Date: Saturday, 10 April 2010
Time: 5:00 – 9:00 PM
Location: Ripton Community House
Route 125, Ripton, Vermont

The Bayley – Hazen Boys

This is the place!

Traditional Ripton Potluck — I’ve been dyin’ to put on one of these! Come hear a style of music becoming increasingly scarce today- and bring the whole family!

The Bayley-Hazen Boys take you on a rollicking ride from the hills of northern Vermont down through Americana to the southern Appalachians. Combining their fresh interpretation of time-tested traditional material with a wealth of original songs, these two musical veterans blend soulful ballads, tight vocal harmonies, and hard driving instrumental work into a sound evoking the spirit of the early Stanley Brothers and Bill and Charlie Monroe.

The Bayley-Hazen Boys feature Gary Darling on mandolin and Steve Wright on guitar and five string banjo.

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Ripton, Vermont - April 3rd 2010

This man was just arrested for speaking his mind in Vermont. See the front page of the Times Argus or click the picture above, for the story.

Dennis Steele is running for Vermont’s highest office as an Independent.  He has systematically been excluded from public meetings. This is Vermont, isn’t it? Not where  the status quo is more vital than free speech.

As an independent candidate, I am appalled at how the Democrat/Republican political machine totally controls the public debate and limits the questions that can be asked.  To standard questions, with rehearsed answers, the same every time.

There’s $1.5 billion of Vermont’s wealth just sitting there, and these shills for a corrupt Empire just sit there as well and allow it to go to the oil & drug wars. But to even TALK about touching this money gets you arrested.

The Democrats have played their hand, using the police (at public expense) to protect their monopoly on public spaces and public speech.  Democrats are about stealing as much wealth as possible from Vermonters, to send off to Washington DC. They are not about change, about hope. The Democrats are about a police state, in which Vermonters have to make do with less and less, and contribute more and more warm bodies to the wars.

Just think about how $1.5 billion could remake Vermont according to the sustainability vision!

The machine will have to come up with a better excuse for barring Independents from political events, than ‘having participated in a primary’. They invited Dubie, didn’t they.

Here’s some perspective. The Democrats and Republicans in Vermont–The Machine, dominate the Legislature where the power is, and pass the Governor’s office back and forth between them.

Two years ago, when The Machine wanted incumbent Douglas to stay in office, there was a real challenge from a third party candidate, Anthony Pollina. So, a Democrat entered the race with no intention of winning, refused to speak on any issues, uttered no words of substance, but nevertheless split the anti-Douglas vote. Douglas stayed in office.  Then announced ‘retirement’.  The Democrats suddenly have a bunch of loud candidates spouting the usual lies, and all the Republicans do is put forward the current lieutenant governor, who gets invited to the debate but doesn’t show up.  There is really one party–not two!

Tell me, please, how that’s different from the former USSR.

Today, The Machine, which cares nothing for public opinion, wants to put a Democrat into the Governor’s office. To this end, they will stop at nothing, break any law, exclude Independent candidates, censor public participation or prevent it through force of arms.

The Machine is consolidating power, taking over public spaces, town halls, firehouses, schools & universities, and illegally excluding Independent candidates from the ongoing debates in the 2010 Vermont Election. They are strangling free speech, taking over the public airwaves, and bringing in a police state, where Independent challengers have to risk arrest and harassment–merely to participate in the electoral race on equal terms!

The only voice that ordinary Vermonters still have, is to stand up in any of these bogus, totally-controlled fascist-style political events. Stand up and speak. Stand up and say that the Emperor has no clothes. Vote the Machine out! Vote for Dennis Steele for Governor, Pete Garritano for Lieutenant Governor!

In a Nutshell

Here is the plan, the evidence and the FIX for politics:

Anyone who spends 10 minutes to search out and read the text of Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution CANNOT mistake where the real power lies in the federal government. In the system the Founders designed for us, CONGRESS NOT THE PRESIDENT IS THE REAL POWER. Congress makes all laws, raises and designs all taxes, funds or refuses to fund all and any actions of government, and their decision to fund anything that government does, or not, is final. No part of the government may self-fund. Congress declares war, not the President; and Congress can undeclare it or terminate it or limit it’s scope at will by declaration. The President has no say in the matter. He is the Commander in Chief ONLY of our operational military , not of the entire country, and he commands operational military forces only within the sphere allowed to him by Congress and the Constitution.

With respect to the rest of the government, the President merely PRESIDES, i.e. he is a figurehead with some but not much influence over the process of day to day governance; and he labors even then under the Constitutional mandate to “Take care that [all laws passed by Congress are complied with]”. He does not get to pick and choose or partially comply.

With respect to the public, the President has of course a good deal of persuasive power–what Teddy Roosevelt once described as the “Bully Pulpit”. And our modern timid Congresses generally fear this power of persuasion; but Congress through its leaders could no doubt match or exceed the President at public persuasiveness if they chose to do so.

All modern Congresses have been bought and kept, however, by various corporate, foreign and financial entities; and so they choose to represent those entities rather than us. They refuse to exercise OUR power on OUR behalf, choosing instead to encourage the President to act in support of these other entities, while Congress pretends to be involved and pretends sometimes to object.

THEREFORE…..

I don’t care who is elected president.

The only way forward is the recapture of Congress BY US in the upcoming 2008 elections. We ordinary, decent, able, American citizens must recruit and support a few hundred of us who will then run for every seat in Congress, en masse as Independents—all of us coming AT Congress in the 2008 Congressional elections from outside the traditional party structures.

Individual races here and there for a few seats in Congress will not and cannot succeed alone. The deck is very thoroughly stacked against such efforts, and the people are discouraged and untrustful. The only way to move them is for a lot of us TO RUN AT THE SYTEM together WITH THE CLEARLY STATED INTENTION OF TAKING EVERY SEAT, and restoring the People to power in America—–removing from power those monied, foreign and corporate entities that today rule this country and too much of the modern world.

I am utterly convinced that the great swath of “ordinary Americans” will rise to this and will even run with us if we do this and we are absolutely clear with them about our intentions: TO REMOVE MONEY FROM POLITICAL POWER.

Money is money. I don’t hate money or those who have money. But people and NOT MONEY must control our politics. There is almost NO TIME LEFT to do this. The matter is now urgent.

Cindy Sheehan is already in the field in SanFrancisco (vs Nancy Pelosi). Cynthia Mckinney is mulling a run in Georgia or nationally. Craig Hill has announced in Vermont. Who is next? Who will join us? Help us? Help recruit others including ordinary people (with perhaps a few celebrities mixed in) to help jumpstart this effort?

My name for all this is FIRE CONGRESS!

Dennis Morrisseau

P.O. Box 177

W. Pawlet, VT 05775

(802) 645-9727

dmorso1@netzero.net

www.2LTMorrisseau.com

Lieutenant Morrisseau’s Rebellion

FIRE CONGRESS!

Calling all American Patriots, World/Planetary Citizens, Champions of Democracy: It is clear we have reached the place where no further begging or asking or petitioning or demonstrating or demanding aimed at our present American leadership is going to work.

(They have figured out that all that only works if the media gives voice to it all, and they have completely subborned and captured and turned against us all what was once a free American media.)

This is end-game. Our present “leaders” do not represent us, and will not. What they have in mind for us is CAGES. The internet and our own individual voices, our own two feet, must be our media and our means to restore democracy.

There is ONE alternative to violence that will work if we can find the courage and energy to do it.

WE MUST TAKE OUR SEATS.

We. You and I. Us. In the present (2008) election cycle. Under cover of the coming and usual Presidential circus, we must stand for election to every seat in Congress and every seat in every State Legislature as well, with no regard for political party or incumbancy or “experience”.

We will run on heart. And truth. And we will recruit others to run with us, all across America. The money to run and the staffing we will need will all be forthcoming once we prove ourselves to ourselves and to others by taking this stand, in numbers, as resolute American adults determined to recapture and rebuild the entire idea of Self-Government.

to be continued……