December 19, 2009
Gratitude: Looking Back
Strength, Courage and Illumination: Looking Ahead
Will We The People do What is Necessary to Save America?
The Articles of Freedom: a Wake-up Call
Dear Friends of We The People Foundation and We The People Congress,
As we enter into this Holy Week that is so filled with good wishes for family and friends, earnest prayers and up-reach for America and mankind, we stop to consider all that has taken place in 2009 with deepest gratitude.
For those of us here, this is a much-needed time to pause, to reflect, to rest, to gather strength, energy and illumination for what is ahead. The resting points in this past year have been few and far between, if at all. There has been more to do then there are hours in the day for those concerned with the protection of our Republic at this time.
The patriot heart appears to run alongside the world as most know it, but in truth, we are living a different reality now, a stark reality with an hourglass that shows a critical hour when it comes to America and Her Destiny, our Charters of Freedom, our Republic and our way of life.
Amazing patriot hearts, tireless patriot hearts, determined to see this effort through, came forward in nearly every state, as state coordinators, county coordinators, local, regional and national volunteers. So many heroes to the Cause of Liberty.
These have not been easy months for any of us in our attempts to create interest and support in this idea which has been such a departure from the American way of thinking. The focus in our Nation has been on the political system for so long, on the electoral process, on putting new candidates into office as a way to fix our discontent.
To what end? And to what degree, relative to the size of our overall voting population, have we neared the majority necessary to assure any Victory? Perhaps in 2010. We pray it will be so.....
Every organization in the Freedom movement has had its own thrust, its own members, its own rice bowl to clutch onto….even still today.
Like many, we have seen the waves kicking up and a perfect storm brewing – coming on faster than we may even know -- but still no one has seemed to have a common destination. What is going to bring all the people and all the energies together so there will be enough thrust for the world to hear the VOICE OF FREEDOM THAT MUST NO LONGER BE DENIED lest we wake up in a country that would shake the Founding Fathers from their graves in discontent? When will there be the GREAT MERGE? These are questions we are still asking now.
From our view, the sole focus of Continental Congress 2009 has been to create a plan that could stop the violations of the Constitution and restore Constitutional governance in America, across the board.
We have watched people awaken in this effort – to see so many of them suddenly realize that it didn’t matter who they had voted for –THEY WERE NOT OBEYING THE CONSTITUTION and without the Constitution, there is no rudder, nothing but the whims of man guiding the ship. We have watched the defensive posture of others protecting their favorite candidates or their parties disappear like blowing sand and suddenly they are FREE from personalities, parties and politics. Suddenly they know it is all about the Constitution and nothing else. It is the Constitution that will save us or we will not be saved.
From our view, Continental Congress was to be free from any paintbrush and could hold out a torch to any person, group or organization who simply wanted to take a stand for our Constitution, and come together to ensure we do not lose it.
All of this was a new way of thinking for many of our volunteers, let alone the people we were all trying to reach and awaken....
The Articles of Freedom will ring the bell of Liberty as a wake-up call for our elected officials and our people. It represents a Plan that can turn us all around and restore our Republic. The Articles of Freedom are for those who do not know how far we have strayed and who now need to decide where they stand. The Articles of Freedom are for all of those who are wide awake, with the hope that this can be the basis for the Great Merge – the Rallying Call that will bring us all together.
The Constitution is not going to defend itself and it is now, up to the People of America to do this, before it is too late.
This is not a time for complacency, apathy or indifference. It is not a time to sit back and watch the events which are unfolding before us. This is not a time for the summer Patriot. We have only just begun what may be the most challenging, unrelenting fight of our lives – on all levels --- to protect the America that God gave to the Free.
If you blink, you could almost miss the changes which are taking place, which wipe away more and more of our liberties each day and will even find us waking up in a Nation we do not recognize, many believe, by this Christmas morning. There has never been a more important time to stay awake, to act, to care, to live, to pray to God for the saving of this country...
We wish you and your loved ones all the Blessings and Miracles that this Christmas can bring, not only now, but in all the days ahead. We hope that you will feel all the love we feel at this time of year and that it is sustained in your feelings in the days ahead. We hope you feel an ever-increasing sense of brotherhood and sisterhood among the Free People of America, a deeper call to the Cause of Liberty and the illumination that shows us the way as we head into what is likely to be a difficult year. May we have no malice to anyone.
Finally, we are ever so grateful, truly grateful, to be Americans. We believe we have only just begun to find out what it really means to be a true citizen of this country, as Freedom Keepers for our Constitution and the Founding Principles which our Founding Fathers put in place that generations to come would know their individual inalienable God-given Right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
As we seek to carry on the Sacred Trust given to us by our Founding Fathers, to be part of the enduring Voice that speaks the Eternal Will of the People to be Free, we know we will witness times ahead that we cannot even imagine as of this writing. We know the end, though we do not know what we will go through to get there.
America has been given to the FREE and She will remain FREE. She will somehow throw off the chains that seem to bind her and go forward. Her People will see a New and Lasting Day that Shines a Golden Pathway of Light and Liberty for all.
