Remembering 9/11

September 11, 2024:

Today we paused to remember 9/11/2001, to honor the heroes who stopped the aircraft aimed at the White House, and to remember the thousands who died horribly that day at the hands of the same ideology still attacking western civilization twenty-three years later.

(It may be a surprise to you, but many are still suffering and dying because of their sacrifice in the days and weeks following that attack. The poisonous smoke from the burning buildings filled the air, and especially those immediately searching the rubble for any possible survivors inhaled cancer-causing pollutants never meant to be breathed by humans. To help these continuing victims and the families of other first responders, visit the Tunnels to Towers foundation at https://t2t.org.)

Getting started, we presented placards and quarter-page flyers designed to be distributed in promoting attendance at these classes, and offered copies of “Freedom: You Can Handle It” and Patriot Academy’s “Pocket Principles”, which includes the Declaration, the Constitution, and discussion of the LIFT principles: limited government, individual liberties, free enterprise, and timeless truths.

Then we took time for a review of the basics, for those new to the classes:

• why the Constitution was needed, and the vital core principles quickly listed in the Declaration of Independence
• what it accomplishes, in the creation of a limited central function to serve the States by taking care of common needs like coining money, overseeing interstate trade, making treaties, etc
• how and why we study these documents (“to teach the rising generation to be free”)
• the overall structure and content of the Constitution
• the Amendments so far, and the Bill of Rights
• a summary of the broad functions assigned to the federal government, and the restriction that nothing else was put under their jurisdiction that was not specifically listed

We then resumed the Patriot Academy review of the Congressional functions;

• explored the violations of the “necessary and proper” clause;
• took questions from the live audience when this was filmed;
• explained the creation, funding, and management of the military;
• and closed with a discussion of the need to do our “duty” relative to the stewardship of the national affairs, and how that duty is emphatically expressed both by the founders and in the JudeoChristian scriptures.

It was a full day! Next week we pick up our study of the Presidency, including how the Electoral College works to select the President, the assigned duties, the 25th Amendment on removing the President from office, Executive Orders, Oaths, etc.

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