A Symposium: Reclaiming American Liberties

10/27/2009 | Self

[rob777]

To: Fellow Freepers

On behalf of the Family Security Foundation I wish to inform you about an exciting grass roots project that we are undertaking in cooperation with a number of other liberty loving groups.

FSF has joined with the Hudson Institute and others to form a "Committee to preserve American Liberties", whose purpose is self-explanatory. The members of the committee will meet for a symposium. The Symposium, Reclaiming American Liberties, will focus on three major subjects, with sub-topics, and our country’s top speakers, writers, thinkers and commentators will be invited to speak at the all day event. Each subject will have four speakers. The three macro subjects are The Economy, Foreign Policy/National Defense and Regaining our Sovereignty (language, culture, history, education).

In each category, the Symposium will explore how the federal government has moved us quite far away from our founding principles and then outline what we as citizens can do to get or country back on track. We plan to take what is discussed that day and roll it into consumer products such as Voter Guides, pamphlets, DVDs and/or CDs, perhaps a book, and distribute to the citizenry for use at town hall meetings and in the voting booth. We are planning to ride the crest of Americans’ new-found passion for the preservation of their country, and to supply them with material from our country’s best thinkers to help them in that quest.

We are creating a grass roots groups called Freedom Rising to link the policy people with the grass roots. Here in Vermont (FSF is a national group, but I am from Vermont) we work closely with the local Tea Party movement, the 912 Group, the Campaign for Liberty, various veterans who are concerned about the plight of liberty, etc. We believe that this project is very timely and would serve well as a resource for Freepers who are engaged in local activism.

[rob777]

I suggested the title "Freedom Rising" for the grass roots arm of this effort to focus on the positive aspect of so many citizens rising up to reclaim our liberty. I gave a speech on this theme at a local Tea Party here in Vermont and we played the theme song from Rocky III, "Eye of the Tiger", to hammer home the point. Just as Rocky rose up after getting knocked down, so can the cause of American liberty.

[rob777]

The symposium will take place on January 13th, so the material should be ready sometime after that. We have started to contact other conservative groups involved in the battle to share the material with. The idea is bring together policy makers and grass roots activism in a unified effort to win our freedom back. If Jim likes the idea, perhaps Free Republic could play a key role disseminating material to concerned citizens.

[rob777]

Jim, is this something the Free Republic would be interested in taking advantage of?

[nomad]

Sounds good,a link to whats up and ready now would be helpful.

[rob777]

Right now we are in the stage of contacting grass roots groups and putting together the participants for the symposium. Here is an excerpt from a recent letter:

"We will video the event and most likely broadcast it live on the internet at the same time. Further, we will partner with activists at the state level to create an educational, grassroots project to roll out nationally to every state in the union."

I have suggested that a separate website be created and that should be coming. When it does, I will post it.