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Title: August News Letter
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Created: 2023-08-11 10:52:34
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Published: 2023-08-11 03:00:00
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Fiscal Responsibility? Let us count the ways we're getting ripped off!
 | ====== 67,865 INDIANA STRONG! ====== | ====== Passed State #06 ====== | COS Indiana Vision: To build a strong, engaged army of self-governing activists. | ===== STATE NEWS ===== |  | 709 Events & Festivals | Visit Indiana – schedule and host a booth for COS! | COS INDIANA EVENT CALENDAR |  | Click on the Event Calendar to go directly to Teamup for more details. Make sure to schedule your events in Teamup so they will be listed in the calendar! | ===== COMING EVENTS ===== | COS INDIANA LIVE BROADCAST With State Director Dale Parrish and Co-Host Ken Kashuba   Dale's weekly broadcast is live-streamed on Facebook and Youtube Mondays at 7:00 PM Eastern Time Don't miss the Roundtable discussion on August 28th! The panel will be tackling the relevant topic of human trafficking.  | ===== MARENGO MIKE ===== |  | Marengo Mike is in orbit about Convention of States! Created by COS Indiana State Comms Director, Ken Kashuba | ===== PAST EVENTS ===== |  |  | COS Article V Simulated Convention 2023 Highlights |  | Simulation Watch Party 2023 – Marty Wood reports fellow patriots discussed, laughed, ate and enjoyed each other's company. They're eagerly waiting the amendments to be published in their final form! |  | Indiana representatives in Williamsburg for the COS Article V Simulated Convention! Christy Stutzman and Davyd Jones stepped up to participate in the simulation as commissioners for Indiana. | PROMOTE YOUR EVENTS HERE! Submit info to COS Indiana Newsletter Editor and please make sure to post details of your event on the Teamup Calendar and share pictures on Slack! | * Promote your event in advance * Apply for national $ assistance * Coordinate resource materials * Recap your event – inspire others | * Inform and motivate our Patriots * Increase attendance at the event * Recruit volunteers to staff event * Issue a Call-to-Action in your area | ===== THE DIRECTOR'S CUT ===== | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 COS Indiana State Director – Dale Tipton Click Here to View the Video Our COS Director, Dale Tipton reports: The report for July, 2023 illustrated our activity reporting stats fell way off, probably due to summer travel, family activities, etc. I am confident we will rebound in August. Region 5 won the honors for the most active region through the action reports system. Individual leading performers included David Nally, Michael Gibson, Diane Jones and Gary Speelman. We sit at roughly 68,865 total supporters and 63,982 petition signers. We remain at 21 District Captains with more moving through the LMT. We are getting comfortable in the Flyover Region where we are led by RD Catherine Zemanek and ARD Karen Schuster. Please take part in any Flyover Region meeting offered to you. Participants include Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, Iowa, and Michigan. Our Comms Team, led by Ken Kashuba, now has a growth strategy in place with the assistance of COS National and they are making steady progress. Dale Parrish, Virtual Programming Coordinator, continues to push the reach of COS Indiana Live to a ever larger audience. Our region activity is strong where a large number of meetings and presentations are taking place, spreading the word about COS across the state. Christy Stutzman and Davyd Jones have stepped up to participate in the upcoming COS simulation in August as commissioners for Indiana. RC Cheryl Schopmeyer in Region 7 earned a Patriot Pin for outstanding performance. We are also looking forward to our Strategic Planning meeting to be held on October 21, 2023 in Anderson, Indiana. Please RSVP with State Event Coordinator, Stacey Garrett, via a Slack message as soon as you place this event on your calendar. All active volunteers are welcome to attend. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ===== IDEALS OF SELF-GOVERNANCE ===== |
 | IDEALS OF SELF–GOVERNANCE “Higher civilizations advance and honor only those leaders and rulers who are most fit to bear social and political responsibilities.” |
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 MEDIOCRITY, AND UNEARNED WEALTH The appearance of genuine brotherhood signifies that a social order has arrived in which all men delight in bearing one another’s burdens; they actually desire to practice the golden rule. But such an ideal society cannot be realized when either the weak or the wicked lie in wait to take unfair and unholy advantage of those who are chiefly actuated by devotion to the service of truth, beauty, and goodness. In such a situation only one course is practical: The “golden rulers” may establish a progressive society in which they live according to their ideals while maintaining an adequate defense against their benighted fellows who might seek either to exploit their pacific predilections or to destroy their advancing civilization. Idealism can never survive if the idealists in each generation permit themselves to be exterminated by the baser orders of humanity. A spiritually defensive reaction of the majority to save themselves, as far as possible, is necessary to keep from suffering the consequences of the acts of a headstrong, wicked, and rebellious minority. In high civilizations the people begin to foster a new form of social disgust – disgust for both idleness and unearned wealth. Everyone contributes enough for their keep and more, with the exception of the elderly who have reached the age of retirement and the disabled. Even they find worthwhile pursuits for their time. The pursuit of excellence is the goal of all citizens in an ideal society. Democracy, while an ideal, is a product of civilization, not of evolution. Go slowly! select carefully! for the dangers of democracy are: 1. Glorification of mediocrity. 2. Choice of base and ignorant rulers. 3. Failure to recognize the basic facts of social evolution. 4. Danger of universal suffrage in the hands of uneducated and indolent majorities. 5. Slavery to public opinion; the majority is not always right. And yet, here is the great test of idealism: Can an advanced society maintain that military preparedness which renders it secure from all attack by its war-loving neighbors without yielding to the temptation to employ this military strength in offensive operations against other peoples for purposes of selfish gain or national aggrandizement? National survival demands preparedness, and religious idealism alone can prevent the prostitution of preparedness into aggression. Only love, brotherhood, can prevent the strong from oppressing the weak. There are ten steps, or stages, to the evolution of a practical and efficient form of representative government, and these are: 1. Freedom of the person. Slavery, serfdom, and all forms of human bondage must disappear. 2. Freedom of the mind. Unless a free people are educated — taught to think intelligently and plan wisely — freedom usually does more harm than good. 3. The reign of law. Liberty can be enjoyed only when the will and whims of human rulers are replaced by legislative enactments in accordance with accepted fundamental law. 4. Freedom of speech. Representative government is unthinkable without freedom of all forms of expression for human aspirations and opinions. 5. Security of property. No government can long endure if it fails to provide for the right to enjoy personal property in some form. Man craves the right to use, control, bestow, sell, lease, and bequeath his personal property. 6. The right of petition. Representative government assumes the right of citizens to be heard. The privilege of petition is inherent in free citizenship. 7. The right to rule. It is not enough to be heard; the power of petition must progress to the actual management of the government. 8. Universal suffrage. Representative government presupposes an intelligent, efficient, and universal electorate. The character of such a government will ever be determined by the character and caliber of those who compose it. As civilization progresses, suffrage, while remaining universal for both sexes, will be effectively modified, regrouped, and otherwise differentiated. 9. Control of public servants. No civil government will be serviceable and effective unless the citizenry possess and use wise techniques of guiding and controlling officeholders and public servants. 10. Intelligent and trained representation. The survival of democracy is dependent on successful representative government; and that is conditioned upon the practice of electing to public offices only those individuals who are technically trained, intellectually competent, socially loyal, and morally fit. Only by such provisions can government of the people, by the people, and for the people be preserved. The ideal state functions under the impulse of three mighty and co-ordinated drives: 1. Love loyalty derived from the realization of human brotherhood. 2. Intelligent patriotism based on wise ideals. 3. Cosmic insight interpreted in terms of planetary facts, needs, and goals. Excerpts from the philosophy of The Urantia Book on the subject of self-governance. |
| ===== PATRIOT VOLUNTEERS ===== |
| Servant leadership is important for COS. We appreciate our volunteers! |
| “SHARE THE PETITION” MONTHLY CHALLENGE These are critical times! Forward this newsletter to your family and friends! Explain why this project is so important! THE CHALLENGE: Share the COS Project with at least one person who signs the petition each month! It's the least you can do!  THE GOAL: 70,000 SUPPORTERS www.conventionofstates.com When you sign the petition, go to the volunteer page to see what your service options are! |
| ===== ONE NATION UNDER GOD ===== |
| Aspirational Goal: To bring a Political and Spiritual Awakening to America. |
 PRAYER IS GOOD FOR US by Tim Heidenreich – COS Indiana Prayer Contact Prayer is good for us, especially when we are thanking God. It alters our view of what is happening around us and broadens our perspective. The Bible reminds us to pray often with thanksgiving. Some years ago, friends of ours received a diagnosis that the wife had breast cancer. The first thing they did was to thank God for it, although they were weeping at the time. They said it was very hard to do, but they realized that it caused them to take the focus off of their problem and onto who God really is. We won’t be happy about every circumstance in our lives, but we can give thanks in the midst of difficult times by choosing to surrender and to acknowledge our faith in an all-powerful, all-knowing God. In their case, they are now in their mid 80’s. She had cancer several times as well as major heart surgery, and has survived all of them. God has taught them through his how to help others who face terrible news of a family member with cancer. My hope is that this encourages you today for whenever you face something totally beyond your control, because you very probably will do so at some time. Please click this link to learn more and/or listen to Mark Meckler’s comments on the team: https://conventionofstates.com/prayer-warriors-team Jesus told us to pray persistently, laying all of our needs before our Heavenly Father. Please pray with us for the health and success of the Convention of States team and their families. We would be pleased to have you volunteer as a Prayer Warrior. Please feel free to email Tim with your prayer requests… **PRAYER REQUESTS** Spiritual battles cannot be fought without prayer. So we are asking God to raise up a massive army to commit to pray for the COS movement and the nation. |
 GOD IS WAITING by Will T. Zwart April, 1863. The year the Civil War reached its height. The bloodiest conflict ever fought in American history even up to today was ravaging the nation, and though the North had more men, munitions, and supplies, they were losing. Badly. The Confederates had struck first at Fort Sumter and just kept right on going. The Union itself, though much larger, was split in two by the Mississippi River, which, thanks to the city of Vicksburg, was controlled by the South. Ulysses S. Grant had made five separate attempts to take the southern stronghold, but all had ended in failure. Meanwhile, General Robert E. Lee was fast-approaching northern territory, with plans to sweep in and beat the Union forces so badly that President Lincoln would be forced to sue for peace. With momentum and strategy on the southern general’s side, it looked like he was more than capable of accomplishing his goals. The Confederate States of America would win, the nation would be forever divided, and hundreds of thousands of slaves would remain in chains. Then, something happened. It didn’t happen on the battlefield, or anywhere near the front lines. It wasn’t a heroic charge, a brilliant strategy, or an act of brave defiance. Rather, it was an act of submission and a declaration of defeat. It was Proclamation #97, and it could have been written today. Continue reading… |
| ===== OPINION / EDITORIALS ===== |
| Opinions expressed in the following articles are solely the expressed views of the authors. |
 The Parable of the Dying Nation By Diana Telles A once exceptional nation of free citizens was facing its demise following years of yielding to an overbearing Federal Government that disregarded its Constitution. The troubled citizens cried out for help. A prominent voice from the past echoed, “For times such as these, Article V of the Constitution allows citizens to write amendments that can restore the Constitution and promote federalism.” The troubled citizens shouted back, “No, it’s okay, we can just elect the right people next time.” The Federal Government grew, freedoms abated, and citizens became increasingly desperate. Patriotism waned and troubled citizens cried out for help. The prominent voice returned, “An Article V Convention of States allows the citizens to push back against the tyranny of a runaway Federal Government.” To this the troubled citizens responded, “No thanks. We cannot risk a runaway Article V convention!” Time passed. The national debt reached 31.6 trillion dollars, and the rights of the free citizen protected by the Constitution and Bill of Rights have been fiercely challenged like never before. Troubled citizens cried out for help. The wise voice from the past reacted, “Article V of the Constitution expressly allows the citizens to propose amendments that can advance liberty, the likes of which will never originate in Congress.” To this the desperately troubled citizens replied, “No thanks. We just need to follow the Constitution we have and nullify all the laws with which we disagree.” So the Federal Government grew so large that the freedoms of this once exceptional nation were now whittled away. What was once a Beacon of Hope in the world has been snuffed out. In anguish, the troubled citizens called out, “We tried to elect the right people. We protected this country from a runaway convention. We tried to nullify offensive laws.” To this the voice from the past responded sadly, “We poured out our great wisdom when we gave you the Constitution. We negotiated. We faced uncertainty of a new and unique system of government, for the people and by the people. We gave the citizens the opportunity to invoke Article V, understanding well that it is in the nature of government to grow and freedoms to wane. The people could have saved our precious country, but repeatedly denied the use of Article V out of fear. It is done. Rest in Peace, America.” |
 | WOKE: A CULTURE WAR ON FREEDOM? James Lindsay breaks it down for you! |
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 WHAT IS DEI? Defining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion By Juliana Lopez Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have become key indicators to identify which organizations are considered employers of choice. Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have become vital indicators that both employees and potential candidates use to identify the most progressive, supportive, and innovative companies. Developing a DEI strategy is a must for businesses across all industries to keep track of their efforts and uncover any blocks diverse employees might be facing. If you’re ready to develop a DEI strategy for your business, here’s what you should know about diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as four steps to make your business’s culture more inclusive. What is DEI? Diversity, equity, and inclusion are often mentioned in conjunction with each other as part of social reform in the workplace; however, there are two ways to define DEI — each term on its own and as a holistic concept. The eXtension Foundation Impact Collaborative defines these terms as follows: * Diversity refers to people’s “race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity nationality, socioeconomic status, language, (dis)ability, age, religious commitment or political perspective.” * Equity promotes “justice, impartiality, and fairness within the procedure, processes, and distribution of resources by institutions or systems.” It’s important to note the distinction between equity and equality. Equality is the acknowledgment of the disparity in resources and opportunities individuals experience. On the other hand, equity allocates additional resources to ensure everyone can achieve the same outcome, regardless of their privilege and power differences. * Inclusion ensures people of all diverse backgrounds are welcome and have a seat at the table. This involves giving all employees the power to weigh in on important decisions and participate in development opportunities. Combined, DEI involves creating a place where everyone is welcome, supported, and has the resources they need to grow and thrive regardless of identity, origin, or difference in circumstances. Employers typically achieve DEI goals by creating a DEI strategy to develop best practices and track their progress. Continue reading… |
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 Fiscal Responsibility? Let us count the ways we are getting ripped off! Have any of you listened to the Congressional hearings concerning UAP's? The bipartisan interest in this subject goes way deeper than a desire to get answers about many sightings reported by credible witnesses over a period of DECADES. We want to know what has been flying around in the skies at night and who is responsible. More than that, it has come to the government's attention that taxpayers have been paying for all of the research and development, and it has all been done without government oversight. We are about to see how AOC and Matt Gaetz can tear apart the military industrial complex like two dogs on a single bone. Pay attention people. Congress is receiving affidavits from whistleblowers (over 750 to date) piecing together evidence from employees of several different corporations who have worked outside of U.S. government oversight or the knowledge of Presidents, Congress, or our military leaders – to create technology far beyond what we thought we had – and all at taxpayer expense – and all of this was accomplished by overcharging for items purchased through our “black” top-secret budget. What does a stealth bomber REALLY cost to manufacture? One more ray of light shining on the corrupt system! |
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