United in Liberty - Introduction to Principles of Liberty
A copy of a recent e-mail sent to co-founders of United in Liberty and family and friends:
Dustin and Joe – United in Liberty (and to others who are receiving a Bcc as well),
I’ve been subscribed to your e-mail list for some weeks and recently attended the United in Liberty Introduction to Principles Meeting you held at the Community Library in Rigby, ID last Friday evening. It was an inspiring and reassuring meeting, striking the chords of patriotism within me and providing a sound method of organizing to learn about and take action for upholding the Principles of Liberty our Founding Fathers envisioned and worked so hard to establish.
To help me move forward in becoming active with United in Liberty in my community, please provide me information on other CACs that have been organized here. Also, if there isn’t another CAC organized in Rigby at this time, or if the one organized already has 10 members, I am interested in organizing a CAC.
Thank you to both of you for what you are doing for the good of our communities, America and her citizenry! It is wonderful how United in Liberty is organizing in communities across America. Our individual and united efforts will make a difference for freedom in America.
America is calling us and we need to respond and be true to her, through being true to the principles of liberty that our Founding Fathers focused upon in the US Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights:
Also, I’m retired USAF and I do not want to see my community, state or country be attacked any longer by those who do not uphold the Principles of Liberty that our US Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights were drafted to enumerate and protect. I also want to identify and more fully support those who adhere to Principles of Liberty, those who preserve and promote the U.S. Constitution. We certainly are indebted to God and to those who so faithfully acted before us to help establish, promote and preserve America.
Thanks again for the time, energy and means you’re devoting to this very worthy cause for freedom. I look forward to attending your upcoming meeting in Blackfoot on Nov 13, as noted here: United in Liberty-News.
“Our Founding Fathers understood and enshrined within our most sacred documents, fundamental truths, so evident in their existence, so plain in their understanding, that no individual, true to his moral code, would doubt their validity.
"In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths or first principles upon which all subsequent reasonings must depend. . . and [are] so obvious in themselves, and so agreeable to the natural and unsophisticated dictates of common sense, that they challenge the assent of a sound and unbiased mind, with a degree of force and conviction almost equally irresistible." – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers, No. 31
We at United in Liberty hold to these, The 12 Principles of Liberty™ as a 'Moral Code' for all of America and its future generations. Those who find themselves in constant study and application of these truths are most able to defend and protect the freedoms and liberties so many others before have fought to uphold.”
Principle #1 – God endows mankind with unalienable rights such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Principle #2 – Unalienable rights cannot be made, altered or abolished by government or mankind.
Principle #3 – As its proper role, government is instituted by mankind exclusively to protect unalienable rights.
Principle #4 – It is the right of the people to alter or abolish an abusive government.
Principle #5 – All mankind are justified before God in the defense of unalienable rights.
Principle #6 – To ensure freedom, the law must be created by a moral and educated people.
Principle #7 – Freedom can only be sustained through a representative republic.
Principle #8 – To prevent the abuse of power, government must be limited, local, checked and balanced.
Principle #9 – All mankind are created equal before God, the law, and in the protection of their rights.
Principle #10 – All mankind are created with the ability to choose and each have responsibility for their own agency.
Principle #11 – Prosperity occurs when free enterprise and private property exist with minimal government regulation and restrained debt.
Principle #12 – The family, in its traditional form, as ordained by God, is the core unit of free society.
The 12 Principles of Liberty are the very principles that have enables me to confront some pretty well spoken professors who tried to argue that the U.S. Constitution is just a guideline or open ended draft that can be reinterpreted as times change. This organization United in Liberty-FAQ is apparently using the same strategy to good effect. I am already a member of the National Rifle Association and past member of the Heritage Foundation, both of which are good and worthy pursuits of which I will continue to participate in. However, this organization ties it all together and gives our individual causes and individual voices the strength of unity. I am joining. I would urge others of like mind to first look over the site United in Liberty-FAQ and make an informed decision. It is time to get out of the "barricade mentality" and get politically interactive regardless of whether there are elections taking place or not. We don't need a "change" in the way we govern; we need to restore what we were always meant to have according to the Founding Fathers and the U.S. Constitution.
__________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Was "Your" Voice Heard Today? NRA-ILA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
While I appreciate the quick review and simplified list of United in Liberty's 12 Principles of Liberty, some situations and actions in/by community, county, state and federal government agencies require a more powerful magnifying class for use to analyze what they're proposing and doing, as listed in the 28 Principles of Liberty found in The 5,000 Year Leap (Five Thousand Year Leap), as posted at The National Center for Constitutional Studies web site.
I’m bright-eyed awake and up and at it early this morning; pondering on what we said and did yesterday evening in our first United in Liberty, Rigby Chapter 1 CAC meeting.
As we consider and measure the value of learning Principles of Liberty in our families, and then reaching outward to identify and invite others throughout our communities to be and do the same, and later reach out to help move this cause for freedom across the nation and world; we may want to take into consideration, in that important action-oriented equation, the similar efforts that are being undertaken by those who are not lovers of freedom to persuade, recruit and then convince the unwary that Principles of Liberty, as contained in the founding documents of America’s history are not important and relevant for today, that they should be set aside for the hope and change that is deceptively being promulgated.
Here’s an article that warns about what is happening in America, in one community at a time, with the hope and goal of making change in ways we are not in support of, and which we know will be destructive to individuals, families, communities and America at large:
“Back in 1980 one of my sons sold books for SOUTHWESTERN PUBLISHING COMPANY. At that time the book company recruited college students, who went door to door and sold educational type books. It was a great learning experience for the students and my son earned enough during the summer to pay for his senior year in college. The Obama administration is now recruiting college students that will not only get paid for knocking on doors but will “earn college credits” while advocating for change. It’s called ORGANIZING FOR AMERICA (OFA) and could be a part of Obama’s young and educated civilian army.
The OFA website states: “Students and young people were critical in building the movement that helped elect President Obama last year. By becoming a National Organizing Intern, you’ll be part of the grassroots effort to make the change we fought for a reality in 2009 and beyond. As an Organizing Intern, you’ll work side by side with OFA staff and community leaders to help build support for President Obama’s agenda. You’ll learn core organizing principles that are crucial for any campaign and play an important role in building our organization in your state. If you’re passionate about making sure every American has quality health care, reviving our economy and building a clean energy future, don’t miss this great opportunity. No previous experience is needed in order to apply.””
Remainder of article is located here: http://www.newswithviews.com/brownfi...wnfield176.htm I firmly believe that we are part of a grassroots effort that is essential to help build us up in truths of freedom, truths that are found within the Principles of Liberty, the inoculation if you will, that will help protect us from falling ill to the plague of anti-freedom disease that is gaining strength and sweeping across America. This anti-freedom disease will continue to infect our nation through our youth, the next generation of leadership, and the uneducated adults, to further sicken and seriously cripple our free way of life, and disengage our nation as the beacon of light it was/is destined to be for those around the world who are yearning for and needing a bright example of good in freedom….unless we and others rise up and valiantly rally to and for the cause of freedom.
Thank you again for your inspiration, vision, commitment and courage toward helping us learn about and diligently serve in the cause of freedom, in part, through our affiliation with United in Liberty. The cause of freedom is the purpose driven basis for our efforts, to learn and then promote Principles of Liberty within our lives and then throughout our community. United in Liberty is a recognizable, user friendly and across the board acceptable, not-for profit and non-denominational, organization for member and non-member alike, vehicle to help us move forward to organize, learn, teach, share and realize that which truth teaches and encourages us to be and do. We are in a mission field of sorts, with the foundation purpose and end goal of learning and teaching truth, the truths of freedom contained within the Principles of Liberty, to protect and promote our rights, freedoms and liberty. For, without our rights, freedoms and liberty we will not be enabled toward what we were sent here to be and do. Gratefully, Terance
The 12 Principles of Liberty are the very principles that have enables me to confront some pretty well spoken professors who tried to argue that the U.S. Constitution is just a guideline or open ended draft that can be reinterpreted as times change. This organization United in Liberty-FAQ is apparently using the same strategy to good effect. I am already a member of the National Rifle Association and past member of the Heritage Foundation, both of which are good and worthy pursuits of which I will continue to participate in. However, this organization ties it all together and gives our individual causes and individual voices the strength of unity. I am joining. I would urge others of like mind to first look over the site United in Liberty-FAQ and make an informed decision. It is time to get out of the "barricade mentality" and get politically interactive regardless of whether there are elections taking place or not. We don't need a "change" in the way we govern; we need to restore what we were always meant to have according to the Founding Fathers and the U.S. Constitution.
Word had come that the British troops defeated at Lexington and Concord were retreating toward Boston, creating havoc and were burning homes along the way. Eighty year old Samuel Whittemore, an aged military warrior, decided to take action in spite of his age. He strapped on the sword he had captured from the French during the French and Indian war, took down his musket from its place on the fireplace mantle, loaded it and his ancient dueling pistols. Then in his belt he put on his powder horn and shot bag.
Sam selected a position that gave him an excellent view of the road from Lexington, and sat down to wait. His fellow Minuteman from Menotomy village pleaded for him to find a safer position, but he choose to ignore them.
The Minutemen started firing at the oncoming British Grenadiers of the 47th Regiment of Foot, falling back to reload, then firing again. Sam waited. Finally, when the column was directly in front of him, he stood and fired his musket. A grenadier fell dead. He drew his two pistols, firing both at almost point blank range. Another grenadier fell dead, a third fell mortally wounded. The British soldiers were on top of him, and he did not have time to reload his musket or pistols, so drawing his sword, he started lunged at the bayonet wielding soldiers. A soldier leveled his musket at point blank range and fired. The .69 calibre ball struck Sam in the cheek, tearing away part of his face and throwing him to the ground. Sam valiantly tried to rise, fending off bayonet thrusts with his sword, but he was overpowered. Struck in the head with a musket butt, he went down again, then was bayoneted thirteen times and left for dead.
The British continued their fight through the streets of Menotomy, which turned out to be the costliest action of the day. They left forty of their soldiers dead in the town and another eighty wounded, half the casualties of the day.
After the British column had fought its way clear, the town's people and minuteman started to search for their wounded compatriots. Several had seen Sam Whittemore's "last stand" and approached to remove his body. To everyone's astonishment Sam was not only still alive, but conscious and still full of fight. Laying there, he was trying to load his musket! He recovered and remained active for the next eighteen years. He was terribly scarred, but always was proud of what he had done for his country. He is quoted as having stated that he would take the same chances again.
In Arlington, Massachusetts, one of the small towns just outside Boston, near Lexington and Concord, there is a stone monument that reads: "Samuel Whittemore, then eighty years old, killed three British soldiers, April 19, 1775. He was shot, bayoneted, beaten, and left for dead, but recovered, and lived to be ninety-eight years of age.” [1]
Did Samuel Wittemore make a difference? I believe that he did. Each one of us has the capacity to rise to the occasion and do the work that must be done, just as the Founding Fathers and Mothers did.
In 1764, ten years before the Revolutionary War began, Thomas Jefferson was just an unmarried 21-year-old college student. George Washington was a farmer, struggling to get out of debt. John Adams was a newly-wed teacher teaching at a small community school. James Madison was a 12 year old shy and quiet student, and his future wife had not yet been born. Yet ten years later these same men would defiantly “pledge [their] lives, [their] fortunes, and [their] sacred honor" in declaring themselves independent of the most powerful nation on earth at that time. And ten years after that they would create the Constitution of the United States, 'the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man’, according to William Gladstone. [2]
So how did these ordinary people of 1764 come to be the world’s greatest statesmen in 1776 and 1787? If we want to be like them, we must do as they did. Henry David Thoreau put it this way: “Be not simply good; be good for something." Jefferson, Madison and Washington were only different from you and me in two respects. One: They put forth the effort to learn and study, and then, Two: They sacrificed their time and resources to ACT and make a real difference.
These men were people like you and me who paid the price. Thomas Paine said: "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it." If we pay the same prices these great men paid, we can achieve the same results.
So where do we start? Now don't raise your hands to the following questions, but please think about where YOU are: Have you read the Constitution of the United States? Do you have your own copy of the Constitution, or do you know where to get one? Are you familiar with ALL the amendments in the Bill of Rights? Do you know if your local representatives are familiar with them?
Sir William Churchill said “The price of greatness is responsibility.” If we wish to preserve our liberties and govern as “We, the People of the United States” in this great nation, then WE have the sacred, undeniable responsibility to know the highest governing laws of this land. Likewise, if new candidates or current representatives are not familiar with the Constitution, then how can they swear to uphold it? Thomas Jefferson put it rather eloquently when he said, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
When I first heard of the United in Liberty organization, what impressed me most was that they encourage their members to not only get active in their communities, but they strongly ask their members to educate themselves on the founding documents and the principles that engender liberty and freedom. Can we adequately defend these things if we are ignorant as to what those principles and laws are? I submit that we cannot.
During the recent Tea Party marches on Washington, we sadly had some blows to our cause when various reporters asked pointed questions of some of those who were marching. Now, granted, they of course did not air all the intelligent responses that they most likely received. (This is the media, after all.) But can you image what would happen if ALL those of us with a patriotic love for our country also had logical, educated opinions to go with those strong emotions? We cannot enter into this battle without strong armor, my friends. The enemy has many resources at their disposal, and the cause is too great for us to enter the fray unarmed.
My call to action tonight is for you to Start or join a United in Liberty Community Action Committee. Then read the materials listed at the United in Liberty website. They are not difficult to understand, and they do not take a long time to read. Then stand up and step out in to your communities to make a real difference for good. One of my favorite speakers once said, "I urge you with all the capacity that I have to reach out in a duty that stands beyond the requirements of our everyday lives, that is, to stand strong, even to become a leader in speaking up in behalf of those causes which make our civilization shine and which give comfort and peace to our lives. You can be a leader. You must be a leader.” (Gordon B. Hinkley)
My friends, we MUST be leaders. If we do not, what will happen today and to future generations? It has been said that a politician only thinks about the next election, but that a statesman thinks only of the next generation. Let us be Statesmen.
On the night of October 16th in the year 1780, a band of 300 Indians led by British troops raided farms near South Royalton, Vermont, stealing men and boys to sell for the bounty offered by the British.
The Hendee family had been warned, and the father of the family set off to warn others downstream. His wife Hannah picked up her young daughter and ran to the woods with her 7-year-old son, Michael. Unfortunately, they ran right into the Indians who wrenched Michael from Hannah's grasp. When she demanded to know what they would do with the boy, one of the Indians who spoke English replied, "make a soldier of him."
With her heart breaking, as they dragged away her sobbing little boy, Hannah began heading toward the road leading to Lebanon, sixteen miles away while her tiny daughter screamed. "She had not gone far when she was filled with a surge of uncommon resolve, a fierce determination. She could not-- she would not-- let them have her precious young son! She returned upriver and found the British and the Indians gathering their captives...”
"Oblivious of the danger, she demanded her little boy. Captain Horton said he could not control the Indians; it was none of his concern what they did. She threatened him: ‘You are their commander, and they must and will obey you. The curse will fall upon you for whatever crime they may commit, and all the innocent blood they shall here shed will be found in your skirts when the secrets of men's hearts are made known, and it will cry for vengeance upon your head!’. When her little son was brought in she took him by the hand and refused to let go. An Indian threatened her with a cutlass and jerked her son away. She defiantly took him back and said that she would follow them every step of the way to Canada, she would never give up, they would not have her little boy!
"Finally, intimidated by her determination, Captain Horton told her to take her son and leave. He could face an army of men, but not a mother driven by the strongest of emotions....
"During the day other little boys were brought into camp. Desperately they clung to Mrs. Hendee. With uncommon courage, she interceded for them as vigorously as she had for her own.
"Finally, when the captives were assembled for the long march to Canada, Mrs. Hendee [left and] somehow crossed the river with her daughter and nine small boys....Two of them she carried across. The others waded through the water with their arms around each others' necks, clinging to her skirts. As the cold October night closed in, Mrs. Hendee huddled in the woods with the soaking-wet little brood she had rescued from certain death." [3]
Hannah Hendee. Samuel Wittemore. You and me. We CAN do what must be done to save the precious liberties that God Almighty has given us. I would like to leave you with the words of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O UNION, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
[1] http://www.revolutionarywararchives.org/whittemore.html [2] http://www.nccs.net/newsletter/feb99nl.html [3] (Evelyn Wood Lovejoy, History of Royalton, Vermont; quoted and paraphrased from Boyd K. Packer, “Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled”. Bookcraft
The above is a speech given by Rachel Keppner at the United in Liberty – Introduction to Principles Meeting on 23 Oct 09 in Rigby, ID, and is being posted here with her permission. Rachel is a mother of 10 children, all of which are home schooled. Rachel serves as the United in Liberty Captain of Jefferson County in SE Idaho.
United in Liberty - Introduction to Principles of Liberty 
