EVENTS

October 1, 2005:
Bueler and Krive Address Immigration Rally with Alan Keyes and Minuteman Founder Jim Gilchrist

High School Conservative Clubs of America President Tim Bueler and Vice President Jonathan Krive shared the stage with Ambassador Alan Keyes and Minuteman co-founder Jim Gilchrist in celebration of the one-year anniversary of the Minuteman project. Held at the Irvine Marriott on September 29, 2005, the audience gave standing ovations to the messages delivered that night.

“Jim Gilchrist is the only candidate in this election who is standing up for a secure border,” Bueler said. “Our country cannot afford to allow a continuous stream of illegal immigrants into this country. It is projects like the Minutemen, where citizens rise up to fill the gaps in government, that will lead to national awareness of our insecure border.”

Quoting President Ronald Reagan, Krive said, “A nation is defined by its geographical borders. And a nation that cannot protect its borders, is no nation at all.” Krive went on to explain the other part of securing our borders. “This battle is fought on the border, but also in the classrooms of our high schools and colleges. This is why we started an organization to promote conservative principles in high schools.”

Keyes urged the voters of the 48th District to elect Jim Gilchrist to Congress and send Washington a message that it's the government's role to serve the people and not the other way around. He applauded the initiative taken by Gilchrist and other American citizens to form the Minuteman Project and assist the border patrol to do its job to keep the borders secure.

"Our government should have wholeheartedly embraced the offer of the Minuteman Project to help our border patrol," declared Keyes.

Keyes added that it is the dedicated citizens of this country, as exemplified by Jim Gilchrist, who should be trusted to address the tough issues of our time and protect the interests of Americans, rather than the political elite and establishment experts who have failed our nation time and time again.

August 18, 2005:
HSCCA Challenges Gay Clubs on Northern California Campuses

High School Conservative Clubs of America (HSCCA) has one message for public high schools in the El Dorado and Placer Counties, "Get Homosexuality out of the schools." HSCCA began its tour at Placer High in Auburn, CA. Equipped with signs, banners and modified pick up trucks with messages such as "Homosexuality is sin," "Jesus is a Conservative," "Sodomy is Evil," and "Start a conservative club." The outreach will challenge conservative high school students to stand against the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) clubs at their schools by beginning an on-campus conservative club.

"This is our love crusade," Tim Bueler said when confronted by Molly Uvaro, 22, and her two non-high school-aged friends, Carrie Smith and Kathryn Gavel. "If your neighbor was going to hell, wouldn't you tell him so?"

See the Channel 10 news story here. See the Auburn Journal article here. See pictures of the truth truck here.

Pacific Justice Institute,

August 16, 2005
PRESS RELEASE
Students Win Right to Wear Pro-Marriage T-shirts

Rohnert Park, CA—Students in a northern California city recently won the right to wear pro-marriage t-shirts after school officials were warned against restricting their free speech.

Tired of the constant barrage of messages contrary to their beliefs, student members of the Conservative Club at a high school in Rohnert Park decided to express their own, traditional values for a change. Working with staff attorneys at Pacific Justice Institute, as well as PJI affiliate attorney Bill Trask, the students selected a t-shirt message which clearly stated the students’ support for traditional marriage, including a quote from the Bible, in a manner which was respectful, non-threatening and legally defensible.

Click here to see the rest of the press release.

Standing for the Truth: "Day of Silence” Protest
High School Conservative Clubs of America (HSCCA) joined GayMarriageNo.org in the first annual day of "Standing for the Truth" to protest the annual school-approved, pro-homosexual “Day of Silence” (April 13). Held on April 6th and 7th, "Standing for the Truth" sparked fierce hostility from those supporting the homosexual agenda. "Standing for the Truth" also received widespread news coverage, below is a list of articles:

See more news and pictures of the protest.

Conservatives see liberal bias in class - and mobilize
Complaints that teachers push liberal ideology are trickling down from college campuses to the K-12 level
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

POSTER BOY: Chris Bowler (left, with his parents) says Hudson (Mass.) High School took down posters for his conservative club and altered a yearbook photo so the group's Web address wouldn't show (right). The website links to footage of beheadings by Islamic extremists. The Rutherford Institute is suing the school.

Read the Christian Science Monitor article here.

May 27 , 2005
High School Conservative Club president thanks Minutemen at the “Unite to Fight” summit against illegal immigration

Following the successful "Minuteman Project" in Arizona and the "Hold Their Feet to the Fire" event in Washington, DC, immigration reform leaders, activists, bloggers, talk radio hosts, media, some elected officials, and many concerned citizens converged on Las Vegas on May 27th, 28th, and 29th for “Unite to Fight.” a three-day national summit against illegal immigration.

The historical gathering was hosted by the Wake Up America Foundation and radio program host Mark Edwards, whose theme was, “It’s time for America to wake up.”

Tim Bueler, president of the High School Conservative Clubs of America (HSCCA), spoke about the effects that the illegal alien invasion has had on public schools in California. “Educating illegal aliens costs California $2.2 billion each year.” "Illegals receive a free breakfast and lunch, and in return, they spread diseases in our schools such as tuberculosis, diphtheria, and malaria," said Bueler, adding, "and what is the response of our teachers and administrators? That's right, nothing!"

Bueler praised the effectiveness of the Minutemen Project, noting that Congress had felt the effectiveness of the minuteman who shut down a 23-mile stretch of the Arizona border. The Minutemen stopped the illegal alien invasion for a brief time, and because of their courageous efforts the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, in a 33-page brief, urged Congress and the states to sustain the success of the Minuteman Project -- whose members were lightly armed, had no arrest powers, were not paid, and traveled to Arizona at their own expense -- with the deployment of National Guard troops or state militia working in coordination with the Border Patrol.

“Unite to Fight” concluded with Terry Anderson leading the audience in a standing ovation as he introduced keynote speaker Congressman Tom Tancredo, who predicted that he'll never chair an important committee or have important legislation bearing his name. It surprised no one when he said those things aren't important to him. It wasn't hard to see what is important: making our nation more secure, and ending illegal immigration. No one doubted his assurance that "the tide is turning, and we're winning."

For Official Release by the Rutherford Institute, May 17, 2005
Rutherford Institute Attorneys File First Amendment Lawsuit Against Hudson High for Censoring Politically Conservative Student Club Posters

BOSTON, Mass. — Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern Division of Massachusetts in defense of the First Amendment rights of a high school student whose promotional posters for an extracurricular club were removed and censored by school officials because of their conservative political viewpoint. In their complaint, Institute attorneys charge that by censoring Christopher Bowler’s Conservative Club posters, officials at Hudson High School in Hudson, Mass.—one of only eleven pilot schools in the U.S. that participate in the “First Amendment Schools” program—violated Bowler’s First Amendment right to free speech and expression and discriminated against him and the Conservative Club on the basis of the club’s political viewpoint.

Bowler and Milello chose to affiliate their club with a national organization, High School Conservative Clubs of America (HSCCA), whose stated mission is “to support the United States Constitution, uphold the Bill of Rights, advocate the moral standards of our Founding Fathers, encourage traditional American values, and assist students to form chartered conservative clubs in high schools throughout the nation.”

Read the rest of the press release here.
Also, see the article the Metro West Daily wrote about this suit here.

April 24, 2005
Congressman Tancredo and HSCCA President Tim Bueler to CRA: “Stand against the cult of multiculturalism!”

The California Republican Assembly (CRA), which President Ronald Reagan once called "The Conscience of the Republican Party,” celebrated its 70th anniversary this month in Pomona, CA. CRA’s annual convention featured distinguished senators and congressman from all around California, including Sen. Tom McClintock, Sen. Bob Dutton, Sen. Dennis Hollingsworth, Rep. James Rogan, Rep. Ed Royce, and Rep. Gary Millar. At the Saturday night Patriots Dinner, HSCCA president and founder Tim Bueler joined keynote speaker, Congressman Tom Tancredo on the speaker’s rostrum.

Tom Tancredo (R-CO) has become a noted national leader in the effort to reform our immigration policies and secure our borders. Rep. Tancredo spoke about the effects that massive immigration, both legal and illegal, is having on America’s schools, environment, health, economy — and most importantly — our national security. He warned, “when the cult of multiculturalism which is being taught in many of today’s public schools is combined with lawlessness from the south, the effect will be to devastate our borders, language, and culture.”

HSCCA President Tim Bueler spoke about liberal bias in education and the rising tide of student activism which has sprung up to combat bias in the schools. Bueler reminded the audience about the danger of removing the Bible from the classroom, saying, “The most common question I am asked is how have the liberals taken over our educational system? The answer is quite simple; they have attacked our Christian foundation! We have allowed the left to replace the biblical principles that used to be taught in our schools with a secular humanist worldview.”

“Our founding fathers warned us,” Bueler continued, “that if the Bible was ever taken out of the classroom then we would expect to see the things our occurring today! Benjamin Rush, considered the nation’s leading educator of the time, was one of the first founding fathers to call for free public schools under the Constitution. In an educational policy paper he wrote in 1791, Rush gave a dozen or so reasons why the Bible would never be taken out of schools in America.

Benjamin Rush warned,” said Bueler,” that the results of removing the Bible from the classroom would be an explosion of crime, and wrote, ‘In contemplating the political institutions of the United States, I lament, that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them.’ Benjamin Rush knew that if religious standards were removed there would be no restraints on misbehavior.

Fisher Ames, another founding patriot, offered the final wording of the first amendment in an article written for a national magazine in January 1801, and, according to Bueler, Ames expressed his concern that as more and more textbooks were introduced into classrooms, that the Bible might someday drift to the back of the classroom. He warned that this most never be allowed in America; that the Bible must remain the number one textbook in our schools. Rush considered the Bible as the source of sound morality in the classroom.

“It is clear to me that in order to take back America’s schools our foundation has to be in Jesus Christ. We must retain America’s true Christian heritage if we want to have a better tomorrow."

“A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.”

Patriots gathered at the Radisson Hotel in Sacramento, CA, for the fourth annual Eagle Forum of California Educational Conference, “A Nation At Risk.” The conference program was packed with outstanding presentations. It opened Saturday morning with experts from around the country talking on a number of issues that included: “Rewritten American history - leaving out God, Patriotism, and American Heroes,” "the Beds of Indoctrination, from Childhood to College,” and “America’s Culture War - the Attack on Morality."

High School Conservative Clubs of America (HSCCA) president and founder Tim Bueler, and policy advisor Jonathan Krive, spoke directly to the youth on how to start conservative clubs at their high schools and how to defend their faith using speech and debate techniques. “It’s not enough that we are here,” Tim said, “We are called by God to stand up for the beliefs that this great nation was built upon.”

The night ended perfectly with the “Teacher of the Year” award going to Stephen Williams from Stevens Creek School (Cupertino, CA). He was banned by his Principal Patricia Vidmar, from providing handouts to students about excerpts from the Declaration of Independence, the diaries of George Washington and John Adams, the writings of William Penn, and various state constitutions, because the historical documents contained references to God. Mr. Williams has appeared on the Fox News channel with Hannity and Colmes and is currently in a legal battle over his situation.

The evening banquet speech was presented by none other then from Eagle Forum President Phyllis Schlafly. Mrs. Schlafly urged us to join the battle now against activist judges, by reading her new book, The Supremacists, in order to understand how the left achieves its agenda by means of rulings by out-of-control, liberal judges who legislate from the bench.

Pro-lifers from all around California gathered this year at Foothill Community Church in Roseville, CA to mourn the 45 million boys and girls who have been aborted as a result of the Roe vs. Wade Decision on Jan 22, 1973. The event was held by Project 33 (www.Project33.org) a Christian pro-life youth organization that seeks to stop the mass genocide that occurs in abortion clinics around the United States. High School Conservative Clubs of America (HSCCA) president and founder Tim Bueler and policy advisor Jonathan Krive spoke to the standing room only church.

“In today’s culture the respect for life is being undermined by groups like Planned Parenthood, who get to walk into our schools and advertise abortions. You must be the voice for the unborn, you must be the voice for all the babies that will be aborted in the future unless the youth of America decides that they want a better tomorrow, for their sons and their daughters. Were the culture of life defeats the culture of death.”
- Tim Bueler

“The only question that matters in the abortion debate is, what is the unborn? From both a biological and philosophical perspective, the unborn are no less human than you or I. And no objection to the pro-life position is justification for elective abortion, because abortion takes innocent human life.

"Every day, according to Planned Parenthood, approximately 3,700 unborn children lose their lives. Imagine the outrage we would feel if terrorists committed another September 11th type attack on America. Now imagine what we would feel if that type of attack happened every day.”
- Jonathan Krive

December 2, 2004
HSCCA President Honors Conservative Hero Phyllis Schlafly at Eagle Forum of Alabama Fundraiser

Along with special guests such as Alabama’s new Supreme Court Justices, Judge Mike Bolin, Judge Tom Parker, and Judge Patti Smith, High School Conservative Clubs of America (HSCCA) president and founder Tim Bueler traveled south for “An Evening with Phyllis Schlafly.” The salute to Schlafly and Eagle Forum of Alabama began with Congressmen Robert Aderholt and Spencer Bachus. Schlafly, as most informed Americans recognize, is the “founding mother” of Eagle Forum and is one of America’s most influential conservative activists.

Bueler thanked Phyllis for her support and dedication towards conservative activism saying, “The Eagle forum has played a crucial role in my life. Phyllis Schlafly has given America hope. She has provided a guiding path for the youth of America to succeed.

“When I decided to stand up to the liberal bias at my high school in California, along with 100 other like-minded conservative, Christian students, we faced opposition that we never expected to see from such a wonderfully tolerant, diverse group of liberals.

“In response to forming our conservative club, I have received death threats from students, harassment from my teachers, some of whom called me a Nazi and a racist for standing up for life, family, country, military and God.

“I thought we were all alone, just one odd club in one high school in one state; but I soon found out I was wrong: Eagle Forum was there to help us, during the good times, but mostly bad times, at my school. From all of the media attention we received, I’ve been contacted by students in other states asking what they can do to change their high schools.

“As a result we’ve established High School Conservative Clubs of America (HSCCA), an organization that seeks to start conservative clubs in high schools across the country.

“I believe that today, more then ever, we need to fight for our American way of life. I believe that Christians can no longer sit back while every institution that God has given us: family, church, and government, are all under constant attack. You may have read of the teacher in Cupertino, a town about 85 miles south of my town of Rohnert Park, who has been barred by his school principal from quoting the Declaration of Independence, because of its reference to our Creator. This sort of political correctness cannot be allowed to stand.

“We have a battle to fight, and the Eagle Forum is leading that battle. It has been a great source of comfort and strength for me to know that America is still in good hands, as long as pro-family organizations like the Eagle Forum exist; and great patriots like Phyllis Schlafly are leading that fight. I am forever indebted to the Eagle Forum and to its founding mother Phyllis Schlafly.”