From Jerry:

Several of those from the Ron Paul Meetup I once hosted have joined the GOP. First, as Ron had requested, it was all about becoming delegates. We tried, some of us going all the way to the state convention only to be blocked out of the process by an illegitimate charade created by a "pre-convention quorum" that installed brand new rules which we were unable to overcome on the floor.

Then our task became that of tugging at the reins of our local party in hopes that some of us could become instrumental in changing the conscience at that level and prove ourselves to be worthy of greater party position through both work and enhanced patriot minded numbers.

A month ago, I challenged the basis for a resolution being offered in the local meeting, bringing to bear the issues of the constitutional fraud being perpetrated against the people vis-a-vis the monetary system. The woman that had created the resolution under consideration wanted to amend her work right then and there to incorporate my points, but that was derailed by the county chair. An identical measure was under consideration in three other counties just that morning and there was no provision made for last minute revisions. Consequently, I was invited to introduce my own resolution at the next meeting.

Curiously, though, the voice vote on her measure was inconclusive and a showing of hands was called for. The unamended resolution carried by about two votes. I firmly believe that had I not spoken up, it would have been nearly unanimous.

I thought about and began to formulate my resolution over the next month and at one time it was two pages and included 16 different clauses.

I reduced the size and tightened the message at the behest of Michael Badnarik, the one-time Libertarian presidential candidate. He has been teaching the Constitution for 20 years and I contacted him for his opinion of my work.

The local party people tried to derail my effort. First, I had to submit the piece for review and a protocol proper scheduled opportunity on the upcoming agenda. I submitted the two page work and I think they grew fearful of both the message and the length. They spawned a brand new "Resolutions Committee" through which all such measures would now have to flow. I skirted that by insisting that my work had been the result of special invitation of the county chair and that I would proceed either by being on the agenda as requested or responding when new business was called for in our meeting. The latter is what occurred.

Yesteray's meeting was packed because the Georgia Education Secretary was to speak that morning. When the opportunity to present my resolution came, very few people had left the room. The chair reluctantly acknowledged me and I stood, gave a brief history of the measure adding that the chairman had requested this effort of me, and then I launched into a spirited reading of the now abbreviated resolution. There was some, albeit minor, applause at the conclusion.

The chair then began a soft pedal attack by saying he thought there was insufficient gold and silver to implement the return to constitutionally mandated money. I gently countered that bogus assertion offering Dr. Paul's idea of competition between currencies to allow the free market to decide which it wanted rather than through the legislative fiat now imposed, and fielded about three more questions, thwarting an effort to stall my resolution for further research by being willing to address any questions that the group could formulate. Grievously, the majority of the "politically aware" souls in the room had no clue as to the consequences of the matter. It was shameful.

A motion was made to accept the resolution as rendered and there was more than one second. The resolution carried by a clear voice majority. Those against were seemingly caught flatfooted as when called upon to say "NAY", many responded with "AYE".

At the conclusion of the meeting two of the visitors approached me and congratulated me on the resolution and my defense of it. They both added that because of the matter they had decided to join the party that very morning. I was later told that a young woman had also joined the party and that she was one of those that had applauded my reading of the piece.

Lastly, I was asked to join the Resolutions Committee by the woman placed in charge of it; she was the very one that wrote the first resolution, the one I challenged and nearly defeated.

Please tell any and all that they can use my resolution for their own purposes, changing whatever they like to use at their own county level effort to thwart the statists.

We the People of the West Georgia area Republican Parties, consisting of those from Carroll, Coweta, Haralson and Heard Counties, in the interest of restoring the Rule of Law, Sound Money and the American Republic do hereby tender the following:

Resolution

Whereas the Constitution for the United States of America delegates to Congress alone the power to coin money and regulate the value of foreign coin (Article 1, Section 8, ¶ 5), and

Whereas Lawful Money under the Constitution Article 1, Section 10, ¶ 1, is "Gold and Silver", this provision of the Constitution having never been amended and thus, any other form of promised money is plainly an unconstitutional fraud, and

Whereas the Constitution does not, in specific terms or by necessary and unavoidable implication, authorize Congress to pursue any form of monetary policy or to delegate control over any monetary policy to any central bank, such as the United States Federal Reserve System, and

Whereas if the Creator has, in fact, graciously provided, equipped and enriched the People with Rights, it follows that those Rights belong to the People and to the Creator, and it follows that any affront to the Constitution (as when government violates an unalienable Right) is an affront to the Creator, and

Whereas by the terms and provisions of the written Constitution, the People have expressly established their government and empowered it to act in only certain ways, while purposely and patently restricting and prohibiting it in other certain ways, and

Whereas the People of this country are entitled, by Right, to a Constitutionally valid form of money,

It is Hereby Resolved that we instruct our representation in the United States House of Representatives and in the United States Senate and especially those that would seek to continue to be said representation that we demand they begin in earnest the dissolution and dismantling of these longstanding engines of usurpation that function in direct controversy with the Constitution for the United States of America and in opposition to the welfare and best interests of the American people.