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…….. | GREGORY L. MITCHELL, FOUNDER & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Gregory has been in politics and government since 1991, having served in a variety of roles. He was a congressional chief of staff, a campaign manager, an internet campaign director, a fundraiser and most recently a lobbyist. He has seen firsthand we have a broken government that is neither communicating with nor effectively representing the American People. The seeds of FREE & INDEPENDENT™ have been growing in his head for the last ten years, after he completed his service as chief of staff to a congressman. He traveled to Washington in 1997 full of ideals, only to become disillusioned by the way our government actually operates. Not willing to adjust himself to a broken system, but not knowing exactly how to fix it, he returned to California. But he found himself pulled back. He returned to Washington but rejected partisan politics in 2003, deciding instead to focus on working in bipartisan coalitions to help promote and pass commonsense legislative reforms that will begin to solve the mounting problems facing our country. Increasingly frustrated, however, by government’s inability to do what’s needed, Gregory realized the government is broken because the American People are not involved in the legislative process. They don’t have lobbyists representing them in Washington, and they have not been exercising sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of government. In the fall of 2008, when Congress agreed to bail out Wall Street without hearings, deliberation or analysis, the urgency of the situation motivated Gregory to found FREE AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA, Inc.™ He is dedicating his career to restoring individual Americans to their rightful positions as Sovereigns and superiors over government, and helping them exercise sufficient control so influence over government will be shared among all the people. Read full bio… ADVISORY BOARD Coming soon… This is a time for bold actions. We the People are Sovereigns, not subjects. Let’s start acting like it. JOIN US. CONTROL GOVERNMENT. BE FREE AND INDEPENDENT. |
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In 1961, President John F. Kennedy called on the American Newspaper Publishers Association to help protect the freedom and independence of every individual. He concluded his speech with:
And so it is to the printing press – to the recorder of man’s deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news – that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.
Since the mainstream media fails us, We the People must rely on ourselves, and we must look to the Internet, modern communications technologies, new and social media to build the vehicle that will forever change the way we participate in our government.
FREE & INDEPENDENT MEDIA, Inc. is this vehicle. It is a multimedia business that will:
- Remind everyone of the existence and importance of basic American principles, report objective news of current government actions, and provide opinion-editorial commentary focused on whether or not these actions are consistent with the basic principles.
- Increase transparency by monitoring the actions of our government; conducting investigations to uncover conflicts of interest, unethical and even criminal behavior; and reporting the facts to individual Americans.
- Perform extensive research and data analyses to find the root causes of our country’s problems, model to pre-test each of the competing public policy options that are proposed as solutions, and propose legislative reforms based on reason.
At every step of the way, FREE & INDEPENDENT MEDIA, Inc. will engage and involve individual Americans in the process, giving them numerous opportunities to participate effectively and make a difference themselves. A social networking site that is linked to the Blogs will facilitate the building of a grassroots political movement from the ground up.
This movement will be made up of free and independent Americans who choose the path of perseverance and strength, who choose to stand up and fight the central bankers and financial elites for control of our government, who choose to exercise sufficient control to actually govern through our elected representatives.
As Thomas Jefferson said:
Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression.
And:
The influence over government must be shared among all the people. If every individual which composes their mass participates of the ultimate authority, the government will be safe…
And as President Ronald Reagan later said:
We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we’re sick – professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, “we the people,” this breed called Americans.
This is who we are, and why we are.
FREE & INDEPENDENT MEDIA, Inc. is the vehicle individual Americans will rely on to gain and retain sufficient control over government. And to exercise this control, it will become the de facto Supervisor or Board of Directors over Congress.
It will focus on Congress because it was designed to be the first branch of our government, the linchpin of our constitutional system. Congress is supposed to be preeminent because it is the only branch directly tied to us – We the People – through popular elections and representation. It is Congress, not the president, that originates all laws and government funding, and has oversight power over the other branches of government. Only Congress can withhold funding from and even impeach the president and leaders of the other branches.
We exercise sufficient control over Congress, and then use Congress to exercise sufficient control over the Executive and Judicial Branches.
Our central organizing ideas and principles are those articulated in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and its Bill of Rights, and other writings and correspondences of our Founding Fathers.
Since these ideas and principles are universal and based on reason alone, this is a non-partisan business that fuels and directs a non-partisan movement for all Americans – Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Independents, wealthy, middle class, poor, black, white, brown, red, yellow, etc. We’re all Americans, it’s our country, it’s our government, and it’s up to every one of us to work together to ensure it serves us and protects the rights of each one of us. If we allow just one of us to be oppressed and injured, we allow every one of us to be oppressed and injured.
