๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ข๐ ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ฎ๐ง
I sat down with Beth St Denis on CHP Talks to share why KICLEI Canada is standing against global municipal control โ and why ๐ฅ๐จ๐๐๐ฅ ๐ ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ง๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐.
Over the next few weeks, Iโll share short clips on:
๐น Empowering CommunitiesโA Call to Action
๐น Fighting MisinformationโThe Challenge Ahead
๐น The Shocking Costs Behind Climate Programs Revealed
โฆand more.
๐บ Watch the full interview here:
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๐ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ฌ โ ๐ฅ๐๐ญโ๐ฌ ๐ค๐๐๐ฉ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐๐ฒ.
Maggie Hope Braun reminds us that triumph is born not from comfort, but from courage. Her stand against global municipal control is not just resistance, it is reclamation. Reclamation of our right to decide, to speak, to live freely in the communities we call home.
The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrate
The Lesser Magistrateโs function and duty is to interpose against tyranny and oppression and act as a buffer between unjust law and the people.
The People of our communities are continually harassed and bound by fictitious language perpetrated by public and private actors and the people under their control.
We the People do not accept this behavior in our community.
Citizens are not bound to hold unlimited obedience to civil government actors or to any private actors.
We the People delegate all authority. This is the doctrine of the lesser magistrate.
We the People can and should appeal to the lesser magistrates by saying: We call upon the captains of the guard [judges, police, military, pastors, and others willing to stand] to restore order and depose the wicked tyrants [pm, premier, mla, mayor, council, board, private actors, and the people under their control].
Law
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing respect for the law.
The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense. - Frederic Bastiat
Depository
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.
Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual, but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country. - Thomas Jefferson
Liberty
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. - Patrick Henry