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theseeker
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held on to this long enough...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 15, 2003
Source: Constitution Party National Committee
"Ten Commandments" Justice Gains Support from National Political Party
Judge Roy Moore, Chief Justice of the Alabama State Supreme Court, has gained the full and public support of the Constitution Party, the nation’s third largest political party in terms of overall voter registration. Moore has found himself having to defend the right of the State of Alabama to recognize God as the source of true justice and our inalienable rights.
The announcement by the Party came in advance of a planned rally, to be held Saturday, August 16th at the State capitol in Montgomery, in support of Justice Moore. Organized by Vision America, thousands of people, including many Constitution Party members, are expected to attend.
Constitution Party National Chairman, Jim Clymer commended, "Justice Moore’s heroic stand for the principles our nation was founded upon" and communicated the unanimous support of the Party’s Executive Committee in a recent statement. "Unfortunately, it is all too rare to find a high level judge that is willing to take a stand for the supreme laws of our land. Despite the desperate and illogical ramblings that have proceeded from the federal level that would have us believe that recognizing God and his authority in our system of justice is somehow unconstitutional, the Constitution has no such prohibition in it. Justice Moore knows this and so does anyone else who can read and has read the Constitution of the United States."
"Actually," Chairman Clymer elaborated, "the First Amendment places a prohibition upon the federal government that precludes it from making laws that in any way prohibit the free exercise of religion. This protects the ability of State, county or local jurisdictions to recognize God, as being what he is, the true author of our liberties. As the Declaration of Independence proclaims, ‘We are endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights.’ But I would not be surprised if the next thing out of the mouth of Judge Myron Thompson was that the Declaration of Independence is unconstitutional too!" (Thompson is the federal judge who recently issued a court order demanding that the Ten Commandments monument be removed from the rotunda of the Alabama State judicial building)
"Such judges selectively forget that the same man, Thomas Jefferson, who introduced the term ‘separation of church and state’ to our public, also penned the Declaration of Independence," Clymer continued. "He worked to establish it, including its recognition that our rights come from God, as our nation’s charter."
"The people of Alabama knew what they were doing, and what they were getting when they overwhelmingly elected Roy Moore to be the Chief Justice of their State Supreme Court. No one can say that Judge Roy Moore hid his reliance upon God and his respect for His precepts from the people of Alabama during the election. The people of Alabama elected him to be the Chief Justice of their court system, because of his respect for these foundations and his willingness to exercise fidelity toward the Constitution. Who is Myron Thompson to tell the people of Alabama and Judge Roy Moore that they cannot choose to acknowledge God in the public square as their American forefathers did, and as the Alabama State Constitution presently does?"
"The people and their representative governments in the States, have the right to acknowledge God and to embrace His standards of justice if they so choose. The First Amendment is supposed to protect them from the potential restrictive misuse of federal power in this area, not to prohibit them from doing so."
"We stand together with Judge Roy Moore in support of the true foundations of American liberty. Our Party will be sending delegations to Saturday’s rally from many States including Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, Arkansas, Texas, Maryland, Virginia and, of course, Alabama. Former Constitution Party presidential candidate Howard Phillips will also be attending the rally and is to be among the speakers in his capacity as Chairman of the Conservative Caucus. We are proud to stand with all principled Americans and organizations such as the American Family Association, Ambassador Alan Keyes, The Conservative Caucus, Coral Ridge Ministries, Jerry Falwell Ministries, Rick Scarborough and Vision America, that are supporting Judge Roy Moore and the rally both by their presence or prayerful support", Clymer concluded.
Constitution Party National Website: http://www.constitutionparty.com
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theseeker
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Thu Sep 04, 2003 2:49 pm
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some more goodies, related topictude that stuck to me whilst surfing :
A Re-Declaration of Independence
A Re-Declaration of Independence
Have you grown disheartened by recent moves toward fascism and a permanent police state in America? Are you feeling a bit claustrophobic, and perhaps threatened by the government's moves to roll back your Constitutional rights as part of the Forever War against terrorism? If so, it may be time to re-examine our First Principles, the philosophical beliefs underlying our patriotic allegiance to the America of our forefathers.
Our Federal, State and Local governments treat the Constitution as the lowest law, and not the highest. To them it is a sunken foundation upon which they have piled a million clarifications and exceptions during 225 years of our nation's history. Simply reading the Bill of Rights does not provide useful guidance to the citizen about what behaviors are permitted by the State. But there is a natural law greater than the Constitution, and it is mentioned in our Declaration of Independence.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
Each American -- nay, each human being -- has inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 'Inalienable rights' are not rights granted to you by the government. Inalienable rights cannot be waived by a declaration of war. They cannot be voted away by the majority. The Supreme Court cannot take away inalienable rights But they may be infringed at the point of a gun held by criminals, or by well-meaning bureaucrats who have vowed to enforce their will, also at the point of a gun, come hell or high-water. And inalienable rights may be lawfully defended.
Our inalienable rights are our Sovereign rights, granted to us by our Creator -- the Creator of our understanding. You may have heard the expression, "A man's home is his castle." That saying expresses the idea of our intrinsic, sovereign human rights. In my home I am king, I am sovereign. In my life, my liberty, and my pursuit of happiness I am king -- I am sovereign in these domains, and you are sovereign in your life, your liberty and your pursuit of happiness. My sovereign rights and freedoms are not limited except when they infringe upon your rights and freedoms. That is the basis of the highest law, the law our forefathers enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, and which they attempted to protect with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. That is the law spoken of by Jesus and other religious leaders in the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
According to Merriam Webster, sovereign means "one that exercises supreme authority within a limited sphere". Government cannot take away or waive these sovereign rights under any circumstances. In fact, the reverse is true: we institute governments to protect those sovereign rights, and the government derives whatever legitimate authority it holds from the consent of the governed.
Not only may your rights not be taken away by the government, but if the government infringes upon your rights and attempts to deprive you of your sovereign rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness then you may withhold your consent to be governed. The government works for us to help defend our rights and our freedoms, not the other way around. It says so, right in the Declaration of Independence:
--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
I cannot improve upon the words of Thomas Jefferson. And I do not have time tonight to detail the many unconstitutional laws passed by Congress and the many unconstitutional Executive Orders signed by this President and his predecessors. What I can do tonight is to provide a few quotes from a great revolutionary leader who fought peacefully for human rights. That man, Mahatma Gandhi taught that:
Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or, which is the same thing, corrupt.
Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.
Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.
Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/11/1545087.php
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