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Amanda Dewoody (Amanda77) [Message] Interim state coordinator Shawnee, KS 66216

Steve Shute (scshute) [Message] Interim state coordinator 18401 Sycamore Ct Gardner, KS 66030

WELCOME TO KANSAS CAMPAIGN FOR LIBERTY!

The Kansas Campaign for Liberty is dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, personal responsibility, ethical constitutional government, sound money, free markets, a non-interventionist foreign policy and the rule of law.  We are committed to creative grassroots political activity to foster a return to the guiding constitutional principles that made this country great.  We are patriots devoting ourselves to the higher cause of life, liberty and Country.  If you share this mission, join us.  Join the Campaign for Liberty.

To get started - Register and explore the grassroots organizing tools available to you.  Learn more about governmental principles.  Network with campaign members in your area.  Become a Local Coordinator for Campaign for Liberty and learn about educating and organizing your neighbors.  Become a Precinct Leader for your preferred political party and train to become politically active in your neighborhood.  Attend local political meetings and events.  Visit the County Clerk and County Party Chairmen.   

USEFUL WEBSITES

Kansas Secretary of State at https://myvoteinfo.voteks.org/

Kansas Republican Party at http://www.ksgop.org

Kansas Democrat Party at http://www.ksdp.org

Kansas Libertarian Party at http://www.lpks.org

Kansas Reform Party at http://www.votekansas.org

Anti Real-ID Legislation Moved to Transportation Committee Posted by Amanda77

Posted 03/12/10 Last updated 03/12/10

Thank you to everyone who has emailed your state representatives and committee members about HB 2727. Your hard work is very important, especially now that the federal government is currently working to pass NEW legislation requiring a National ID card.

HB 2727 was transferred to the House Transportation Committee. Please contact the committee members below and request that they support and encourage the rapid passage of HB 2727.

(Click on the name of each Representative to get their phone number)

We can stop Dangerous ID - If you act now Posted by Amanda77

Posted 03/09/10

As you know, the federal government has been trying to force states to create a national ID card.  This National ID is dangerous because it would give the federal government your finger prints and digital photos that can be run through facial recognition software.  Privacy advocates have noted "Real ID is a 'real nightmare' for America that will only lead to a national identity card system that violates personal privacy, bigger bureaucratic messes, longer lines, increased identity theft and higher fees."

In order to stop this federal power grab, we need to pass legislation to keep Kansas bureaucrats from trying to implement it.

Legislation barring any state agency from implementing provisions of the Federal REAL ID Act was introduced in the Kansas State House Federal & State Affairs Committee on Monday, March 8th.

The text of HB 2727 can be found here.

A list of members of the State House Federal & State Affairs Committee is available here.

This CRITICAL legislation asserts our 10th Amendment State Sovereignty.  It prevents the federal government from forcing Kansans to provide biometric data and other personal information to be shared with the federal government in order to obtain a drivers' license.   It also bars the imbedding of so-called RFID devices in drivers' licenses as part of any federal mandate.  This legislation is necessary to protect our personal privacy rights, individual liberty, and the sovereignty of Kansas.

Rumors around Topeka indicate that the Department of Motor Vehicles is ALREADY IN THE PROCESS of implementing provisions of REAL ID.  Joan Wagnon, Kansas Revenue Secretary, made a statement to the Topeka Capitol Journal in 2007 indicating her concerns that "not participating with Real ID, as some states have threatened, could cause the federal government to withhold funding for state projects." 

WE MUST FIGHT BACK against the idea that Kansas should bow to the will of the Federal Government.  Over 25 states have already passed REAL ID Nullification Legislation.  This has delayed the implementation of Real ID.  Let's add Kansas to the list of states actively asserting 10th Amendment State Sovereignty Rights by REJECTING a National ID Card!

Contact your State Representative NOW and ask him/her to support and work to expedite the process of getting this bill through the House.  In order to get this passed this session, we need our representatives to not only support HB 2727, but to encourage its rapid passage.

Find your State Representative here:  http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-legisportal/redistricting.do

The hearing for HB 2727 in the Federal & State Affairs Committee should take place within the next seven days.  We will update the Kansas Campaign for Liberty page with the hearing date and time.   Please contact committee members (listed here) and request that they support and encourage the rapid passage of HB 2727.

We will be coordinating flier drops in some of the committee members' districts.  Please contact Amanda Dewoody at Amanda.Dewoody@CampaignForLiberty.com if you live in one of the committee member's districts (listed here) and would like to participate.  Include your district number in the email.

Please contact Steve Shute at scshute@embarqmail.com ASAP if you would like to testify on HB 2727.

Please forward this to your email lists and ask your friends to participate!  We will update you on HB 2727 as we get more information.


In Liberty,

Amanda Dewoody
Steve Shute

Interim Coordinators
Kansas Campaign for Liberty

Virginia Healthcare Freedom Act to Challenge Obama-care, FAQ Posted by dljholt

Posted 12/19/09 Last updated 12/19/09

Q. Will an Obamacare health Czar decide how you spend your income, or will you?

A. Obamacare requires individuals to purchase private health insurance fashioned and approved by the Obama Administration or be fined $1900, face a year in jail and pay penalties up to $25,000 (half the median income of American families). Penalties start if a single, monthly payment is missed.

Yet, the primary responsibility for the economic welfare of families and adult individuals rests with families and adult individuals, not Washington politicians. Our Declaration states that governments receive their "just power from the consent of the governed," and further, that it is "the Right of the People," not elected or appointed officials, to structure government, "in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." Obamacare proponents in Congress are proposing health care "solutions" which abolish our natural right of self-determination to make primary decisions for our own economic welfare. America's Founders held that it was both the right and duty of citizens to resist Government which usurps rights given to us by our Creator.

Obamacare is not a battle over health insurance. It is a struggle over whether America will remain a nation of self-directing citizens or docile, powerless serfs.

Q. Do citizens and states have the constitutional authority to challenge Obamacare?

A. Yes. The Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the US Constitution affirm a supremacy of rights reserved to the people and to the states: Amendment 9: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." Amendment 10: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Moreover, the natural right of contract existed long before our Constitution, and is a fundamental right of citizens and a free people. American courts do not enforce involuntary contract promises.

Q. How can citizens and state legislatures challenge Obamacare mandates?

A. The "Health Care Freedom Act," HB 10 has been introduced in the Virginia General Assembly to challenge Obamacare, can by introduced in other state legislatures in 2010. Passage of HB 10 ensures that Virginia and other states will take up this challenge of defending Liberty on behalf of citizens who refuse to submit to the illicit demands of Obamacare.

HB 10 states:

"No law shall restrict a person's natural right and power of contract to secure the blessings of liberty to choose private health care systems or private plans. No law shall interfere with the right of a person or entity to pay for lawful medical services to preserve life or health, nor shall any law impose a penalty, tax, fee, or fine, of any type, to decline or to contract for health care coverage or to participate in any particular health care system or plan, except as required by a court where an individual or entity is a named party in a judicial dispute. Nothing herein shall be construed to expand, limit or otherwise modify any determination of law regarding what constitutes lawful medical services within the Commonwealth."

Q. Since citizens vote for their US Representatives, if Congress passes Obamacare, must citizens abide by the law?

A. Congress' ONLY duty is to serve citizens under the express powers of the US Constitution. Congress' own staff concluded (see below) that the proposed insurance mandates are novel and unprecedented in the 220 years since Congress was established in 1789! Forcing citizens to purchase private health insurance violates the compact between elected representatives and citizens reducing government "of, by and for the people," to demands of lords over subjects. The Declaration of Independence affirmed "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it." It is the usurpers in Washington who propose to alter self government under the guise of health care reform.

Q. But Congress already mandates tax payments for Social Security and Medicare. What's so different about Obamacare?

A. Congress has never attempted to force individuals to purchase anything in the private sector. An August, 1994, Congressional Budget Office report by Robin Seller, written re: Hillary-care, states: "A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of federal action. The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States. An individual mandate would have two features that, in combination, would make it unique. First, it would impose a duty on individuals as members of society. Second, it would require people to purchase a specific service that would be heavily regulated by the federal government."

Q. Congress compels registration for the military draft, and state governments require the purchase of auto insurance, so can't Obamacare require insurance purchases?

A. The power to raise an army to provide for the common defense in an enumerated power given to the national government. The mandating of health insurance is not a power granted to Congress. Forty-seven states impose liability insurance to drive on public, tax-paid roads. No insurance is needed to drive at any speed on one's own property. Liability insurance is required to protect others from injuries. Driving is not a right, it is a privilege subject to conditions imposed by state legislatures which are empowered to enforce general police and welfare powers.

Q. What else could Congress mandate of citizens if health mandates go unchallenged?

A. Congressmen and Senators could disingenuously tell citizens they will not raise taxes before an election, but then impose spending "mandates "on all Americans to achieve the same goal after they are elected. If Congress can force all Americans to buy health insurance, then Congress can mandate, under heavy penalty of jail or fines, that citizens purchase new windows or insulation to save the environment. Congress could compel states to not register automobiles older than 2005 to minimize air pollution.

Further, the Congressional Budge Office in 1994, stated Congress would be exercising a dangerous power: "a decision to exclude the costs of an individual mandate to purchase health insurance from the budget could lead policymakers to impose other mandates on individuals ... to use mandates to control the allocation of a large portion of the nation's resources without the cost of those actions being controlled through the federal budget process."

Q. Does HB 10, the "Health Care Freedom Act" protect businesses?

A. Yes, HB 10 protects both individuals and "entities" from mandatory health care purchases. Obamacare requires every company with an annual payroll of $500,000 or more to insure its workers with private plans, approved by the Obama Administration, or pay an 8% payroll tax. Obamacare also requires companies that do provide health insurance to pay 72.5% of an individual's premium, and 65% of a family plan. While Congress has passed laws pertaining to minimum wage, overtime, workplace safety, family leave, and workman's compensation, it never required companies to offer non-wage related or "fringe benefits" such as health insurance. Companies are not required to offer retirement plans, but if they do, they must conform to ERISA laws. Companies may, but are not required to, offer health insurance.

Q. Are there reputable legal scholars who think the Congress may NOT have the constitutional authority to compel health insurance purchase mandates?

A. Yes, "the health care mandate does not purport to regulate or prohibit activity of any kind, whether economic or noneconomic. ... To the contrary, it purports to "regulate" inactivity by converting the inactivity of not buying insurance into commercial activity. ...

In recent years, the Court invalidated two congressional statutes that attempted to regulate noneconomic activities. In United States v. Lopez (1995), it struck down the Gun-Free School Zones Act, which attempted to reach the activity of possessing a gun within a thousand feet of a school. In United States v. Morrison (2000), it invalidated part of the Violence Against Women Act, which regulated gender-motivated violence. Because the Court found the regulated activity in each case to be noneconomic, it was outside the reach of Congress's Commerce power, regardless of its effect on interstate commerce. To uphold the insurance purchase mandate, the Supreme Court would have to concede that the Commerce Clause has no limits, a proposition that it has never affirmed, that it rejected in Lopez and Morrison, and from which it did not retreat in Raich. ...Congress may ... not regulate the individual's decision not to purchase a service or enter into a contract."

(Heritage Foundation by Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett can be found here; also see American Law and Justice)

HB 10 is introduced by Virginia State Delegate Bob Marshall (13th House of Delegates district) for the 2010 General Assembly session. If you live in Virginia, ask your own state representative to cosponsor HB 10. If you do not live in Virginia, ask your state representative to introduce HB 10 or a similar bill to challenge Obamacare. Questions? Email Bob at delegatebobmarsall[at]hotmail.com.

Kansas 10th Amendment Revolution Rally and Lobbying Day coordinated by CCAG (Coalition of Citizen Advocacy Groups) Posted by Amanda77

Posted 01/02/10

EVENT NOTICE:   Kansas 10^th Amendment Revolution Rally and Lobbying Day coordinated by CCAG (Coalition of Citizen Advocacy Groups)

When:    January 14^th and 15^th, 2010

Where:  Kansas State Capitol, Topeka, Kansas

Description:   CCAG (Coalition of Citizen Advocacy Groups) has coordinated an all day event on January 15^th in support of the Kansas State Sovereignty Resolution and Kansas Health Care Amendment.   

Schedule:   The schedule of events may vary according to the legislative schedule and weather but this is the tentative agenda:

Thursday, January 14^th, 2010

- Those who live far from Topeka will arrive at the Ramada Inn in downtown Topeka

- Pre-ordered 10^th Amendment Revolution T-Shirts available for pick-up in the Ramada Inn lobby

Friday, January 15^th, 2010

- Pre-Ordered 10^th Amendment Revolution T-Shirts available prior to the hearing in State Capitol Building outside the hearing room. 

(Hearing location TBA)

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM - State Sovereignty hearing, CCAG members and other activists to testify.

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - 10^th Amendment Revolution Rally.  The location of the rally will be determined by the weather and will be announced closer to the event date.   Speakers will include Oklahoma State Representative Charles Key, a leader in the State sovereignty movement, Kansas State Representative Ray Merrick, House Majority Leader, and more...

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM - Lunch

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM - Lobby state senators and representatives for passage of the Kansas State Sovereignty Resolution and

Kansas Health Care  Amendment. 

RSVP:

Please click here to join the CCAG Kansas 10^th Amendment email list and RSVP yes or no for the rally and lobbying day on January 15^th in Topeka!

Lodging:

Hotel rooms have been reserved for the evening of January 14^th at the Ramada Inn in downtown Topeka.   Call 1.800.432.2424 and ask for the CCAG rate to reserve your room for $59/night including a full breakfast.  You must reserve the room by January 13^th to receive the discounted rate. 

Attire:

Order your 10^th Amendment Revolution T-Shirt so that we can send a strong uniform message to the legislature.   The T-Shirts will have the attached logo on the front and the text of the 10^th Amendment on the back.  They are made of 100% cotton.   We are selling the T-shirts at cost for $12/shirt.   Please send an email to   info@Kansas10thAmendmentRevolution.com  with your T-Shirt order including the size and number of shirts.   Please put the words "T-Shirt Order" in the subject line.  You can pay for your shirts online or by mail.  You will notice that the online form is designed for donations but we are using it only for the payment of t-shirts for this event.  You can pay for your t-shirt order online by clicking here  (THIS IS THE PREFERRED METHOD) or sending a check to Kansas Campaign for Liberty, 14914 W. 87^th Pkwy, Lenexa, KS 66215.  We need all T-Shirt orders and monies by January 5^th, 2010.

Any leftover t-shirts that are not presold will be available at the capitol for $15.

Note:

Please contact the event organizers, Richard Fry and Sharon Evans, at info@Kansas10thAmendmentRevolution.com  if you have additional questions about the event.

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The mission of CCAG,inc. (Coalition of Citizen Advocacy Groups) is to support liberty movement organizations by facilitating the exchange of information and resources as well as coordination of activities to develop synergy among organizations.

10^th Amendment Revolution Coalition Members include Americans for Prosperity - Kansas, America's Independent Party - Kansas, Campaign for Liberty - Kansas, Hope for America Coalition, Kansas Immigration Reform Effort (KIRE), Kansans for Liberty, Kansans for Truth in Politics, Liberty  Restoration Project, November Patriots, Operation Rescue, Salina Tea Party, Salina 9.12, Smart Girl Politics, South Central Wichita 9.12, Stop Smart Port.com, Third Continental Congress - Kansas Delegation, Topeka 9.12, and We the People Foundation.