by Mary W Maxwell, LLB
Dear Honorable Selectmen and Town Manager of Concord Massachusetts,
Best greetings. I live in Concord New Hampshire. I am one of the scholars scheduled to speak on May 31, 2020, at the conference run by Stuart Weeks.
When Stuart Weeks phoned me on Friday (29th) to say it was “off,” I misunderstood his message. I thought he meant that the Powers That Be (so to speak) do not want people to meet to discuss the Pandemic. I recommended that he consider going to the District Court to ask a judge to enjoin Governor Charlie Baker from preventing free speech.
Luckily, I was wrong. There was no proscribing of the nature of our conference. Whew! Thank you! I had just about panicked at the thought of such a thing. I have seen it happen elsewhere, but “no way” here.
Today I learned, from reading Weeks’ eloquent and quite moving letter to you -– had me in tears –- that the issue is a lesser one, having to do only with use of what he calls “the upper room” of Town Hall.
(He is referring to the Holy Spirit descending to the Apostles in the Upper Room on Pentecost Sunday — the date, this year, chosen for us to meet, May 31.)
Stuart is surely correct in his belief that Concord matters. Today I got an email from a friend in Germany, boasting that his country is way ahead of others in protesting the absurd lockdown. One of the several protesting groups issues a newspaper, to the tune of 100,000 copies, for interested Germans. Good-oh, but why not Boston, home of John Adams? Why not Virginia, home of Madison? WHY NOT CONCORD?
Pardon me if I mention my age (a lass of 73 summers, presente). It’s my guess — from the email signed by Ms Susan Bates — that your team is a lot younger. If that is so, possibly brother Henry David does not tug at your heart. For us oldies, his Resistance to Civil Government (1849) is still a wonderment. Here is something surprising he wrote, regarding his first night in jail:
“… [The guard] showed me which was my bed, and left me to blow out the lamp. It was like travelling into a far country, such as I had never expected to behold, to lie there for one night. It seemed to me that I never had heard the town-clock strike before, nor the evening sounds of the village; for we slept with the windows open, which were inside the grating. It was to see my native village in the light of the middle ages, and our Concord was turned into a Rhine stream.”
Not that he was implying that the people whose chatter he could hear were out of step with the times. I think he meant his non-imprisoned colleagues (or the whole nation, in regard to slavery) were out of step.
Most of my American colleagues today are so out of step with our heritage that I could go nuts from frustration. We, locally, are so blessed to have all that’s needed to correct our out-of-balance society. And the understanding of conscience has never been described more pungently than by Thoreau.
Young Stuart (I don’t know his age) is nearly as pungent. He is going to make Concord rise. Don’t stop him!
O Selectmen, don’t worry about the alleged instruction from Governor Baker. If it exists, it is illegal. The controlling precedent is the 1931 US Supreme Court case, Home Building v Blaisdell:
“Emergency does not create power. Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved [the Bill of Rights – Ninth Amendment especially?]. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the Federal Government and its limitations on the powers of the States were determined in the light of emergency and they were not altered by emergency.”
Please see, in the linked video below, a little “tutorial” I made for Governor Baker, feeling a need to remind His Excellency of his prerogatives per the Massachusetts state constitution. I mainly was reacting to the “invasion” that occurred on April 19, 2013 — Watertown’s day of wholesale unconstitutionality.
It would be great to feel the protection of a governor. When Adams was drafting the Massachusetts Constitution, in 1780, I believe he expressed the true meaning of solidarity. I choose the following chunk – Article VII — with my eye on every state’s need for a true militia now, in 2020, not one usurped by various national players.
“The governor [of Massachusetts] shall have full power by himself… for the special defence and safety of the commonwealth, to assemble in martial array, and put in warlike posture, the inhabitants thereof, and to lead and conduct them, and with them to encounter, repel, resist, expel and pursue, by force of arms … within or without the limits of this commonwealth, and also to kill, slay and destroy, if necessary, and conquer, … all and every such person … as shall, … in a hostile manner, attempt … the destruction, invasion, detriment, or annoyance of this commonwealth.”
The militia thus envisioned (pre-the 1903 nonsense of calling it The National Guard) was one that could “take on” a federal tyrant. It would consist of a universal posse comitatus, all able-bodied persons age 16 to 60 – exactly what is needed today to reassert who we are.
Next, we hear Publius, aka James Madison – at age 37! – assuring the public that the very having of a militia, and a physical sense of local government, would suffice to stave off trouble. An excerpt from Federalist 46, published in New York on January 29, 1788:
“Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate [state and county] governments, to which the people are attached … forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable [think Stuart Weeks] than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.”
“Notwithstanding the [very large] military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. But were the people [over there] to possess the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will and direct the national force, and of officers appointed out of the [local] militia … it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned….” [Emphasis added]
Selectmen, have you met the “warrior doctor” in the vaccination battle, Rashid Buttar, OD, of Atlanta Georgia? He tells us that people overseas have contacted him (about the totalitarianism of the Pandemic) saying “You Americans have got the Second Amendment – this helps all of us!!!!!
We are idealistic. That is our strength. I implore you to make the upper room available. The fake emergency that has engulfed the world is a make-or-break opportunity for us to come out of our national trance. Concord matters, matters, matters.
Didn’t brother Ralph say so in Concord Hymn (1837)?
“On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set today a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.”
Yours sincerely and respectfully,
Sister Mary
Mary Maxwell, 177 Loudon Rd, Apt 203, Concord NH 03301
Video “To Massachusetts governor, please arrest the FBI”
A new decision came down about 43 hours ago from the US Supreme Court but I have not studied it yet. It looks like a plaintiff In California had said that religions were discriminated against by a Governor’s ruling that allowed more people into a laundromat than into a church.
The headline is that “Chief Justice says Covid-19 Restrictions OK” — but this is not quite correct.
Think of the Pilgrims on their way over on the Mayflower, wondering about the relative importance of the laundromat situation. I don’t think so.
One can step back in time by gazing at this page:
https://concord-ium.us/programs/the-presenters-actors-in-the-drama/
A man and woman with 9 of their children are singing to an empty church “under the circumstances.” You could start at 59 minutes:
“Serco controls the systems and services of the United States government.
The U.S. Patent Office is controlled by Serco.
Serco controls the most sensitive data management systems in all branches of the military, federal government and state and local municipalities.
Serco controls air traffic management, airlines security, airport management and all aspects of ticketing, visa data management and timetable management.
Serco operates internationally across five sectors and four geographies: defence, justice, immigration, transportation, health and human services.”
– aim4truth.org
Serco owns the world.
Does aim4truth.org offer footnotes? I mean, are we to assume they got the story right? That sure is startling — and awful, 56.
I do know that my local bus service in Adelaide, Australia (efficiently run, I daresay) is openly Serco.
Once the corruption within court security,bailiff services,land title offices etc reaches a certain point it’s a matter of selling the dirty debt on to the highest bidder.
Important not to lose sight of who’s actually steering the ship(1:00):
Mary,
Crown Kabal Communist virus.
The pilgrim fathers may well have been prepared to risk life and limb to set themselves up in a strange land rather than live under civilized oppression but experience has taught me that the quickest rout to clean laundry is more important to the average 21st century pew-warmer than any sort of genuine communion with his/her fellows.
And the end-game is, of course, what you might call a working democracy.
The problem with Mankind is that, as soon as a certain level of comfort is attained a deep slumber takes hold
Alas, ’tis true.
zzzzzzzz.
no-one cares about apathy
Seeing as the title of this article mentions a ‘ Lockdown ‘ , this is not entirely off topic .
Indeed , their are no peoples on Earth who have suffered prolonged lockdowns ( since 1948) / being thrown into the world’s largest open air prison etc , than the Palestinians.
Hardly a day goes by without yet another murder or grievous human rights abuse perpetrated by the IDF cowards against unarmed civilians .
Just when you think they’ve reached the limits of their depths to depravity, they come up with this :
https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Israeli-police-kill-unarmed-autistic-Palestinian-15305564.php
5G Summit (testing via WordPress as my posts have not been sticking direct via Gumshoe))
https://the5gsummit.com/reg-thank-you/?inf_contact_key=1&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Your+registration+gifts+from+The+5G+Summit&utm_campaign=5G20#free-talks
Yes, Fish, that link does bring us to the 5G summit, thank you.
Our fearful trip is by no means done.