Thursday Meet & Greet

Just a quick note to let all of you know that one of the candidates for the 8th Congressional District will be available this Thursday evening for questions. Roger Roth will be at the Appleton Yacht Club at 6:15pm, 1200 S. Lutz Street and will be taking questions from the audience. The event is being organized by the Outagamie County Republican Women's group and the event is free and open to the public (even if you're a guy!).

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[Justin Ingalls]

February 7, 2010

Justin Ingalls
145 VanDyke Street
Oconto, WI 54153
E-mail
jji@bayland.net
Fox Valley Initiative
Dear FVI:
As you know the USA has many serious problems. Widespread corruption, especially in the political parties, is the source of most of our troubles.
In practice government now resembles more a convoluted form of fascism than it does the ideals set forth by our Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence, US Constitution and its Bill of Rights.
Because I will not sign away my Constitutional rights (I crossed out binding arbitration language in the contract) the financial services firm that handles my IRA would not change it to a ROTH IRA last year. Neither could I buy stocks. That condition still prevails and as long as I hold on to my Constitutional rights I am barred from the financial markets. So are you if you do not submit to a travesty that could not be demanded of you until recent years. Both political parties are complicit in the passage of the federal legislation that made possible this crime against every citizen and the US Supreme Court upheld it.
The spread and expansion of parasitic industries, gambling, the unregulated credit industry and price fixing in the oil industry are a few examples of what is tearing apart the very fabric of our economic society. Both political parties have betrayed us and I believe it is a mistake to think either party can be redeemed. They will destroy America long before Al-Quaeda manages to.
I have a solution that can prevail against what many now believe to be an impossible problem. It needs support from influential people. It needs spokesmen, leaders and an army of concerned citizens.
My proposal takes the form of an Amendment to the US Constitution. When the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights were adopted the Founding Fathers could not foresee the advent of two monolithic, uncontrollable political parties rising to power and being corrupted by business interests to the extent that has taken place. With the joining of the US Supreme Court in most of the usurpations (as in Kelo v. City of New London, the New London, Connecticut land grab fiasco a couple years ago, the US Supreme Court essentially said to us all, "you have no rights that the state and business cannot combine to destroy") the American people have been almost totally betrayed and emasculated and I think the only solution is via a comprehensive Amendment with a grass roots movement.
My solution is novel, safe, all inclusive and comprehensive. What I wish from you is advice and support if you agree that my solution is what is needed. My proposal needs leaders and that is not my forte. I have no PR or sales ability but my proposal is sound.
I have been looking for supporters for about eight years but new ideas are not easily adopted.
The Amendment proposal, a Council OF Citizens, follows. I hope you will share it with others.

Council of Citizens Amendment

The power of veto over laws, rules, regulations, judgments and practices executed under the authority of any governmental body in these United States and the authority of recommendation for removal from office of any official shall be vested in a Council of Citizens.

Section 1.

a) Any law, rule, regulation, judgment or practice by any legislature, executive, judiciary or public official ruled to be in violation of the Constitution of the United States by a majority of the members of the Council of Citizens in session will immediately be void and of no effect.

b) All rulings by the Supreme Court of the United States shall automatically be reviewed by the Council of Citizens. No judgment of the Council of Citizens is reviewable by any other body and may be overturned only by subsequent decision of the Council or by Amendment to the US Constitution. All political jurisdictions in the United States of America and its dependencies shall be equally bound by council decisions.

Section 2.

a) The Council of Citizens shall have the power to recommend the removal from public office any person who, in their estimation, attempts to usurp individual rights guaranteed by the US Constitution.

b) A Council recommendation for removal will immediately relieve that person - elected, appointed or hired, with no official excepted - of their authority until an election may be held in which the voters may vote to remove or retain such person. A removal vote will permanently disqualify such person from holding public office or employ. The voting will be on a scale (national, state or regional) appropriate to the office.

c) In the event of a vote failing a majority for removal the official under suspension shall immediately be reinstated to his post and shall be immune from a further recommendation for removal for a period of two years.

d) Any person recommended for removal from office will retain all emoluments of his office until such time as he is removed by public vote.

e) If, after the two year immunity an official is again recommended for removal by a majority vote of the Council of Citizens such official shall be forever disqualified from holding public office or employ.

Section 3.

a) Three citizens from each state who have attained the age of twenty-eight years shall be selected by lottery for membership to the Council of Citizens.

b) The period of membership to the Council of Citizens shall be three years. Each person selected by lottery to the Council will have a period of one year before being seated to study the preparatory course for which he will have to pass a test of one hundred questions with a positive percentage of at least seventy to be eligible. Two re-tests will be allowed each person.

c) The preparatory course and test shall be in the English language and include selected writings of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the members of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and shall provide a history of the American colonial period and of the development of social-political theory as the founders knew it (a specific, non-alterable course will be developed for this purpose).

d) Each person selected by lottery for the Council of Citizens shall receive ten thousand dollars which is to be paid in monthly installments during the year preceding Council membership and is in compensation for time required in study of the Council of Citizens Course.

e) Upon being seated on the Council each member will be compensated in the amount of five-hundred-thousand dollars per year for the three years of membership and which will be paid in monthly installments.

f) Annual adjustment for inflation of compensation for both study and membership periods will be made.

Section 4.

a) Upon ratification of this Amendment each of the several states shall establish a lottery which will, on the first Monday in January following ratification, select eight citizens who are non-felons above the age of twenty-eight years. Three of the selected citizens, according to the order of selection and who have qualified in the course of study by testing, shall be seated on the Council of Citizens on the first Monday in January one year following the date of selection.

1. If any citizen selected by lottery be unable to qualify for membership on the Council Of Citizens, or fails to fulfill his term of service through sickness, death or disqualification, the next citizen chosen and qualified shall take his seat on the Council Of Citizens for the remainder of his term.
2. The first citizen selected and qualified in the course of study by testing shall serve a period of three years; the second citizen selected and qualified in the course of study by testing shall serve a period of two years; the third citizen selected and qualified in the course of study by testing shall serve a period of one year.

3. Each year after the first, five citizens who are non-felons above the age of twenty-eight years shall be chosen by lottery and the first citizen selected and qualified in the course of study by testing shall serve a period of three years. From thence forward and using the above stated means each state shall, year by year, replace their Council Of Citizens member who's term has expired. All citizens who have been selected and tested but who were not seated because of the seat being filled by another in front of them shall also be paid ten-thousand dollars in compensation for their time spent in study of the Council Of Citizens preparatory course. Such persons shall remain eligible to take the seat of the person in front of them if it becomes vacant more than three months before the term expires.

b) At its convenience the Council Of Citizens shall take to itself the management of the lotteries in the several states for choosing membership.

c) No party structures may be established or recognized within the Council Of Citizens. No leadership structures other than those the Council Of Citizens develops for itself and its committees shall exist within the Council. Membership is in the Council Of Citizens only and each member's whole responsibility is to the unalienable rights of every citizen of the United States of America, equally upheld.

1. Each human life is to be held as sacrosanct and the only source of inalienable rights under the United States Constitution. No person's life shall be taken except by execution as legally proscribed punishment for the commission of certain specific crimes.

d) All rights of the people as stated in the Bill Of Rights and as recognized by the Council Of Citizens under the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution shall be upheld against usurpation by any person, group of people, or the state.

1. No contractual clauses that impinge upon the Constitutional rights of any person or persons shall be enforceable by any means under any circumstances.

e) No paid lobbyist shall contact, attempt to contact or approach, in person or through others, any member of the Council Of Citizens or any employees thereof. Violation of this part shall constitute a federal crime.

f) Because frequent and egregious violations of the United States Constitution by many sworn to uphold it in the federal congress, executive, and judicial branches of government have made this Amendment necessary to return freedom to the people, the members of the Council Of Citizens must be ever vigilant and prepared against the corrupting forces and pressures that shall surly come against them. The Council shall develop regulations as it deems necessary to prohibit its members from corrupting themselves and for the punishment of members who do.

g) As a safeguard against the Council Of Citizens taking to itself powers not provided to it by the people and threatening their liberty, it shall be subject to dissolution by the people.

1. Every third presidential election following ratification of this Amendment a resolution shall be placed on the ballot in every state with the following wording:

Citizen and voter, if it is your wish that the Council Of Citizens be dissolved and its powers and authority withdrawn, mark the box below. If you wish the Council Of Citizens to continue its duties do not mark the box.

¡ Dissolve the Council Of Citizens

h) With a vote to dissolve of 5/9 (.55556) of the total popular vote the Council Of Citizens shall be dissolved and ended the first Monday of January following the vote to dissolve.

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The Council Of Citizens Amendment proposal is the exclusive property of Justin Ingalls, 145 VanDyke Street, Oconto, Wisconsin 54153 and may be reprinted and distributed without further permission for the purposes of promoting said Amendment.

Sincerely

Justin Ingalls