I read it over, an idea popped into my head, so I created a project! It is now registered on the site.
The organization is We the People
Its intent? “We the People in order to save our Union are working to see the Constitution and Bill of Rights returned, intact and functioning, to the Halls of the United States Government.”
I’m not sure where I (or we) go from here, but I thought it would be a neat idea to form an organization on the government’s own website that deals with one of the greatest problems We the People face.

Apparently it also creates a blog for We the People. Anyone interested in signing on, please send me an e-mail. It would be great if it caught on and many people signed on to the project! The potential membership is around 200 million. I’m not exactly sure about how one works one of these sites, but we’ll figure it out as we go. Comments are sure welcome. We could really have some fun with this, or perhaps even accomplish something.

So, if it sounds interesting, let me know at theplace@wavecable.com

Don’t pledge any money! This is just an idea, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could come up with something we could deliver that would make our alleged representatives aware that We the People want our Constitution back?

There is always some reason that they will try to convince you not to believe what you feel in your gut. They will try to bamboozle you
– Barack Obama

I admit I was swept up in the national euphoria of President Obama’s election. I really believed that something would be done about the economic crisis, our unjust “War on Terror”, and the creeping fascism these wars have engendered. But by now it should be clear that President Obama has no plans to change anything. Continue reading →

I recently had the honor of appearing on AntiWar Radio with Scott Horton in my role with the Tenth Amendment Center.  Here’s the overview:

Michael Boldin of the 10th Amendment Center discusses how the doctrine of enumerated powers has become quaint, how the Constitution provides persuasive talking points for a strictly limited government for those otherwise undisposed, why activist priorities should be on limiting federal power as it is the most expansive and potentially destructive and how the states are, in some cases, resisting federal laws and asserting their own.

Cross-posted from TenthAmendmentCenter.com

Editor’s Note: June 8, 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of a hero. Thomas Paine was actively involved in both the American and French Revolutions and is best known for his major works Common Sense, The Rights of Man and The Age of Reason.

But, Paine was more than just a pamphleteer for the cause of freedom. He was a serious political philosopher, as the following excerpt from The Rights of Man demonstrates. Continue reading →

Featured Post for 06/05 – 06/11

Dear President Obama,

I, like many millions of Americans, voted for you in the last general election in the hope that your promise of change would be the change that we had longed for during the previous eight years.

Powerlessly, we watched our nation being run into the ground by a runaway despotic regime. We saw wars begun under false pretenses, which have cost millions of lives and trillions of dollars; we saw our natural resources being despoiled by greedy profiteers; we’ve seen our small businesses and small farms being destroyed by bureaucratic intrusions into every aspect of their lives and businesses, apparently for the enrichment of the big megabusiness cartels.

We’ve seen most of the jobs that gave America a healthy middle-class outsourced to nations where people will work twelve hours or more for a dollar or two a day, or for a cup or two of rice to feed their family. 
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Featured Post for 05-/22-05/28:

“It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it”

I recalled this statement while I was reading a very powerful look at the My Lai massacre that took place during the Vietnam War. The depravity of humanity gone mad is revealed in this account and one would think that we would never again commit such atrocities. But the powers that be convinced us that we should put it behind us and move on. And now it seems we have repeated the depravity again in Iraq.

Is it true that our future is shaped by what and how we react to events and realities of the present? Have we gone even deeper into depravity since My Lai? And if that is true, what did we not do that would have kept us from drifting into an open acceptance of torture and unjustified bloodletting today? If the future we get IS up to us, what failures of our past determine what we leave for our children today? Continue reading →

Americans have exercised Second Amendment rights for 234 years. Regardless of the meaning of the Second Amendment, the right of adverse possession makes gun rights final. To assault such a well-grounded right is an act of tyranny. FULL ARTICLE

Abolishing the Federal Reserve will allow Congress to reassert its constitutional authority over monetary policy. The United States Constitution grants to Congress the authority to coin money and regulate the value of the currency. The Constitution does not give Congress the authority to delegate control over monetary policy to a central bank. Furthermore, the Constitution certainly does not empower the federal government to erode the American standard of living via an inflationary monetary policy. FULL ARTICLE

I went to the White House website to look it over, left the following message.

Mr. President, you have indicated a return to Constitutional Government. That must surely mean that such unconstitutional acts as the Patriot act, the MCA, the various spying on citizen acts will be repealed as they illegally set aside the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Posse Comitatus must be replaced so the military can no longer be used against us in the US. Habeas Corpus must be restored. As long as these illegal acts continue to hang over us, we will NOT have a Constitutional Government.

Let’s see if I ever get an answer.

For anyone seeking to get away with murder, there seems to be a foolproof method: be appointed president of the United States. The lucky person in this office, along with the vice president, cabinet members and advisors, all, it seems, are above the law. FULL ARTICLE