PRINCIPLE SIX: Nonviolence believes that the universe is on the side of justice.
The nonviolent resister has deep faith that justice will eventually win.
Nonviolence believes that God is a God of justice.
SIX STEPS OF NONVIOLENT SOCIAL CHANGE
1. INFORMATION GATHERING: To understand and articulate an issue, problem or injustice facing a person, community, or institution you must do research. You must investigate and gather all vital information from all sides of the argument or issue so as to increase your understanding of the problem. You must become an expert on your opponent's position.
2. EDUCATION: It is essential to inform others, including your opposition, about your issue. This minimizes misunderstandings and gains you support and sympathy.
3. PERSONAL COMMITMENT: Daily check and affirm your faith in the philosophy and methods of nonviolence. Eliminate hidden motives and prepare yourself to accept suffering, if necessary, in your work for justice.
4. DISCUSSION/NEGOTIATION: Using grace, humor and intelligence, confront the other party with a list of injustices and a plan for addressing and resolving these injustices. Look for what is positive in every action and statement the opposition makes. Do not seek to humiliate the opponent but to call forth the good in the opponent.
5. DIRECT ACTION: These are actions taken when the opponent is unwilling to enter into, or remain in, discussion/negotiation. These actions impose a "creative tension" into the conflict, supplying moral pressure on your opponent to work with you in resolving the injustice.
6. RECONCILIATION: Nonviolence seeks friendship and understanding with the opponent. Nonviolence does not seek to defeat the opponent. Nonviolence is directed against evil systems, forces, oppressive policies, unjust acts, but not against persons. Through reasoned compromise, both sides resolve the injustice with a plan of action. Each act of reconciliation is one step closer to the 'Beloved Community.'
Source: The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
PRINCIPLE ONE: Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.
It is active nonviolent resistance to evil.
It is aggressive spiritually, mentally and emotionally.
Constitutionalists have never resorted to physical violence in opposing the destruction of their protections against federal government overreach.
PRINCIPLE TWO: Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding.
The end result of nonviolence is redemption and reconciliation.
The purpose of nonviolence is the creation of the Beloved Community.
Constitutionalists seek an end to abuses of their Constitutional protections and the spiritual redemption of their fellow citizens who are committing theft by ballot box. These are steps toward the creation of the Beloved Community.
PRINCIPLE THREE: Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice not people.
Nonviolence recognizes that evildoers are also victims and are not evil people.
The nonviolent resister seeks to defeat evil not people.
Constitutionalists seek to defeat the evil of unlawful government and the spiritual healing of their fellow citizens who destroy Constitutional protections.
King’s SIX PRINCIPLES OF NONVIOLENCE
as seen from the Constitutionalist’s perspective
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PRINCIPLE FOUR: Nonviolence holds that suffering can educate and transform.
Nonviolence accepts suffering without retaliation.
Unearned suffering is redemptive and has tremendous educational and transforming possibilities.
Constitutionalists have never sought reparations or other vengeful actions against those who have unlawfully violated Constitutional protections.
PRINCIPLE FIVE: Nonviolence chooses love instead of hate.
Nonviolence resists violence of the spirit as well as the body.
Nonviolent love is spontaneous, unmotivated, unselfish and creative.
Constitutionalists have always resisted violence against the rule of law by creative persuasion, legislation and judicial actions and the amendment process, in spite of persistent abuses.
PRINCIPLE SIX: Nonviolence believes that the universe is on the side of justice.
The nonviolent resister has deep faith that justice will eventually win.
Nonviolence believes that God is a God of justice.
Constitutionalists believe in our Constitution, which recognizes Jesus as Lord (signed “in the Year of our Lord” 1787), to provide justice if all would abide by it.
The Tenth Amendment and the Beloved Community
Many Americans recognize that the Tenth Amendment, the last article of the Bill of Rights, was intended to protect all of us from exactly the kind of federal overreach that has resulted in the bloated monstrosity that is today’s federal government.
The habitual violations of the Tenth Amendment by the Democrats and their accomplices in the judiciary, the media and among some Republicans (RINOs – Republicans In Name Only) are the root cause of much of the ill feeling among Americans.
The power to remove this ill feeling rests with those who have kept the Democrats in power with their votes and its removal would be a major step toward achieving Dr. King’s Beloved Community.
Why Running Against the Entire Democrat
Agenda Matters
Unless Constitutionalists can make the case that the routine violations of our Tenth Amendment protections are abusive of Americans, our “progressive” friends will continue to view their unlawful approaches to our problems as legitimate charity and conforming to Christian teaching. They will continue to believe that they hold the high moral ground and are more holy and righteous than those committed to following the Constitution.
Note the misplaced sense of responsibility and responsibility transference in the following email (next chart) from someone claiming to be pro-life.
See also: www.cul.detmich.com/lemmo_common_good/lemmo_common_good.html
Email response to my fundraising letter for the 2012 elections from a Catholic friend of long standing
Dear Al --
As a pro-life advocate I want to promote candidates for political office who actively support life. To be pro-birth is not enough. If a candidate wants to cut support that enables young women to choose life for their unborn children, how is this nurturing life? Is that what Jesus would do? If a candidate wants to cut programs that mentor young fathers-to-be so they can recognize and meet their responsibilities, how is this nurturing life? A recent EWTN speaker pointed out that the abortion rate for those in poverty is 300% higher than for those above the poverty line. To slash the budget for programs that offer counseling, food, shelter, alternative education, job training, and health care is often to slash the lifeline that enables the most fragile in society to choose life. Finally, would the same Jesus who told us: “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you…” choose to expand our military force by trillions of dollars in the next few years—not even requested by the armed forces—when our nation has poured more money into defense than the next 20 nations combined? Where is the trillion dollars for peace academies, conflict resolution programs, diplomacy training and a host of life-affirming methods that would greatly diminish the call for violent force? We need courageous men and women to affirm life every step of the way.
My email response to my friend
Thank you for your response. What most people don't understand when it comes to all these federal programs is that our Constitution prohibits the government from being involved in nearly all of them. Yes, they do good things for people, but failing to abide by our supreme law, which was written to restrict the power of government, is failure to abide by a still higher law: to love our neighbor as ourselves. Charity belongs at the state or local level where it is closer to the people. This is what the Church's teaching on subsidiarity requires. And apart from government action, charity should be our responsibility as individuals, as church and as members of whatever organizations we choose to associate with to deal with particular issues. Passing off our responsibility to the federal government, which has no legitimate powers to conduct social programs, has corrupted our whole society in many ways, building a culture of dependency that has wrecked families, and distorting our government functions. I'd love to sit down with you or anyone else and show them exactly where in the Constitution the restrictions I'm speaking of exist. I know you and many others have the best of intentions, but empowering an evil agenda -- and I don't use the word evil lightly -- to accomplish things that have no justification under the law to begin with, is no way to exercise responsible citizenship or Christian charity.
“And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in Congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union.”
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“In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands in Congress. Done at Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania the ninth day of July in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Eight, and in the Third Year of the independence of America.”
Northwest Ordinance of 1787:
“Art. 3.Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.” (The Bible was the main textbook.)
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“Done by the United States, in Congress assembled, the 13th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1787, and of their sovereignty and independence the twelfth.”
Ideas on Government and Religion
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George Washington:
“It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.”
“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
Thomas Jefferson):
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” - Declaration of Independence
“It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.”
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
Ideas on Government and Religion
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John Adams:
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
Alexander Hamilton:
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
American Government and
the Ten Commandments
The below statement, author unknown, states important truths:
We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
The Democrat Agenda and The Ten Commandments
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Idolatry and Killing: By the idolatrous self-worship of their own intellects as competent to determine criteria for who is or isn't a person under the law, the Democrats have rationalized massive prenatal child-slaying. This is simply the ancient practice of living human sacrifice (abortion "rites") to additional idols this nation now worships, especially unrestricted sexual expression.
The fatal discrimination against the prenatal population arises from the same idolatrous, self-worshiping arrogance that is the source of racism. It's the same ugly ideas, just different criteria for choice. The Democrats are first cousins to racists, believing that human rights are granted or denied to the powerless by the powerful, based on criteria of their choice, rather than being intrinsic with each human life, which was the premise of our nation before it was struck down by Roe v. Wade.
Another idol they worship is equality of outcomes (rather than equality of
opportunity, equality under the law or equality in the eyes of God) regardless of talent, effort, accomplishment, drive or virtue.
The Democrat Agenda and The Ten Commandments
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Coveting: Their emphasis on class warfare between "haves" and "have nots" promotes and rationalizes covetousness. Theirs is the politics of envy.
Stealing: Their confiscatory approach to taxation, without constitutional authority for their spending priorities, is simply theft. It routinely violates the principle of equal protection of the laws by far more heavily taxing some of us, and punishes success.
Dishonoring father and mother: They dishonor father and mother with their support for euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide, pressuring the elderly to end their own lives.
Sexual and Relational Sin: They condone and encourage sexual and relational sin by their support for mainstreaming and normalizing homosexuality and marriage for SADS, Sexual Affinity Disorder Sufferers (a compassionate and accurate term, unlike the dishonest and misleading "gays") as well as sexual relations of every kind for minors and others outside of marriage.
The Democrat Agenda and The Ten Commandments
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False Witness: They bear false witness against their neighbors with their wild accusations of racism, hate and judgmentalism in attempts to intimidate, silence or put on the defensive any critics of their destructive ideas. This is really psychological projection, attributing to others what is true of themselves.
Misuse of the name of God: They misuse the name of God when they violate their oaths of office to support the Constitution by pursuing legislation for which there is no constitutional authority and by supporting judicial dictates and executive usurpations which subvert legislative authority altogether. These pursuits are violations of the laws of man as well as of the laws of God.
Democrats: The Party of Division
Divide us by class, sex, race, religion, generations, language groups, financial interests
Monogamous and Heterosexual Marriage – one of the foundations of any morally, psychologically, physically and spiritually healthy society
The Nuclear Family – the most critical institution for the raising of children which the political left has historically sought to undermine and replace
Private Initiative – any private initiatives must be approved in advance by government through a series of burdensome permitting and regulatory hurdles
Free Enterprise – ownership is not sought since that would bring with it responsibility – Democrats seek to control private enterprises – their economic model is not socialism but fascism
Rule of Law – to be replaced by the Rule of Whim characteristic of the Democrats’ philosophy of childhood: “If I want it I should have it.”
Sanctity of Human Life – This war has featured violence to life, truth, values, language, law, government, medicine, ethics and principles of human rights
Does the Democrats’ War on America Meet the
Definition of Treason in the U.S. Constitution?
“Article III, Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”
- U.S. Constitution
The Democrats have been waging all-out war against the very foundations of American society for decades, including war against our economic, social, political, legal, ethical and educational systems and the very moral character of our people.
The present (Obama) Democrat Administration has been relentlessly tearing down the good name of the United States while apologizing to and flattering our adversaries.
The International Convention of the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide on December 9, 1948 set the United Nations definition of genocide:
General Assembly Resolution 260A (III) Article 2
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
Electing a Democrat to our presidency allows the seeding of our entire diplomatic corps with abortion zealots and empowers history’s most egregious campaign of cultural imperialism. Democrats are committed to jamming abortion down the throats of Third World nations and destroying good will toward our country.
Proportionality: inflicted damage must be proportionate to the good expected
- Trades a human life for values typically less than life
- Grotesquely disproportionate to the ends usually sought
Just War Criteria Violated in the Democrats’
War on the Prenatal Child
Just Cause: to confront “a real and present danger” to protect innocent life
- Very seldom the case with abortion
Competent Authority: war must be declared by those with responsibility for public order
- Decision typically left to the distraught, ill-informed or underage individuals
Comparative Justice: Are the values at stake critical enough to override the
presumption against war (abortion)?
Right Intention: War can only be conducted to satisfy the just cause
- Just cause usually absent
Last Resort: All peaceful alternatives have already been exhausted
