Welcome to the NY State Page. Our mission is to bring responsible, accountable, and Constitutionally-limited government back to the Empire State and turn it into the Liberty State. Our Goals are to:
Identify and encourage liberty candidates to run (but as a 501c4, not endorse)
Educate and mobilize your neighbors on liberty issues
Be proactive and reactive on major Federal, State, and Local Legislation
Encourage members to join their local Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, or any other party's County Central Committee
Build up the membership and encourage them to become Local Coordinators
There are a number of active legislation we are working to support such as stopping the implementation of Real-ID in NY and State Sovereignty, and others that we are fighting against including violations of our civil rights (including our 2nd Amendment rights) and irresponsible government that pushes the nanny state on the overtaxed NY State population.
There are a number of major Campaign for Liberty Meetup Sites across the state. Sign up to your local Meetup, but also be sure to post events and announcements on this site for all members who are not on meetup.
If you have any other meetups to list or would like to see your blog post on the NYS page, email me at steven.vasquez at campaignforliberty.com.
Calendar
11/22/09 12:00 PM NYC - End The Fed Rally
Nationwide End The Fed Rally. We will meet at the NY Fed, raise a crowd and walk to Union Square. At Union Square we will hand out flyers til we run out.
Last time we had hundreds of people and a great , exciting event. Let's make it twice as big this time.
From NYC Coordinators:
With the threat of a watered down version of HR 1207 & S604 looming, it is time to turn up the AUDIT THE FED pressure cooker! This END THE FED rally marks the one year anniversary of the End The Fed! Movement and it is vital that we continue raising awareness of the cause. With the experience of two prior rally's in NYC under our belt, we have learned a few things to make this protest a bit more productive.
We are taking our efforts to the streets in a more organic, grassroots way. No yelling at empty buildings (well, maybe a little) and no speakers preaching to the choir. Our mission is to educate. Our job is to take our passion and knowledge to the people of NYC in order to garner greater support for HR1207 & S604. Our focus is to drive as many people as possible to breathe down the necks of NY's Representatives and Senators so they can do the right thing "By the People." Our method is to speak with and to put as much literature regarding the Fed in the hands of the public en masse in order to create a new wave of citizens impassioned by the true underlying problem at hand. With your help, the congressfolks who have yet to co-sponsor either bill will be forced to feel the economic pain of the people as they make their voices heard to keep the Federal Reserve Transparency Act and the Federal Reserve Sunshine Act in tact, as written.
We will not settle for anything less and there is no compromise. A full, independent audit of the Federal Reserve is absolutely necessary and crucial for American citizen's to understand why their pockets have been looted; why their savings has been diminished as the dollars' value drops; why the incessant boom and bust cycles exist; why we can "afford' endless immoral wars; why the middle class is disappearing; why the same banks who have gotten rich by robbing us blind in the first place then, again, benefit in the form of bailouts at the taxpayers' expense; why the "lender of last resort" is accountable to NO ONE; And, the beat goes on......
This rally will be short, sweet and powerful. We have modified many AUDIT THE FED document files to include the NYCCFL MeetUp address and posted them here in the files section. The links to these files are provided below. Pick and choose which file(s) suits your fancy and print out as many as you can. No one should come empty handed.
Timeline:
12 noon - Meet at the Fed Bank of NY. Here we will spend an hour getting our selves pumped up while we hand out flyers to the passersby. 1pm - March to Union Square. Pass out as much AUDIT THE FED literature as possible along the way. 2pm - Engulf Union Square for an hour or so to pass out literature until your hands have been emptied. 3pm-ish - Part ways to your favorite means to watch football.
There it is. Three short, productive hours. Again, no one should come empty handed. Keeping the AUDIT THE FED bills in tact may be fruitless lest we continue raising awareness and then providing the newly awakened citizen's the necessary tools to accomplish the timely, pertinent goals put forth in HR 1207 & S604.
Albany, NY - Oct 23, 2009. NYS State Health Commisioner Dr. Richard Daines has suspended the controversial mandatory influenza immunization requirement for New York health care workers, citing a shortage of vaccine supplies as the main reason. The halt in the regulation also comes a day after popular upstate NY WGY radio personality Al Roney exposed the connection of Linda Daines, Commissioner Daines's wife, as a manager of private client services of Wall Street finance firm Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs was the largest shareholder and brokered a 2007 $15 billion sale of the vaccine giant MedImmune. Roney called upon his listeners to contact NY State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to open an investigation of a potential conflict of interest between the mandatory vaccine regulation for over 500,000 NY healthcare workers and potential profit for Goldman Sachs.
"It is absolutely a legitimate question for the NY Attorney General to consider whether Commissioner Daines should have recuse himself on this decision, considering the possible conflict of interest and the massive profits to be generated by Goldman Sachs with such a decision, whether the regulation was done for the best intentions or not" said WGY's Al Roney.
Controversy arose with the August announcement of the mandatory vaccine immunization for all NYS health care workers, the only state forcing such regulations. Rallies across the state were held by nurses against the regulation, and unions such as PEF and the NYCLU publicly renounced the decision. Two pending lawsuits challenging the authority of the Commissioner will continue to be held in court next week, with NY Supreme Court Justice McNamara imposing a temporary injunction against the mandatory regulation last week.
HEALTHCARE WORKERS TO RALLY FOR NO FORCED VACCINATIONS
New York healthcare workers and health freedom civil rights advocates are planning a rally at the State Capitol in Albany NY on Tuesday, September 29th to protest the new regulations mandating that all healthcare workers with patient contact receive all CDC "recommended" flu vaccines... including the just licensed, un-safety tested "Swine Flu" 2009-H1N1-A. Members of Campaign for Liberty are taking an active role in this rally.
Dr. Gary Null and others have a meeting scheduled with the State Department of Health for 10:30 AM that day, so we need mass public support... and the word is that large numbers of healthcare workers and their supporters will be there!
The Department asked us to let them know what we wanted to discuss. This is what I wrote to them:
Gentlepeople,
I understand that the State Department of Health would like to know the concerns of the delegation scheduled to meet the Deputy Secretary of Health next Tuesday.
I've spoken with the healthcare workers and health freedom advocates involved and believe I can provide an initial expression of those concerns. I am writing as a trustee of one of the involved groups, the Natural Solutions Foundation, and exempt non-governmental organization (NGO). The medical adviser and trustee of the Foundation is a New York licensed physician who would be mandated to receive the vaccines if she were to see patients in a New York hospital. Another doctor, who will be at the Tuesday meeting, is a licensed dietitian and nutritionist in New York, subject to the same risks. Our primary concern is that the regulations mandating the flu vaccines do not comport with medical ethics or fundamental principles of law and justice.
The practice in NY has always been that the annual flu vaccine is voluntary. To change a long-standing practice upon which people rely by regulation, rather than direct legislation, is suspect at best. When the change puts people at known risk for serious adverse reactions, the government bears a serious burden that seems to be ignored here. We decry the lack of transparency and public hearings.
We are particularly concerned that the exemption section is insufficient to protect significant civil rights. Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Acts requires employers to make reasonable accommodations for employees' religious beliefs. The regulations fail to address this and we want the Department of Health to make it clear that the religious exemption is not being abrogated.
By "religious" we mean to include all sincerely held conscientious objections to vaccination that hold in an individual's belief system the same place that specific church teachings may hold in the beliefs of a member of such church. Discriminating against people based on non-church conscientious objections has never been permitted by the courts.
Additionally by providing that the mandate shall apply to all flu vaccines "recommended" by the CDC, the un-safety tested "Swine Flu" vaccines that were licensed by the FDA last week will also be mandatory. This regulatory provision surrenders the state's obligations to a federal agency and is beyond the authority of the Department.
Our message we would like the Deputy Secretary to take to the Governor is that the public outcry against this mandate is such that the Governor needs to rethink his position and needs to meet with and accommodate the sincerely held objections of the healthcare workers.
In 1905 the Supreme Court, prior to the era of Federal preemption of vaccine licensing and recommending, deferred to the states in decisions about vaccine mandates. This was the case of Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905).
But that court clearly understood that there was a point beyond which no government could go in exercising the police power to mandate vaccinations. It held:
"We are not to be understood as holding that the ... judiciary would not be competent to interfere and protect the health and life of the individual ... "All laws," this court has said, "should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression or absurd consequence. ... we are not inclined to hold that the statute establishes the absolute rule that an adult must be vaccinated if it be apparent or can be shown with reasonable certainty that he is not at the time a fit subject of vaccination or that vaccination, by reason of his then condition, would seriously impair his health or probably cause his death."
On Tuesday, September 15th, NYC CFL dropped off roughly 3,600 petitions gathered during CFL's mass action month to the Manhattan offices of Senator's Gillibrand & Schumer. Nearly two dozen folks turned out for the petition drop off displaying signs, passing out literature and educating the busy New Yorkers about the Fed. Russia Today (RT) was very eager to cover the story and was mighty thankful we had invited them but I must say, Russia Today, you are they who deserve the round of applause.
When we first arrived and began handing out flyers in front of Gillibrand's office, we were asked the usual questions by security; What are you doing here? What organization are you with? Can you get off the property? And so on. When the former question was answered, "To drop off petitions we have gathered in support of Gillibrand's call for transparency in government", the guard fought for the words and ways to let us know how we couldn't do so. I assured him that I had came down early last week to become informed of the protocol necessary to meet with our representative and we had full intentions of following those instructions to a T.
As we proceeded to the drop off point, the deliveries gate before 5p.m., a strange thing happened. The door was closing 35 minutes early to disallow our entrance. Silly me, I guess I volunteered too much information. We had to physically stop the gate from closing by positioning our bodies underneath it as we pleaded with the security guards. Obviously, these fine fellas were instructed to keep us at bay but we persisted under threat of police involvement. After all, it is private property paid for by our tax dollars but this is besides the point. Fortunately, the guard I received my instructions from the week prior was one of the two men just following orders and I had a chance to call him out on this matter. A slight fumble of tongue and a steady stream of recollected memories later, we were told a small handful of us could go in through the front door. Yes, the civilized way you radical Ron Paulers you.
We will update this thread later with a hidden camera view as this transpired.
In the End (the Fed), one of Gillibrand's staffers came down to explain why security is so high at this particular office and kindly accepted our petitions after we took him to school regarding the Fed. The drop at Schumer's office took a mere 5 minutes which just so happens to be a block away. A special thank you must go out to the NYC CFL group for your tenacity and dedication to this cause. You are a true example of how liberty takes over once that flame has been ignited.
Here is a great Wall Street Journal Article on our Audit the Fed actions. Kudos to CFL Member Isaiah Matos for this great coverage:
At the core of a congressional push to audit the Federal Reserve are activists with a larger purpose: to abolish the central bank.
Thousands of Americans are joining protests and lobbying their lawmakers in pursuit of the ultimate goal of replacing the Fed with a money system backed by gold or other commodities.
A movement to abolish the Fed was largely inspired by Rep. Ron Paul, left, addressing an audience about a health-care overhaul on Aug. 12, 2009.
Largely inspired by Rep. Ron Paul, the Texas Republican whose latest book, "End the Fed," will be released Wednesday, the movement draws its strength from people who want a sharp shift away from government dependency and toward a truly free-market economy.
Among the activists backing the cause is Isaiah Matos, the superintendent of a luxury high-rise building in New York City. Mr. Matos was an antiwar protester earlier this decade before he became a libertarian. Through neighborhood groups in Queens organized using Meetup.com, Mr. Matos met other Ron Paul backers who shared his distrust for the central bank and a currency backed only by a government's promise.
"I believe in a commodity-backed currency," said Mr. Matos, 30 years old. "In college, I didn't understand how we could move from gold to paper."
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—Thomas Jefferson
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