This event has already passed, please see below for a text summary of Catherine’s presentation. Video will be added shortly. This even resulted in the donation of $261 to the ODF project.
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I was invited as the keynote speaker for 7th District Grassroots Precinct-Leadership Seminar to speak on the importance of organizing at the precinct level, and to cover upcoming Missouri political issues.
I’ll start out by highlighting what the Democratic Party has to say about the importance of the Precinct Committee Person:
“The Precinct Committee Person (PCP) is the most important person in the Democratic Party. PCPs are the eyes, ears, arms, and voices of the Party”
If you understand that the Precinct Committee Person is the most important person in the Democratic Party, you can then understand that it would also be the most important person in the Republican Party, the Libertarian Party, the Constitution Party, the Green Party, and even for someone with no party, leadership at the precinct level is a very powerful and important roll to fill.
To understand the importance of organizing at a level as fundamental as the precinct level, one must first understand the underlying principles in which our country was founded upon, and in which our form of government was designed around.
Federalism, or the decentralization of power, is the philosophy our country was designed around. A union of Sovereign States, the 13 colonies came together to design a Constitutionally LIMITED government to protect themselves from outside interests, such as the King of England.
Our founders did not form one state, rather a United StateS, PLURAL, of America. The European Union was created under similar pretenses. Each country in the union still retained their own Constitution and their own rule of law, they just agreed to the creation of a Constitutionally LIMITED government, the European Union. In the United States, all fifty of our individual and unique states have their own State Constitution and their own state laws - the federal government was not designed to influence those things - rather to fulfill a very LIMITED role.
To be absolutely sure the intention of our founders was clear, they added the Bill of Rights to the Constitution The Constitution described specficially what the federal government MAY do and the Bill of Rights described what the federal government may NOT do.
The Bill of Rights ensures that the federal government has no say in what religion we practice or how we express our opinions, that the federal government has no say in our decision to carry a weapon or firearm, that they cannot force us to incriminate ourselves and they cannot come into our homes or search our vehicles or violate our bodies without probable cause. And as if our founders had not made their intent clear enough, the nine and tenth amendments should take away any question of the extent of the federal government’s power.
The ninth amendment to the Constitution says just because a right of the people is not listed in the Constitution, that the government does not have the right to violate it.
The tenth amendment says all powers not GRANTED to the federal government by us, We the People, belong to the states and We the People, respectively.
There you have it, the Constitution makes the boundary lines for our federal government strikingly clear - if the Constitution does not SAY you can do it, you can’t, federal government. The end. No more discussion, no more justification, just no more.
In most states, like in Missouri, the sovereignty of the state is also reiterated in the state Constitution. Article 1 Section 4 of the Missouri State Constitution says, “That Missouri is a free and sovereign state, subject only to the US Constitution”.
That means two rather obvious things.
1. The federal government has no business engaging in MOST of the things is currently has its sticky little fingers embedded in. That includes education, agriculture, health care, radio, airlines, etc…
2. The power, Constitutionally, lies in the hands of the states and the people.
The founders understood that the power lies at the most intimate level of government, with the individual. The further you get away from the individual, the less power any form of government has. The current powers that be understand that, as well, and they have done an excellent job of taking over the most intimate levels of our government, including our individual lives, our city government and our state government.
One way our federal government has used the decentralization of power concept against us is through the use of fusion centers. Through loosely connected, decentralized data collecting/sharing/disseminating institutions, the dhs in conjunction with the fbi, state law enforcement, local law enforcement, and other federal, international and private agencies, have created a virtual spiderweb of interconnected databases and information sharing channels. Hundreds of thousands of users have direct and indirect access to these supposedly “private” databases, and instances of misuse, fraud and abuse have run rampant since the first use of such data basing techniques!
Those trying to manipulate our society into a culture of complete tyranny and top down control have done an excellent job of tying in the lowest levels of law enforcement to the war on terror through their association with and operation of fusion centers who’s mission is to identify and combat terror or other criminal or natural threats. Not only are the agencies being trained by organizations such as the Anti Defamation League to think of American citizens as potential domestic terror threats, they’re even being shipped to Israel to receive count-terror training under the direction of organizations such as the ADL. That’s our highway patrol, being taught to fight terror and to identify us a potential terror threats, folks.
At the city level our global governance institutions have wormed their way into the most intimate of elected governmental structures for many families, the city council. Did you know in Kansas City a United Nations flag hangs behind the Mayor in the City Hall? Did you know that six cities in Missouri pay dues, with tax payer dollars, to ICLEI, a UN funded international sustainability group? They have duped our environmental loving council members into thinking that corporate and international control of our natural resources is in fact going to save the planet.
As long as our city councils lay in the hands of the international gangster banksters and as long as our state and local law enforcement lay in the hands of the corporate police state profiteers, attempts to save the federal government will be nothing short of futile. True power lays at the most intimate levels of government - as long as we as individuals live in fear, and as long as our state and local governments are controlled by the elite we will never be able to truly experience liberty in our lifetime.
A very successful example of the importance of precinct level organizing was the 2008 Ron Paul campaign, which I believe laid the foundational groundwork for the booming liberty movement we see today.
The campaign worked to identify a precinct captain in each voting precinct. Someone who was responsible for both phone banking and canvassing the area as well as coordinating and communicating with other volunteers in the precinct.
After identifying a leader in each precinct, the next step taken by the campaign was to engage in issue identification phone banking. This allowed the precinct captain to quickly identify neighbors of a like mind, and identify the key issues of folks who could be easily swayed.
After recruiting the help of the like minded folks found via phone banking, the next step was to set out to canvass the neighborhood with literature tailored to the key issues of each individual based on their phone banking responses.
Precincts are not hard to cover with one person, and are enjoyable to walk with the company of another.
The strategy was brilliant. By creating such a decentralized outreach mechanism, the campaign was able to facilitate the creation of like minded communities at the neighborhood/precinct level all across the nation. This network was then used to successfully influence the delegate process for the Republican Presidential Nomination in 2008.
To wrap up my presentation I will be covering upcoming issues for the state of Missouri, including nullification legislation, 10th amendment resolutions, the Missouri Firearms Freedom Act, the Status of MIAC and Operation Defuse.
By organization at the most intimate level of our structured government, the precinct, we can create a foundation of liberty which we can use as a launching point to elect like minded candidates, pass pro-liberty legislation, and stop tyranny in its tracks!
Choose Freedom!
Catherine
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7th District Grassroots Precinct-Leadership Seminar
Learn about the office of Precinct Committeeman, why it is the most powerful political office in the U.S. how it is the basis of all grassroots political activity and how becoming a Committee-person can help you take real action locally to restore the Constitution and aid the freedom movement.
Guest Speakers will include William Robert, host of the Vocal Local radio show, on the Oracle Broadcasting Network. Mr. Roberts is a researcher scholar and theoryist of precinct based political activism. He will be speaking on the role of the Committee-Person as the foundation of the American political system.
Eric Vought, President of The Constitutional Statesmen and Coordinator of the 7th District Campaign for Liberty will be speaking on the role of the Central Committees in shaping policy.
Ms. Bleish will be giving a presentation on this year in Missouri politics and why it now more than ever necessary to regain control of our government by regaining control of our precinct-representation.
Catherine Bleish is Executive Director the Liberty Restoration Project. She has been a National Delegate to the 2008 Republican Convention, and a Missouri Delegate to the 2009 Continental Congress as well as a strong leader in the fight against the un-Constitutional MIAC Report.
Date: Saturday, December 19, 2009
Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Midtown Carnegie Library
Street: 397 E Central St.
City/Town: Springfield, MO
