| Minuteman
Project Caravan - The Spirit Of Allegiance Ride For America
May
3 - 11, 2006

Lyman
Stucky, of San Bernardino is driving the pace car that is leading
the
Minuteman Project across the country to Washington DC to ask
the leaders to enforce the laws prohibiting illegal immigration.
Caravan Schedule
May 3rd - Los Angeles,
CA
May 3rd - Phoenix, AZ
May 4th - Albuquerque, NM
May 5th - Abilene, TX
May 6th - Crawford, TX
May 7th - Little Rock, AR
May 8th - Memphis, TN
May 8th - Nashville, TN
May 9th - Birmingham, AL
May 9th - Atlanta, GA
May 10th - Greensboro, NC
May 11th - Richmond, VA
Source:
Minuteman Project
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A
Sobering Thought
At about the time our original 13 states adopted their
new constitution in 1787, a Scottish history professor by the name
of Professor Alexander Tyler had this to say about "The Fall
of the Athenian Republic" over 2,000 years previous to that date.
The
Fall of the Athenian Republic
"A
democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only
exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse
(generous gifts) from the public treasury. From that moment
on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most
benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy
always collapses over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed
by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations
has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through
this sequence. From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith
to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance,
from abundance to complacency; from complacency to apathy, from
apathy to dependence, from dependence back into bondage."
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Senator
Tom McClintock Meets SOA Executive Director Lyman Stucky At Well
Attended Fundraiser
September
19, 2003
By B. Raymond Trottier
It was a warm
and electrifying Summer evening at the Etiwanda Gardens in Etiwanda,
California Friday night as an unexpected overflow crowd brought
Etiwanda¡¯s largest reception room to full capacity. They came from
all over the Inland Empire, mostly members of the Inland Valley
Republican Assembly that quickly swelled with over 100 ¡®walk-ins¡¯
to hear Senator Tom McClintock make his speech during his campaign
swing through Southern California.
The Senator
is running for Governor among a highly diversified field of candidates
in an historic gubernatorial recall campaign generating in record
time the greatest number of recall petition signatures in any state¡¯s
history. Current Democratic Governor Grey Davis¡¯ approval rating,
hovering around 22%, is shockingly lower than any State Governor
in history. Major accounting firms back East accused the Governor
of gross fiscal mismanagement over the past two years and the public
is outraged. The Governor¡¯s solution include the now infamous tripling
of the car registration tax.
This was the
scene in which our Executive Director of the Spirit of Allegiance
had a heartfelt opportunity to speak privately to Senator McClintock
while presenting him with copies prepared by the SOA of a remarkable
speech the Senator made last year on ¡°Why The Pledge of Allegiance
Matters¡±. The Senator was taken by surprise as he had all but forgotten
his insightful speech on the Pledge of Allegiance where he explains
so clearly the importance of keeping the Pledge as it is; retaining
God as the divine law-giver, not man, an error the Senator pointed
out made by the French that brought disaster. Senator McClintock
was very flattered SOA Executive Director Lyman Stucky had found
the speech so profound to not only place it prominently on the Spirit
of Allegiance web site but establish a campaign to circulate copies
to the community. The obvious help this give his campaign is overshadowed,
in the eyes of Lyman Stucky, by the fact that our Constitution,
the Pledge of Allegiance and other precepts of modern Democracy
in America have come under systematic and successful attacks in
recent history.
The SOA acquired
the speech some time ago for insertion into the Spirit of Allegiance
web site. However, upon hearing the news that the good Senator has
decided to run for Governor of California, the speech took on new
and important meaning to the SOA and to his campaign.
Copies of the
Senator¡¯s speech were printed and distributed by members of the
Spirit of Allegiance staff to be personally distributed to all the
Chamber of Commerce¡¯s throughout the Southern California Inland
Empire. A full text of Senator Tom McClintock¡¯s
clear-eyed "Why The Pledge Matters" analysis of the importance
of the Pledge of Allegiance can be found here. |
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