CPR Lifeline Advisory - Thursday - 2/9/2023
New newsletter of the Coalition for a Principled Republic
This is a new newsletter for the Coalition for a Principled Republic (CPR) If you prefer not to receive it - let us know via email and ask to be removed from our mailing list. We offer ‘Too Much Information’ (TMI) on purpose; so, we advise readers to take in only what they are able to digest, and leave the rest… Also, if an email provider truncates this newsletter, look for the option to select to “view the entire message” and select that option to view the rest.
Don't Want This Newsletter? Just delete or send a return request to "Remove" your address, and we'll take it off the distribution list.
_________________________________________________
CPR Lifeline Advisory - Thursday - 2/9/2023
_____________________________________________
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…
_________________________________________________
In our inaugural edition, we featured a sermon from Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. dealing with the recovery of lost values. His words ring as true in 2023 as they did in 1954.
Since Ronald Reagan’s birthday has just passed, we will offer an article I wrote pertaining to Reagan’s view of principles. And, since Abraham Lincoln’s birthday is coming up, we are featuring a speech he’d given at the end of January, just before his 29th birthday. Although they were delivered years ago, the words shared in each of the political speeches still resound over time. They are still prophetic for America, as “We the People” advance into the new millennium.
As the CPR Advisory continues with our new newsletter, we seek to promote the genuine ideals, principles, and values that were sought by the founding generation. New patriots are awakening each day, and our intent is to help in that awakening by tethering it as much as possible to those Judeo-Christian ideals, principles, and values that so many Americans have given their lives in order to substantiate them in the world. The CPR is willing to work with other Christian, patriot, and conservative organizations as they mobilize to respond to the clear and present danger to our Republic. Currently, there are well over a dozen NGOs working together or that are affiliated with the CPR or our individual member groups.
As mentioned in the inaugural edition in January, “the intent was also to stimulate and support leadership and activism aimed at exercising those God-given rights to be able to retain our Constitutional Republic and to restore America as “One Nation Under God.” The original words of guidance from Heavenly Father in establishing the CPR were to re-establish covenant with Him, to establish and continually enhance the lines of communication with Him and one another, and to establish community in the process of working together on endeavors and projects worthy of investment. The community of connectedness is established through the importance or value attributed to the levels of communication that are needed to help each other, as people or as organizations. As mentioned in our inaugural edition, “we are now coming full circle as a nation, and the patriots have the choice to join in cooperative arrangements with other coalitions or confederations or associations working in the concerted effort to save the Republic. We need to join together, or the United States as a Constitutional Republic will die.”
From 2019, when the foundation was established, the volunteer base and lines of cooperative communication remained intact. A community, or an alliance, of organizations continues forward
to expand our efforts of education, activism, and cooperative support. In this third year, we have initiated this newsletter as our first move to step “out of the shadows” of the Citizen Sentinels Network and develop even more.
The CPR intends to strengthen internal communication within the coalition, as well as to advance the public education efforts of our member organizations. This is not some single, ‘top-down’ organized operation, but an alliance of several autonomous grassroots organizations that are willing to promote, protect, and offer mutually beneficial support between each of the affiliated organizations. From many united, we each gain strength.
In this edition, we honor Ronald Reagan, as his birthday was on Monday. I offer an article on his perceptions of freedom with a focus on words from a speech he gave in 1964, which seems like such a long, long time ago.
Additionally, Abraham Lincoln’s birthday is coming up this Sunday, so we are providing an extensive excerpted version of young Lincoln’s first political speech to a debating society known as the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois. There is a link provided to access the full speech for those who would like to read it in its entirety.
Today, the Coalition for a Principled Republic exists as a grassroots alliance, or confederation, of organizations connected via common lines of communication and shared information and focused on promoting cooperative action on vital projects deemed compatible to organizations that seek to retain a Republic rooted in the shared ideals, principles, and values of our Judeo- Christian heritage. We actively seek alliances, so if readers belong to like-minded organizations, we request consideration as affiliated or partnered arrangements to work together. Divided the Republic could falter; but United, the “We the People” will stand!
Ronald Reagan and Our Choice for Freedom
By Dennis Jamison – 2/8/23
Although the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington are just around the corner, many Americans often miss the birthday of former President Ronald Reagan, which was this past Monday. If readers missed it, it proves my point. However, IMHO, President Ronald Wilson Reagan was one of the most important leaders of the Republican Party in the past 50 years. It is possible others will agree with that opinion, but it is academic at this point, and opinions are hard to change unless previously unknown information challenges a belief. My opinion stands.
Ronald Wilson Reagan, was born on February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois. Being born and raised in the Midwest, Reagan was brought up on simple, down-to-earth, common-sense values, and he held to those values and carried them with him as he into the political arena.
The traditional values that Ronald Reagan championed propelled him to become an icon of the Conservative arm of the Republican Party. But beyond the GOP, President Reagan essentially transformed the United States in his day with these simple values: his sincere belief in the value of the vision of government that the Founding Fathers established at the birth of the Republic, and the enduring value of America, and the value of the American people.
Although Ronald Reagan was a Democrat earlier in his life, he grew more conservative as he grew older; and finally in 1962, Ronald Reagan became a Republican. He often quipped that the Democratic Party had left him, that he had not left the Democratic Party. Over recent years, he is not the only one who has expressed such a sentiment. One current example of this kind of dramatic transformation is the ex-Democrat, Tulsi Gabbard. But, the Democrat Party of Reagan was less socialistic in his day than now. His old Party has become what we feared.
During the 1964 presidential campaign, then Gov. Ronald Reagan delivered a speech in support of fellow conservative Barry Goldwater’s run for president. Reagan delivered the speech, known now as “A Time for Choosing,” or simply “The Speech,” on October 27, 1964. It was essentially a pre-recorded television presentation that ran late in Goldwater’s presidential campaign, after he had secured his party’s nomination at the Republican National Convention that summer.
The speech was televised and it put Ronald Reagan on more of a national stage. Reagan’s eloquent expression of traditional values came across in a big way. Although it was ostensibly delivered to help support Goldwater;s bid for president, it went beyond that task. In actuality, many versions of this Reagan speech exist as it had been changed a number of times, but Reagan shared those genuine traditional values of the Founding Fathers in a way like no other had done since World War II.
However, at that time, as well as in the present, the Republican Party was under the control of the traditionalist or “Establishment Republicans,” which did not readily embrace the traditional values of the Conservative “rebels.” And for out-of-step Conservatives, it was normally an uphill battle for respect from the leadership within the mainstream political party. However, through Reagan’s perseverance, he not only gained the respect of the rank and file in the GOP of his day, he fundamentally altered his party through his Conservative “Revolution.”
Most Americans remember the part of Reagan’s speech, from which the title originated as almost like a prophetic warning to all citizens of the United States. In this part of his speech, Reagan was referring to statements by elected Democrat Senators who had been touting the value of centralized government, and defining liberalism as: "meeting the material needs of the masses through the full power of centralized government."
Well, I for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as "the masses." This is a term we haven't applied to ourselves in America. But beyond that, "the full power of centralized government" -- this was the very thing the Founding Fathers sought to minimize. They knew that governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they know when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing.
Beyond this warning, or ominous challenge to American citizens, Reagan focused on such a much greater point than a simple presidential election. Within the context of Goldwater’s campaign, Reagan stressed his belief in the importance of limited government, but he also expanded on his point:
We're at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it's been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. Well I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers.
And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people, is still the newest and the most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man.
This is the issue of this election: whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.
You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream – the maximum of individual freedom consistent with law and order – or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.
Intuitively, clear-minded Americans can sense that in the past few decades, under even worse ideologically intolerant leadership than Ronald Reagan witnessed in his day, America has indeed spiraled downward, nearly out of control. Incredibly, Americans who retained their own common sense, and who showed the courage to stand up for a man who still loved his country, managed to keep the flame of freedom burning for at least a few more years.
Amazingly, during the 2016 election, the nation and the world witnessed that Americans who still loved their country, as bequeathed to them by the Founders, came to such an ominous time of choosing. With their right minds, they exercised their precious right to vote to defend the ideals linked to Freedom. However, it is totally clear that the fight for such conservative values is only intensifying because there are those who still prefer totalitarianism to genuine Freedom. Ronald Reagan’s words speak more loudly to true Americans today than when he first shared them. As we proceed into the millennium, we need to choose wisely.
"The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions"
By Abraham Lincoln
January 27, 1838
The following is only an excerpt from the full speech delivered by young Abraham Lincoln to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois before his 29th birthday. In this speech, Lincoln warned that mobs or people who disrespected U.S. laws and courts could destroy the United States. He went on to say the Constitution and rule of law in the United States are "the political religion of our nation." A full transcript can be found by using this link: Lyceum Address (January 27, 1838) | Lincoln's Writings
As a subject for the remarks of the evening, the perpetuation of our political institutions, is selected. . . . We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducting more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. We, when mounting the stage of existence, found ourselves the legal inheritors of these fundamental blessings. We toiled not in the acquirement or establishment of them—they are a legacy bequeathed us, by a once hardy, brave, and patriotic, but now lamented and departed race of ancestors. Their’s was the task (and nobly they performed it) to possess themselves, and through themselves, us, of this goodly land; and to uprear upon its hills and its valleys, a political edifice of liberty and equal rights; ‘tis ours only, to transmit these, the former, unprofaned by the foot of an invader . . . This task of gratitude to our fathers, justice to ourselves, duty to posterity, and love for our species in general, all imperatively require us faithfully to perform.
How then shall we perform it?—At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?—Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!—All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen, amongst us. I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country; the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions, in lieu of the sober judgment of Courts . . . . Accounts of outrages committed by mobs, form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country, from New England to Louisiana . . . . Whatever, then, their cause may be, it is common to the whole country. . . .
But you are, perhaps, ready to ask, “What has this to do with the perpetuation of our political institutions?” . . . When men take it in their heads to day, to hang gamblers, or burn murderers, they should recollect, that, in the confusion usually attending such transactions, they will be as likely to hang or burn someone who is neither a gambler nor a murderer as one who is; and that, acting upon the example they set, the mob of tomorrow, may, and probably will, hang or burn some of them by the very same mistake. . . . [A]nd thus it goes on, step by step, till all the walls erected for the defense of the persons and property of individuals, are trodden down, and disregarded. But all this even, is not the full extent of the evil. By such examples, by instances of the perpetrators of such acts going unpunished, the lawless in spirit, are encouraged to become lawless in practice; and having been used to no restraint, but dread of punishment, they thus become, absolutely unrestrained. Having ever regarded Government as their deadliest bane, they make a jubilee of the suspension of its operations; and pray for nothing so much, as its total annihilation. While, on the other hand, good men, men who love tranquility, who desire to abide by the laws, and enjoy their benefits, who would gladly spill their blood in the defense of their country; seeing their property destroyed; their families insulted, and their lives endangered; their persons injured; and seeing nothing in prospect that forebodes a change for the better; become tired of, and disgusted with, a Government that offers them no protection; and are not much averse to a change in which they imagine they have nothing to lose. Thus, then, by the operation of this mobocractic spirit, which all must admit, is now abroad in the land, the strongest bulwark of any Government, and particularly of those constituted like ours, may effectually be broken down and destroyed—I mean the attachment of the People. . . .
The question recurs, “how shall we fortify against it?” The answer is simple. Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others. As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;—let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children’s liberty. Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap—let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primers, spelling books, and in Almanacs;—let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay, of all sexes and tongues, and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars. . . .
When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made.—I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed. So also in unprovided cases. If such arise, let proper legal provisions be made for them with the least possible delay; but, till then, let them, if not too intolerable, be borne with.
There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. . . .
But, it may be asked, why suppose danger to our political institutions? Have we not preserved them for more than fifty years? And why may we not for fifty times as long? . . .
That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.—Then, all that sought celebrity and fame, and distinction, expected to find them in the success of that experiment. . . . If they succeeded, they were to be immortalized . . . . If they failed, they were to be called knaves and fools, and fanatics for a fleeting hour; then to sink and be forgotten. They succeeded. The experiment is successful; and thousands have won their deathless names in making it so. But the game is caught; and I believe it is true, that with the catching, end the pleasures of the chase. This field of glory is harvested, and the crop is already appropriated. But new reapers will arise, and they, too, will seek a field. It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them. The question then, is, can that gratification be found in supporting and maintaining an edifice that has been erected by others? Most certainly it cannot. Many great and good men sufficiently qualified for any task they should undertake, may ever be found, whose ambition would inspire to nothing beyond a seat in Congress, a gubernatorial or a presidential chair; but such belong not to the family of the lion, or the tribe of the eagle. What! think you these places would satisfy an Alexander, a Caesar, or a Napoleon?—Never! Towering genius distains a beaten path. . . . Is it unreasonable then to expect, that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time, spring up among us? And when such a one does, it will require the people to be united with each other, attached to the government and laws, and generally intelligent, to successfully frustrate his designs.
Distinction will be his paramount object, and although he would as willingly, perhaps more so, acquire it by doing good as harm; yet, that opportunity being past, and nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down. . . .
Another reason which once was; but which, to the same extent, is now no more, has done much in maintaining our institutions thus far. I mean the powerful influence which the interesting scenes of the revolution had upon the passions of the people as distinguished from their judgment. . . .
I do not mean to say, that the scenes of the revolution are now or ever will be entirely forgotten; but that like every thing else, they must fade upon the memory of the world, and grow more and more dim by the lapse of time. . . .
They were the pillars of the temple of liberty; and now, that they have crumbled away, that temple must fall, unless we, their descendants, supply their places with other pillars, hewn from the solid quarry of sober reason. Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.—Let those materials be moulded into general intelligence, sound morality, and in particular, a reverence for the constitution and laws: and, that we improved to the last; that we remained free to the last; that we revered his name to the last; that, during his long sleep, we permitted no hostile foot to pass over or desecrate his resting place; shall be that which to learn the last trump shall awaken our WASHINGTON.
Upon these let the proud fabric of freedom rest, as the rock of its basis; and as truly as has been said of the only greater institution, “the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
Article links…
Biden Tells America to 'Finish the Job' – From American Greatness
‘If China Threatens Our Sovereignty, We Will Act’: Biden in State of the Union – From NTD
Should The U.S. Be Afraid Of A Chinese Balloon? – From Forbes
Anarchy, American-Style – From American Greatness - by Victor Davis Hanson
The Case For Black Patriotism by Glenn C. Loury | Articles – From First Things
The Constitution must be our ‘political religion’: Remembering Lincoln’s words – From The Seattle Times
ICYMI > Thomas Paine publishes "Common Sense" – From HISTORY.com
Video links…
Jonathan Cahn’s Prophetic Message II to Joe Biden (The White House Apostasy) – From Jonathan Cahn
Sarah Sanders delivers Republican rebuttal to Biden's SOTU address – From Sara Huckabee Sanders
Heather Mac Donald On How The Delusion of Diversity Destroys Our Common Humanity – From The Hoover Institution
The Downfall of the Ivy League | Jordan Peterson interviews Victor Davis Hanson | EP 325 – From Jordan B. Peterson
Here's How America Reshaped The World As We Know It – From Dinesh D’Souza
Podcast links…
From 'Life, Liberty & Levin' w/ Mark Levin: Levin: Our country is under attack
From The Libertarian Podcast: The Libertarian Podcast: State Of The Re-Election Campaign | Richard Epstein | Hoover Institution
From Victor Davis Hanson Show: Podcasts - Has the Tide Changed for the Left?
“History As It Happens” Podcast - Martin Di Caro: Special Section - Bursting China's Balloon - Washington Times
From The Academy of Ideas: Why Do People Flee from Freedom?
Coalition Connections…
From JR Harrison of the Natural Family Foundation: Response to State of Union Speech by JR Harrison Natural Family Strong
From Catching Fire News: Don’t Leave Your Child in Public School – Just Walk Out!
- Dr. Duke Pesta joins Hal Shurtleff of Camp Constitution to share the success of his online school Freedom Project Academy
From Stephanie Mann of Safe Kids Now: Jeffrey Walker mentors youth between ages 12 to 24
From Students for Life of America: Americans Want No Part of HHS’s Proposed Power Grab for Abortion — We Are So Done with Public Health Emergencies
From Jack Meyer’s - Douse the Hateful Rhetoric: Is our great divide about politics or culture? - 1/30/23
Coalition Resources - follow the links…
Citizen Sentinels Network - Citizen Voice News: Citizen Voice | Substack
Liberty Christian Fellowship: About Us – Liberty Christian Fellowship
Safe Family and Neighborhood Resource: Safe Kids Now
Christian Homeschool Resources: Ed-Exit
Resource Promoting the Natural Family & Family Values: Natural Family Foundation
Christian Constitution Education Resource: Camp Constitution.net
Liberty Tree Constitution Education Resource: LIBERTY TREE ONLINE UNIVERSITY
Recommended Resources - follow the links…
Excellent Citizen Activist Resource: Precinct Strategy: Home
To Restore our educational system to the excellence, morality and patriotism envisioned by our American Founders: For Kids And Country
Public School Exit Resource: Public School Exit - Online Education Impact Program
CRT information for parents, which they can download: Moms for America
Washington Times Constitution Education Resource: Special Section - To The Republic: Rediscovering the Constitution -
Election Education Resources - follow the links…
Excellent Non-Partisan Election Resource: Election Integrity Project California
National Election Resource: My Voter Hub – From My Faith Votes
National Election Resource: From True the Vote - Election Integrity Tip Line: Tip Line
National Election Resource: Election Integrity Scorecard – From The Heritage Foundation
National Election Resource: Voter Fraud Map: Election Fraud Database – From Heritage
2020 Election Education Resource: US 2020 Election Fraud at a Glance
National Election Resource: VotifyNow