For the past three months I've been extremely busy,
so I haven't been posting very much. On October 10, 2009, 24 years to the day after I joined the U.S. Navy, I was elected along
with Mike Adamske and Bob Lightner to represent North Carolina at the
Continental Congress, more commonly known as CC2009. We
the People Foundation's Bob Schulz, at great expense, along with various sponsors, numerous volunteers from We the People Congress, and volunteers from across America, brought together citizen-delegates from 48 states to form the first
Continental Congress in over 220 years. (See "New Federalist Papers")
In the most honest election our nation has seen in
at least 100 years, 105 delegates were elected by the citizens of their
respective states with "notarized" voter registration forms and
elections were held with paper ballots. Our great country should revert
to that open and honest method. While many of you know me as the
National Director of the FIRE Coalition, or more personally as the
PatriotWatchdog, when I went to Pheasant Run Resort I became Jeff
Lewis, 1st Delegate, North Carolina, the third such Continental
Congress in U.S. history. Mr. Schulz was no longer the Chairman of the We the
People Foundation, but Bob Schulz, 1st Delegate, New York.
From
Veteran's Day, Nov. 11, 2009 thru Nov. 21, 2009, Delegates to the
Continental Congress rolled up their sleeves and got to work in defense of
the Constitution. Mr. Schulz and others had spent years trying to get
a "redress of grievances" for violations of the Constitution by our
servant government to no avail.
After spending over 14,000 delegate-hours in
meetings listening to experts on a variety of subjects, committees, deliberating as the Committee of the Whole, and
finally as the Continental Congress citizen-patriots debated and adopted what became the
"Articles of Freedom." Over the next two months, the Styles Committee
appointed by President Michael Badnarik, and a variety of delegates
continued to finalize the documents.
This past Sunday, the Third Continental Congress
officially adopted the "Articles of Freedom." While the CC2009 event is
over, the work of the Third Continental Congress continues. The unalieanble right to life, education, the 14th Amendment, and other issues were left unresolved. Before leaving St. Charles, Illinois, the delegates also adopted motions to continue the work of the Third Continental Congress until at least Oct. 10, 2011.
On Feb. 02, 2010, in a meeting with the Executive and Administrative Committees,
President Badnarik created two new committees, Bylaws and Civic Actions. Colorado Delegate Terry
Dodd will chair the Civic Actions Committee. Wyoming Delegate Catherine
Vandemoer will chair the Bylaws Committee. Chairman Vandemoer, also known as "Dr. Kate," called me later that evening to ask me to be Bylaws Vice-Chairman.
As Vice-Chairman of both the Administrative and
Bylaws Committees, my work has just begun. If you haven't heard of the
Third Continental Congress, you will. The "Articles of Freedom" are
just the beginning.
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