Petition to End the Exception Clause in the 13th Amendment
Petition to End the Exception Clause in the 13th Amendment
Dwayne Baskerville, G.S. Go Get My Kids
Update 6/6/23:
The link to Dwayne’s petition began to be disseminated through the nextyorktimes Twitter account on 5/29/23:
https://twitter.com/nextyorktimes/status/1663220091301904384?s=61
Petition Google Docs Direct Link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf8IKWVpfAdAPoGWJrpsARrujqj0XiYfg8R_MmsTAsGONssig/viewform
Petition to Congress
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
To Congress, We the People of the United States of America are humbly requesting that you remove the Exception Clause from the 13th Amendment; we find it to be the foundation and legal loophole of slavery inside and outside of the prison system. As long as slavery is on the books of the United States of America there will be slavery inside and outside of the prison system in the United States of America.
We the undersigned know and agree that this petition will not cause Congress to remove the Exception Clause from Amendment 13. By faith we believe that only God can deliver us from slavery, & by faith we shall stay home in a peaceful “Peace Be Still” protest the day that this petition is presented to Congress and every day there after until God delivers us from slavery. Amen!
Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Dwayne Baskerville, I am a Pastor, a community activist, and a community mentor. The purposes of this online/grassroots petition are as follows:
Number one, as long as slavery is on the books of our constitution there will be slavery inside and outside of the prison system, therefore the Exception Clause in the 13th amendment, should be removed from our constitution because it is the legal loophole by which some American citizens are enslaved by other American citizens.
Number two, no man has ever delivered us from slavery without God, therefore this is the time for all the people who feel that they are being treated as slaves in one form or another to stand together in a peaceful protest and stay home in protest while this petition is being presented to Congress, and allow God to deliver us from slavery while we praise and worship him on those days.
And number three, I am after the heart of God, I have lost all of my arguments with God, and at the end of the day somebody’s got to do it. I have listed some of the reasons that I believe God!
In addition to my testimony, I have:
been evicted,
homes foreclosed left with nothing,
I filed bankruptcy,
I was engaged,
married,
divorced,
and kicked to the curb.
I have been homicidal,
suicidal,
I’ve told some lies and been lied to,
lied on and sold out.
I am a felon,
ex-military police,
an ex-drug addict an ex-husband,
an ex- fiancée,
ex-business owner,
ex-Realtor,
ex-property manager,
ex-property owner and operator.
Since 2004 I reluctantly ran for Mayor four different times, I have become an Advocator for our at-risk youths before God, their parents, the schools and the justice system. We have collaborated with the County, the City, the Department of Corrections, the Housing Authority, the Board of Education the four Public Schools, one Middle School, various social service agencies, churches and various Community Organizations.
We have taken some of our kids to Dorney Park, Great Adventure, skating, bowling, the Poconos, paintball and various movies. I have become the Assistant Pastor at my church and people call me a Community Activist, we started a mentorship program. We have had hundreds of basketball games, eleven talent and fashion shows.
One summer day my brothers and I sat around with my mother laughing and having fun. Suddenly out of nowhere and for the first time my mother had a seizure and fell out on the floor. As I held her and watched her struggle for air, we realized that there was nothing we could do to help her. Suddenly she died in my arms and I could feel her spirit leave her body going upward.
We freaked out, I ran and got some water and threw it in her face and I watched her come back to life. She said, “when she crossed over, she could see and hear everything and everyone in the room.” She then said, “On my way up my grandmother stopped me and told me to go back because they were not ready for her to leave us.” Then boom she was right back in her body.
That’s when I knew there was a Heaven.
I heard myself praying to God I am that I am!! For fifteen minutes and He healed my paralyzed left arm after three months after being totally paralyzed for ten days, after being in a traffic accident (Jeep) that flipped over two times on the Turnpike. That's when I knew there was a God!!
I heard the Doctor say, I should have died three days before I got to the hospital after I ran around with a blow appendix for three days with a 107-degree fever. That’s when I know that Jesus Christ was Lord!!
I heard Creflo Dollar, (television Pastor), preaching on “I Am That I Am” after waking up at 6:00 am after passing out from smoking 25, $10 dollar bottles of crack. That's when I knew my addiction was over, over time no detox, no rehab Just Jesus!!
I heard in my Spirit, as I watched Prophetess/Pastor Juanita Bynum and over 100,000 Wailing Women crying out to God, out of the heart of God in my heart has a child sitting on God's lap in Heaven. So, I Have Come to Stand in The Gap for The Widows and Orphans Before God, Ezekiel 22:30:
I heard God say who is going to pray for them now? As our beloved Mayor and version of Moses, Mayor Glenn Cunningham of Jersey City had passed away in 2004. As his horse and buggy passed me, who is going to pray for them now. I said I know you are not talking to me and walked away. I was reminded of the 50 times I should have died and I stopped and asked God who did he want me to pray for? He said everyone I wanted to kill during my divorce then I said Lord I wanted to blow up the world, no response, so I have come to pray for everyone.
I heard God say “Go Get My Kids,” after 105 days of no shots fired in Jersey City, after a misunderstanding with the fellas and they put a hit out on me, after I was indicted for fraud and plead guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud, I said but Lord the kids are trying to kill me and the adults are trying to lock me up. No Response
And so, I have come to Free God’s children from slavery inside and outside of the prison system. And to let them know that our father said to Come Home. ❤️🔥
