John R. Houk
© July 12, 2015
Somehow (probably of my own doing) I have found myself on the mailing list of the Campaign for Liberty. Undoubtedly since I reside in the great State of Oklahoma, the national organization has funneled my name to the local State chapter. The Campaign for Liberty is plugged into the Conservative-Libertarian views of former Representative Ron Paul. I confess I have an affinity for Ron Paul’s policy reforms on a national level; however his foreign policy ideals are something I am in great disagreement.
I’m not real big on Ron Paul isolationist policies to manage the national budget in a more efficient manner. It is my belief once America relinquishes the reach of its military prowess, ideologies (the variations of Marxist-Socialist transnationalism), religions of hate (viz. Islam and Islamic Supremacist ideologies) and various reawakenings of foreign American-hating nationalism (e.g. Russia and Iran); THEN America’s National Security will be vulnerable to outside intrusions into our way of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
The thing is though, if America continues on the Left Wing path that Obama’s transformation agenda has sent we Americans, great turmoil will occur in our nation once the rest of the Americans awaken to the loss of the American way of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Once that awakening occurs then those who still are drawn to the Founding Fathers’ revolutionary paradigm will recall the words framed by Thomas Jefferson and signed by the representatives from Thirteen British-American Colonies demanding the bonds of tyranny from an unjust government be ended – by arms if necessary.
In that spirit I share this email not only with my fellow Oklahomans but also with the citizens of all these United States to take a moment and contemplate the posterity of American freedoms especially under the light of the Christian principles and morality those former Englishmen and other Europeans brought to the then British American Colonies to worship as freely as an equal to the Church of England.
It is time for Americans to unite under the Freedom and Liberty issues that draw us together and not to hold the slimmer issues in which we might be in variance to separate us. For example, I am not an isolationists. BUT a time may arise in which isolationism vs. international military power is rendered irrelevant in the face of any tyranny that threatens our moral Freedom, moral Liberty and our moral Common Good.
JRH 7/12/15
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They Want You to Stop Paying Attention
By Kirk Shelley - Oklahoma State Coordinator
Sent from: Oklahoma Campaign for Liberty
Sent: 7/9/2015 3:04 PM
After election season, legislators count on you to stop paying attention, go back to your daily lives, and forget about politics until they need your vote again.
They want you to blindly believe their legislative votes will line up with their party platform and campaign rhetoric.
What happens if you believe them?
The state apparatus will continue to bury your liberties and squander your resources.
And you can most certainly count on the horse-trading and backroom deals to continue.
They’ll sell your rights to the highest bidder . . . if you let them.
If you’re willing to take the lead and help Campaign for Liberty throw a wrench in their plans, please click here to let us know.
Every year, thousands of bills are passed across the nation. The vast majority of them limit your liberty in some way.
In fact, there are currently so many laws on the books at the federal level alone, the Congressional Research Service has admitted they can’t even keep track of all of them!
It’s said the average American is guilty of breaking 3 federal laws every day and they don’t even know it.
Imagine how that translates when you add in state and local laws.
Many (if not most) bills are passed every year because some powerful, establishment insiders and their well-financed cronies hit the right pressure points and bought the right legislators to get the job done.
And the result is a windfall to those same politicians and their powerful allies, but they annihilate your liberties.
Said to be one of the greatest historians, Gaius Tacitus said, “The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.”
How right he was.
Will you help Campaign for Liberty fight back?
If you’re willing to help by taking the lead in your area, please click here to let us know.
All across the country, Campaign for Liberty grassroots leaders are taking on the status quo at the local, state, and national levels.
These activists have taken the time to learn and implement C4L’s winning model and they are defeating statist schemes at every level of government.
Do you believe in individual liberty and constitutional government?
Are you tired of Big Government’s attacks on your rights?
Are you ready to do what it takes to neutralize the anti-liberty politicians in your Township, School Board, City Council, and State Legislature?
If you’re willing to learn and apply our proven model, you’ll be provided with extensive training options and materials, as well as support from our volunteer leadership network and State Operations staff.
Do you have the desire to lead but lack experience? Don’t let that stop you! Some of the most successful C4L coordinators in the country started out with little or no experience.
Our training materials will provide you with:
They want you to blindly believe their legislative votes will line up with their party platform and campaign rhetoric.
What happens if you believe them?
The state apparatus will continue to bury your liberties and squander your resources.
And you can most certainly count on the horse-trading and backroom deals to continue.
They’ll sell your rights to the highest bidder . . . if you let them.
If you’re willing to take the lead and help Campaign for Liberty throw a wrench in their plans, please click here to let us know.
Every year, thousands of bills are passed across the nation. The vast majority of them limit your liberty in some way.
In fact, there are currently so many laws on the books at the federal level alone, the Congressional Research Service has admitted they can’t even keep track of all of them!
It’s said the average American is guilty of breaking 3 federal laws every day and they don’t even know it.
Imagine how that translates when you add in state and local laws.
Many (if not most) bills are passed every year because some powerful, establishment insiders and their well-financed cronies hit the right pressure points and bought the right legislators to get the job done.
And the result is a windfall to those same politicians and their powerful allies, but they annihilate your liberties.
Said to be one of the greatest historians, Gaius Tacitus said, “The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.”
How right he was.
Will you help Campaign for Liberty fight back?
If you’re willing to help by taking the lead in your area, please click here to let us know.
All across the country, Campaign for Liberty grassroots leaders are taking on the status quo at the local, state, and national levels.
These activists have taken the time to learn and implement C4L’s winning model and they are defeating statist schemes at every level of government.
Do you believe in individual liberty and constitutional government?
Are you tired of Big Government’s attacks on your rights?
Are you ready to do what it takes to neutralize the anti-liberty politicians in your Township, School Board, City Council, and State Legislature?
If you’re willing to learn and apply our proven model, you’ll be provided with extensive training options and materials, as well as support from our volunteer leadership network and State Operations staff.
Do you have the desire to lead but lack experience? Don’t let that stop you! Some of the most successful C4L coordinators in the country started out with little or no experience.
Our training materials will provide you with:
· Tips on how to start and grow your local group;
· A clear understanding on why the typical “Access-Based” lobbying method does not work;
· Proven techniques other successful C4L groups are implementing;
· Tips on how to employ these effective techniques to achieve meaningful victory;
· And much, much more.
You don’t need vast experience in the field to be selected as a new coordinator.
If you are serious about learning what it takes to win, are willing to apply the C4L model, and have a desire to lead others to victory, we have the tools to help you succeed.
If you’re ready to foil the establishment’s schemes against your liberty, click here to let us know.
In Liberty,
Kirk Shelley
Oklahoma State Coordinator
Campaign for Liberty
P.S. Every year, thousands of bills are passed across the nation. The vast majority of them limit your liberty in some way.
Gaius Tacitus was correct when he said, “The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.”
If you’re tired of Big Government’s attacks on your liberties, believe in limited, constitutional government, and are ready to join the winning team advocating for freedom, I want to hear from you.
Click here to let us know you’re willing to take the lead and help Campaign for Liberty throw a wrench in the establishment’s plans.
If you are serious about learning what it takes to win, are willing to apply the C4L model, and have a desire to lead others to victory, we have the tools to help you succeed.
If you’re ready to foil the establishment’s schemes against your liberty, click here to let us know.
In Liberty,
Kirk Shelley
Oklahoma State Coordinator
Campaign for Liberty
P.S. Every year, thousands of bills are passed across the nation. The vast majority of them limit your liberty in some way.
Gaius Tacitus was correct when he said, “The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.”
If you’re tired of Big Government’s attacks on your liberties, believe in limited, constitutional government, and are ready to join the winning team advocating for freedom, I want to hear from you.
Click here to let us know you’re willing to take the lead and help Campaign for Liberty throw a wrench in the establishment’s plans.
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Liberty or Big Brother Order - YOU Choose
John R. Houk
© July 12, 2015
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They Want You to Stop Paying Attention
Statement of Principles
Americans inherit from our ancestors a glorious tradition of freedom and resistance to oppression. Our country has long been admired by the rest of the world for her great example of liberty and prosperity—a light shining in the darkness of tyranny.
But many Americans today are frustrated. The political choices they are offered give them no real choice at all. For all their talk of "change," neither major political party as presently constituted challenges the status quo in any serious way. Neither treats the Constitution with anything but contempt. Neither offers any kind of change in monetary policy. Neither wants to make the reductions in government that our crushing debt burden demands. Neither talks about bringing American troops home not just from Iraq but from around the world. Our country is going bankrupt, and none of these sensible proposals are even on the table.
This destructive bipartisan consensus has suffocated American political life for many years. Anyone who tries to ask fundamental questions instead of cosmetic ones is ridiculed or ignored.
That is why the Campaign for Liberty was established: to highlight the neglected but common-sense principles we champion and reinsert them into the American political conversation.
The U.S. Constitution is at the heart of what the Campaign for Liberty stands for, since the very least we can demand of our government is fidelity to its own governing document. Claims that our Constitution was meant to be a "living document" that judges may interpret as they please are fraudulent, incompatible with republican government, and without foundation in the constitutional text or the thinking of the Framers. Thomas Jefferson spoke of binding our rulers down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution, and we are proud to follow in his distinguished lineage.
With our Founding Fathers, we also believe in a noninterventionist foreign policy. Inspired by the old Robert Taft wing of the Republican Party, we are convinced that the American people cannot remain free and prosperous with 700 military bases around the world, troops in 130 countries, and a steady diet of war propaganda. Our military overstretch is undermining our national defense and bankrupting our country.
We believe that the free market, reviled by people who do not understand it, is the most just and humane economic system and the greatest engine of prosperity the world has ever known.
We believe with Ludwig von Mises, Henry Hazlitt, and F.A. Hayek that central banking distorts economic decision making and misleads entrepreneurs into making unsound investments. Hayek won the Nobel Prize for showing how central banks' interference with interest rates sets the stage for economic downturns. And the central bank's ability to create money out of thin air transfers wealth from the most vulnerable to those with political pull, since it is the latter who receive the new money before the price increases it brings in its wake have yet occurred. For economic and moral reasons, therefore, we join the great twentieth-century economists in opposing the Federal Reserve System, which has reduced the value of the dollar by 95 percent since it began in 1913.
We oppose the dehumanizing assumption that all issues that divide us must be settled at the federal level and forced on every American community, whether by activist judges, a power-hungry executive, or a meddling Congress. We believe in the humane alternative of local self-government, as called for in our Constitution.
We oppose the transfer of American sovereignty to supranational organizations in which the American people possess no elected representatives. Such compromises of our country's independence run counter to the principles of the American Revolution, which was fought on behalf of self-government and local control. Most of these organizations have a terrible track record even on their own terms: how much poverty have the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund actually alleviated, for example? The peoples of the world can interact with each other just fine in the absence of bureaucratic intermediaries that undermine their sovereignty.
We believe that freedom is an indivisible whole, and that it includes not only economic liberty but civil liberties and privacy rights as well, all of which are historic rights that our civilization has cherished from time immemorial.
Our stances on other issues can be deduced from these general principles.
Our country is ailing. That is the bad news. The good news is that the remedy is so simple and attractive: a return to the principles our Founders taught us. Respect for the Constitution, the rule of law, individual liberty, sound money, and a noninterventionist foreign policy constitute the foundation of the Campaign for Liberty.
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