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State Party Chairman: Frank Fluckiger
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Secretary: Judith C. Brown
Treasurer: Reldon White
Newsletter: Richard Proctor
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Constitution Party Experiencing Unprecedented Growth
Salt Lake County Moves Ahead
Appeal of torture-slaying conviction could set U.N. law over U.S.
The Communist Takeover Of America
SENATE CONCURRENT MEMORIAL 1002
Frank Fluckiger's Message for November

Constitution Party Experiencing Unprecedented Growth

The year 2008 is just around the corner. Since becoming involved with the Constitution Party in 2001, I have never seen such a high level of activity in the party. People continue to come from out of the woodwork on a weekly basis. These are average Americans who have been politically active and who have become increasingly alarmed at the direction that both parties and especially the Republican Party Leadership have been taking this nation in the past few years. Events that are cause for great concern have been unfolding at such an increasing rate that one can hardly keep abreast of them. This has all led to an increased growth in the CP.

Next year will be a General Election in which the people of Utah will elect a president, a new Governor and Lt. Governor, an Attorney General, and an Auditor-Treasurer along with three U. S. Congressmen. In addition to this all 75 state house seats and half of the state senate seats will be up for election along with various county wide positions, and school board positions. We look forward to seeing many of you run for those offices. Candidates offer the party a platform from which to teach the proper role of government which the party promotes and to address issues that need to be addressed with the public.

In view of this, now is the time for us as CP members to become heavily involved in the process. That process begins right at home in our own neighborhoods. On Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 precinct party caucus meetings will be held across the state. It is our goal to hold caucus meetings in each of Utah's 29 counties and in every community of significant size. At those meetings precinct officers such as chair, vice chair and secretary treasurer will be elected. These are key positions to the growth and influence of the party. It is the precinct leaders who make sure that the party literature is passed out at each door and who work to ensure that our supporters go to the polls on Election Day.

The county chair leaders are now in the process of finding people to fill these positions, since the only such leaders we have are those who attended CP caucus meetings in 2006. The party has grown significantly since then so many more positions need to be filled. It is at the precinct caucus meetings that delegates are selected for both the county and state conventions. It is our hope that you will not wait to be contacted to fill these vacancies, but rather that you will contact your county leaders and volunteer to serve as precinct chair people. Please take the time to go to the CP web site at
www.utah-constitution-party.org and find out who your
county leaders are and then offer your active support to them.

A few weeks ago the CP began running radio ads promoting the party. The ads have been so well received that other states have asked for permission to run the ads in their states as well. As funds come in we hope to run ads in every single county in the state. The party should soon begin to see explosive growth as a result of these ads, but to fund those ads we very much need your continued financial support. When sending in your donations, please mark them for your intended purpose so that we use them accordingly.

In addition to this we are now engaged in gathering signatures for ballot position in the five remaining states in the West where we need to get on the ballot in 2008. Signatures are being gathered in Hawaii, Wyoming and New Mexico and will soon begin in Arizona. That will leave only Alaska left. In order to get on the ballot in some of these states it will require us to hire professional signature gathers. We ask those of you who are in a position to donate funds for that purpose to please do so. Make the checks payable to the Constitution Party (Gatherers) and send them to the Constitution Party P. O. Box 1215 Bountiful, Utah 84010. We will then forward them on to the national office with the request that those funds be used to help gain ballot access in the Western States. Also if any of you have family or friends in any of these states, please provide that information to the Utah state officers and we will be sure that those people are contacted. We are getting a fair number of responses already, but need many more.

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Appeal of torture-slaying conviction could set U.N. law over U.S.
© 2007 World Net Daily
October 10, 2007

The Bush administration is before the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn the death penalty, at the behest of the International Court of Justice, a division of the United Nations.

Jose Medellin and four others were convicted of capital murder and sent to Texas' death row.

President Bush through the Department of Justice, is pursuing a course of action through the Supreme Court that would result in U.S. laws being subjugated to U.N. resolutions and rules. This is similar to the case of the two border guards that were convicted of a crime while just doing their sworn duty. It is also similar to the case of Michael News who was convicted of not following an order that would have compelled him to fight for the United Nations. Each of these has the same background. The present administration is doing all in its power to force our country to give up its jurisdiction in favor of the United Nations. He is a believer in a one world government and many of his actions are contrary to his oath of office to uphold the Constitution of the United States.

At issue is the death penalty verdict for Jose Medellin, who confessed in 1993 to participating in the rape and murder of two Houston teenagers. Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena were sodomized and strangled with their shoe laces. Medellin then boasted of keeping one girl's Mickey Mouse watch as a souvenir of the crime.

The Bush administration intervention came after the U.N.'s International Court of Justice found Medellin was not informed of his right to contact the Mexican Consulate for legal assistance. That, according to the Hague, was a violation of a 1963 treaty known as the Vienna Convention. The Bush administration is placing this treaty in a position superior to the Constitution and his goal is to get the Supreme Court to agree and therefore make it the law of the land. All of these actions are in violation of the Constitution.

The basic issue here is "Can the United Nations Courts make decisions that United States Government must honor?" If this is found to be the case our country will now be controlled by the United Nations.

The entire article can be found at World net Daily dated October 10, 2007.

Excerpts from Chuck Baldwin's talk before the National Committee of the Constitution Party on Thursday, October 25, 2007 in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Christians Should Support Constitutional Government

Daniel Webster is regarded as perhaps America's most notable jurist. Webster said, "Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world."

When any constitutionally-elected officeholder assumes office, he or she promises to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the
United States. They don't promise to represent "conservative principles" or to be "loyal to a political party," etc. The Constitution is the contract between "We the people" and our civil magistrates.

When we elect people to public office, we should expect only one thing: that they uphold their contract to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

In fact, keeping government local and limited is the cornerstone doctrine of American government. In most nations, the federal government holds power over virtually every area of the lives of its people. Not so in America--at least, not in the America that was originally crafted.

Most of the problems that we are now dealing with socially, culturally, financially, etc., stem from America abandoning the basic founding principle that "the government that governs least governs best."

Accordingly, America's commitment to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness has been (and is being) systematically stripped from us--not by State legislatures, but mostly by agencies of the federal
government.

Today, we have federal departments and agencies almost without number. We have the Department of Education, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Justice, the Department of Labor, the Department of State, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of the Interior, etc., etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseum.

Each and every federal department and agency, in its own way and for its own purposes, to one degree or another, ignores or violates
constitutional government. And as a result, they contravene and strip away the rights and freedoms of States collectively and of the people individually.

The result of this gargantuan federal monstrosity includes back-breaking taxation and over-regulation, which fuel inflation, stymie productivity, and invite foreign influence.
Salt Lake County Moves Ahead
The Constitution Party in Salt Lake County is moving ahead with a dynamic program for teaching Constitutional principles using the IOTC Institute on the Constitution Lecture series augmented by a monthly discussion on the American Constitutional Paradigm.

The IOTC lectures are presently being held on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday in Central and Southeast Salt Lake County. Contacts for these seminars are:
Tuesday night: Elizabeth Phalp, 561-7807
Wednesday night: Leona Olds, 576-0246
Thursday night: David Perry, 566-0099
Saturday afternoon: Carolyn Alder, 266-0287

The stimulating and thought provoking American Constitutional Paradigm is being taught by Gary Alder at his First Friday Forum conducted on the first Friday of every month. All of these lectures are being held at the Salt Lake County Complex North Auditorium at 1980 South State Street. Lectures start at 7PM. Books and Constitutional supplies are available for donations.

Active plans are being made to extend the IOTC seminars throughout all areas of Salt Lake County. For information on where a seminar can be held locally or to host a seminar in your home contact Leonard Olds, 576-0246.
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The Communist Takeover Of America
45 Declared Goals
From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen


The entire list is too long for one issue therefore I will present some each month. As you read these items consider whether or not we are moving along this plan or if we have already arrived.

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

SENATE CONCURRENT MEMORIAL 1002
State of Arizona
Senate
Forty-eighth Legislature
First Regular Session
2007

"A CONCURRENT Memorial urging the congress of the united states to withdraw the united states from the security and prosperity partnership of north america and any other bilateral or multilateral activity that seeks to create a north american union.
"To the Congress of the United States:
"Your memorialist respectfully represents:
"Whereas, President George W. Bush established the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America with the nations of Mexico and Canada on March 23, 2005; and
"Whereas, a television reporter asked President Bush at that time whether, in light of the European Union, the Security and Prosperity Partnership was a step towards continental integration; and
"Whereas, the gradual creation of such a North American Union from a merger of the United States, Mexico and Canada would be a direct threat to the Constitution and national independence of the United States and would imply an eventual end to national borders within North America; and
"Whereas, a White House news release confirmed the continuing existence of the Security and Prosperity Partnership and its "ongoing process of cooperation" on March 31, 2006; and
"Whereas, key to the Security and Prosperity Partnership is the development of an extensive new North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) superhighway. Congressman Ron Paul has written that "under this new 'partnership,' a massive highway is being planned to stretch from Canada into Mexico through the state of Texas"; and
"Whereas, this trilateral partnership to develop a North American Union has never been presented to Congress as an agreement or treaty and has had virtually no congressional oversight; and
"Whereas, state and local governments throughout the United States would be negatively impacted in numerous ways by the Security and Prosperity Partnership/North American Union process, including the "open borders" vision of the partnership, eminent domain takings of private property along the planned superhighway and increased law enforcement problems along that same superhighway; and
"Whereas, Congressmen Virgil Goode, Jr., Ron Paul, Thomas Tancredo and Walter B. Jones, Jr. have introduced House Concurrent Resolution 487 to express "the sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada".
"Wherefore your memorialist, the Senate of the State of Arizona, the House of Representatives concurring, prays:
"1. That the Congress of the United States support House Concurrent Resolution 487 or take other immediate action to withdraw the United States from any further participation in the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, NAFTA and the NAFTA superhighway system.
"2. That the Congress of the United States take action to withdraw the United States from any further participation in any other bilateral or multilateral activity that seeks to advance, authorize, fund or in any way promote the creation of any structure to accomplish any form of a North American Union.
"3. That the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona transmit copies of this Memorial to the President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona.

Arizona's Congress has taken action expressing its disagreement with the current administration of the United States. These men and women understand that our way of life is under fire and something must be done legally to save it. We should get our congress here in Utah to pass a similar resolution and get behind the effort to save our country. I have personally, along with others, visited many of the leadership of our state legislature to help them see the problem. In almost all cases they verbally agreed, but they didn't seem to feel that it was really of any importance. Now after the meeting in Canada perhaps they will begin to see the writing on the wall.




These were just a few of the comments of his talk. More can be found in his column dated October 30, 2007 which is archived at: chuckbaldwinlive.com




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