March 18, 2004

PRESS RELEASE

American liberty is under internal attack as never before in our history, according to Alan Keyes, chairman of The Declaration Alliance, a national citizens activist group. Keyes says last summer's travesty of justice by the federal judiciary against the Ten Commandments monument in Alabama "was a direct assault on the Constitution's guarantees of freedom of speech, free exercise of religion and freedom from federal interference in matters reserved to the people and the states."

Keyes is sponsoring a petition at ConservativePetitions.com, an online activism headquarters for conservative issues advocacy, that calls on the American public to stop black-robed tyrants from acting unconstitutionally and turning our nation into an atheist state. "Out-of-control judicial activism is actively persecuting religious believers and is driving all acknowledgement of God's authority in human affairs from our common, public lives," argues Keyes. View the petition at: http://www.conservativepetitions.com/petitions.php?id=266

"Our Constitution can and must be restored if we are to protect our God-given rights, and halt the same kind of tyrannical violations of religious conscience that America's founding was instituted to prevent," Keyes said in announcing the petition that supports the Constitution Restoration Act of 2004 now before Congress. "I urge you to stand against judicial dictatorship and government-sanctioned religious persecution! Support this legislation as a crucial first step in restoring Constitutional order in America."

Keyes said the actions taken in Alabama are a direct violation of the First Amendment's explicit prohibition against federal law respecting an establishment of religion, because they wrongly enforce federal judicial review of actions reserved to the people and the states. "This federal encroachment also absurdly equates prohibition of any mention of God with 'neutrality' toward religion," he said. "Such overt pro-atheistic hostility toward public religious expression is unconstitutional, and must be actively rejected by us, the sovereign American electorate." Read the petition's full content at: http://www.conservativepetitions.com/petitions.php?id=266

Keyes has been urging the U.S. House and Senate to craft and enact legislation "including court-stripping statutes that remove from the appellate jurisdiction of the federal courts ANY state action taken under the First and Tenth Amendments." He also calls on Americans to "energetically support congressional efforts to enforce constitutional limits upon dictatorial federal judges."

Keyes further invites citizens to "join us in activism, advocacy and education about our religious liberty" by participating in Revival Rallies all across America "to awaken the people to this vital cause." According to information available at the ConservativePetitions.com website, the on-going series of state and regional rallies that concerned Americans have been holding since the illicit removals of Alabama's Ten Commandments monument and Chief Justice Roy Moore will reach new heights April 3 in Dallas, TX. These Ten Commandment Revival Rallies are slated to climax this October in Washington D.C., prior to the November elections.