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64,494 INDIANA STRONG!
Passed State #06
COS Indiana Vision: To build a strong, engaged army of self-governing activists.
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Things To Do | Visit Indiana | January 2022
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STATE NEWS
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IDEALS OF SELF–GOVERNANCE
WORDS OF WISDOM
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors,
and let every new year find you a better man." – Benjamin Franklin
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THE INDIANA GOAL: 80,000 SUPPORTERS
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NOVEMBER 2021 LEADERS
Congrats to Larry Hutson
and the Region #8 Team!
1. Region #8 – with 130 signatures!
2. Region #4 – with 100 signatures!
3. Region #3 – with 84 signatures!
DECEMBER 2021 LEADERS
Congrats to Thomas Shultz
and the Region #6 Team!
1. Region #6 – with 104 signatures!
2. Region #1 – with 92 signatures!
3. Region #3 – with 92 signatures!
ONE NATION UNDER GOD
Aspirational Goal: To bring a Political and Spiritual Awakening to America.
AS YOU PRAY ~ LISTEN
Holy Spirit Rain | Two hours of Relaxing Music, Rain Sounds and Stress Relief
Recorded and performed by Dan Musselman.
I pray this moment of piano worship brings some peace, hope and rest to your
day. May the Holy Spirit guide your thoughts, and may you experience a peace
that surpasses all understanding.
This music and video were inspired by Psalm 147:8,
"He covers the heavens with clouds, provides rain for the earth, and makes the grass
grow in mountain pastures."
May the love of God wash over you. May the love of God dwell within you. May
you share the love of God with those around you.
Join with our powerful Convention of States family in giving thanks, and
wishing a blessed new year of health, peace and joy for everyone. Please join us in
praying for those listed below who are in need of prayers, and for their families:

Mr. & Mrs. Larry Hutson – in need of comfort and healing (COVID-19).
Barb Bieberich – in need of comfort and healing (cancer diagnosis).
Jennifer Heidenreich – in need of comfort and healing (cancer treatment).
David Trombly – in need of comfort and healing (for cancer treatment).
Fred Tiedge – in need of comfort and healing (during memory care).
Please call or email Tim Heidenreich with your prayer requests at:
Tim's Phone: (317) 910-2992
Email Prayer Requests
OPINION / EDITORIALS
Opinions expressed in the following articles are solely the expressed views of the authors.
OUR NATIONAL SELF-TALK
Written by – An Ordinary Citizen
You know about negative self-talk, right? It’s that little inner critic that says you cannot
do something, that other people hate you, that you are a victim.
Well surprise! It’s not just your problem, it’s our problem. We Americans have a kind of
negative national self-talk. A constant pervasive gray cloud that tells us we’re doomed.
It’s anxiety producing, overwhelmingly toxic. And it’s tearing this country apart.
The good news is, it’s fixable.
To consider the fixing, let’s take a look at where we’ve been, where we are now, and --
most important -- what we can do about it.
Where Did We Start?
From its inception, this little upstart of a country had a can-do philosophy. We had no
choice. Because there was no other way to survive, we claimed a space, hung on, dug
in, busted our backs and our butts. Often 2 steps forward and one step back…but
always inching forward. With grit and vision the pioneers successfully established
themselves on this continent. They were successful because they believed they would
be.
That belief in ultimate success (often following multiple failures) became something of
a national persona. This belief was so ingrained that during World Wars I and II, we
told our allies “The Yanks are coming.” In essence, our troops were the cavalry, and we
were in it, to win it.
At that time, as a country we believed in ourselves, and in our ability to achieve
whatever we could conceive. It was widely held that hard work and persistence would
win the day, and quite often they did. Equality of outcome was never considered
because if all outcomes were equal then no one of us was unique and any success we
achieved would be very limited. Who wants to settle for that?
Where Are We Now?
Contrast the country we started out to be with what we see now. Though it had its
flaws and challenges, America in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries was a land of

flaws and challenges, America in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries was a land of
promise, of possibility. But in the mid-20th century, in the 1960s things began to
change. While the innovations of science, technology, medicine, and business kept on
coming, the message that America was a land of plenty somehow morphed in our
national discussion into America as a land of lack. The discontent and discord of the
60s made it easier for cultural Marxism to invade our educational institutions, sports,
and corporations.
Today, our culture is awash in information. The proliferation of words flowing from
cable news, independent journalists, internet channels, or newspapers is
overwhelming. There is definitely a bad news bias and we are in the midst of a
continually expanding mess.
The negative messages are hard to ignore. We are told that we are a racist society that
creates victims and losers, not winners. Our children are taught that there are
oppressors and victims. They are assigned to one group or the other by virtue of the
color of their skin. We are surrounded by crisis, with little hope of pulling ourselves out
without accepting the help of an overreaching government. Slowly our freedoms are
eroding away and, too exhausted by the barrage of negativity, we don’t even notice.
But worse, much worse, is that we internalize the words we hear. They become what
we tell ourselves about ourselves. And those negative “can’t-do” mental images burn
themselves into our national self-concept, to become our children’s legacy.
The Imperative of Turn-Around
Like the pioneers, we are at a point where we have no choice – fight to survive or watch
a dream die. And America is not just a dream for the people who live here…it’s a dream
around the world. America was not birthed by ethnicity, location, or ideology. America
was birthed from an idea. It’s an experiment, and if this experiment is going to
succeed, we must turn this ship around quickly.
The Question is, How?
Simply put, we must change the narrative. Reshape it until the words we hear in our
heads, the words we tell ourselves, support the vision of opportunity and personal
responsibility that the pioneers held and others died to protect. Recognize that the idea
of America is truly exceptional, a country controlled by its citizens rather than by an
aristocracy of political elites.
By the way, this does not mean we ignore problems, or stick blindly to one approach to
governance. But we will never solve any problems – as individuals or as a country –
until we begin to believe that the problems have solutions and that we are capable of
finding them.
Next, we must change the world that surrounds our children and creates their reality.
Their achievements should not be limited by the color of their skin, their religion,
where they live, or their economic level. They must have the chance to believe that they
can become whatever they are willing to conceive of and work toward. Here are a few
suggestions for ways to help make that happen:
Teach your children to value and be grateful for America. Do this intentionally.
Don’t just hope that they will pick up those values because they live with you. The
culture that surrounds them is too strong, too pervasive, and too seductive.
Know the history of our country and the Constitution. Discuss both with your
children. Read and discuss books of historical fiction as a family.
Discuss the value of giving to others. America is the most generous nation on the
planet. When there is a tragedy anywhere around the world, the first country on
the scene is usually the United States. (The Yanks still go where they perceive a
need.) We can be very proud of that.
Don’t ignore the problems that we face. Instead, talk with your children about
possible solutions. Get them thinking like problem solvers, not problem
wallowers.
Help them learn to think critically, particularly about anything they see on the
television, cable, internet, or social media.
Get involved in your children’s school and – if possible – in school board activities
as well.

as well.
Stress the fact that we are a nation of individuals, required by the value of our
citizenship to be responsible for our own lives and what we make of them.
Be realistic about life in countries that are ruled by dictators and Communistic
political regimes. Share that information with your children. It’s not pretty, but
they need to know what Marxism does to people who enter it, unaware.
School your children in the concept of positive self-talk. Teach them to frame
their inner messages about failure as just another (usually unavoidable) step on
the way to success.
Remember that each child is an individual. But individuals, when banded
together, have power.
Finally, recognize that if we had nothing else, we would all be incredibly blessed just by
being born in America. So practice living a life of gratitude. We owe it to those who
came before us, those who died for us, and those who will follow on.
THE UNGRACIOUS–
AND THEIR DEMONIZATION OF THE PAST
By Victor Davis Hanson | Published December 30, 2021
The past two years have seen an unprecedented escalation in a decades-long war on
the American past. But there are a lot of logical flaws in attacking prior generations in
U.S. history.
Critics assume that their own judgmental generation is morally superior to those of
the past. So they use their own standards to condemn the mute dead who supposedly
don’t measure up to them.
Yet 21st-century critics rarely acknowledge that their own present affluence and leisure
owe much to history’s prior generations whose toil helped to create their current
comfort. And what may future scolds say of the modern generation that saw more
than 60 million abortions since Roe v. Wade, even as fetal viability outside of the womb
continued to progress to ever earlier ages?

What will our grandchildren say of us who dumped more than $30 trillion in national
debt on them—much of it as borrowing for entitlements for ourselves?
What sort of society snoozes as record numbers of murders continue in 12 of its major
cities? What’s so civilized about defunding the police, endemic smash-and-grab thefts,
and car jackings?
Was our media more responsible, professional, and learned in 1965 or 2021? Did
Hollywood make more sophisticated and enjoyable films in 1954 or 2021? Was there less
or more sportsmanship among professional athletes in 1990 or 2021?
Was it actually moral to discard the “content of our character” and “equal opportunity”
principles of the prior civil rights movement of 60 years ago? Are their replacement
fixations on the “color of our skin” and “equality of result” superior?
Would the United States have won World War II with the current labor participation
rate of only six in 10 Americans working? Would our generation have brought all U.S.
troops home and quit World War I in fear of the deadly 1918 Spanish flu pandemic?
Are we proud that most standardized tests of student knowledge and achievement
continue to decline, despite record investments in education?
Do we ever pause to consider that we enjoy our modern standard of living and security
because we were once a meritocracy that quit judging our workforce by tribal affinities
and ancient prejudices?
Our generation talks of infrastructure nonstop. But when was the last time that it built
anything comparable to the Hoover Dam, the interstate highway system, or the
California Water Project—much less sent a man back to the moon or beyond?
If prior generations were so toxic, why do we continue to take the moral and material
world they bequeathed to us for granted, from the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to
our airports, freeways, and power plants? Did we ever defeat anything comparable to
the Axis powers or Soviet communism?
We know the symptoms of the current epidemic of hating the past.
One is Orwellian renaming and statue-toppling. Historical revision often responds to
puritanical mob frenzies rather than to democratic discussion and the votes of relevant
elected officials.
Where’s the pantheon of “woke” heroes who will replace the toppled or defaced Thomas
Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt?
Whose morality and achievement should instead be immortalized? Were the public
and private lives of Che Guevara, Angela Davis, Malcolm X, Margaret Sanger, and
Franklin D. Roosevelt without sin?
Racial fixations tend predictably in one direction. In good Confederate fashion, we
lump all individuals who look alike into inexact collectives of “white,” “black,” or
“brown”—often to stereotype the supposed evils of so-called white supremacy.
But if we go down that tribalist and simplistic road of caricatured oppressors and
oppressed, will future generations tally up each group’s merits and demerits, to
adjudicate the roles of millions of individuals in making the United States worse or
better? What standard would they use to judge our ignorant world of racial
stereotyping—proportional representation in Nobel Prizes, philanthropy, scientific
breakthroughs, or lasting art, music, and literature versus statistics on homicides,
assault, divorce, and illegitimacy?
Immigration—when legal, diverse, measured, and often meritocratic—has been the
great strength of the United States, as typified by industrious arrivals who chose to
abandon their own homeland to risk new lives in the United States.
But if the United States is so flawed and so irredeemable, why are nearly 2 million
foreigners now crashing its borders—illegally, en masse, and intent on reaching a
supposedly racist nation that’s purportedly inferior to those they’ve abandoned?

According to the ancient brutal bargain, assimilation and integration grant the
immigrant as much claim to America’s present and past as the native-born. But then
shouldn’t the antithesis also be true?
Shouldn’t immigrants at least respect those of the past who created the very country
they now so eagerly desire and died in awful places from Valley Forge to Bastogne to
preserve?
Never in history has such a mediocre, but self-important and ungracious generation
owed so much and yet expressed so little gratitude to its now dead forebears.
Victor Davis Hanson is a conservative commentator, classicist, and military historian. He
is a professor of classics emeritus at California State University, a senior fellow in classics
and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a
distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Hanson has written 16 books,
including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” and “The Case for
Trump.”
Joe Rogan Podcast Full Episode with Dr. Robert Malone
CLICK HERE for "the interview that broke the internet"
Dr. Robert Malone to Joe Rogan:
US in "Mass Formation Psychosis" Over COVID-19
by Jack Phillips | The Epoch Times | January 2, 2022
Key mRNA contributor Dr. Robert Malone, a prominent skeptic of mandatory COVID-19
vaccinations, suggested to popular podcaster Joe Rogan—days after Malone was
suspended from Twitter—during an interview that the United States is in the midst of
a “mass formation psychosis.”
“Our government is out of control on this,” Malone said about vaccine mandates in the
interview, which was released over the weekend. “And they are lawless. They
completely disregard bioethics. They completely disregard the federal common rule.
They have broken all the rules that I know of, that I’ve been trained [in] for years and
years and years.”
Malone, an expert in mRNA vaccine technologies who received training at the
University of California–Davis, UC–San Diego, and the Salk Institute, was banned by
Twitter last week. Malone told The Epoch Times last week that Twitter offered no
explanation for why his account, which had amassed 500,000 followers, was
suspended.

A spokesperson for Twitter told the left-wing Daily Dot outlet that Malone’s account
“was permanently suspended for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation
policy … per the strike system outlined here, we will permanently suspend accounts
for repeated violations of this policy.”
Twitter hasn’t responded to an Epoch Times’ request for comment on Malone’s
suspension.
“These mandates … are explicitly illegal” and “are explicitly inconsistent with the
Nuremberg Code,” Malone said during his interview with Rogan, referring to the set of
research ethics principles against human experimentation. “They are explicitly
inconsistent with the Belmont report,” he said, referring to the 1978 report published in
the Federal Register regarding ethical principles and guidelines for research involving
human subjects.
“They are flat-out illegal, and they don’t care.” Toward the end of his interview, Malone
suggested that people are in the midst of what he called “mass formation psychosis,”
drawing parallels to the mentality that developed among the German population in the
1920s and 1930s. In those years, Germans “had a highly intelligent, highly educated
population, and they went barking mad,” Malone said.
“When you have a society that has become decoupled from each other and has freefloating
anxiety in a sense that things don’t make sense, we can’t understand it. And
then their attention gets focused by a leader or series of events on one small point, just
like hypnosis. They literally become hypnotized and can be led anywhere.
“They will follow that person. It doesn’t matter if they lie to them or whatever.” Several
years ago, he said, people were “complaining the world doesn’t make sense” and that
we weren’t “connected socially anymore, except through social media.”
“Then this thing happened,” Malone said, referring to the COVID-19 pandemic. “That is
how mass formation psychosis happens and that is what has happened here.”
If you would like to pursue this subject further read the following article:
The Defenestration of Dr. Robert Malone by John Mac Ghlionn
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Susan Lyon – Editor COS Indiana Newsletter
Submit articles for review to the Editor at: susan.lyon@cosaction.com
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Ken Kashuba – COS Indiana Communications Director
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