[Vintage Freeper]

Today marks the beginning of a series of articles that trace their roots to the human desire for freedom and progress that has enjoyed more success in the United States of America than in all of history or in any other country. The posting of these articles are being made possible by Jim Robinson and FreeRepublic. FreeRepublic and Jim Robinson reflect that desire and drive for freedom, independence and progress to the greatest extent possible. One can hope these articles produce their intended results and prove to eventually be part of the reason Jim Robinson created FreeRepublic.

The articles themselves provide some particularly important parts of history that have been overlooked, unreported or not well understood. And the articles show how particular individuals and groups can cooperate in order to catalyze results in ways that can exponentially increase political effects. Pooling the right facts and the right people is a compelling strategy to achieve specific goals. These pieces when pulled together and understood form a blueprint for how freedom-loving Americans can take our country back by restoring the Constitution and improving it. Together the various pieces come together to leverage conservative political power to a greater extent in America than has ever been possible. Defeating socialism and the socialists once and for all makes an economic Renaissance possible and it makes a Renaissance of freedom possible.

The Founders did the best they believed they could within the realm of doing what was politically possible at the time. It is no different today with regard to compromising principles with the idea that it is better to gain something at the sacrifice of not getting things exactly as they should be. Bipartisanship and compromise are considered politically necessary and the reality of the world. Without disagreeing, it should be apparent that if we could ever just get it right once, we would have a model that could serve as a standard that might eventually make the need for compromising on principles obsolete. A step in the wrong direction is wrong no matter how many people want to take it or how powerful those wanting to go in the wrong direction actually are. Sometimes it is simply necessary to just say NO.

These articles are being posted now for two reasons. First, the people involved with this project feel that it is imperative that Sarah Palin not withdraw from the race and that the very future of the United States as we know it, might well depend on her staying in the race until the last votes have been counted. She has said she will decide before the end of September. It is our hope that she will announce her candidacy, but in any case we hope she will not withdraw from the race until she has had the chance to read the entire series. There are sixteen separate articles. If we publish one per day, the series will not be published in its entirety until well after the end of September. It is our fondest hopes that these articles might provide the fuel and ammunition that Sarah Palin and others could use to create the conditions that could foster a Renaissance in America. And that through the United States living up to expectations as the role model for the world, the American Renaissance would eventually become a global renaissance.

The second reason for publishing these publicly and publishing them now is that our private efforts to place the Renaissance Plan into the hands of the people who can actually create the conditions needed have not yet been successful. It is simply time to leave no stone unturned in trying to advance this project. There may be any number of people who could lead this project to a successful conclusion, but it is our opinion that there may not be anyone who could achieve success as quickly and efficiently as Charles Koch. If you can put the authors of the plan in touch with Sarah Palin or Charles Koch, please contact Vintage Freeper by freepmail without delay.

Thank You.

[Vintage Freeper]

Ping.

[SF_Redux]

(SNIP) - Paraphrasing Ted Koppel’s comment about the Ten Commandments, the Constitution is not a set of suggestions. The Constitution’s enumerated powers and limitations ensure maximum liberty in a free republic. When the chief enforcer shows such profound contempt for the Constitution, he needs to be reminded that no one is above the law. Not even The One…
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/16/obama-tears-up-the-constitution/

[steveshoveler]

Aside from money/banking reform, some sort of a major political reform is needed, basically a voters' bill of rights of some sort. The progressive disenfranchisement of the American middle class has to be reversed.

The first item of such a bill HAS TO BE runoff elections or instant runoff elections for all public offices. Nobody should ever fear to vote his first choice, at least on a first ballot, and nobody should ever hold any public office with less than 50% of the vote.

There should also be a None-Of-Above choice on all ballots for public office and if that choice ever wins, then the other candidates should be barred for life from holding any public office and the parties sponsoring them should be barred for at least ten years from sponsoring candidates for that particular office. The penalty for running dead wood for public offices should be severe.

Another item on such a voters' bill of rights should be something which would eliminate voting fraud for all time and if that means getting rid of the secret ballot or at least limiting it somehow or other, so be it, we're paying too high a price for it. Or it could mean that when an election is within one percentage point, send both people to congress with half of a vote each. You could expect them to split their vote on ideological issues but vote identically on issues which affect their own district.

There should be a provision that when a president is impeached and removed, his VP goes out the door with him and the office is either vacant until the next election or an emergency election is held to fill the office for the remainder of the current term. Granted removing a president should be difficult but it should not be impossible and if we couldn't remove Slick, we'd not have been able to remove Hitler or Nero either.

What happened in 98/99 was that Trent Lott simply refused to hand the presidency over to Algor with a year to go on Slick's second term, for obvious reasons. The situation should not be possible.

A person should need to be a US citizen for 18 years before voting in a US election. It should not be possible for a political party to rule our land by simply importing large voting blocks for itself.

There should also be some mechanism to prevent utterly unqualified people from holding high offices. Certainly a candidate for president or vice president, or for US Senator or member of the House of Representatives should need to obtain the same basic and simple secret level security clearance which anybody would need to be a guard at the gate of any military base in our land. That isn't asking for much but it would have spared us from the last two democrat presidents.

There are a few other things you'd want but that's the main gist of it. There is also a question as to the extent the people should be voting on issues directly since we now have the technology to allow that while the founding fathers did not. You could get some of these social issues settled once and for all and out of politics, and you could limit the scope for corruption and bribery by letting the people themselves settle at least some kinds of issues.

[Impy]

Nice list. But one of them doesn’t belong. Hint, it’s the one that would allow a handful of state legislative bosses to anoint US Senators. That would create a renaissance for political corruption.

[RoadTest]

All of these things have to be approved by the very perpetrators of the aforementioned abuses. Think they will?

[Clintonfatigued]

If we win the White House and both houses of Congress, we have a shot.

[Jeff Head]

Outstanding! I would suggest that this effort join and post these same articles at each of the following sites as well...this needs to be spread to and be a part of the various tea party efforts all over the country:

TEA PARTY PATRIOTS	TEA PARTY NATION
TEA PARTY EXPRESS	REFOUNDERS
THE 912 PROJECT	RESISTNET
FREEDOMWORKS	RESTORE THE CONSTITUTION

[Gargantua]

I Have a question, VF.

"•Phasing out of the Entitlements beginning with making participation in Social Security an individual personal choice."

If Social Security is already insolvent with mandatory participation forced on every legally working American alive today, how does it not merely become less so when huge chunks of the workforce are allowed to "opt out?" Mind you, I'm not arguing for the current system, I'm just trying to imagine how this "fix" can actually be a fix?

And if your answer, or part of it, is, "Make sure that all funds paid into the system are kept safe within the system," how do you propose to do that? Would not that act alone guarantee the solvency of the current arrangement?

Interesting, but not bulletproof. IMHO

A plan that anticipates and makes provisions for human nature would have a better chance of success. Huge piles of billion$ of dollar$ (as in a "Social Security Trust Fund" per se) are not safe when/if under the control of the D.C. election addicts.

[dynachrome]

Bookmark.

(ping to For God’s Sake, related to 10th pings)

[hfr]

Great read.

An educated electorate is the only security for liberty.

One nitpicking point however is that no constitution can perfect an imperfect humanity. No matter what safeguards are written in, some scoundrel can find a workaround.

The problem with all government is that problem Paul stated: "For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23.

[steveshoveler]

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