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!!

Yesterday, Senator Lembke introduced an amendment to HB2111 to include a statewide ban on Red Light Cameras, the amendment passed 23-8.

Senator Lembke asked for a roll-call vote so we know who stands where on this issue:

YEAS:
Barnitz – (573) 751-2108
Bartle – (573) 751-1464
Callahan – (573) 751-3074
Champion – (573) 751-2583
Clemens – (573) 751-4008
Crowell – (573) 751-2459
Cunningham – (573) 751-1186
Dempsey – (573) 751-1141
Engler – (573) 751-3455
Goodman – (573) 751-2234
Green – (573) 751-2420
Griesheimer – (573) 751-3678
Lager – (573) 751-1415
Lembke – (573) 751-2315
Mayer – (573) 751-3859
Pearce – (573) 751-2272
Purgason – (573) 751-1882
Ridgeway – (573) 751-2547
Rupp – (573) 751-1282
Schmitt – (573) 751-2853
Scott – (573) 751-8793
Shoemyer – (573) 751-7852
Stouffer – (573) 751-1507

NAYS:
Bray – (573) 751-2514
Days – (573) 751-4106
Keaveny – (573) 751-3599
McKenna – (573) 751-1492
Shields – (573) 751-9476
Vogel – (573) 751-2076
Wilson – (573) 751-9758
Wright-Jones – (573) 751-2606

ABSENT:
Justus – (573) 751-2788
Nodler – (573) 751-2306
Schaefer – (573) 751-3931

However, HB2111 still has to make it through the Senate Government Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee and then go back to the House and probably a conference committee before it finally passes, and each step carries the possibility that this anti-RLC provision could be stripped, so we’re not done quite yet.

While I appreciate all the Senators who voted in favor of this amendment–and of course Senator Lembke for his tireless fight against Red Light Cameras–it was very nice to see Bill Stouffer vote “YEA” on the amendment. Senator Stouffer, as chair of the Transportation Committee, is key to making sure that this provision stays in the final bill. So while I plan on calling all of the Senators that voted “YEA” and thanking them for their vote, I will be sure to thank Senator Stouffer especially and let him know that I noticed and appreciated his support for this very important measure, and I encourage others to do the same.

I’ll keep everyone updated on the progress of this bill, and if anyone has anything to add to this or any other suggestions on how we might keep this provision in the final bill, please let me know and I will be sure to spread it around. Thanks!

Tracy,
I wanted to write briefly to our South KC supporters to inform you of a couple important opportunities to support urban agriculture.
The harassment from our neighbors here on Bannister Rd. continues, as we had another visit from codes officers earlier this month.  Unfortunately, we simply could not stay on our current site.  We cannot farm here in the manner we wish, and will have more freedom in a more supportive neighborhood.  We are happily and excitedly moving to a new 13-acre site we have purchased on the East Side of KCMO.  Here in South KC, the vocal opposition of a few people succeeded in drowning out our area supporters.
And our opposition may win an even larger victory if good people like you don’t speak out in coming weeks.
Over the past six months, a group of Kansas City farmers and residents have worked to revise the ordinances surrounding urban agriculture.  Our hope is to protect other farmers from the type of harassment that we received, and to legitimize the wonderful farms and community gardens that have existed throughout KCMO for many years.  You may read the proposed changes on the City’s website, and you may also access further information urban agriculture: http://cityclerk.kcmo.org/liveweb/Documents/Document.aspx?q=gwQ25M6kfLBpQAH2KArtCVQTuNiMyZkVhPHNtnlPCMYJ%2b2FvKs5bOtLbpVG3Tq5a

The Center Planning and Development Council (which claims to represent residents of South Kansas City) has a powerful lobby in City Hall, and is opposing the ordinance change.  We feel that it is important for South KC residents show that this group is NOT representative of the whole community.

Center Planning and Development is meeting Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m.  It would be great to have some community members show up who have a more tempered perspective.  The time and place of this meeting follows this email, along with this group’s reaction to these revisions.

Also, this revision will be heard by City Council’s Planning and Zoning Committee on May 5th at 1:30 p.m. on the 26th floor of City Hall.  We need as many supporters present at this hearing as possible, especially those from South KC.  This hearing, as well as letters of support to Council, will largely dictate the outcome of the vote.  If you cannot attend this hearing, please consider writing to City Council.  Even a brief email to city-council@kcmo.org would help greatly.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to call or email us.  Thanks for your support!

Best regards,

Dan Heryer & Brooke Salvaggio

BADSEED

(913)-522-3458

*****

CENTER PLANNING  and DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL

Summit View Church of the Nazarene

80l W. 97^th Street, KCMO, 64114

Tuesday, April 27th, 20l0, 7:30 p.m.

Will Your Neighbor Be Selling Vegetables From Their Front Yard?

Our speaker will be Patty Noll, Project Manager, and Zoning Ordinance & Subdivision Regulations Revision of the City Planning & Development Department.  She will be explaining the new Urban Agriculture Ordinance No. l00299.    There are many good aspects to urban farming; however we need to reflect on some issues with the proposed Ordinance..

The proposed zoning ordinance allows agriculture (farming) in all residentially zoned districts with very few restrictions or standards to protect residential neighborhoods.  Selling of farm projects would be allowed in all residential districts either through special or temporary use permits with no limits.  Accessory buildings such as hoop buildings could be 20 feet (may be reduced to l4 feet) in a residential district where the current height limit is l0 feet.. .

Would you want an agriculture business next to your property?  How will that impact the value of your property?

This Ordinance is scheduled to be heard before the City Plan Commission at l0: a.m. on April 20 and before the Planning and Zoning Committee of the Council at 1:30 p.m. May 5. We need you to call your councilperson now to oppose this ordinance, and come to the hearing at City Hall.  For more information call Stacey Johnson-Cosby at 8l6 59l 592l.

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:

From Anderson Cooper’s Podcast:

Here’s footage from the entire interview:

One Liberty Restoration Project member’s take on the tea party from last year and this year:

The Kansas City Tax Day Tea Party celebrated at the Community America Ballpark this past April 15 was completely transformed from last years tea party…and not in a good way. This years tea party seemed more like an organized, statist political rally unlike the organic, quite spontaneous, tea party rally from last year that I attended at Liberty Memorial.

There were a few reasons I had my reservations about attending this years tea party. First, this tea party was commercially advertised for months in advance. Second, if you wanted to have a table to help promote your organization, your cause, or yourself as a politician, you were charged $50. They also had suites available for those who were better off and could afford the upward cost of $350.00. Third, the tea party was held at a ballpark in the outskirts of western Kansas City, KS. How does having it in a confined area, such as a ballpark, help get the message the speakers were discussing out to the masses? You were literally in a bowl. And last, most of the people in attendance were fans of Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin. I’m sorry, but Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin’s views are opposite of those from which the original tea parties were started from. The Anti-FED, Anti-War, Anti-Left/Right Paradigm, Pro Sound Money, Pro Freedom, and Pro Individual stance originated from Ron Paul’s grassroots movement is where the original tea party started.

I went with the hopes of reaching a few new people to understand that taking on the Federal Government is the incorrect way to reach the change that they are seeking. Yes, I understand that the Federal Government has grown well beyond it’s limits, however, as Lysander Spooner puts it – “the Constitution has either authorized such a government as we have had or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist. “ Our mission then is to work on the local/state level and get the individuals in those offices to say NO to the federal government and work within the city’s/state’s own limits and power to take care of itself. Rallies once a year are great, but what are the tea party people doing the other 364 days a year to fight for liberties and freedoms in their own backyard?

The statist mentality at the tea party was almost overwhelming. I don’t believe that the people in attendance were ignorant by any means, I just think that they’re uneducated in certain areas. You can not be a libertarian and be pro-war. That is an oxymoron. You cannot fix a completely broken system, simply by saying no more taxes. There is not left or right paradigm, just as there’s no real difference between Coke or Pepsi. Voting in candidates as individuals who stand for freedom and liberty is one way to address getting the change you are seeking. However, the easiest way to take on big issues, is by starting on your city, county, state, level YOURSELF. Be pro-active in an issue. Keep your eye out for legislation up for a vote in your city council or by an entire city vote and make sure you take it on if it’s against what liberty stands for. ANY issue. I know many people that are rallying behind the freedom to vote for your local judges, legalize cannabis, ending eminent domain, putting at stop to the surveillance state, making sure no more taxes are raised on a local/state level, etc. People need to get out their and find an issue or two that they are passionate about and go fight for it!! Gather people together to protests, have weekly/monthly meetings about strategies for getting your issue voted on the way that you’d like to see it voted on. Go talk to your local city representatives, talk to your state representatives, state senators, and police department. Let them know that you’re a part of a group of peaceful people who just want to bring about a change towards liberty in your area. Localize, Harmonize, Educate, Active. Make your voice heard LOCALLY, because in the end, it will be heard NATIONALLY.

Next Saturday at the Liberty Restoration Project’s two year birthday bash, I will be stepping down as the executive director of the organization.  We will be holding an election so the grassroots may select my successor in the same fashion I was selected to serve, this person will serve a two year term as well.  I will remain intimately involved with the organization in an advisory capacity, as a spokes person, and most importantly, I will continue to focus on one of our most recent projects, http://OperationDefuse.com.  By stepping down as the executive director I hope to give another willing person the opportunity to pick up the balls I have dropped, expand the programs I helped start, and bring new energy and new direction to the organization.

Helping found and run this organization has taught me to deal with the most difficult of adversity, to multi-task like an insane person only could, and has provided me with the opportunity to meet some amazing people as I travel across this beautiful country representing the values and ideals of LRP.  It has been the most rewarding experience of my life, but I am going to be honest, the level of sacrifice has left me exhausted.

For the time being it looks like I will be staying in Austin, Texas where multiple opportunities have made themselves available to me.  I am working on a local school board election (http://glenmayes.com/) and in a few short months the Rise Up Radio Show will be back on air on a local AM network here in Austin.  I also plan to finish my Masters of Public Administration degree, which requires one final semester of dedicated course-work (this is an example of something I have completely neglected since the formation of LRP).  I am in the process of writing two books, one on the use of internet media to grow a business and the second on a little tactic I call “guerrilla activism”. Through the Operation Defuse team, I will be working closely with some major movers and shakers on the formation of a grassroots fusion center – potentially named the Liberty Information Logistics and Analysis Center (LILAC).

Its hard to believe LRP has been around two entire years…. And, boy, have we grown up fast!  In two years members and supporters have put tens of thousands of fliers, Constitutions and DVDs in the hands of Missourians and interested folks across the country.  We have testified in the halls of the Missouri legislature, banner dropped the highways of Kansas City, rallied with our neighbors, knocked on doors, attended city council meetings, organized festivals, and most importantly we have built a community of loving, intelligent, and fun people and we are happy to consider family.  Not all of our dreams have yet been brought to fruition, but we are definitely on the way.

Please join us as we celebrate the growth of liberty and the transition of organizational leadership this Saturday after the 3rd annual LRP End the Fed rally (you may vote on the new leadership if you have donated financially to LRP in the past two years or if you have volunteered with our organization at a minimum of two events.
End The Fed/Central Banking System Rally
Saturday, April 24, 2010
3pm – 5pm
Outside the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City – Corner of Main and Grand Street
Liberty Restoration Project’s 2nd Anniversary/Birthday Bash
Saturday, April 24, 2010
5pm-9pm
The Gusto
3810 Broadway Street, Kansas City, MO
I hope you all know how much I love you and thank you for all of the amazing support you have given to our organization and to me as an individual over the years.  I will still have my LRP email address and phone number, and will still be an “official” member and representative of LRP, I just have to shift my focus so that I may stay sane moving forward

So much love,
Catherine
Catherine Bleish
Executive Director
Liberty Restoration Project (more…)

Group Protests Scanners at KCI

Posted by: Sam Hartle Email: hartle@nbcactionnews.com Last Update: 6:40 pm

Group Protests Body Scanners at KCI

Airports across the country are adding body scanners for extra security, despite the controversial nature of the new technology.

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