Advancing
the Principles of Freedom
The
people who attend this conference share a common desire to advance the
principles of freedom. We work
through our various organizations, through coalitions, and through cooperative
campaigns, such as Freedom 21, to better coordinate our efforts to prevail over
those people who continue to promote, and advance policies that empower
government to ignore the principles of freedom, in pursuit of an unachievable
social and environmental utopia.
Freedom
cannot be sustained in the presence of “sustainable development.”
The two concepts are mutually exclusive.
Sustainable development can exist only when people are controlled by
government; freedom can exist only when government is controlled by the people.
We hope this conference will provide the knowledge, information, and inspiration for each of us to be more effective in our efforts to advance the principles of freedom – in all that we do
Sponsoring
Organizations:
Committee
For a Constructive Tomorrow
Eagle
Forum
Environmental
Conservation Organization
The
Heartland Institute
The
Paragon Foundation
Sovereignty
International
Session 1 – One Nation Under God
Judge Roy Moore, removed as Chief Justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court
for failing to stop acknowledging God and insisting that the Ten Commandments
stay in the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court
Judge
Moore was an inspirational speaker. Some
quotes from his speech:
“The
future is certain; it’s the past that they keep changing.”
Samuel Adams once said, “Truth must appeal to the common man.”
Every state in the union has a reference to God in its state
constitution, they open legislative sessions with prayer; and yet, “Can this
state – or any state – not acknowledge God?”
“If
God gives it to you, no man or government can take it away.”
No civil authority can usurp God’s gifts or promises.
On
“Every
elected government official takes their oath of office on the Bible.
Not the Koran, not Buddhist or any other religious tract.
By not upholding their oaths, they are all hypocrites!”
“Are
we following blind leaders?” Matthew
12:12-14
What
is separation between Church and State? Look
at the Ten Commandments. They are in
the form of 2 tablets. The first
tablet (the first 5 Commandments) is for the Churches and stands for man's
relationship to God. The second
tablet gives rules for the State and morality and covers man’s relationship to
each other. “You can’t have the
first tablet without the other.”
According
to the court that stripped Judge Moore of his position, “The Ten Commandments
in a historical context is okay,” but not in today’s world when people
worship the creation, more then the . According
to Judge Moore, the statue is back in the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court
Building, but it is surrounded by historical information about the state of
“There
is no morality without God.” We’re
starting to “put man above God.”
“The
Constitution is not the problem – we can’t amend it every time the courts go
over the deep end.” Judges today
are “changing the definitions of the laws and when they do this; as a
consequence, they make law, not enforce or uphold the law as they are required
by their oath.” “Judges rule by
feeling (emotion) on First Amendment
cases and not by law. In doing so,
they are not following their oaths.”
Judge
Moore is the founder of the Foundation for Moral Law Inc., based in
Session
2 – Advancing Freedom at Home, and Around the World
Dr.
Michael Coffman developed the maps that were crucial to the defeat of the
Convention on Biological Diversity and that will lay the philosophical
foundation for the choice between freedom and collectivism.
The
father of our form of government is John Locke (1632 – 1704).
“Government by the people is for the protection of their property –
money, rights, contracts, etc.”
Imagine
a pyramid, sectioned off into four sections, top to bottom.
The first section at the wide bottom is labeled “The individual.”
The individual has the broadest control over his life.
The next section up with less control is “County/local government.”
The third and even smaller section is labeled “State.”
At the very top of the pyramid, the smallest section is labeled
“Federal.” That is how our
system of government was set up by the founding fathers and is supposed to work.
But how it actually works today is just reversed.
The Federal government is not sitting at the base of the pyramid with the
most power, while the Individual is now at the top with the least power.
Dr.
Coffman recommended a book for reading called, “The Mystery of Capital”
written by Hernando
The
average income for Americans is $35,000; for
Socialist Europe - $21,000; and for
former communist countries – minus $1,000 (no property rights).
The
average net worth of a
Henry
Lamb provided an overview of how international organizations and agencies work
together to influence domestic policy. His
research and participation in U.N. meetings around the world results in vivid
insight into the machinery that is systematically eroding freedom in
“International
Treaties trump all
This
all started in 1930 with the Migratory Bird Treaty, and today Federal agencies
like the USFWS belong to international organizations that come up with and write
new treaties. These new treaties
then go to the U.N. for ratification by the member nations.
Since the
Paul Driessen, author of “Eco-Imperialism:
Green Power; Black Death” discussed what happens when freedom is
lacking.
Niger
Innis is the national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and
focused on the dastardly effects of anti-freedom policies on the poorest people
in the
Underdeveloped countries are starving because of successful “green” attempts to keep genetic modified (GM) foods from the people who are starving. The U.S. sent tons of the same ‘corn flakes’ – that had been eaten in the U.S. for decades – to countries in Africa, but the countries refused to distribute the food because “greens” called it ‘FrankenFood.’ The local governments locked up the food for months and even more people starved.
The
“greens” want to keep African’s living in huts with no electricity, no
sanitation, and no clean water. This
is a method of controlling the populace by denying desperate people the
necessities of life. This is how
they want the
To
learn more about Freedom 21:
Barbara
Hall
The
Klamath Bucket Brigade, Inc.
(Some
photos from Barb Hall; some from the Freedom 21 website 2004
Conference Speakers)
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