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I do solemnly swear allegiance to my family, my neighbors, my community, and my planet.

I fully understand that We the People's authority over government comes from the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution. The Constitution is a framework that We the People created and use to control government, not for the government to control the people.

I fully understand that We the People are popular sovereigns, and that We the People have ultimate authority over our government. The people's rights are natural rights, declared to the world in our Declaration of Independence; whereas the government exists on privilege, on authority delegated to it by We the People.
I will support those government officials that honor their Sworn Oath of Office to support and defend the Constitution. However, it is my moral, ethical, and legal duty to confront unlawful government behavior in all it's forms, regardless of the individual or their claim of authority.

I will stand up to a government that attempts to violate my rights or the rights of others.

I will defend Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness for all.

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28th Amendment - to remove the Rights of Persons from Corporations.

29th Amendment - to provide a mechanism for the people to enforce the Sworn Oath of Office.

30th Amendment - to repeal all laws relating to the criminalization of Marijuana, in all its forms.

31st Amendment - to level the playing field when it comes to political campaigns, elections, lobbying,  and media reform.

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Strategic Nonviolent Action can get the goods!

Lakotas Declare Independence! Now is the time for all People of Conscience to do the same. 

The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back: Congressional passage of HR 1955 'Thought Crimes' legislation may constitute Treason against the American People 

We the People must come together for common cause! Many groups and individuals are doing awesome work, but we need to come together under the unified banner of Constitutional Defenders, before it is too late!

Now is the time for a Citizen Coup!

The Second Constitutional Convention: What it is, what it isn't, and why We the People need to act now to Assemble in Convention for the collective futures of ourselves, our children, our country, and quite possibly our world.

Open Letter to Cindy Sheehan.

Imagine if we the people could enforce the Sworn Oath of Office.

The Second Constitutional Convention: Strike the Root, End the War.



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Welcome to the all new

We The People Network.

The People's Network for Change

Take part in the online forum, a nonpartisan, borderless, global community forum.


The primary purpose of this forum is to help facilitate an environment of empowered popular sovereignty within the people of this country, and a renewed sense of community with our global brothers and sisters.

In pursuit of the goal, we hope to encourage open communication across cultural and political boundaries. We know that the majority of people, as individuals, are good and caring people. Most people in the world, including Americans, would literally give the shirt off their back to help someone in need. Yet somehow, we allow our decisions as consumers and citizens to harm each other, as well as all the other people on this planet.

We need to make fundamental changes to our society if we are to change the disastrous effect we are having in our global community. Our society cannot continue as it is. Our world cannot continue as it is.

We the People cannot, and must not, rely on the politicians
for government reform for one simple reason.

It will never happen.

There are many hard working organizations and individuals that are doing incredible work in bringing reform to the forefront and changes to the system. Respectfully however, these efforts alone will still not stop the tide of our criminally-corrupt system.

A legitimate state of emergency exists in this country, and indeed, in this world. Only a unified grass roots movement of the American people has any chance of altering our course. We must refocus our energies on singular issues.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness is the most fundamental bipartisan issue.

We must find common ground, and we must do it now.

The We The People Network has the potential to add much needed fuel to the fire of a nonviolent, populist, Constitutionally-lawful revolution.

The pen is our sword, and the Constitution is our shield.

Our authority is the Declaration of Independence.

Please add your voice.

Oh, by the way, support
Can you imagine if she won, it just might cause a whole bunch of Cindy Sheehan types across the country to also run for Congress, and win!


The authority for the people to mandate Constitutional Amendments can be found in several places.

The Preamble of the Declaration evidences our sovereignty over government, that government is our creation, and therefore subject to our interpretation; that the people have all natural rights, and the government exists on privilege to act on our behalf. This privilege is granted by the people and can be taken away, when the people deem it necessary.

"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate & equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness: that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it's foundation on such principles, & organizing it's powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness. Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light & transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses & usurpations  pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government, & to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; & such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries & usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this let facts be submitted to a candid world."

I include the California Constitution, as this is where I reside.

CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 20
The Oath of Office

SEC. 3.  Members of the Legislature, and all public officers and employees, executive, legislative, and judicial, except such inferior officers and employees as may be by law exempted, shall, before they enter upon the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation:

       "I, ______, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter.
       "And I do further swear (or affirm) that I do not advocate, nor am I a member of any party or organization, political or otherwise, that now advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of the State of California by force or violence or other unlawful means; that within the five years immediately preceding the taking of this oath (or affirmation) I have not been a member of any party or organization, political or otherwise, that advocated the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of the State of California by force or violence or other unlawful means except as follows:

 _________(If no affiliations, write in the words "No Exceptions")_______

and that during such time as I hold the office of
 
________(name of office)______________________

I will not advocate nor become a member of any party or organization, political or otherwise, that advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of the State of California by force or violence or other unlawful means."
   And no other oath, declaration, or test, shall be required as a qualification for any public office or employment. "Public officer and employee" includes every officer and employee of the State, including the University of California, every county, city, city and county, district, and authority, including any department, division, bureau, board, commission, agency, or instrumentality of any of the foregoing.

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This was previously posted on afterdowningstreet.org in the user forums
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/34192
titled

Strategic Nonviolent Action can get the goods!

We the People of this country have a choice to make, and it shouldn't be very difficult. Our country is heading into fascism at the worst, or at the least, continuing the current fortification of the corporate police state with the government's precedents of uncharged and unpunished criminal acts, which are more likely to be committed by every succeeding new unilateralist executive.

The choice we have to make is whether we are going to continue our present course of actions in trying to prevent this fascistic takeover, or if we are willing to admit that it is time to think outside the box of conventional nonviolent action.

I know there is a vast storehouse of experience, skills, and willingness to serve in nonviolent struggle in this country. We see it every day in the actions of progressive activists. But the abilities and intentions of activists are not what I am talking about.

I am talking about the intentional and strategically coordinated convergence of what are now currently numerous smaller movements working on a diverse range of issues, into a real peoples movement based on a common objective and sharing a common grand strategy to obtain that objective through numerous smaller campaigns. At this point, any coming together by more than just a few groups has not materialized. We lack any coherent strategy to create any long term change. And you can be certain that our fascist opponents have extensively planned their strategy to be used against us. It is time for us to think strategically!

I have been writing about this for a while now, but admittedly, I am not always the best communicator. I have a petition online to arrest Bush and his co-conspirators. Only 156 signatures in the couple of months it has been posted. I've signed it. David Swanson signed it. But oddly and sadly, not many others.

I have offering what I feel is a sound strategy for long term progressive change in this country. But I tend to come off as someone who has realized something others may not have, and that throws many people immediately on the defensive, which then eliminates any chance of them actually considering my message. I realize I do this, I am working on becoming a better communicator, and I apologize for any toes I have stepped on.

I will not change my message however, because this is too important, and I haven't yet seen an alternative presented that comes close to the potential of what I am talking about. Only a handful of people in this country are even mentioning it.

Here is what I propose.

First of all, we need to develop a grand strategy for long term progressive change in this country, even if we don't feel the specific objective is achievable in the short term. Consider having a Peoples Constitutional Convention that will bring powerful Peoples Amendments to the Constitution, altering the fundamental nature of our society, and by effect making real solutions for our other problems possible. The authority for the people to do this is in the Declaration of Independence. Suggestions for such a Convention are talked about briefly at the end of this post.

After we plan and develop our grand strategy, we then need to plan and implement a phased series of campaigns that seek smaller objectives that all lead to and strengthen the goal of the grand strategy, the People's Constitutional Convention.

Possible strategies for successful campaigns to achieve smaller goals, that all keep in mind the grand strategy and serve to bolster it's chances of success, might include the following. Keep in mind that for any of this to be successful, absolute nonviolence (not passivity) must be accepted and adhered to.

Town Hall meetings (both online and local) - to discuss issues of the Constitution, sovereignty and community self sufficiency. These can be used as starting points for beginning talks with local law enforcement in our communities about their intentions and feelings toward the people they serve, their Oaths of Office, as well as getting assurances from them on their response to any federal government use of martial law or other repressive sanctions. We need to be building bridges with our police and sheriffs, not doing things that will alienate them.

Political pressure campaign on key officials to Impeach - we need to effectively remind Pelosi, Conyers, Nadler, and others, that their actions to block Impeachment constitute felony obstruction of justice, conspiracy to defraud the American people, and conspiracy to overthrow our Constitutional form of government. These are arrestable crimes for all Congress members.

If the Congress members respond positively, which is unlikely, then great. We keep the pressure up through the entire process, including the criminal prosecutions to follow successful Impeachment. But this result is unlikely.

Depending on the response to the Town Hall and law enforcement bridge building efforts, we then get the police to honor their Oaths to the people by assisting us in the next phase, which is following through on the Citizens Arrest campaign.

In the event the police and sheriffs don't feel compelled to serve the people, then depending on the level of popular support from the greater grievance group (general population) as well as third parties, we begin our previously planned campaign of noncooperation with authority, while attempting to carry out the Citizens Arrest Campaign on a limited basis that will escalate as support increases.

Citizens Arrests - this campaign will use the previously drafted and signed Peoples Warrants, preferably but not necessarily with official law enforcement assistance, to take into custody wanted war criminals, hold them in detention until such time as they can appear before a lawful magistrate.

All of this will take immense planning, but we must do it. We the people need to come together, decide on a common objective that will become the objective of the grand strategy for the entire movement. We must put aside our partisan differences, as well as shifting our focus as much as possible away from our current activities, come together as one unified front, and plan our futures. Now.

This involves compiling a realistic strategic estimate of not only the War Criminals, et al., but of ourselves as well. With this estimate, we can plan the tactics and methods for a variety of scenarios in the campaign strategies, and have the resources necessary to effectively develop our grand strategy.

I mentioned before the idea of a Peoples Constitutional Convention as the objective of the grand strategy. A Convention has the raw authority and capability of amending the Constitution which I feel is our only long term solution to that which ails this country, and by extension, the rest of the world.

Imagine if you will, a series of Peoples Amendments such as:

-the removal of the unalienable rights of personhood from business entities, i.e. corporations, etc.. These rights are only for the flesh and blood people. Commerce must operate under the public trust, and if violated, must lose it's corporal status.

-the banning of all political contributions. This includes lobbyists, perks, kickbacks, and campaign contributions. Public officials must only receive a public salary which is capped and indexed to the average citizens earnings. This is made possible by the next Amendment.

-the reform of media. Media will have to operate under the public trust. Free and equal time will be required for all campaign ads and for all candidates. Private money cannot be used to procure an advantage. These are not publicly financed elections and will not cost the people. This will be required on the part of media as their royalty payment to the people for the use of the public mediums for profit.

-and my personal favorite, a solid mechanism to enforce the Sworn Oath of Office on all government officials, regardless of elected or appointed status, and regardless of office. It must be outside the three branches of government, fully accessible to all the people, as well as have the authority to remove and indict if necessary.

-and if we really want to solve our energy problems, we must lift all prohibitions on the hemp plant, cannabis sativa. The federal classification of this plant as a controlled and banned substance, was done at the behest of the original oil cartel in our country, as well as timber barons. But the fact remains, as a biofuel crop, hemp delivers more biomass per acre, with no fertilizers, than any other plant on Earth.

Paul Fisher
We the People Network
http://www.wtpnet.org

Sign the Peoples Warrant to arrest Bush, Cheney, et al
http://www.wtpnet.org/phpPETITION/index.php

Read this link to another of my posts for information on the peoples authority, as well as relevant caselaw.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/34082

For more information on the use of strategy in nonviolent campaigns, please read Waging Nonviolent Struggle in the 21st Century, by Gene Sharp, On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict, by Robert Helvey, and Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: The Dynamics of People Power in the Twentieth Century, Dr. Peter Ackerman and Dr. Christopher Kruegler.




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For December 26th, 2007

Lakotas Declare Independence!

Now is the time for all People of Conscience to do the same. 

Happy Yule to everyone. Big news if you haven't heard already. A sovereignty  movement within the Lakota tribe, led by native rights activist Russell Means, has declared its secession from the U.S.

Here is the statement from the group, from their website , on what they're about.

"We are the freedom loving Lakota from the Sioux Indian reservations of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana who have suffered from cultural and physical genocide in the colonial apartheid system we have been forced to live under.

We are continuing the work that we were asked to do by the traditional chiefs and treaty councils, and 98 Indian Nations at the first Indian Treaty Council meeting at Standing Rock Sioux Indian Country in 1974.

During the week of December 17-19, 2007, we traveled to Washington DC and withdrew from the constitutionally mandated treaties to become a free and independent country. We are alerting the Family of Nations we have now reassumed our freedom and independence with the backing of Natural, International, and United States law.

We do not represent those BIA or IRA governments beholden to the colonial apartheid system, or those "stay by the fort" Indians who are unwilling to claim their freedom.
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Here is their in pdf format for download. It will also be in the online library of the WTPNet.org site asap.

I believe this turns a page for all people's movements in this country, or rather it should. We need to throw our support behind this movement and get involved. At the same time, we need to replicate this action in the context of our own struggles. Our struggles are indeed their struggles. All of our futures are intricately tied together. I honor my own Cherokee heritage and the heritage of other people of First Nation blood by embracing this action by the Lakota Nation.

As I am writing this, I have realized the significance of an event that my wife Terra and I experienced very recently, and that I now feel compelled to share. I consider myself a deeply spiritual man. I also happen to be a minister, although I do not generally bring that fact up in the course of political discussion. As such, I am bound to a Covenant with Creator to always be on the side of justice, as well as to employ only the ways of the peaceful warrior. I am also a person who sees the significance of the signs provided by Creator, such as the one my wife Terra, our neighbor Pam, and I were gifted with. Here is the account of that experience.

On November 27th, 2007, I was inside my office working on the computer, when our four-legged Shadow began talking loudly towards the back fence. Looking out the window I could not see what he was so interested in, so I went outside. Looking up at the fence, I noticed Owl sitting upon the fence, resting, apparently unconcerned with either myself or Shadow.

I decided to go inside to get my video camera, as well as to put Shadow inside. I slowly moved my way closer and closer with my tripod as I filmed this magnificent creature for about 20 minutes. I do not remember whether my wife was sleeping or in the shower, but after the first 20 minutes, I went inside and told her to get dressed, and to come quickly outside for something good. I also brought with us some Grandmother Sage from the Altar.

We went outside and Terra very quickly noticed Owl. After smudging ourselves with Sacred Sage, Terra immediately began walking right up to Owl unafraid. I was afraid of frightening Owl away, but she went right up to it, less than 10 feet away. I of course immediately followed her with the tripod.

We filmed and shared space with Owl for another 40 minutes before it decided to fly off to the top of a large tree. During that time, our neighbor came over and was able to witness the event as well. I have uploaded the footage to share the experience with others, and for you to find what meaning it may hold for you. Here is what I believe.

In my spiritual tradition, symbols are very important as a way to communicate with Spirit, as well as to understand what Spirit has to say to us, if we are willing to listen. Owl is a particularily strong symbol, that generally means significant change, especially when seen during the day. Sometimes this change may be to yourself or to someone you love. Sometimes the change might ultimately be good, but it is almost always painful, not without sacrifice. The day of the event, 11/27/2007 also involves all Sacred numbers, as in 9, which is the Goddess, and 11, which is the most Sacred number that corresponds with a particular planetary alignment in the Precession of the Equinox. This alignment is a marking point in the transition between the end of the Age of Pisces, and the dawning of the new Age of Aquarius.

With that in mind, I feel strongly that Owl is telling me that I am also "sitting on the fence", seemingly oblivious to impending danger. I also feel that it is not just me "sitting on the fence". In the macrocosm of the symbols, most of the people are also "sitting on the fence". We the People must decide which side we are on, and we must wake up to the change that is coming.

We must take a lesson from the actions of the Burmese Monks. You cannot be safe at home and fighting for change. I have made a decision for myself to "get off the fence". The best way for me to do this is to move ahead with several ideas I have had, that have until now remained only ideas, due to my own fears about repercussions.

Several updates will appear on this site in the next couple of days, including the launching of weekly podcasts via the WTPNet TV screen. in the upper right corner of the WTPNet.org website. Stay tuned.

Peace and Solidarity,
Paul Fisher
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The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back: Congressional passage of HR 1955 'Thought Crimes' legislation may constitute Treason against the American People 

Last weeks passage in the House of Representatives of the 'so called' is a serious attack on the rights and liberties of all Americans. No longer will you be able to speak out against the government, and their seemingly fascist agenda, for fear they might categorize you as a "terrorist" and throw you in indefinite detention.

The way this bill is worded, even the worker's right to unionize for better pay and conditions might be jeapordized. This is because the wording of the new law would allow unscrupulous corporate bosses or corrupted politicians to have the Constitutionally-protected activities of normal every-day working people declared "terrorism" under the auspices of the term "force" in the wording of the proposed new law.

There are many indications that this is indeed the intent of a significant number of politicians, and that is to crush all dissent by making people too afraid to challenge the new fascist policies of the government.

They also are trying to control our access to information, trying to tell us what we can read, and what we can't.
This law will form a new Commission, much like the one that Senator Joe McCarthy was famous for.
Here is part of the that was overwhelmingly passed by the House and now is expected to move very quickly throught the Senate. The Senate version is and is now in committee. It is expected to pass. And we all know what King George will do.
 
This is part of the Bill.
"899A. DEFINITIONS.
“For purposes of this subtitle:

      “(1) Commission.—The term ‘Commission’ means the National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism established under section 899C.

      “(2) Violent radicalization.—

      “The term ‘violent radicalization’ means the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance political, religious, or social change.

      “(3) Homegrown terrorism.—

      “The term ‘homegrown terrorism’ means the use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.

      “(4) Ideologically based violence.—

      “The term ‘ideologically based violence’ means the use, planned use, or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual to promote the group or individual’s political, religious, or social beliefs.

      899B. FINDINGS.

“The Congress finds the following:

      “(1) The development and implementation of methods and processes that can be utilized to prevent violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in the United States is critical to combating domestic terrorism.

      “(2) The promotion of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence exists in the United States and poses a threat to homeland security.

      “(3) The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens."


Please read the entire . The actual document can be easily located at the Library of Congress website devoted to Bills in Congress, at http://thomas.loc.gov/

We owe it to our grandchildren to stop any further attacks on our birthright, the Constitution. Call your Senator today and tell them this is unacceptable. Then call everybody in your Church group, and after they do the same, you all go down to your Senator's office and sit there until they realize that We the People of the United States of America will not sit silently while our Constitution is destroyed. Please act now.

Paul Fisher
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We the People must come together for common cause!

Many groups and individuals are doing awesome work, but we need to come together under the unified banner of

Constitutional Defenders,

before it is too late!

Kudos to all the people doing awesome work out there. I admit that I have not give enough credit where credit is due in the past, and I apologize. Many, many people have been doing excellent work in progressive activism around our country, and I especially love the rising number of creative nonviolent actions occurring that are directly confronting unConstitutional authority. Links to many of these organizations are listed on the website, and every one of them deserves our support.

But unfortunately, all of us working on separate issues will not deliver us from the tyranny of the Bush Regime. The point I have been trying to get across since I started this website is this.

We, all of us, need to temporarily, if not institutionally, join forces to confront the singular issue that threatens all of us, and threatens us now. We need to come together and organize for the Second Constitutional Convention in order to counter the current fascist assault on our Constitution, and indeed our very futures! Even Dennis Kucinich is talking about it, and indeed held a televised town hall style meeting recently calling for what he calls the New Constitutional Convention Initiative. It's time folks!

Our government is sliding into fascism and our time is short, make no mistake! I predict that sometime before the '08 election, there will either be some Bush and/or CIA, DHS orchestrated violent event that will cause the declaration of martial law, or Bush will have successfully started WWIII, placing the country under military rule. In either scenario, the people can expect the massive roundup of dissidents in pre-dawn raids just before any such declaration is made public. Read the account of , who was present when martial law was declared in Poland in the '80s. He'll tell you exactly how it goes down.

The recognized steps that occur when a society becomes fascist are outlined by Naomi Wolf in her article,

1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
2. Create a gulag
3. Develop a thug caste
4. Set up an internal surveillance system
5. Harass citizens' groups
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release
7. Target key individuals
8. Control the press
9. Dissent equals treason
10. Suspend the rule of law

Our country has taken most of the steps already, in fact all that remains is for the catalyzing event to occur. The infrastructure has been laid, and it continues to grow everyday.

If you think me paranoid, consider the following.

The Blackwater private mercenary army is poised to install themselves on the west coast, in Petrero California. That will make, I believe, four of their 'bases' on US soil. And they are ready to go into action, at the bidding of Bush and his henchmen.

The government has passed numerous laws to create the infrastructure for what is to come. , , and now the new , or whatever they call it. There has been lots of other oppressive legislation as well, these are just the big three. They all sound good on the surface, but actually reading them will prove to you otherwise.

The wall being built at our southern border will not only keep other people out, it will keep us in.

 There is a lot more as well. Read the , if you haven't already, and see for yourselves just how close we are.

We the People need to take immediate steps to counter this slide into fascism, and we need to do it now! In order to preserve the people's inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, We the People must get the following facts firmly into the heads of all our government officials:
* The failure of most government officials to act to defend the people and Constitution, instead choosing to act in a manner that clearly constitutes felony obstruction of justice, which is an impeachable offense with possible criminal consequences; and the intentional criminal collusion of certain government officials with the war criminals in order to seize power rightfully belonging to the people , is treason against the people of this country.

* That any declaration of martial law is treason against the people of this country. The very concept of martial law is offensive to citizens of a government that is of the people, by the people, and for the people. There are already sufficient laws in place to protect society from those individuals who use violence. The declaration of martial law is always only an attempt by a corrupted government to crush dissent and to maintain their status of being in power against the will of the people. The only imaginable, justifiable instance for allowing the deployment of soldiers or guard on U.S. soil to be used against American citizens, would be after the outbreak of civil war, to protect the lives of innocents.

* That the creation of mass-crowd control weapons as well as the militarization of our police forces to be used against the people  is treason against the people of this country. If the people have been forced to spill into the streets, it is because the government officials are in breach of contract, by refusing to concede to the will of the people, and by refusing to uphold the laws of not only the United States, but the  laws that have been agreed to in international treaties as well.  Several Articles of the Geneva Conventions have been blatantly violated by the Bush Administration and their agents.
We the People must generate the political will to have the war criminals impeached, taken into custody, and tried for war crimes, and we must do it now!

We the People must generate the political will for a Constitutional Convention to be initiated and controlled by We the People. We must pass desperately needed People's Amendments to strengthen our faltering Constitution, and we must do it now! If we don't, some other 'would-be dictator' down the road will again try to overthrow our Constitution.

I leave you with the following excerpt to consider from one of the most important Supreme Court decisions in our history. Specifically it speaks to the inalienable right of the people to expect their Constitutionally-bound elected government officials to adhere to a few basic fundamentals, such as the Sworn Oath of Office, as well as discussing the validity of laws that run counter to the Constitution. I urge you to read it, even if you have read it before.

Please support the Second Constitutional Convention!
Peace.

Paul Fisher
WTPNet.org

U.S. Supreme Court


(this is the last three pages of the aproximately twenty page document, and contains the pertinent parts of the decision delivered by Chief Justice Marshall. The link above will take you to the full document.)

"The question, whether an act, repugnant to the constitution, can become the law of the land, is a question deeply interesting to the United States; but, happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. It seems only necessary to recognise certain principles, supposed to have been long and well established, to decide it.

That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected. The exercise of this original right is a very great exertion; nor can it nor ought it to be frequently repeated. The principles, therefore, so established are deemed fundamental. And as the authority, from which they proceed, is supreme, and can seldom act, they are designed to be permanent.

This original and supreme will organizes the government, and assigns to different departments their respective powers. It may either stop here; or establish certain limits not to be transcended by those departments.

The government of the United States is of the latter description. The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing; if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts pro- [5 U.S. 137, 177]   hibited and acts allowed are of equal obligation. It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act.

Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it.

If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the constitution is not law: if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power in its own nature illimitable.

Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature repugnant to the constitution is void.

This theory is essentially attached to a written constitution, and is consequently to be considered by this court as one of the fundamental principles of our society. It is not therefore to be lost sight of in the further consideration of this subject.

If an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void, does it, notwithstanding its invalidity, bind the courts and oblige them to give it effect? Or, in other words, though it be not law, does it constitute a rule as operative as if it was a law? This would be to overthrow in fact what was established in theory; and would seem, at first view, an absurdity too gross to be insisted on. It shall, however, receive a more attentive consideration.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases, must of necessity expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. [5 U.S. 137, 178]   So if a law be in opposition to the constitution: if both the law and the constitution apply to a particular case, so that the court must either decide that case conformably to the law, disregarding the constitution; or conformably to the constitution, disregarding the law: the court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the case. This is of the very essence of judicial duty.

If then the courts are to regard the constitution; and he constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature; the constitution, and not such ordinary act, must govern the case to which they both apply.

Those then who controvert the principle that the constitution is to be considered, in court, as a paramount law, are reduced to the necessity of maintaining that courts must close their eyes on the constitution, and see only the law.

This doctrine would subvert the very foundation of all written constitutions. It would declare that an act, which, according to the principles and theory of our government, is entirely void, is yet, in practice, completely obligatory. It would declare, that if the legislature shall do what is expressly forbidden, such act, notwithstanding the express prohibition, is in reality effectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence with the same breath which professes to restrict their powers within narrow limits. It is prescribing limits, and declaring that those limits may be passed at pleasure.

That it thus reduces to nothing what we have deemed the greatest improvement on political institutions-a written constitution, would of itself be sufficient, in America where written constitutions have been viewed with so much reverence, for rejecting the construction. But the peculiar expressions of the constitution of the United States furnish additional arguments in favour of its rejection.

The judicial power of the United States is extended to all cases arising under the constitution. [5 U.S. 137, 179]   Could it be the intention of those who gave this power, to say that, in using it, the constitution should not be looked into? That a case arising under the constitution should be decided without examining the instrument under which it arises?

This is too extravagant to be maintained.

In some cases then, the constitution must be looked into by the judges. And if they can open it at all, what part of it are they forbidden to read, or to obey?

There are many other parts of the constitution which serve to illustrate this subject.

It is declared that 'no tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state.' Suppose a duty on the export of cotton, of tobacco, or of flour; and a suit instituted to recover it. Ought judgment to be rendered in such a case? ought the judges to close their eyes on the constitution, and only see the law.

The constitution declares that 'no bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.'

If, however, such a bill should be passed and a person should be prosecuted under it, must the court condemn to death those victims whom the constitution endeavours to preserve?

      'No person,' says the constitution, 'shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.'

Here the language of the constitution is addressed especially to the courts. It prescribes, directly for them, a rule of evidence not to be departed from. If the legislature should change that rule, and declare one witness, or a confession out of court, sufficient for conviction, must the constitutional principle yield to the legislative act?

From these and many other selections which might be made, it is apparent, that the framers of the consti- [5 U.S. 137, 180]   tution contemplated that instrument as a rule for the government of courts, as well as of the legislature.

Why otherwise does it direct the judges to take an oath to support it? This oath certainly applies, in an especial manner, to their conduct in their official character. How immoral to impose it on them, if they were to be used as the instruments, and the knowing instruments, for violating what they swear to support!

The oath of office, too, imposed by the legislature, is completely demonstrative of the legislative opinion on this subject. It is in these words: 'I do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich; and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge all the duties incumbent on me as according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to the constitution and laws of the United States.'

Why does a judge swear to discharge his duties agreeably to the constitution of the United States, if that constitution forms no rule for his government? if it is cl