Rick Stanley
Constitutional Activist
Phone: 303-329-0481
E-mail: rick at stanley2002 dot org

MEDIA RELEASE: Letter of support for Rick Stanley

Rick Stanley, Constitutional Activist, former U.S. Senate candidate, Enemy of the State, and self avowed extremist on the order of our forefathers of America, gave the following media release for your use:

From: David Codrea
To: rick at stanley2002 dot org ; Peter Mancus

To those who believe they are "in charge":

Things have mutated so grotesquely since the founding of our Republic, I hesitate to petition you--even though it is a Constitutionally recognized birthright of all Americans. Based on results, I'm not certain I won't be charged with "influencing a public official"--but in the Orwellian world you have constructed to maintain usurped power, the most sacred of our institutionalized rights as free men are now deemed crimes against the state.

My observations probably won't sit well with you-- which is why I have balked at writing before now. That's because of my reason for contacting you-- to plead for justice and mercy for Rick Stanley. If my plain speaking antagonizes you, my words may produce the opposite effect. You may make the most extreme example of him that you can as a warning to men like me who view his persecution as just that.

Truth be known, exactly why I'm pleading anything ought to be the foremost question. What exactly has Rick Stanley done? Kept and borne arms--a right guaranteed to him and all free people by the "supreme law of the land" and Colorado's constitution? Issued a strongly-worded protest against acts he concludes are treasonous? They are, you know.

Look to the men who pledged their "lives...fortunes and...sacred honor" to institute a government designed "to secure the blessings of liberty." The tyrants they defied viewed them as criminals to be destroyed. Thankfully--and if you don't thank them, you are the basest of traitors--these Founding Fathers maintained the courage of their convictions, and won liberty for themselves and their posterity, through blood, powder and steel,.

Do you think such men would view you as patriots or tyrants?

Do you think such men would support prosecuting a free man for speaking of revolutionary founding principles, and for warning those responsible for "a long train of abuses" of his defiance?

Would you have charged Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson with "influencing a public official" had they sent you their "Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Their Taking up Arms"? If I repeated their words, "We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we have received from our gallant ancestors. . . . We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them. . . . [We are] with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves," and you believed me to be the author, would I, too, face criminal charges?

Do you disapprove of such talk? Do you think the Continental Congress that approved these words would approve of the course you have chosen?

And incidentally, the charges against Mr. Stanley are particularly ironic and outrageous when you consider the Founders deemed the militia to be "the whole people except for a few public officials."

Here is my prediction-- free men will not forever bear a yoke. Resentment will not forever be tempered by restraint.

Here is my assessment-- the freedom movement is growing. More of our countrymen are awakening and joining its ranks every day. The genie cannot be put back into the bottle now that it is out. These patriots' prime objective is to "guard with jealous attenbtion the public liberty," and they will be watching your actions with extreme interest, knowing that what befalls Rick Stanley might one day claim them.

Here is my warning to you--you can't take your actions back. For good or ill, what you do will become part of "the record."

Time will tell if that record, including its consequences, will be noted or obscure. Having faith that this Republic was inspired by Divine Providence, and recognizing that the most powerful human motivations come from inspiration rather than subjugation, I have great hopes for liberty--if not in my lifetime, then in the lifetimes of my children.

If this is true, then the following questions merit your attention.

How will Rick Stanley be remembered?

How will you be remembered?

How will Rick Stanley be judged?

How will you be judged?

The record has not been completed. It's not too late to claim your place of honor in its pages.

David Codrea
codrea4 at adelphia dot net