Convocon.com

Conversations on the Constitution

www.Convocon.com

July 4, 2006

Dear Friends,

On this anniversary of our country, I am pleased to announce a new website dedicated to furthering the freedoms we enjoy.  I hope you will take a moment to read the information below and consider joining us in a study of the United States Constitution.  Then please forward this email to everyone you know inviting them to join us as well. Our study program will begin in just a couple weeks so please act quickly if you would like to participate.

What is Convocon?

We are a group of concerned citizens desiring to restore the liberty and freedoms our founding fathers sacrificed so much to provide for us. This website was designed to accomplish two main goals.

First, to provide a place for CONVersations On the CONstitution…thus the name CONVOCON. We will be studying the Constitution and discussing it using the excellent textbook “The Making of America,” by Dr. Cleon Skousen, a man who spent his life seeking to educate people on the principles of freedom. Please see the Study Program page for more information on this.  Our conversations will be guided by seasoned experts in the Constitution.

Second, (and independent of the study group) we are developing curriculum materials specifically for meeting the federal mandate that each September 17th, Constitution Day, any school that receives federal funding is to have a program presented to the students teaching them about the Constitution. These programs will be designed to create independent thinkers in our youth to enable them to reach past partisan politics and grasp the principles of freedom that exist outside of party boundaries.

Who runs Convocon?

Citizens who want to preserve constitutional government that have a love of America and desire to see our freedoms endure.

Can I help?

If you have a love of the constitution and feel a desire to help in some way, please contact us. You should start off by participating in our study of the Constitution by joining our forum.

Convocon's First Article:

Treasonous Apathy

Over two centuries ago a group of daring men having a full knowledge of the consequences of their actions, took their lives in their hands and committed treason against their mother country for the cause of freedom. These men were among the greatest to grace the earth in any day and age of earth’s history. They sacrificed everything they had for the cause of freedom for their fellow men and women and for their posterity for generations to come.

What have we done with that freedom? Have we honored their sacrifice by following the principles they established to guarantee us our freedom from oppression and tyranny? Have we taken the time to understand what it was they gave us so we could recognize those in our time that seek to have us leave those basic tenants of freedom and return to servitude and bondage?

Samuel Adams, one of those daring founders said this: “If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”

In our day and age, the call of party treason is often heard in the halls of congress by those who depart from their party-line mantras to vote their conscience on an issue. Too often, we as citizens look upon ourselves as Republicans or Democrats and fail to give an honest appraisal to an issue because we lack the intellectual honesty to recognize a weakness in “our” party. This attitude must end. We cannot continue to send individuals to Washington and our state legislatures that have misguided understandings of the foundation principles of freedom. We must understand where such individuals stand on preserving our freedoms as given to us in the Constitution of the United States. Our apathy as citizens has reached the point of treason. If all voters know about a person is that he or she is a member of their party and that’s why they’re voting for them, it would be better that they not vote and let an informed citizenry protect us from electing people that represent our collective ignorance.

Thomas Jefferson wrote to Colonel Charles Yancey in 1816, “If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be…. If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.”

If you think you can’t make a difference, you’re wrong. Getting informed and sharing your spark of freedom will kindle more fires and do more good than you realize. Join Convocon today in raising your understanding of the proper principles of freedom and lets return our government to operating by the people, for the people.

Oak Norton

If you would like to join Convocon, please follow these easy steps:

1) Go to this page and read it: http://www.convocon.com/index.php/study-program/

2) Follow the link to purchase a copy of "The Making of America" (and any other useful resources you would like)

3) Go to our forum (http://forum.convocon.com) and click Register on the top menu bar.  Fill out the form and click the link in the confirmation email sent to you.

4) Become a rainy-day patriot and make understanding your freedom a priority.

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated."
- Thomas Paine