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IOTC Director Don Dwyer to MD Legislature:

COURTS DON’T MAKE LAW!

an article by Michael Anthony Peroutka

Since it has been widely reported that the ACLU assisted the plaintiffs in this case by “judge shopping” to find a sympathetic court, the decision was not surprising nor was its timing. Since the certain appeal and review of this case by the Maryland Court of Appeals (Maryland’s “Supreme Court”) is not likely to take place until after the election of a new legislature this November, those Maryland office holders who are beholding to the homosexual lobby desire NOT to take a position that would cost them votes with the vast majority of Maryland citizens.

I am delighted to report to you that some names that are familiar to those who have been involved with Institute on the Constitution have been very active during this battle.

Our Director, Don Dwyer, elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2002, has been championing the defense of God-ordained marriage in the Maryland legislature. Don called for his fellow legislators to obey their oaths of office and not let the judiciary usurp the authority of the law making body.

Pastor David Whitney, our Senior Instructor at IOTC, testifying today before the Judiciary Committee of the Maryland House of Delegates, exhorted the lawmakers to be courageous and to impeach the judge on the basis of her incompetence.

Anne Arundel County Clerk of the Court Robert Duckworth gave a stirring speech in his testimony today in Annapolis, declaring that as an elected official charged with the duty of performing civil marriages in the county HE WILL NOT, under any circumstances, obey any order of any court to conduct same sex “marriages”. We are most grateful for his principled stand on this issue.

All of these people deserve our commendation and support. They have been busy plowing their row in His field. They have been doing what many of you across the country have also been doing: taking the knowledge learned from our study of American history and the principles of American government and working hard, as God has directed and inspired, to make practical applications. They, like many of you, are “walking the walk!”

They know, as you know, that any purported “decision” by any judge that says that a man can marry a man is no more valid than an opinion declaring that Michael Peroutka can float across his family room. The judge, in both cases, is up against the LAW OF NATURE and NATURE’S GOD.

You see, in addition to the fact that, in the American system, legislatures, NOT courts, are entrusted with authority to declare man-made law, NO INSTITUTION of civil government has authority to rewrite the God-ordained law of gravity nor the moral law found in the Bible.

Blackstone, in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, declared that there were three categories of law. Revealed Law (Bible), The Law of Nature (reason and conscience, “written on the heart”) and Municipal Law (made by man). Blackstone’s influence can be seen in the Declaration of Independence where Jefferson relied on the Law of Nature and of Nature’s God as justification for America’s right to self-government.

No Municipal Law can be considered valid if it conflicts with the Bible or the Law of Nature. This is why stealing or murder cannot be lawful even if declared so by a legislature. Such a “law” violates the higher moral law and is void not law at all. Being void, it must be resisted. This is why Roe v. Wade is NOT law.

This is also why Judge Murdock ought to be impeached. Declaring marriage between a man and a man indicates that she does not understand the Source and Nature of law. Therefore, she is unqualified for the office.

For God, Family and the Republic,

Michael Anthony Peroutka

November 29, 2009

CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2009 ADJOURNS

Gives Forth “Articles of Freedom”

Instructs Congress and Each of the Several States

Civic Action by the People Planned

Next Step: “A Goodly Number of Millions” to Take Pledge

On November 21, 2009, Continental Congress 2009 concluded its 11 days of deliberating, debating and voting.

116 delegates from 48 states set out to review the Government’s violations of fourteen of our Creator-endowed Rights, each of which are guaranteed by the Constitution, and how the Free could put an end to those violations.

With the knowledge that the People have exhausted their administrative and judicial remedies, – i.e., having claimed and exercised their First Amendment Right “to Petition the Government for a Redress of Grievances,” with no legitimate response from either the Judicial, Congressional or Executive branches over the last fourteen years, the delegates met to consider their constitutional remedies.

Their emerging work product, titled Articles of Freedom, is testament to a measured, deliberative and lawful process that all Americans can be proud of.

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Continental Congress 2009:
Bold Plan of Resistance Emerging Stark Instructions to State and Federal Officials Coming ForthDelegates Plan Potent Acts of Civic Resistance

Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA – 1774

Pheasant Run, St. Charles, IL – 2009After a week of intense committee deliberations, sometimes extending well into the early morning hours, the first formal resolutions of Continental Congress 2009 have begun to emerge. On Tuesday, the Congress adopted resolutions aimed to ending the federal income tax fraud and terminating all state and federal firearms regulations as de facto violations of the plain language of the Second Amendment.As each of these first resolutions was adopted by the Assembly, they were loudly and spontaneously celebrated by the assembled Delegates, with jubilant energy and great emotion at the emergence of these first acts of nationally organized resistance to emerge from the Congress.If these initial resolutions are any indication, the Congress clearly has set its collective intent to adopting a volume of provocative and far-reaching “Remedial Instructions” and “Civic Actions” to restore the Constitution, and which effects will soon reverberate from sea-to-shining-sea.Watch the live webcast, see the video archives

The Income Tax Instruction to the United States Congress adopted by the Continental Congress cites several essential facts in U.S. law, including irrefutable documentation establishing that the 16^th Amendment is void, ab initio, due to its failure to be properly ratified, and that any direct, un-apportioned tax on the labor of any American is wholly unconstitutional. The resolution cites the U.S. Supreme Court holding that labor (and the fruits thereof) are, “.the most sacred and inviolable” property of the citizens of the nation. (Citing Butcher’s Union Co. v. Crescent City Co., 111 U.S. 746, 757) The tax resolution also calls for Congress to execute the immediate cessation of the (unlawful) imposition of the practice of withholding of earnings from the paychecks of American citizens and for the Congress to immediately release and restore all citizens wrongfully imprisoned as a result of the “unconstitutional application of the income tax” (laws).

The Civic Actions recommended by the Congress for the People to end the Income Tax fraud include for the People to contact their local sheriff and demand cooperation with the citizenry to provide protection from (unlawful) federal and state tax enforcement actions (including fraudulent, non-judicial “administrative” IRS liens and levys), that citizens prepare to replace or otherwise recall or impeach any sheriff who refuses to protect their local citizens from “.rogue federal agents acting under color of law,” and for citizens to prepare themselves to withhold their monies as a means to secure Redress.

As to the Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms, the resolution of the Continental Congress declares that all regulations, state and federal, which are repugnant to the express language of the Second Amendment are “.null and void – including but not limited to, illegal and unconstitutional restrictions on open and/or concealed carry.”

The arms resolution calls for the citizenry to coordinate with their local county Sheriff in establishing a Constitutional Militia, inherently separate from the state National Guard. Such militia would be a constitutional defense force, “comprising all citizenry capable of bearing arms and under proper authority, in defense of themselves and the states.”

Official copies of these resolutions and others will be released shortly for public inspection and distribution. Committee and sub-committee work on “Remedial Instructions” for state and federal officials will by decree, end at midnight Wednesday (Nov. 18).

Starting tomorrow (Thursday) , the Congress begins two and a half days of intense deliberations, turning their sole attention to debating and adopting a comprehensive set of potent “Civic Actions” every American can implement, en masse, to effect a peaceful restoration of Constitutional Order.

These lawful, (non-violent) civic actions, (fully lawful and protected by the Right to enforce the First Amendment Right to Petition), will be designed to significantly affect the functioning of both state and federal institutions which have been complicit in enabling or otherwise aiding or allowing the destruction of the Constitution and/or the Fundamental Rights of the People.

On Saturday afternoon, the agenda plans for the Delegates set to move to adopt the full package consisting of First Amendment Petitions for Redress of Grievances, “Remedial Instructions” to be served upon state and federal officials, and the slate of “Civic Actions” designed for everyday Americans to implement to resist the tyrants and engage in the battle to restore Liberty.

The final package generated by the Congress will be formally known as the “Articles of Association” and signed (Saturday afternoon) by the Delegates of Continental Congress 2009. Means are currently being developed for citizens everywhere across America to likewise sign the Articles of Association and join the battle to hold our government accountable to the Law.

The current intent for the Articles of Association is that when “x” million (tbd) Americans publicly commit to personally embrace and execute at least some portion of the (peaceful) plan of Civic resistance, the plan of “Civic Actions” will be fully activated and its full effects soon manifest against our errant institutions of government. More details will be announced following the conclusion of the CC2009 assembly on November 21.

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