Long Live the Peaceable Assembly!

The Peaceable Assembly™ is Wild Willpower’s framework for organized civic action.

Participants may research public problems, review records, assemble facts, educate communities, petition government, develop reforms, support ethical candidates, and help build lawful public-interest casework.

This is more than protest.

It is people working together to understand what has gone wrong—and doing the sustained work necessary to change it.

Funding Civic Work—not Just Political Advertising

Political expression requires material resources.

In Buckley v. Valeo, the Supreme Court explained:

“A restriction on the amount of money a person or group can spend on political communication during a campaign necessarily reduces the quantity of expression by restricting the number of issues discussed, the depth of their exploration, and the size of the audience reached. This is because virtually every means of communicating ideas in today’s mass society requires the expenditure of money.”

The Court recognized that meaningful political expression costs money. Citizens United v. FEC later held that independent political expression could not be prohibited merely because the speaker was organized as a corporation.

Wild Willpower accepts that reasoning—and asks why it should stop with candidates, corporations, campaign advertisements, and established political institutions.

If political speech requires money, then the citizens performing political and civic work require material support.

Research takes time. Public records cost money. Casework requires careful review, organization, writing, and documentation. Public education requires printing, communication, transportation, equipment, and sustained labor.

People performing real First Amendment work for the public benefit should not be treated as disposable, unpaid volunteers.

Wild Willpower therefore seeks lawful ways to compensate, reimburse, equip, and support people carrying out approved mission-related work.

The purpose is not to purchase loyalty.

It is to make serious civic participation possible.

Why This Is Necessary

People whose rights, employment, housing, safety, or public standing have been disrupted may be the people best positioned to document institutional failure and advocate reform.

They may also be the least able to spend years doing that work without support.

A serious civic movement must be able to care for the people carrying the work.

Depending on the project, lawful support may include:

• compensation for approved research, writing, organizing, or professional services;
• reimbursement of project expenses;
• transportation, meals, equipment, and supplies;
• training and educational resources; and
• other properly authorized support necessary to perform the work.

No particular assistance is guaranteed. All support must be lawfully structured, approved, documented, and reported through an organization and funding source permitted to provide it.

The Civil PAC Principle

This approach is part of Wild Willpower’s proposed Civil PAC model:

Use political resources not only to promote candidates and purchase advertisements, but also to sustain the organized citizens whose research, petitioning, education, advocacy, and case-building make meaningful reform possible.

The courts have not yet expressly recognized this complete model.

Wild Willpower believes it is a natural and necessary extension of the principle that political expression requires material support.

Existing law should not protect financing for candidate advocacy and political advertising while categorically denying support to organized citizens performing genuine civic and First Amendment work.

Where current legal categories do not clearly accommodate the model, Wild Willpower may seek administrative guidance, legislative reform, or judicial clarification.

[Learn About Wild Willpower PAC →]

What the Peaceable Assembly Does

Approved projects may involve:

• civic education and public research;
• petitions and public-comment campaigns;
• public-records review;
• lawful political and voter education;
• policy development;
• access-to-justice education;
• environmental stewardship and sustainable-living initiatives;
• community organizing;
• peaceful public assemblies; and
• documentation and development of public-interest matters.

The Peaceable Assembly is not a court, law-enforcement agency, law firm, or substitute for licensed legal representation.

Participants may research, organize, document, educate, petition, and help people locate appropriate public or professional resources.

Peaceable Does Not Mean Passive

Our work may be persistent, demanding, and unafraid to confront institutional failure.

But it must remain peaceful, truthful, disciplined, and grounded in respect for human dignity.

The Peaceable Assembly does not permit threats, intimidation, retaliation, targeted harassment, destruction of property, falsification of evidence, advocacy of imminent violence, or conduct intended to sabotage a lawful project.

Current Supreme Court doctrine may protect some speech that is hateful, degrading, or deeply offensive.

Wild Willpower recognizes that as the prevailing law, but rejects the idea that everything legally protected must therefore be treated as ethical, responsible, or consistent with the constitutional purposes of justice, domestic tranquility, the general welfare, and liberty for future generations.

The Peaceable Assembly maintains a higher standard of participation.

[Read the Wild Willpower Code of Ethics →]

Join the Peaceable Assembly™

The Peaceable Assembly is for people who want to do more than watch public problems unfold.

Participants may contribute research, records review, writing, lived experience, organizing, communications, art, legal-system knowledge, gardening, sustainability expertise, or other useful skills.

Not everyone performs the same role.

What matters is a sincere commitment to ethical work, peaceful participation, responsible collaboration, and service to the public.

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Long Live the Peaceable Assembly!

Political speech does not happen without material support.

Wild Willpower seeks to direct that support not only toward candidates and advertising, but toward the people researching, organizing, petitioning, educating, documenting, and building the reforms themselves.

Peaceable does not mean powerless.

It means our strength comes from knowledge, organization, integrity, persistence—and care for one another.

 

Oh BABY — The Perks!!!

These next sets of links are a bit outdated, but if I'm elected Governor, one of many tasks The Public Intelligence Agency will be charged with is getting www.ReUniteTheStates.org cleaned up and completed, so that it may remain public. If Jesus can marry the church, then I shall allow my baby, Wild Willpower PAC, to have a civil union with the State of Iowa! (rofl!!!)

Supreme Court rulings reinforcing First Amendment Rights:

- Copyrighted Materials May Be Used  to Educate – called “Fair Use” in law.

- “First Amendment activities” protected in front of ALL Shopping Centers; “shopping center” is defined as “3 or more businesses in the same building”

- Filming On-Duty Public Officials in Public Spaces is an *Assumed Right*; according to 5 U.S. Supreme Court rulings

- “Giving Money” may be done as “A Form of Expression”; which or course means other things may be as well!

 

"If corporations can toss millions of dollars over the tops of our heads to get politicians elected, and that is a form of speech protected under Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976) and Citizens United v. FEC | 558 U.S. 310 (2010), then We the People can do things like help Native Americans or get Citizen's Arrest Kits out to as many people as possible , and that, too, is a protected form of speech.

If Legislators don’t like it, they  can work to get Citizen’s United overturned!”

– Sondra

 

Above gif from Tenor utilized for First Amendment purposes in accordance with the US Copyright Office's Fair Use Policy and the Fair Use Doctrine.

 

References

Allen, Karma. (July 29, 2020). Man who helped ignite George Floyd riots identified as white supremacist: Police. ABC News. https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-helped-ignite-george-floyd-riots-identified-white/story?id=72051536

Oyes. Buckley v. Valeo. https://www.oyez.org/cases/1975/75-436.

Science Source Prints.Medieval Dancers And Troubadours Art Print by Christian Jegou. https://prints.sciencesource.com/featured/medieval-dancers-and-troubadours-christian-jegou.html?product=art-print