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July 1, 2009 MARKETING CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009: New "Slim Jim" Flyer for July 4th! Click Here To Access This Update & New Flyer!   June 23, 2009 UPDATE:  THE PUSH IS ON – HERE COMES CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009 AND THE LIGHT OF LIBERTY! Click Here To Access This Comprehensive Update Don't miss this important update! May 25, 2009 JEKYLL ISLAND: A NEW BEGINNING FOR AMERICA New: Freedom Movement Coalition Click Here To Access the Update May 13, 2009   WTP To U.S. Court Of Appeals In AIG & $700B Bailout Case: “This is a Republic, not a Democracy.   Please stop the transition.” Click Here To Access the Update May 11, 2009 DRAMATIC DEVELOPMENT: WTP Federal Lawsuit to Ban All Electronic Voting Heads for Trial Discovery Begins, Jury Will Decide the Law Click Here To Access the Update May 8, 2009 BACK TO JEKYLL ISLAND: May 20-22, 2009 Defenders of the Constitution to Meet Click Here To Access the Update April 24, 2009 UPDATE #27: Continental Congress 2009 56 Cities in 60 Days  Final Schulz/CC2009 Meetings Scheduled: MD, DE, NY, CT, RI, NH & VT Click Here To Access the Update April 19, 2009 UPDATE #26: Continental Congress 2009 Schulz in the Midwest: IA, WI, IN & KY Click Here To Access the Update April 10,  2009 UPDATE #25: Continental Congress 2009 Tea Parties, State Donations & Next Week’s Schedule Click Here To Access the Update March 30, 2009 UPDATE #24: Continental Congress 2009 Schulz Heads to Northwest Click Here To Access the Update March 19, 2009 UPDATE #23: Continental Congress 2009 Schulz Tour Heads West This Week: TX, NM, NV, HI, CA, OR  New CC2009 Promotional Flyer Click Here To Access the Update March 16, 2009 Schulz in Texas Accident  He’s OK, Meetings Continue Click Here To Access the Update March 9, 2009 UPDATE #22: Continental Congress 2009 Watch Bob Live Tonight CC2009 Tour Goes Live On Daily Webcasts Click Here To Access the Update March 6, 2009 UPDATE #21: Continental Congress 2009 “Thumbs-Up” Week & Latest Schedule  Call for Pics, Videos Click Here To Access the Update March 3, 2009   UPDATE #20: Continental Congress 2009 New CC2009 Tri-fold Brochure Released  Need Help Setting Up Meetings Click Here To Access the Update February 28, 2009 UPDATE #19: Continental Congress 2009   Schulz/CC2009 Meeting Tour 2.0 Starts This Weekend  Organization Rising Click Here To Access the Update February 17, 2009 UPDATE #18: Continental Congress 2009 Help Bring CC2009 to Your State Organizational Outreach & More Video Click Here To Access the Update February 13, 2009 UPDATE #17: Continental Congress 2009 Organizing, Explaining, Volunteers and Venues CC2009: Update + More Regional Meetings, AIG/TARP Lawsuit Update  Click Here To Access the Update February 1, 2009 UPDATE #16: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009 More CC 2009 Video: Take it to the People! Click Here To Access the Update January 26, 2009 UPDATE #15: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009 Can’t Get to a CC 2009 Meeting? Here’s Video! Click Here To Access the Update January 25, 2009 UPDATE #14: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009 Cleveland Testimonial U.S. Government Pulls Philly Venue CC 2009 Well Received, Gearing Up Click Here To Access the Update January 21, 2009 UPDATE #13: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009 Next CC 2009 Meetings Head East Nominate Your Delegates Online Now! Click Here To Access the Update January 19, 2009 UPDATE #12: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009 Ladies and Gentlemen: Start Your CC 2009 Nominations! Online Nomination System & Procedure Now Available Click Here To Access the Update January 17, 2009 UPDATE #11: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009 New Faces, New Voices WTP Congress Blog Lives Again Next Week’s Meetings: MI, OH, NY Click Here To Access the Update January 15, 2009 UPDATE #10: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009 WTP Rocks CO, SRO Crowd Delegate Nomination System: Hours to go… Next Week’s Meetings: Lansing, Cleveland/Akron, Rochester Click Here To Access the Update January 14, 2009 UPDATE #9: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009 Next Up: BBQ, Corn, Winter and Wind                  (aka: Kansas City, Des Moines, Minneapolis                   & Chicago) Click Here To Access the Update January 12, 2009 UPDATE #8: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009 “Bowling For Freedom”   Schedule Revisions Click Here To Access the Update January 10, 2009 UPDATE #7: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009 Congress Rising in the Desert Prepare Your Delegate Nominations! Click Here To Access the Update January 9, 2009 UPDATE #6: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009 Radio, Video and SF Venue Change Click Here To Access the Update January 7, 2009 UPDATE #5: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009   Prep Tour: High Attendance and Crowd Energy Next: El Paso, Phoenix & CA, See Revised Schedule  DIY Video Promotion Needed Click Here To Access the Update January 4, 2009 UPDATE #4: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009 IMMEDIATE TASKS  $14,000 TO RESERVE CONSTITUTION CENTER Click Here To Access the Update January 2, 2009 UPDATE #3: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009 PREP TOUR: REVISED SCHEDULE  Click Here To Access the Update December 31, 2008   UPDATE #2: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009 CON-CON: NO,  CC 2009: YES DALLAS VENUE CHANGE Click Here To Access the Update December 30, 2008   UPDATE #1: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009 Delegate Selection Criteria & Process Prep Tour Starts:  San Antonio and Dallas THIS WEEKEND Click Here To Access the Update December 25, 2008 CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009 The People Draw the Line in the Sand Click Here To Access the Update December 20, 2008 SUMMIT CALL In our article posted here on December 5, 2008, we asked, “What must a free people do, and what is the appropriate next step, if Mr. Obama refuses to respond to our Open Letter and the Supreme Court refuses to hear the Petitions by attorneys Donofrio, Berg and Taitz challenging Obama’s citizenship status?” A violation of the “natural born citizen” clause of the Constitution by Mr. Obama is so egregious and blatant in its nature that it marks the overt and wholesale abandonment of the Constitution by the Government, making this our “capstone grievance,” capping even the other abusive Constitutional violations this Foundation has sought to correct.  (continued...) Click Here To Access the Update December 11, 2008 Video of WTP DC Obama Citizenship Press Conference now on Google! Uncut video of Monday’s Press Conference at the National Press Club, now on Google. December 5, 2008 Mr. Obama’s Eligibility to be Aired Monday in DC Open Letter Ignites Large Public Interest What Must A Free People Do? As planned, on Monday and Wednesday of this week, WTP published the full-page Open Letter to Mr. Obama in the Chicago Tribune. The letter respectfully requests that he direct the state of Hawaii to provide access to his original 1961 (“vault”) birth certificate, and that he arrange for delivery to the National Press Club of certain other documents, all for the purpose of providing evidence of his eligibility. The public response and attention by the media, has been nothing short of astonishing. (continued...) Click Here To Access the Update November 20, 2008 Fifth Update: Open Letter to Mr. Obama Funds, Decisions & Developments Click Here To Access the Update November 16, 2008 Fourth Update: Open Letter to Mr. Obama Click Here To Access the Update November 14, 2008 Third Update: Open Letter to Mr. Obama Your Comments, WTP Responds Click Here To Access the Update November 12, 2008 Second Update: Open Letter to Mr. Obama SEE THE EVIDENCE Click Here To Access the Update November 9, 2008 Update: Open Letter to Mr. Obama Click Here To Access the Update October 31, 2008   WTP USA TODAY AD ON TAP: Obama: Show Evidence of U.S. Citizenship or Withdraw Bank Bailout Case Gets Scalia's Attention In defense of the Natural Born Citizen clause of the U.S. Constitution, and in the wake of last Friday’s decision by a federal judge in Berg v Obama, we feel compelled to run a full page ad in USA TODAY. Click here for a copy of the full-page ad we intend to run if we are able to raise the money. (continued...) Click Here To Access the Update October 14, 2008 ON THE TRAIN FROM DC As I begin to write this article, I am on the train from D.C. to the BWI airport, heading home, having filed yet another set of papers in the Supreme Court of the United States in defense of the Constitution. Once again, the Government is in the process of attempting to seize power from the People.  This time, regarding the A.I.G. and $700 Billion Wall Street bailout plans, I filed an emergency motion asking the U.S. Supreme Court to restrain the Government from giving or lending taxpayer funds or credit in exchange for private assets in aid of private corporations, unless and until the government defendants could show the Court where in the Constitution it provides that the People have agreed to share with the Government their power to purchase private assets such as “toxic” mortgage-related assets and non-toxic shares of bank stocks.  My argument is the People never gave that power to the Government and the Government has taken another step outside the boundaries We the People have drawn around its limited, enumerated powers.  (continued...) Click Here To Access the Update October 4, 2008 WTP Pushes Further Into Bailout Legal Challenge AIG Has Already Consumed $61B of $85B Government Loan Early this morning, WTP Chairman Bob Schulz filed a supplemental Memorandum of Law in support of the Emergency Appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals contesting last week's order of the U.S. District Court in Albany which barred any injunctive relief in WTP's constitutional challenge to the Wall Street bailout.  The lower court had (erroneously) ruled that its jurisdiction to impose injunctive relief was not properly invoked.   The supplemental brief brings additional facts before the appellate court including added urgency supported by a report in The New York Times that over just several days, insurance giant and bailout recipient AIG have already expended $61 billion of the $85 billion loan extended to them via the Treasury and Federal Reserve. That loan, made days prior to the passage of the "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008", i.e., without any congressional authority whatsoever, along with the full EESA, are being challenged on the ground that the acts all lack Constitutional authority.  (continued...) Click Here To Access the Update September 26, 2008 Federal District Court Obstructs Lawsuits Challenging Authority for Bailouts Judiciary Scuttles Motions Demanding U.S. Produce Evidence of Constitutional Authority Late last week, WTP Chairman and constitutional activist Robert Schulz filed a federal lawsuit in United States District Court in Albany seeking to halt the execution of the emergency bailout of Wall Street insurance giant American Insurance Group, AIG.  On Wednesday, Schulz filed a second federal lawsuit seeking to block the larger Wall Street bank bailout currently being negotiated through the U.S. Congress. Yesterday, while ignoring the dissimilar legal issues raised in the two lawsuits, the U.S. District Court issued an Order combining the two cases into a single case and denying the applications for injunctive relief requested.  The Court, in effect, ducked a judicial (and very public) hearing to examine the critical legal question at the heart of the bailouts: What Constitutional authority exists for the U.S. Government or Federal Reserve to use public (taxpayer) funds for definitively private purposes?   (continued...) Click Here To Access the Update August 22, 2008 Ron Paul “Responds” to Petitions for Redress   Government Puts Kibosh On Hunger Fast Thus far, Texas Rep. Ron Paul has “responded” to the Petitions for Redress by having them “forwarded to the Clerk of the House.”  While such a move is unique among the Members of the House, and is not a bad first step in etching the concept of Government accountability into the minds of some of the Members and advancing ever so slightly the question of the constitutional meaning of the last ten words of the First Amendment, it is highly unlikely that the Petitions for Redress will advance to House Committees for consideration, much less a vote to provide Redress. With the possible exception of Ron Paul, we know of no other politician willing to consider the notion of being held accountable to the People outside the periodic electoral process.   (continued...) Click Here To Access the Update August 17, 2008 NEXT STEP: Large Scale Hunger Fast AMERICANS HUNGERING FOR FREEDOM IN AMERICA BE IN DC: CONSTITUTION DAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH! Picture this. A photo on front pages (and the Internet) in countries around the world: Picture this as the headline and news story that could accompany each photo: Mass Hunger Strike to Restore Constitutional Order Commences in U.S. Capital WASHINGTON, 9/18 -- On September 17, 2008, the 221st anniversary of the U.S. Constitution, thousands of Americans gathered in Washington, DC to begin to “Hunger for Redress.” They began their mass hunger strike to draw worldwide attention to the fact that the Government of the United States of America has not only been flagrantly violating its own Constitution, it now refuses to respond or even acknowledge the People's Petitions for Redress of these Grievances despite the fact the Constitution requires the Government to do so:  (continued...) Click Here To Access the Update July 27, 2008 UPDATE: Plan to Restore Constitutional Order Will Rep. Ron Paul Provide Redress? This nation is rushing headlong into debt, dependency and decay. Unconstitutional acts have become the precedent for more of the same, which become precedent for still further acts of despotism. Can the People elect their way out of such tyranny? Unfortunately, no!  It is not possible, as Ron Paul’s candidacy has proven. Every time he exposed the constitutional truth regarding an issue (e.g., the undeclared Iraq war and the Federal Reserve System) he lost a block of voters who possess a vested interest in the status quo. What then is the solution?   (continued...) Click Here To Access the Update July 18, 2008 TRUST: The Plan Depends On It Bob Schulz Coming To A Theater Near You? WTP’s Plan to Restore Constitutional Order is on track, but running behind schedule. By now, the Petitions for Redress should have been delivered to every member of Congress and we should have been able to proudly proclaim, “Congress has been served!” Unfortunately, we're not quite there yet. To begin with, we timely mailed 1219 sets of Petition packages to over 700 people who volunteered to serve 535 members of Congress in their district offices on June 30, 2008, and to return to us a notarized proof of service.  By July 3rd and again after the July 4th weekend we had received and were processing hundreds of returns from volunteers who had successfully completed service. However, by July 10th it was apparent that 129 of the 535 members of Congress had still not been served!  (continued...) Click Here To Access the Update June 22, 2008 NEXT: "PUBLICITY BOMB" HERE: FREE AND EASY TOOL June 30, 2008 may go down in history as the day Americans began, in earnest, the moral and solemn process of holding their Government accountable to the Constitution by directly exercising their unalienable and individual Right of Redress, rather than depending upon the will of the majority of votes as cast in local precincts, the halls of Congress or the inner chambers of our courthouses.  (continued...) Click Here To Access the Update June 18, 2008 NEEDED: A FEW MORE SERVERS NEEDED: A FEW LESS "DUPLICATES" NEEDED:  A FEW MORE $$'s Click Here To Access the Update  June 14, 2008 Ron Paul Ends His Campaign    “It’s Up To The People To Save The Constitution” In announcing the end to his campaign for political office last Thursday, Ron Paul called upon the People to do something that really makes a difference in the fight for freedom, to give the establishment the fight of its life, to save the country. Click Here To Access the Update   June 12, 2008 CONVENTION SHOW STOPPER! Ron Paul: "Government Must Respond To Petitions for Redress" Can the GOP delegates nominate a Presidential candidate who openly defies the Constitution?