Bill of Rights Day Success
in Topeka, Kansas
In 2003, Paul and Shirley Degener of Topeka, Kansas, decided to promote Bill of Rights Day in their community. They succeeded in raising Bill of Rights consciousness for thousands of people.
For instance, they persuaded their county to pass a Bill of Rights Day proclamation:
Shawnee County, Kansas Proclamation (.jpg image file, 124,603-bytes in size)
They wrote informative letters to the editor like this one.
And they even inspired the Topeka Capital-Journal to write an editorial in praise of the Bill of Rights. (While the editorial, using the recent arrest of Saddam Hussein to highlight the joys a liberated Iraq might experince, was overly optimistic, it still conveyed valuable information about what the Bill of Rights is and what it can do -- if governments heed it.)
If 1,000 more people would do what the Degeners did, and if only a small percentage of those who hear about Bill of Rights Day take the message to heart ... we will change this country from one that blindly follows politicians to one in which educated people defend their own rights and respect the rights of others.
Thank you, Paul and Shirley Degener! With a few thousand more like you, we'll see freedom's light again.
If anyone else reading this message has done something similar, let us know. We'd love to post more inspiring Bill of Rights success stories.