Organizing Patriot Effectiveness on the Ground, Maybe the JBS Can Help
September 15, 2014
JBS Weekly Member Update —
September 15, 2014
A quick discussion ensued in the regular Monday morning weekly meeting at the JBS home office in Appleton. As each staff member in attendance reported on various issues in the news, one member brought up the fact that in preparing for the next installment of "The Freedom Index", the staff was having a hard time in finding decent votes to critique Congress members.
Normally, staff would
comb through hundreds of votes to be able to identify at least 10
constitutionally significant votes for each half year. However, very few of
these votes have been passed since our July 2014 Freedom Index. The staff member
suggested that Congress is appearing to do less and less, while the President
has been doing more and more.
He pointed to the page
length of the bills, the passing of continuous resolutions instead of a budget,
and how the President has usurped much more responsibility from Congress.
According to the Constitution, Congress has an enormous responsibility, including all legislative powers (Article I, Section 1) and another 18 paragraphs of powers as spelled out in Article I, Section 8. Yet, Congress continues to allow many of its powers to be usurped by the executive and judicial branches of government, interrupting the fragile balance the founders sought.
Isn't this precisely why
the federal government has grown so far outside of its constitutional
limitations? Because the checks and balances that each branch is to perform is
not being done. And if it's not being done, then why? Would we be out of line
if we asked if this was mere happenstance or if this was being deliberately
done? Being done to water down the effectiveness of the American Republic?
Being done to create a larger crisis that gives the American people a reason to
look to the international community for solutions?
Look to Washington today
and ask yourself just who is interested in continuing this grand American
experiment. Are we so far away from our constitutional moorings that we have
passed the point of no return?
The John Birch Society
doesn't think so, but yet where are the Constitutionalists, the patriots, and
the true conservatives? As one of our Coordinators recently remarked on
Facebook: When I go into a Congressional district to organize active member
Chapters, I find there are easily more than enough concerned Americans to make
a difference in restoring the Republic.
Yet, without this
leadership, those activists usually do not reach their potential and end up
burning out and becoming disengaged.
The John Birch Society
provides this leadership and an active plan for restoring government to its
rightful role so Americans can flourish or fail according to their own efforts.
With your help, we can do this. Join today!
NATIONAL EVENTS:
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September 30: Change It or Obey It?
with Scott Bradley, PhD, Spokane Valley, WA.
October 2: Change It or Obey It
with Scott Bradley, PhD, Great Falls, MT.
October 18: JBS Executive Dinner
Presentations, Midland, TX.
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LOCAL EVENTS:
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September 16, 23, 30, October
7: The
Constitution is the Solution Workshop, Grand
Bay, AL.
September 20: Morality and Freedom
with Rev. Steven Craft, Northampton, PA.
September 23: Who Owns Your
Children? with FPE Executive Director Alan Scholl, West Jordan,
UT.
September 26: Fighting Common Core:
Round Two with Dr. Duke Pesta, Millburn, NJ.
September 27: No More Common Core
Symposium with Dr. Duke Pesta, Vineland, NJ.
September 28: Fighting
Common Core: Round Two with Dr. Duke Pesta,
Hightstown, NJ.
October 4: Common Core: Dangers
and Threats, Milwaukee, WI.
October 7: Immigration Invasion
Video Showing, Flemington, NJ.
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