Gaining Momentum

To begin I have been asked to clarify that these posts are from the eyes and ears of one the delegates from Connecticut. I have also adjusted the settings to allow anyone to comment, so please feel free to comment till your heart is content. Today marked the transition from posturing to progress in my eyes. We focused our energies on two of the most important issues of the Congress...money and firearms. An interesting piece of information was shared with us this morning by a speaker who had worked with the Federal Reserve, regrettably I missed his introduction and was never able to catch the young gentleman's name...but boy was he a fast talker. The three (3) months since World War II with the most transactions came at very interesting times. First was January of 1991 prior to the outbreak of the first war in Iraq. Second was in December of 1999 leading up to anticipated collapse of Y2K. The third highest number of transactions took place in August of 2001. While I believe that you are all highly proficient user's of reason I shall allow you to draw your own conclusions. As we convened in Congress we took up the challenge of drafting a resolution regarding the monetary system of the United States. It was agreed that only Constitutional methods of payments shall be permitted in these United States and that hard monies based on precious metals of gold, silver, et al. will be re-implemented pursuant to Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution. It's amazing that all the Ivy league minds controlling our present system can't seem to put together that a silver dollar is worth the same amount today as it did 50 years ago whereas the U.S. Dollar (Federal Reserve Notes) have dropped in value by 95% since 1913. We spend the afternoon diving into the second amendment. A local advocate for the right to bear arms, Ralph Conner, made what has been the most enthralling presentation of the Congress to date. He discussed how the second amendment is just as important to blacks and hispanics living in inner cities as it is to those who live in the suburbs and rural areas. To further his point we were treated to a video presentation of his "No Guns for Negros" discussing how for the longest time blacks were not permitted to possess firearms. What I particularly enjoyed about Mr. Conners position is that we share the idea that more guns = less crime. If you would like to verify this please refer the crime rate of Washington D.C. since the Heller vs. DC decision. With a suite being brought against Chicago by the same attorney who successfully argued Heller's case there is hope for Illinois yet. Before returning to deliberate on the right to bear arms, gun control and the militia we were presented with two proposals brought by the Virginia delegation on behalf of Dr. Edwin Vieira. The first dealing with reasserting the power of the purse...dealing obviously with our previous topic of money and the second entitled reasserting the power of the sword. These proposals became the crux of the resolutions that are currently being worked on in separate committee's. I was able to get myself a seat on the 2nd Amendment committee. The first issue that had to be decided was what exactly does militia mean? Two attempts to resolve this issue resulted in a sub-sub-committee(???) being assigned the duty of hashing this out. I again...found myself a seat on this committee because I had drafted one of the two proposed definitions. After meeting briefly we returned to the rest of our committee happy to report we had decided on a definition which we had agreed is as follows: A militia is a Constitutional defense force comprising all loyal citizenry capable of bearing arms, well trained and under proper authority, in defense of themselves and the State. The rest of the evening was spent debating and gently tweaking Dr. Vieira's propositions on the matter. One problem we will have in Connecticut that is unique to us, as far as those State's represented on our committee could tell, is that Sheriff's are almost essential to the successful implementation of the proposal. We do not have Sheriff's. Suggestions?