21st CP Mission statement!

[Darkmind]

I'm working on doing one up now guys. As soon as I finish something and I'm pleased with what came out I'll post it for review and comment.

[CelticDragon1972]

Sounds good. We definitely need one. :)

[Darkmind]

This is not coming together as easy as I thought it would guys. I need input from EVERYBODY. I have some questions that I would like everyone to answer with their thoughts. These answers will help me out with the mission statement a LOT.

1. Identity - Who do you think the 21st Century Patriots is? What kind of image do we want to show to EVERYONE?

2. Goals - What are some of our short term goals? What are some of our long term goals.

3. What can we offer to the everyday person?

I'll prob have more questions? To complete a good strong mission statement I need EVERYONES input.

[slaphappy]

Ah, I love Google. http://www.tgci.com/magazine/98fall/mission.asp

Easy to follow guide on writing a mission statement.

At the very least, your organization's mission statement should answer three key questions:

1. What are the opportunities or needs that we exist to address? (the purpose of the organization)

2. What are we doing to address these needs? (the business of the organization)

3. What principles or beliefs guide our work? (the values of the organization)


1. 21st Century Patriots was founded to restore second amendment rights to all Americans.

2. We still need to figure that one out.

3. We are guided by the principals of the Founding Fathers and the Constituion of the United States as it was written.

[Darkmind]

Ah, I love Google. http://www.tgci.com/magazine/98fall/mission.asp

Easy to follow guide on writing a mission statement.




1. 21st Century Patriots was founded to restore second amendment rights to all Americans.

2. We still need to figure that one out.

3. We are guided by the principals of the Founding Fathers and the Constituion of the United States as it was written.


Yup, I goggled the hell out of it but I only got more questions and no answers. So naturally I'm coming to you guys for answers.

[Darkmind]

:bump: :cigarsmkg

[slaphappy]

Some ideas:

21st Century Patriots was founded by freedom loving firearms owners. We are commited to restoring the second amendment to its original meaning, that individaul citizens have the right to bear arms, and no infringement on that right is permitted by the Constitution of the United States of America. Our goal is to repeal all legislation that requires firearms to have "sporting" purposes, and to end any and all registration of firearms. We will be vocal and persistant until second amendment rights have been restored for all Americans.

[CelticDragon1972]

Mission:

It is time for the voice of each gun owner in the United States of America to be heard. The mission of 21st Century Patriots is to restore the 2nd Amendment to its original meaning, that individual citizens have the right to bear arms, and no infringement on that right is permitted by the Constitution of the United States of America. Our goal is to repeal all legislation that requires firearms to have "sporting" purposes, and to end any and all registration of firearms. Securing each element of the eloquent US Bill of Rights is essential in maintaining liberty for all. We find one essential human liberty -- the RIGHT to Keep And Bear Arms -- being dangerously infringed and vilified. We will be vocal and persistent until 2nd Amendment rights have been restored for all citizens of the United States of America.

[CelticDragon1972]

Just an idea for a flyer...of course the Mission Statement would need some work, but this will give the general idea.

It is an WORD (.doc) file and will be attached.

Let me know what you think.

:)

[Thylacine]

Stopping a governmental agency(ATF) from making rules that have the force of law. Interpreting the law and making a rule for which the punishment is the same as for breaking a law, then this rule is in fact a law. It is a law that has been put into place without the "peoples" consent, or participation.

[slaphappy]

OK, anyone else want to weigh in on this? It's pretty important if we are going to do anything else.

[Darkmind]

Thanks for the great input so far guys. With ideas like this and a little tweaking the 21st century patriots will have a very well rounded mission statement.

[mike26038]

This is one area that need serious tweaking..

Our goal is to repeal all legislation that requires firearms to have "sporting" purposes, and to end any and all registration of firearms.


This should not be our only goal.. Anti gun legislation has been on the books since 1934..

Lets not penny ante our mission here. This is not about just being pissed off cause our precious kits have now been barred from importation.. Or our guns must meet sporting purposes..

I don't know about you, but I am pissed that I can't own a silencer, which is not even a firearm, without heavy restriction, at the same time ranges are closed cause they are too noisy..

I'm pissed that our boys and girls are fighting a war with weapons they are not to be trusted with when they return from overseas..

I'm pissed cause a whole class of firearms have been outright banned by a tax code..


While I know we must take steps in restoring our rights, and can't expect full repeal overnight, I think we should maintain that our mission is the total repeal of all constitutionally illegal gun laws..

Butt I am unfourtunatley not good a writingm but I am racking my brain at this..

[CelticDragon1972]

That's what we're here for...to give and suggest ideas.

Keep them coming...Darkmind still needs your input.

:)

[O.S.O.K.]

IMHO, our focus is the "restoration of 2nd Amendment rights"

[GunBum]

This should not be our only goal.. Anti gun legislation has been on the books since 1934..



Anti gun legislation existed well before 1934.

[CongSan]

1. Identity - Who do you think the 21st Century Patriots is? What kind of image do we want to show to EVERYONE?

2. Goals - What are some of our short term goals? What are some of our long term goals.

3. What can we offer to the everyday person?


1 Everyday Americans.
2 To restore all constitutional rights to everyone entitled to them, starting with the second.
3 Uhh, something to rally around?

[O.S.O.K.]

As stated, I beleive that our focus is the restoration of the 2nd A.

Our goal is to bring national pressure down on our elected officials to act. Specifically, to lift as many onerous 2A restrictions as possible.

The mission statement should reflect this.

Ron Paul's 2A protection bill is very good - removing sporting purpose BS, import restrictions, FA taxation, etc...

These things do nothing to make American citizens safe and serve only to limit law abiding citizen's liberties. It is a fact that criminals and terrorists are not in the slightest bit inhibitted by gun control laws. So, what's the purpose of them?

I think we can all get behind this bill.

The important thing is to accomplish what has never been properly accomplished: a true, mega-national protest movement.

Beleive me, if this is done, the NRA, GOA, etc will all take advantage of it. ;)

1 Everyday Americans.
2 To restore all constitutional rights to everyone entitled to them, starting with the second.
3 Uhh, something to rally around?

I agree - something to rally around. Sounds simple, but yet that is how even the largest movements get started and are sustained. A common, simple rallying point.

The mission statement needs to be short and to the point.

The logo should incorporate all or parts of the mission statement.

[bhuffmansr]

I am pleasently surprised to see more brainstorming, and less 'chest thumping' going on! I do, however think there is a place for BOTH activities..... This could be the start of something we will proudly tell our grandchildren we were part of. We need to keep in mind a few basic principles;
1. We will achieve the most with the best support NONVIOLENTLY ( look at the civil rights marches).
2. We do this for the love of Man and Country, not with the desire to endanger, demolish or destroy.
3. We must NOT "take the bait" that WILL be dangled by the Government to act illegally or violently - remember - the BATFE needs to have us look like a bunch of "Right Wing Wackos" , and NOT as a mainstream, mass movement ( by the way - WE need to remember we are the People, not a bunch of misfits).
4. What we are demanding, is NOT extreme, NOT illegal, NOT immoral. We are demanding ONLY that which our Founding Fathers set up for us. The Constitution (and Bill of Rights) were designed not to need regular "tweaking". They were built - ever so carefully - to be long standing documents of fairness and decency.
5. We need to proiclaim loudly and often that we are Americans, Veterans, Patriots - NOT foreign extremists.
6. We need to keep the cause pure and simple - the Second Amendment of the Constitution - NOT plus gay rights, NOT plus Pro Life, NOT plus votes for dead people, NOT plus Vegetariainism! -
7. One Subject, One Focus, One outcome is ALL that we will accept - NO mitigation, no "Sporting Purposes" NONE of that crap. We must stay tightly focused!
Rant off....

[Mothrog]

The purpose of the organization should be clear enough: the restoration of the Second Amendment to its original intent, not the collective right it has become through diliberate distortion by our politicians and courts.

To accomplish our goals, we have to start not with the court system but people at large. The history of the court system, in particular the Supreme Court, shows that our court systems do not follow the letter of the law as written but rather they alter the interpretation of the law to fit the need they are trying to further. Anyone who doubts this should go read about the Dredd Scott case as well as the Court Packing Plan. So, if we are ever to accomplish the goals set out, we need to win the minds of the populace at large. I doubt that we will ever do that if we being by stating that we want fully automatic weapons to be legal again. While that should be a long term goal, the likelihood that we will be dismissed as extremists by people at large if we start off with such a message is great, and if we are dismissed as extremists we have lost before we ever started doing a damn thing. I think the biggest thing that needs to be done initially is inform people of the realities of gun laws. Hold open discussions about them. Hold public events to discuss the nature of our gun laws. Write editorials to our local newspapers every time our legislatures decide to write yet another inane gun law explaining calmly and clearly what it is that makes the gun law worthless/unconstitutional. We have to overcome the brainwashing that people have been subjected to by the media and their supposed representatives. Long term, we should fight those laws in the court through a series of test cases. A big problem with the NRA is they rarely (if ever?) file suit to challenge an unconstitutional law. If we ever expect change, we need to establish precedent on our side, and that precedent has to be Supreme Court precedent. If Bush is to elect two more justices to the Supreme Court and those justices are conservatives, time would be perfect for such test cases as there would be a 5-4 conservative majority (with the potential that the swing votes might be brought over to our side). Without precedent set by favorable court decisions, anything we accomplish will be short term only.

[Commiefornia]

Bump, comeon guys, you had something, lets keep it going.

aslo, i had an idea reading this,


Not everybody can/will travel interstate to go to a protest/rally, so what we should do is organize it by state, but have once CENTRAL command that will do the main organizing, then the states will have a rally leader there, say ythe one whos willing to claim the position in there state, that way. theres protests in as many states as possible, and more people can show up, we can get others involved from other boards, have them at the rally in there own state, but we would all be protesting the same thing. feedback on this idea if you have any please.


Im in boise idaho, so i can hang posters and get it somewhat going out here.

[wallew]

Well, it's been a year. Not much action since the little excitement that went on for a few days.

Let me help you all out. There are things you need to understand. ANY organized protest will get you NO WHERE. Until you have a government official by the balls he ain't even gonna let his STAFF give you the time of day.

Second, about two or three years ago ONE BLACK ADULT AND ONE BLACK TEENAGER got MORE PRESS and had MORE POLITICIANS RUNNING SCARED than anything you will put together.

Do you remember them? They used an AR15. And they had the whole area going crazy with wild assed rumors, bad facts and even worse results from what they did.

BUT, they galvanized the MEDIA'S ATTENTION FOR MORE THAN A WEEK.

I really HATE to be the one to point this out, but the old MEDIA ADAGE applies to this situation.

"IF IT BLEEDS, IT LEADS"

So, either WE will be the ones bleeding. OR THEY WILL.

It's your choice. I'm going back into my hole and check on this in ANOTHER YEAR. Perhaps REREAD my copy of UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES for about the sixteenth time.

This is basically a bunch of well intentioned people who have absolutely NO CHANCE of ever getting anything changed in our government. WHY? Because unlike our forefathers, who literally put their life and their property on the line for what they believed, NO ONE HERE IS WILLING TO DO THAT. INCLUDING ME.

Until that happens, our rights will be slowly taken from us.

Oh, and this time it WON'T BE US TROOPS doing the disarming of US CITIZENS. It will be the UN sponsored troops. PROBABLY FROM EITHER RUSSIA OR CHINA. OR MAYBE IRAN. Cause none of them give a fig for our 'rights' or our 'constituiton'.

They will just do what they are told when they are told to do it.

Can anyone HERE say the same. I know I CAN'T. Getting too old and too slow to make a difference anymore. Which is exactly what our 'leaders' want.

For as long as we are 'talking' we are NOT acting.

Good luck and may God bless you all.