National Rifle Association (NRA) “AQ”
Rocky Mountain Gun Owners (RMGO)
Colorado For Life
Restore Liberty
Colorado Chamber of Commerce PAC
El Paso County Republican Strategy Forum
Conservative Women Speak
Metro Denver Apartment Association
Colorado Association of Realtors
Colorado Optometric Association
Ransom PAC (Rep Kim Ransom)

See who’s investing in each candidate: TRACER - Candidate Search (colorado.gov)

https://churchvoterguides.org is another good resource to review.

https://ivoterguide.com provides a Q&A for contested primary races.

Colorado Liberty Scorecard – The Liberty Scorecard of Colorado (libertyscorecardco.us)

While it is our responsibility to be good stewards of the planet we’ve been given, it is also incumbent on us to make wise choices for the benefit of all. The current green movement has little to do with Climate and everything to do with Control. The only thing “green” about “Green Energy” is the dollars flowing to the ilk of Gore & Kerry. “Green Energy” is primarily manufactured in China because of no environmental constraints and expendable slave labor. “Green Energy” destroys large swaths of the environment and does nothing for climate. But, it makes you feel virtuous as long as you don’t actually think about it.

Climate Change is responsible for unprecedented levels of gullibility.

The Story of Chicken Little was not about farm animals, it was about human nature. Spoiler alert: the sky really wasn’t falling, Chicken Little got her friends killed, and the sly fox gorged like a king because they did not stop to think.

What follows is a scientific discussion, but Climate Change is an emotional issue. It is yet another existential esoteric threat to keep you in a fight-or-flight mode, which fuels your muscles and depletes your brain. You’ll be given one side of the issue, with unverifiable numbers with no comparisons for perspective.

>>> Read: Death by Greeniac, and other environMENTAL problems <<<

>>> Read: Revoke Carbon Dioxide Status as a Pollutant (HB23-1163) <<<

>>> Read: The Sky Is Falling!! -Chicken Little (HB23-1163) <<<

“Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” as endowed by “the Laws of Nature, and Nature’s God.” If we cede one, we cede them all. The unborn child is a separate being from his/her mother, and terminating that life is feticide. There are proven life-long physical and emotional damage to the mother of a terminated child that cannot be merely brushed aside for ideological convenience.

There are obvious hardships to carrying any pregnancy to term, but none of them amount to a capital crime by the unborn child. Also, allowing feticide to cover a crime such as rape precludes justice against the perpetrator, and the failure of the justice system to properly prosecute such crimes cannot be justification to commit another. Allowing abortion through birth, and denying life saving measures to an infant delivered alive, and permitting the use of their bodies in research for organ transplants will usher in a new low in human trafficking and organ harvesting not seen since the holocaust. Given the prevalent placement of feticide clinics in minority neighborhoods should demonstrate that Margaret Sanger's Eugenic dream lives on.

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Democrats refuse to prosecute crimes committed with guns, while wanting to turn law-abiding gun-owners into criminals, and place them at the mercy of the actual criminals they released.

“Shall not be infringed” seems pretty clear; infringements must be excised from the law United States Bill of Rights, Amendment II, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Colorado Bill of Rights, ARTICLE II, Section 13. “Right to bear arms. The right of no person to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall be called in question; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to justify the practice of carrying concealed weapons.”

Red Flag Laws: No! Violating Due Process is no excuse for violating the Second Amendment.

Amendment V “No person shall ...be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;”

ARTICLE II, Section 25. “Due process of law. No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law.”

My testimony for HB22-1033:

Constitutional Carry, 8 Feb 2022

This bill, presented by Ron Hanks, failed in a 5 to 8 vote. Susan Lontine(D), parroting Joe Biden stated “no right is absolute...I will be a 'no'”

Your Second Amendment Rights are the key to preserving all others, so if it is not absolute, none are. This seemingly innocuous quote should terrify you.

“Ma’dam Chair, I am Ken DeGraaf, a resident of ElPaso County and 27 year Air Force veteran. Because we’re condemned to either learn from history or relive it, I would like to speak from history. It is clear that our founders felt the right to keep and bear arms was essential for not only protecting our lives and property, but our Republic itself.

First, I’ll speak to the current web of laws:

As Alexis d’Tocqueville observed “After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the (government) then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.

The current conglomeration of laws is reminiscent of Stalin’s head of Secret police who directed, “show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.”

From the United States Bill of Rights, Amendment II, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

“Shall not be infringed” seems pretty clear, as unrestricted arms are the means by which we remain a “FREE STATE”.

The Colorado Bill of Rights, Article II, section 3 addresses personal protection:
“All persons have certain natural, ESSENTIAL, AND INALIENABLE RIGHTS among which may be reckoned the Right of enjoying and DEFENDING their lives and liberties; of acquiring, possessing and PROTECTING property; and of seeking and obtaining their SAFETY and happiness.”

For the individual to Defend, Protect, and ensure the Safety of their person and property is considered ESSENTIAL, and INALIENABLE.

It is troubling that our current legislation is a de-facto declaration that what our constitutions’ declare as inalienable rights, are not viewed as such by our legislators who are ostensibly sworn to secure them. continuing:
Section 7 states: “the people shall be secure in their persons, papers, homes and effects, from unreasonable searches and seizures, and no warrant to search any place or seize any person or thing shall issue without describing the place to be searched, or the person or thing to be seized, as near as may be, nor without probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation reduced to writing”

As a sovereign citizen of a sovereign state, there is no reason to be questioned by a Peace officer, charged with securing the Rights of all to intrude on my person or property without probable cause. Attested to by Section 13. “Right to bear arms. The right of no person to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall be called in question; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to justify the practice of carrying concealed weapons.”

As Samual Adames explained, “the Constitution should be never construed to authorize congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the united states, who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”

Why citizens need to be armed is perhaps best answered by George Mason in 1788 that “to disarm the people...was the best and most effectual way to enslave them,” whether that is by government or the criminal cartels as we see with our neighbors to the south.”

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For additional thought:
James Madison wrote in Federalist 46 that “the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition (of government) more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of” continuing to note that “the several kingdoms of Europe...are afraid to trust the people with arms.”

Samual Adames explained, “the Constitution should be never construed to authorize congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the united states, who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”

“That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the CONSENT of the governed.”

Constitutionally, a mandate violates the “consent of the governed” and is therefore unjust.

“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” ― Galileo Galilei

Scientifically, there was no scientific basis for the mandates. The “absolute risk reduction” provided by the mRNA therapeutics NEVER exceeded 1% (per the Biologic Licencing Agreement), and fell rapidly. Political Science was the justification.

Masks create more problems than they purportedly address, and were especially damaging to children. Mr. Fauci knew and stated that masks were of no value but promoted them for political value.

Do I support mandates? “No.” They are unconstitutional, unwise, and unhealthy. In any future health crisis, the lack of transparency by the CDC, FDA, and pharmaceutical companies demands a high degree of mistrust for any future proclamations. Dr. Fauci should familiarize himself with the tale of “the Boy Who Cried “WOLF!”” The early data made the solution clear–those at risk should self-isolate, and effective preventative methods like hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin be used broadly. By their own estimations, over 85% would never even have symptoms while their body dealt with this “novel” virus, just like your body deals with trillions of viruses every day.

If the mRNA therapeutic worked, it would only provide an immune response to <15% of the virus, which Pfizer knew would provide “fertile ground among the vaccinated majority” for “a viral variant capable of evading vaccine protection.” They knew this by May of 2021 before they encouraged the vaxx’d to cram into concerts and sporting events unmasked...right before the variant outbreak in August.

Besides the immediate problem of approving a gene therapy on merely 2.5 months of preliminary data, the CDC demonstrated the grave danger with agencies empowered to make de facto laws. Laws should only be made by duly elected legislators for whom there is no provision to pass such responsibility to executive agencies.

The lockdowns also demonstrate the danger of something as benign as licensing, as one government functionary acted on behalf of another government functionary to threaten the livelihoods of non-compliant businesses even beyond the two-weeks of perpetuity.

The deadliest part of this pandemic was the “experts.”

National Geographic estimates there are over 10^30 (30 zero’s) viruses on the planet.
That is about 10^21 per person, on top of the 40,000 trillion bacteria living in and on you.
If you’re going to live in fear, you should at least have it in proper perspective.

This will take a little math, so bear with me...
Although Colorado must balance its budget, projected budgets grow 3 to 4.5% per year, which is an exponential growth pattern which cannot be matched by population growth. While a 3% gradient, would double a budget in about 33 years, a 3% growth will double it in about 24, and 4.5% will do so in 16. While the gradient will grow linearly, the 3% growth will double (ie, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16...) every 24years, and every 16 for 4.5% growth.

Population growth does not behave this way, as it will slow as it reaches some maximum, unless something is done like rezoning single-family residential properties into multi-family residential, which seems to be on everyones’ agenda under the auspices of creating “affordable” housing (generally not in the neighborhoods of the City Planners), although it seems ill-advised to recreate the mess of California to house those fleeing California. While the Free Market is equipped to handle these challenges, there is no problem the government cannot make worse with a “solution.” (it also violates Amendment V, “...nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”)

For example, with a 3% growth rate, a program budget would increase by approximately 145% in 30 years. But, the 3.3million Colorado population of 1990 grew by only 78% to 5.9 million in 2020 (a 1.9% average growth rate).

From our constitution, ARTICLE IX, Section 17. “Education - Funding. ...as defined by the Public School Finance Act of 1994, article 54 of title 22, ...state funding for all categorical programs shall grow annually at least by the rate of inflation plus an additional one percentage point...“ But, the 1994 $3975 per pupil, adjusted for inflation to 2016 was approximately $6438. To become $9757 in 22 years equates to 1.8% annual growth. Normally, economies of scale would dictate a decreasing cost per student as population growth.

Medical providers should be allowed to accept direct payments at Medicare Rates. By paying about 1⁄5 of the billed amount, the effect is to force medical to charge 5 times the actual price in order to recoup actual costs. Those without Medicare are forced to purchase insurance, which will essentially negotiate a price closer to that allowed by Medicare, then charge a co-pay of 10-20%--essentially paying the actual cost of the procedure. Direct-pay patients more efficiently forgo the administrivia required to collect from MediCare and Insurance.

2016 Colorado Public Schools

Since the Colorado Constitution precludes appropriating money to any entity “not under the absolute control of the state,” tax credits should be applied in support of a child’s education, which is not the same as providing “aid of any church or sectarian society, or for any sectarian purpose, or to help support or sustain any school, academy, seminary, college, university or other literary or scientific institution, controlled by any church or sectarian denomination whatsoever.”

“Of Colorado’s $9,575 in per-student spending, $5,423 is for instruction..., of which $3,759 is for instructional salaries ... and $1,069 is for benefits...Colorado per-pupil spending also includes $149 for general administration ...and $695 for school administration.” That leaves $3309 per student per year, or approximately $5million in a school of 1500.

Assume:
a teacher teaches for 4 hours, so 6hrs of classroom instruction requires 1.5 teachers students attend 6 hours per day, and the classroom has 20sf per student (500sf):
500sf at $300/sf is $150,000; Amortized over 20years is about $1000/mo
25 students at $9575 is $239,375/yr
1.5 teachers at $75k is $112,500/yr
Classroom: $ 12,000/yr
$114,875/yr per classroom

There are numerous other expenses involved in schooling, but I think we should have a serious look at where $114,875 per classroom per year is going, and if those can be achieved in a more cost-effective manner. A large chunk is going to the State Board of Education which, from SB21-067, seems to be more focused on indoctrination, and has grown well beyond its Constitutional charter.

ARTICLE V, Section 34. “Appropriations to private institutions forbidden. No appropriation shall be made for charitable, industrial, educational or benevolent purposes to any person, corporation or community not under the absolute control of the state, nor to any denominational or sectarian institution or association.”

ARTICLE IX, Section 1. Supervision of schools - board of education. (1) The general supervision of the public schools of the state shall be vested in a board of education whose powers and duties shall be as now or hereafter prescribed by law. Said board shall consist of a member from each congressional district of the state... (there are 7).

ARTICLE IX, Section 7. Aid to private schools, churches, sectarian purpose, forbidden. Neither the general assembly, nor any county, city, town, township, school district or other public corporation, shall ever make any appropriation, or pay from any public fund or moneys whatever, anything in aid of any church or sectarian society, or for any sectarian purpose, or to help support or sustain any school, academy, seminary, college, university or other literary or scientific institution, controlled by any church or sectarian denomination whatsoever; nor shall any grant or donation of land, money or other personal property, ever be made by the state, or any such public corporation to any church, or for any sectarian purpose.

ARTICLE IX, Section 11. Compulsory education. The general assembly may require, by law, that every child of sufficient mental and physical ability, shall attend the public school during the period between the ages of six and eighteen years, for a time equivalent to three years, unless educated by other means.

ARTICLE IX, Section 16. Textbooks in public schools. Neither the general assembly nor the state board of education shall have power to prescribe textbooks to be used in the public schools.

The COVID lockdowns demonstrated the danger in giving this power to the State, and the willingness of one group of functionaries to impose de facto laws on citizens in support of other functionaries' de facto laws. Unless there can be provisions for assuring such usurpation of property Rights can not happen again, then the State has proven itself to be untrustworthy with the power of licensure.

Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

ARTICLE II Section 10. Freedom of speech and press. No law shall be passed impairing the freedom of speech; every person shall be free to speak, write or publish whatever he will on any subject, being responsible for all abuse of that liberty; and in all suits and prosecutions for libel the truth thereof may be given in evidence, and the jury, under the direction of the court, shall determine the law and the fact.

CU, CSU, Mines, etc, “are designated by law as state institutions”, thus fall under the “absolute control” of the State and therefore the constitution. There is no constitutional provision to establish restricted speech zones. This should be the case for any institution accepting government funding. Administrators restricting speech are in violation of the Constitution, and therefore their terms of employment.

Article II, Section 1. “Vestment of political power. All political power is vested in and derived from the people; all government, of right, originates from the people, is founded upon their will only, and is instituted solely for the good of the whole.”

We cannot live by the ideals of President Lincoln “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth” if our elected representatives become a separatist class of elite governors. Term limits are the only way to make certain a return to legislation by statesmen who serve, then return to live under the law. Any one State could impose term limits on its own representatives, but that would place them at disadvantage among the legislators of other states.

I am afraid that while Article V convention of States is an appealing shortcut to that end, it should be approached cautiously since it stands to put the people who are the problem in charge of solving the problem. Instead, it might be a better idea for individual States to pass term limit legislation to go into effect when a plurality of states have done so as well. While the convention seems a great shortcut, we need to ensure full control of the genie before we release him from his bottle.

Not sure about this one yet... much of the problem we had in CO was that the emergency orders were done when the legislature was out of session. I don’t know if they tried to use the 2⁄3 to request an emergency session, but if it was mostly democrats, then I'm sure they were happy to just let Polis pole us.

ARTICLE VIII Section 3. (4a) describes a "Disaster emergency" as “the occurrence or imminent threat of widespread or severe damage, injury, illness, or loss of life or property resulting from an epidemic or a natural, man-made, or technological cause.” If such a disaster makes State government in Denver untenable, then “ after consulting with the chief justice of the supreme court, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives, the governor may designate a temporary meeting location for the general assembly.” Then “the general assembly shall convene at the temporary meeting location, whether during regular session or in a special session convened by the governor or by written request by two-thirds of the members of each house.”

The Colorado Constitution does not indicate the Governor can legislate denial of constitutional Rights for any reason, yet the misuse of Executive Orders has done essentially that.

The Legislative session should be trimmed by two weeks, with those days being held in reserve for an emergency session, and remaining in-session until culmination of the emergency, with legislators working with their district medical and first responders.

Entrepreneurs and small businesses are the lifeblood of the economy and our communities. They are the backbone of “the middle class” so hated by the State because they are disparate, and more difficult to control. Big Government loves Big Business because a few at the top can be bribed or coerced into betraying the many in the trenches. While the lockdowns shuttered 600,000 businesses, the megaliths fed on their corpses and raked in record profits. We even see businesses Politicians will talk about adding more Trojan Horse Policies “that encourage job creation,” and “incentives for smart development,” but where government money and favors flow, “ABSOLUTE CONTROL” and meddling follows. Historically, there is no problem the government makes that it cannot make worse with a “solution.”

“Were we directed from Washington when to sow, & when to reap, we should soon want bread.”
“(Should we) commit to the governor and council the management of all our farms, our mills and merchants’ stores? No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to.”
Thomas Jefferson

The Government doesn’t need to encourage small business, it needs to get out of the way.

I think our best way forward is what I call Free Marketism–”From each according to his motivation, to each according to his utility.” Even if well intended, legislation to encourage business ends up encouraging graft and corruption.

While being individually sovereign should absolve us of governmental intervention and tyranny, it does not absolve us of our responsibilities. Instead, it allows us to take care of our responsibilities without government interference.

Is it truly charity if it is done at gunpoint, and ultimately that is the nature of taxation. Before we think in terms of the things we’d like the government to handle, we should first consider whether those are things over which we would like the government to have “absolute control,” because that is the cost of legislatie appropriation.

Too long to copy here, "Not Yours to Give" (James J Bethune, 1867) is an excellent essay on governmental benevolence, and likely a previously unknown aspect of Colonel Davey Crocket.

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule it”
HL Mencken

“Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast view beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God’s service, when it is violating His Laws.”
John Adams

“The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.”
Dr. Thomas Sowell

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive ... those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience”
CS Lewis

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
Gerald R. Ford, 38th President

Individual Sovereignty: The Foundation of Our Republic

“(twelve-score & six) years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or a nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure...
We here [today should] highly resolve that (our) dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from this earth.”
adapted Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg, 19 Nov 1883

If we are to restore our nation, we need to return to the principles that made our nation great. Those principles are laid out for us in the Declaration of Independence:

“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,”

These are the values of our Republic; these are the ideas that established man as individually sovereign, as image bearers of a Sovereign God.

These are the ideas that inspired less than 3% of fledgling, backwater nation to take up arms against the most powerful empire in the world, in light of almost certain death. These ideas are the birthright we’ve traded for the pottage of convenience and security because our vigilance faltered.

These are the truths we must embrace and defend to rekindle the flame of liberty.

But, to understand our Unalienable Rights, we need to look back as to why they are “unalienable,” and we’ll find it embedded in the first paragraph–a precursor.

“The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” “the separate and equal station” – “independent,” and “equal,” as “entitled”--given to us like a title, like royalty–to us by “the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God.”

St Thomas Aquinas considered there to be four different types of law–eternal, natural, human and divine. While Eternal Law means “God’s rational purpose and plan,” Natural Law means internal rules which are not imposed externally, and that we can deduce according to reason, and must be true for all people in all instances. Human Laws follow,“But, if in any point it deflects from the law of nature, it is no longer a law but a perversion of law.”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr cited Aquinas in his Letter from Birmingham City Jail, writing “A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority.”

John Locke (1632-1704), considered by many to be “the Father of Liberalism”, held that “Natural Law” consisted of moral rules as founded on divine, universal and absolute laws, discernible through reason, and are obligatory, owing to their divine authorship.

More importantly for our Constitution, Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780) defined “law” as “a rule of action dictated by some superior being”, and “the Law of Nature” as “the will of the Maker”--the unchanging laws of nature which God imposed on Creation. As such, any law violating the law of nature was not valid.

“Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these.”

Now we can better discuss those Rights of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Whether “natural law” or “the laws of nature,” all law originates with God. That something is “self-evident” means that it does not require proof, and the first of the self-evident truths is that “all men are created equal.”

Since we are all equal, none can be sovereign over another, and our sovereignty is subject only to that of our Creator. In turn, men created villages, villages formed counties, counties formed states, states formed countries, with each creator sovereign over the created.

It is no surprise that there is scriptural backing:

‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ John 15:20
“Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ” Romans 9:19
Genesis 1:27 “So God created man in His own image; ... and God said to them “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it;”

The second self-evident truth is “that they are endowed with certain unalienable Rights,” which means certain rights were given or “bequeathed” to us from a higher agency–God—and they are unable to be given away by, or taken from the possessor. What’s often overlooked is that among created equals, if one has certain unalienable Rights, then all do, and therefore acting in a manner contrary is to deny those rights on your own behalf. The only way I can claim a right for myself is to not violate your Life, Liberty, (or)Pursuit of Happiness.”

A truly revolutionary self-evident truth is “that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed.” Note that it doesn’t say “all powers are derived from the consent of the governed”, just the “just” powers. In Colorado, primacy is given to the Constitution of the United States, from which Colorado and its constitution were written, and from that the laws. There are currently laws that are in violation of one or both constitutions, which means they were made unlawfully, and are unlawful. Preceding our declaration of independence and constitution, however, are “the Laws of Nature” from which they were derived, and so any laws in violation of “the Laws of Nature” are invalid perversions of the Law itself.

Examples:
Does one animal enslave another?
Does “foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests” that they will defend? Are offspring created and cared for by a male/female parent group?
“Go to the ant and be wise” is economic theory 101

Now, what happens in atheist materialism when “The Fear of the Lord1 (as) the beginning of wisdom” is rejected? BTW,

Romans 1:24-25 “Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.”

So, how does this go wrong? In rejecting the knowledge of God, there is no law and no law-giver & where there is no law giver, there is no relationship based on shared sovereignty, so our relationships are based on power alone, as recognized by marxist doctrine.

It really doesn’t matter if you believe in “the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God,” to understand that this is idea is foundational to our founding and laws.

For these reasons, I prefer to reframe the scope of any political conversation into “individual sovereignty” vs “state sovereignty”

Often we have a difficulty because we’ve allowed “the Left” to classify everything “not Left”--not communist–as “Right” or “Far Right”. But, if you look at the systems through the lens of sovereignty, you’ll see that both communism and fascism are solidly in the camp of “state as sovereign” --they are the same (feces) sandwich with different condiments.

I hope that gives you a better understanding of the values of our Republic, and therefore what it means to be a Republican.

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Footnotes:

1 “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way, and the perverse mouth I hate.” Proverbs 8:13
2 (Prov 9:10, 1:7, 15:33, Ps 2:10-11)
3 While many applaud the seeming benevolence of “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need,” they generally ignore that this only follows the abolition of private property and “the enslaving subordination (where) labor has become not only a means of life but lifes prime want...”
Whether Marxism works or does not might be judged in terms of his poetry “..Worlds I would destroy forever, Since I can create no world”, “Then I will be able to walk triumphantly, Like a god, through the ruins of their kingdom. Every word of mine is fire and action. My breast is equal to that of the Creator.” “I shall build my throne high overhead...it’s marshall–blackest agony”, “see this sword? The prince of darkness sold it to me”, “with satan I have struck my deal / he chalks the signs, beats time for me / I play the death march fast and free.”
With that, I’d surmise that the Marxist god-State has succeeded 100% of the time, as it averages a murder rate of over one million every year.

I would like to address some questions I’ve been receiving about why election integrity matters so much and what type of machines we have in El Paso County.

Bottom Line: One day, In-person, hand-counted paper-ballot voting, with a valid ID, and dipping your thumb in indelible dye in place of the “I Voted” sticker. Absentee ballots as the exception, not the rule.

Politics is ultimately about money and power, and attracts those attracted to money and power, and access to that money & power is through the election process. Electronic voting opens up even the tiniest local election to a world of bad actors.

Election fraud is theft of your vote, it is theft of your voice, and it is theft of your Right to self-govern. Anyone who would engage in vote-theft does not have your best interests at heart. Whatever their justification, they are intending to do government TO you, not FOR you. We must restore election integrity while we still can.

What if Joe Biden really didn’t win the election and we still had energy independence? Would that change your life?

From the evidence I have seen, election by electron is still a bad idea. As a rule, if it can be hacked, it will be hacked, and all computers can be hacked. From my personal experience in being in charge of establishing and certifying a Top Secret vault, absolutely NO cell phones were allowed inside, ALL thumb drives and media were assumed contaminated, and the telephone with a secure-line could not be close to any computer terminal. If a cell phone was caught inside the vault, it was subject to the Hillary Clinton Protocol–a hammer. I’m told a true IT expert has no “smart” anything, a dot-matrix printer, and keeps a gun beside the toaster in case it acts up.

El Paso County machines are Dominion. The same type systems for which the Mesa County Clerk was arrested for revealing the vulnerabilities and preserving records–arrested to following the law. You can read Clerk Peter’s report here. I did have the opportunity to hear a brief presentation by Clerk Peters. She is a gold-star mom of a Navy Seal who was killed in combat. I find her arrest for revealing Dominion vulnerabilities disturbing. They set a $500,000 cash-only bail (a murder’s bail) to ensure she spent the night in jail. Her dad passed away that night. This is government done TO you, not FOR you.

El Paso County Clerk Candidate Peter Lupia, & David Winney have done extensive research in this area. Ron Hanks & Lindsay Moore participated in the Maricopa County audit and saw the fraud first hand.

“(Below) is the 2015 press release announcing the selection of Dominion for all counties in CO beginning with 2016 elections. Dominion machines are the only ones authorized in CO for all but the three counties that have made other choices for counting. The machines may not be labeled Dominion on the outside, but they are 100% Dominion owned (most are leased to counties), maintained, and updated under the direction of the SOS. Clerks are not even allowed to touch the machines or their systems.” - Peter Lupia

note: SB22-153 “Creates a felony for tampering with voting equipment; unauthorized access to or facilitating unauthorized access to voting equipment”--only Dominion can access the machines or their proprietary code. This bill puts elections under the central control of a single individual, and makes it a crime to question the legitimacy or validity of such an election. This bill is abhorrent to the survival of our Republic)

Visiting VerifiedVoting.org you can click on the 2022 election and the equipment to be used will be displayed. Be sure to hover over El Paso County to see the equipment manufacturer. After selecting El Paso County, there are even more details below.

This equipment list below from the Secretary of State also verifies Dominion.

I also found information on ExpressVote and some of its issues. I do not know if it is related at all to Dominion. The issues are endemic to all Electronic Election systems. Fortunately many of us signed up to be election judges, which should help towards conducting an election instead of a selection.

It is not lost on me that all of the webpages and all of the electronic documents could be forgeries, but ironically that bolsters the case against electronic voting.

The Meet-and-Greets are scheduled for the following time and locations.
Each event will start at 2:00pm.

Saturday October 22nd
Park at Village 7
East on North Carefree off Academy - on the Left side of the Street

Sunday October 23rd
Level Up Coffee House
4730 Barnes Rd
Just West of Oro Blanco on Barnes – North side of the street

Saturday October 29th
Parking Lot of Rampart High School
Southwest corner of Union and Lexington

Sunday October 30th
Level Up Coffee House
4730 Barnes Rd
Just West of Oro Blanco on Barnes – North side of the street

Saturday November 5th
East Library Parking Lot
5550 N Union Blvd.
West side of Street between Vickers and Montebello

Sunday November 6th
Cottonwood Creek Park
7040 Rangewood Dr
Northwest Corner of Rangewood and Dublin