Meeting Review and Resources

Meeting Date: May 15, 2009

Friends of liberty,

Thanks to all who attended our recent meeting, and especially to our newest members, Gary and Les. Also a special thank you to the "Kids for America" and their wonderful presentation of the national anthem.

Here is a quick review of what we talked about:

At the beginning of the meeting, Paul presented three great websites for study and reference:
http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/
http://www.libertymaven.com/
http://www.tommullen.net/

Following that, Paul read an excerpt from Dr. Taylor's recent newsletter that can be found at:
http://www.nccs.net/newsletter/may09nl.html

After that we moved into a discussion of foreign relations and our founder's views on the subject.
For more information, read the chapter on the 25th Principle found in the "5000 Year Leap" pp. 267-278

George Washington:
"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence."
"In the execution of such a plan nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded, and that in place of them just and amicable feelings toward all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest."

We hope to get together and watch "A More Perfect Union" within the next couple weeks. We will be in contact.

Thanks,

Ryan Burgett
Chairman - L.B.C.C.S.