Vote “YES” on Prop C Rally – The Plaza
Today · 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location Across from the Fountain at the Kansas City Plaza
47th and JC Nichols Parkway
Kansas City, MO
There is a rally for Vote “NO” on Prop C in the same location, we will be across the street. They're spreading misinformation about the bill and we need to educate people on the TRUTH!
Vote “YES!” on Prop C – August 3rd
Special HFAC Screening Event: “Don’t Tread On Me” Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Location: Johnson County Library – Antioch Branch, 8700 W. Shawnee Mission Parkway (NW corner of Shawnee Mission and Antioch Road – map and directions
William Lewis will also conduct a Q&A session afterwards, and we are lining up other people featured in the movie to participate and give their thoughts on the long-term direction of the “Freedom Movement” in this country.
Meet & Greet: 6:00pm
The screening will start promptly at 6:30, so don’t be late!
Figuring Out the Fed: A Conversation with Allan Meltzer and Tom Hoenig
Allan Meltzer, the leading historian of the nation’s central bank, and Tom Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, join Crosby Kemper III, director of the Kansas City Public Library for a public conversation on the past, present, and future of the Federal Reserve System. The program takes place on Wednesday, July 21, at 6:30 p.m. at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
Admission is free. A 6 p.m. reception precedes the presentation. RSVP online or call 816.701.3407. Free parking is available at the Library District Parking Garage at 10th & Baltimore.
Liberty Restoration Project – Man on the Street – Street Team event
We will meet up at the Westport Coffee House at Noon, Thursday, July 22. Please bring a video camera if you have it. We will disseminate fliers to those who come to the event to then pass out to people on the streets. We will arm you with a few questions to use for the Man on the Street action and then you’ll be free to find people on the street willing to go on camera answering the questions. More information will be discussed at the meetup.
Liberty Restoration Project Bi-Monthly Meeting
Sunday, July 25, 4pm
We will be discussing future events as well as our Man on the Street activism, meeting with council members, and more. Please join us for this!!
Protest to end the occupations/the global empire!
I think we’ve given Obama enough time to fulfill his promise to bring our troops home. He said 16 months, it’s been 16 months.
Let’s peacefully demonstrate to end the occupation and bring our men and women home. Let’s rally to stop funding these wars.
KANSAS CITY AREA PROTEST/RALLY
Sunday, June 6th
2-4pm
At the Fountain on the Plaza
47th and JC Nichols Parkway
Kansas City, MO
SAINT LOUIS AREA PROTEST/RALLY
Sunday, June 6th
Noon – 2pm
The Hampton Round About near the Zoo
St. Louis, MO
COLUMBIA AREA PROTEST/RALLY
Sunday, June 6th
1-3pm
Corner of 9th and Broadway, Downtown Columbia
Columbia, Mo
Any other groups interested in joining us? Please forward to other groups as well.
Thank you!!
Iraq Veterans Against War will be joining forces with LRP for this event!!
This is a posting of local events and issues coming up in the next week that Liberty Restoration Project will be involved with:
Tuesday, May 4th
We will be in Jefferson City for the CODE BLUE HEALTH CARE FREEDOM ACT RALLY
Show Me State Sovereignty
Code Blue Rally
When: Tuesday, May 4, 10:00 a.m.
Where: Missouri State Capitol – Senate Gallery
Why: We must show up in huge numbers so Senators know we mean business. “We the People” want a ballot option to protect our families from federal health control. (Wear Red)
Rally at noon in the first floor rotunda!
Hear from the sponsors of the resolutions and leaders of the Missouri Sovereignty effort in the Missouri General Assembly – Sen. Jane Cunningham, Rep. Tim Jones, Sen. Jim Lembke, Rep. Brian Nieves and others.
They have set up a fun activity before the rally if you’re interested:
9:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. – Join in the Rolling Tea Party circling the Capitol. Decorate your car with balloons, flags, writing on the glass – however creative or not creative you want to be. We are alerting the press and the members of the General Assembly to step out of the Capitol at that time and watch the patriots as they circle the Capitol in support of the Health Care Freedom Act.
At 9:55 a.m., honk your car horn for two minutes.
Drivers should then drop off your passengers so they can go in and find seats in the Senate Gallery. They can save a seat for the driver so the driver can join them after the car is parked.
Wednesday, May 5th
SUPPORT Urban Farming
Kansas City City Hall, 26th Floor
1:30pm
A lovely message from BADSEED:
This is crazy Farmer Brooke and I am down on my dirt-stained knees begging you to drop everything on Wednesday, May 5th at 1:30 PM and get your “organic” booties down to City Hall on the 26th Floor to SUPPORT URBAN AGRICULTURE at the final hearing before City Council to vote on city code changes that will make it possible for urban farms and gardens to flourish throughout KC!!
As you know, this movement to amend the city codes regarding farms & gardens came out of the BADSEED crisis which began last season when our idyllic farm came under scrutiny from the City and was threatened to be dismantled. Consequently, we are in fact moving to a new location. We may have lost the battle here on BADSEED Farm, but all the heart-ache will be worth it IF as a result we get a “greener” Kansas City at large. Heck Yeah!!!
We Kansas Citians are very fortunate to have some awesome “forward-thinking” and “environmentally aware” individuals on our City Council who have pushed this codes change forward. However – there is plenty of opposition and without the showing of community support this thing will get squashed under the pressure of politically powerful “tomato-haters”……ya know…..the same folks who rose up against BADSEED Farm in the first place. Why?? Well, come weed an onion bed with me, and I will tell ya all about it….
Okay Okay – on a more serious note – I need you! My urban eggplant needs you. We need you to support us on May 5th!
Pretty pretty PLEASE with heirloom tomato sauce on top of it……
If you cannot make it down to City Hall you can always e-mail a “short and sweet” letter of support to your City Council representatives at city_council@kcmo.org. PLEASE contact me if you need more info or details.
If this thing passes it will actually be legal for you to come and weed my onion beds with me!! Haha!
Yours Truly,
Brooke
-farmer and mistress of the BADSEED
Saturday, May 8th
Red Light Camera protest at 39th and Southwest Trafficway
Noon to 2pm
You know the drill, you’ve seen us out there at least 3 times this year. This is BIG PUSH!! Details as follows:
For the past year, Senator Jim Lembke and Campaign for Liberty members have worked on banning Red Light Cameras. Senator Lembke’s amendment to ban red light cameras passed in the Missouri Senate this Tuesday. With a little more work, that legislation now has a good chance of passing in the Missouri House.
Red Light Cameras have been a violation of your rights and they do not provide due process. We need your help to insure that this ban becomes law and is not stripped in committee from HB2111. The bill’s fate lies in the hands of these legislators:
Please call:
your state representative (contact info here www.house.mo.gov )
Senator Stouffer (sponsor of the bill) (314) 751-1507
Representative Dixon (committee chair) (573) 751-9809
Representative Faith (573) 751-1452
Encourage support of this ban.
Here are some talking points associated with the lack of due process:
Due Process: says that government must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person according to the law. Due process holds the government submissive to the law of the land, protecting individual persons from the state.
The 5th amendment to the constitution says that no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
Because of municipality’s use of a ‘rebuttable presumption,’ or a presumption that the driver of the car is the owner of the car, and a failure of the municipality to provide evidence against the driver of the car, individuals are forced incriminate themselves or investigate, provide evidence, and incriminate another.
Forcing the owner of the car to incriminate another, in many cases a family member, can be a violation of a person’s right to spousal privilege (the right to not incriminate or testify against your spouse).
Municipalities use a presumption of guilt, not innocence, and punish our Missouri citizens based on the assumption that the individual who owned the car is the individual who ran the red light. If you are innocent you must provide proof of your innocence vs. the state providing proof of your guilt.
Thank Senator Lembke, Josh Carter and Tracy Ward for leading the effort to stop this violation of Missouri citizen’s rights.
Paul Hamby
Missouri Coordinator
Campaign For Liberty
*Much thanks from Liberty Restoration Project to Paul Hamby for getting this message spread far and wide and helping promote the protest as well!!!
I hope to see some of you at the upcoming events!! If you know of something that Liberty Restoration Project should attend, let me know and I’ll get it posted!!
Published with permission of Richard Hamblen:
Brief Introduction to
Hamblen vs United States
(09-9990)
Richard A. Hamblen was a commissioned officer in the state militia of Tennessee, the Tennessee State Guard, and battalion commander of the 201st Military Police Battalion. He committed an act of civil disobedience by defying the National Firearms Act of 1934 and building for his use, and the use of the soldiers in his command, firearms that are, in the words of the United States Supreme Court, in United States vs Miller, “part of the ordinary military equipment… of the type in common use at the time, which could reasonably contribute to the common defense”.
Hamblen was tried and convicted in 2006 for violating the NFA of 1934 and the 922(o) laws. He served 13 months in federal prison, and 24 months of probation. His case was appealed to the Supreme Court at the exact same time as Heller vs DC. Certiorari was denied without comment. In December of 2008, Hamblen filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus, in which US District Court Judge Todd Campbell said Hamblen “made a substantial showing of the denial of his constitutional rights as regards his Second Amendment claim”. The case is now once again before the Supreme Court.
Question presented to the Court:
“Whether the Second Amendment Guarantees Members Of A Legitimate State Authorized Militia The Right To Keep And Bear Arms Supplied by Themselves Of The Kind In Common Use By The Military At The Time”
Hamblen’s argument is this:
1. Hamblen’s case is the first Second Amendment case to be presented to the Court involving an actual member of a statutorily created state militia, and should be accepted for this reason.
2. The Heller decision contradicts the Court’s earlier ruling in Miller by selectively quoting from Miller. Heller claims that, according to Miller, the Second Amendment protects only those arms which are “in common use at the time”. The actual quote is “part of the ordinary military equipment of the type in common use at the time, which could reasonably contribute to the common defense”. Only the Supreme Court can resolve the conflict between the two cases.
3. Heller gets the facts of Miller wrong. Heller states that Miller and his codefendant appealed their conviction for violating the NFA of 1934. In truth, it was the government appealing the dismissal of the charges against the two. The surviving defendant in Miller was not even represented in the Supreme Court. The Court nevertheless did not accept the prosecution’s argument, but said, rather, in the “absence of any evidence” in the trial record that the weapon in question was “part of the ordinary military equipment, of the type in common use at the time, which could reasonably contribute to the common defense”, they could not say the Second Amendment protected it and the case was remanded to the original jurisdiction for further discovery to expand the record. The surviving defendant, instead of introducing the evidence to meet the standard set by the Court, obligingly plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of probation.
4. The United States is prevented by the Constitution from exercising any authority over the Militia, unless and until the Militia is in the actual service of the United States. Under all other circumstances the Militia is under the jurisdiction of the “several states”. Furthermore, the Second Amendment, adopted in 1791, overrides any authority over arms claimed by the United States under any provision of the 1787 Constitution, just as the 13th Amendment removes any protections for chattel slavery found in the 1787 Constitution. The Militia is the only institution named by the Constitution as “necessary for the security of a free state”. The purpose of the Second Amendment is, as Miller says, to preserve and maintain the efficiency of the Militia. For the United States to do anything to impair this goal defeats the purpose of the Second Amendment, and, since the Constitution cannot be internally contradictory, such action is nonsensical.
Hamblen vs United States deserves the consideration and support of all who claim to defend the Second Amendment. Given the circumstances of his case, if Hamblen is not protected by the Second Amendment, then no one is.
Mr. Hamblen talks about his case to the Motorhome Diaries:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTTYyO_8N9M&feature=related
To follow this case or read more about it: http://www.esnips.com/web/HamblenvsUnitedStates
Your friend in Liberty,
Renea McMasters
Saturday, April 24, 2010
3:00pm – 5:00pm
Outside the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City – Corner of Main and Grand Streets
Join us for our Bi-Annual End the Fed Rally.
Bring your signs, flags, bullhorns, video cameras and let’s rally!!
We will be meeting on the east side of the Federal Reserve Bank at the corner of Main and Grand Street. Around 3:30, we will start marching down to the IRS building and then back to the Federal Reserve Bank!!
We hope to see you there!!
PRESS RELEASE:
“Audit the Fed” comes to Kansas City
When: Saturday, April 24th, from 3:00 PM until 5:00 PM
Where: The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Missouri, at the corner of
Main and Grand.
Media availability throughout the event.
Contact lrpinthenews@gmail.com for more information
In one way or another, each person in the United States has been affected by the current financial crisis. Now, discussion is underway in Washington D.C.
regarding reform for our republic’s financial system.
Could there be a simpler method then the guaranteed politics to be played with the proposal?
The Liberty Restoration Project, Senators and Representatives from both sides of the aisle, and taxpayers, say yes: Audit the Federal Reserve.
On Saturday, April 24th, let your voice be heard as the Liberty Restoration Project holds their bi-annual rally focused on this simple, but effective method, which would positively affect all citizens.
Starting at 3:00 PM, outside the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City, Missouri, at the corner of Main and Grand Streets, the gathering will begin. A march will be held, and ideas discussed, as the spotlight shines on true reform.
For further information, visit http://www.facebook.com/libertyrestorationproject
libertyrestorationproject.org or contact lrpinthenews@gmail.com
| McCain Proposes Indefinite Detention Without Trial for Citizens | | Print | |
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The bill, which has eight cosponsors, explicitly names U.S. citizens as among those who can be detained indefinitely without trial: An individual, including a citizen of the United States, determined to be an unprivileged enemy belligerent … may be detained without criminal charges and without trial for the duration of hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners in which the individual has engaged, or which the individual has purposely and materially supported, consistent with the law of war and any authorization for the use of military force provided by Congress pertaining to such hostilities. [Emphasis added.] Note that the Bush administration once said that the so-called “war on terror” would last a generation or more, and the U.S. military has officially classified many former Guantanamo detainees, such as England’s Tipton Three, as having “returned to the battlefield” for merely granting an interview for the movie The Road to Guantanamo. Another five innocent Uighur (Ethnic Turkish Muslims from China) detainees had been listed as having “returned to the battlefield” after their release because their lawyer had written an op-ed protesting their prolonged detention without trial after they had been mistakenly picked up by a greedy bounty hunter. Writing an opinion or speaking an opinion against the party in power in Washington can — and already has — made some people “enemy belligerents.” The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires that “No person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law,” and the Sixth Amendment stipulates the due process of law that all are required to receive: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence. The requirement for a jury trial has no exceptions for military reasons, and doesn’t even exempt foreigners. It simply employs the phrase “all criminal prosecutions,” words that unequivocally apply to the military and civilian justice systems, as well as to both citizens and foreigners. The Founding Fathers truly applied Christ’s command to “Do to others whatever you would have them do to you,” but John McCain’s new bill wouldn’t even do to American citizens what we would assume were basic rights. There is no greater tyranny than indefinite imprisonment at the whim of an executive without legal recourse, and that is precisely what McCain and eight other senators would impose upon America. McCain defended his bill in a speech on the Senate floor March 4, stating: The legislation would authorize detention of enemy belligerents without criminal charges for the duration of the hostilities consistent with standards under the law of war which have been recognized by the Supreme Court. Importantly, if a decision is made to hold a criminal trial after the necessary intelligence information is obtained, the bill mandates trial by military commission where we are best able to protect U.S. national security interests, including sensitive classified sources and methods, as well as the place and the people involved in the trial itself. In other words, the right to trial by jury guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution would no longer be a right. The bill would mandate “military commissions” rather than a jury trial, if and when the President deems to hold a “trial.” Under McCain’s legislation, trial by jury wouldn’t just be a privilege that the President could withdraw at a whim, the President would be required to deny jury trials. The right to trial by jury would be denied entirely! Of course, any American could be held for decades without trial or even being charged with a crime under McCain’s bill. Cosponsors of the bill include Democrat/independent Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Republicans Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Scott Brown of Massachusetts, Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, David Vitter of Louisiana, George LeMieux of Florida, and Roger Wicker of Mississippi. Those cosponsoring this outright attack on the Bill of Rights are those same Republican neo-conservatives who have dominated the GOP for the last decade or more. Conservative constitutionalists need to reassert control of the Republican Party and purge this cancer from the party and the U.S. Senate, if they wish to retain their freedoms. Photo of John McCain: AP Images http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/crime/3344-mccain-proposes-indefinite-detention-without-trial-for-citizens
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From Anderson Cooper’s Podcast:
Here’s footage from the entire interview:
Tracy Ward is the local leader of The Liberty Restoration Project and on Facebook yesterday she raised a ruckus by noting that the KCPD questioned her group before their weekend Body Scanner Protest but didn’t seem to be on top of Plaza text messaging.
Posted by Tony at 4/13/2010 06:55:00 AM 
| Posted by: Sam Hartle Email: hartle@nbcactionnews.com Last Update: 6:40 pm |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Airports across the country are adding body scanners for extra security, despite the controversial nature of the new technology.
Many worry about privacy and how much of a person’s body shows up on the scanners.
Kansas City International Airport recently added one of the scanners to Terminal B.
On Saturday, the “Liberty Restoration Project” protested the new security measures.
“I would rather see the airport, rather the airlines, chose their own security,” said protester Gabe Gryder. “We prefer the government get out of the way of the airlines.
The Transportation Security Administration says that an officer located in a room away from the scanners views the images, which aren’t able to be saved.
http://www.tonyskansascity.com/2010/04/kci-body-scanner-protest-today.html
http://www.tonyskansascity.com/2010/04/eric-bowers-todays-kansas-city.html
Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) has introduced a 