A new way of messaging today is the podcast. With the ambition of reaching a new audience, we are releasing four podcasts labeled Season One.
We gathered up some time, energy, and talent to talk about several issues we see in the news cycle and relate how a Convention of States could help resolve that problem or issue.
Currently you can subscribe on iTunes and the BuzzSprout website. We are working on other venues including SoundCloud and Stitcher.
Keith Bessette (FL Social Media Warrior and Content Writer ) has a special talent with communications and as a musician with audio recording experience. Mr. Bessette is a retired Electrical and Systems Engineer. He spent his career in design of shipboard communications and laser recorders.
Brandon Koehler (MT District Captain) is from Montana and helped us with the launch of the pilot episode and getting started. Mr. Koehler is also a podcast host on family issues raising kids in the mountains.
Download an episode today and enjoy the New, Fresh Podcasts then let us know your comments at this email address: Keith.Bessette@cosaction.com
Pilot - Family Separation: Liberty Solutions
Keith and Brandon review the timeline and legal issues behind the border crossing foreign nationals with minors in tow and the “family separation” issue. They discuss the root causes and what the people and their States can do about it. We can’t wait for D.C. to fix immigration - they never will. The people with their states can resolve this. (25 minutes)
Season 1 Episode 2: Kings and Queens of the Supreme Court
This episode is a review of how the Supreme Court assigned itself so much power and what the people should do to rein it in. Several court majority opinions have significantly eroded liberty and unconstitutionally grabbed power The July 2018 retirement of Justice Kennedy is bounced against several points of view with recorded clips of Rachael Maddow, Dave Smith, Bernie Sanders, Chuck Schumer, Neil Gorsuch, and KrisAnne Hall.
The selection of new justices has become far too important due to their own wide ranging definitions of their own power. Term limits and better restrictions on the court’s authority using constitutional amendments are covered. (35 minutes)
Season 1 Episode 3: Key West and Federal Land Holdings
Keith discusses a trip to Key West, the Everglades, Lake Okeechobee, and the federal government taking and keeping unconstitutional control of land throughout the union. He shares his observations of the federal government’s intrusions into life seen on the trip. Key West is an interesting pro-liberty town. A live-and-let-live place. It seceded briefly from the US in 1982, forming the Conch Republic to protest U.S. Border Patrol’s roadblock and treatment of all of the Florida Keys as another nation.
The federal government grabbed all control of the Dry Tortugas from Florida in 1992 (the westernmost group in the Florida Keys). Congress has legislated the legal uses of Florida’s Lake Okeechobee, including authorizing fish and wildlife to use the lake. Keith wonders why the federal government owns 48% of California, and pays only $40 million in lieu of property taxes based on their own definition of the land’s value. (37 minutes)
Season 1 Episode 4: Right to Bear Arms
Keith discusses the right to keep and bear arms with Roland Demers. Roland is a tactical training and firearms instructor and a criminal investigator. We cover the natural law basis of the right to bear arms and the Second Amendment’s recognition of this right, the federal government’s lack of any expressly delegated authority to write laws on firearms, and the authority of the states.
Practical considerations are discussed with experience and facts on murder rates versus gun ownership rates and differences in outcome between states with their widely varying levels of infringement on our natural right to bear arms. The show ends with how a new constitutional amendment proposed by an Article V Convention of States can resolve the arguments over Federal firearms restrictions and make us all safer. (70 minutes)
