Do you like talking about the truth? Someone once said the truth is a delight to the delightful and horrid to the horrible.
Here's a recent exchange on another site: someone posted a blog about being careful for what you wish for in regards to wishing for the Article V Convention.
Calling someone a traitor for simply speaking their opinion places you in the same camp as the Dictators that you wish to defeat.
Dictators are of the opinion that the rule of law does not apply to them. Everyone has an opinion, but not all opinions are valid. Speech advocating for the overthrow of our constitutional form of government crosses the line from mere opinion to criminal act. The requisite number of states have applied for a convention, the Constitution states Congress shall issue the call. That should be the end of the argument, that should be where you say something like, "I fear a convention based on information I’ve processed, but if the Constitution states it, it must be done...." What you’re failing to recognize is that this is not a subjective matter, this is not about opinion, but fact and the rule of law.
As I stated before, I am generally in favor of an Article V Convention....
You can’t be "generally in favor" of the Article V Convention--dictators are generally in favor of things, so long as everything goes just the way they want.
I am not willing to die to see it happen, which was the point of my commentary.
And which is in part why this great nation is set to be snuffed by multi-national corporate power--because Americans have been conditioned into cartoon caricatures of actual human beings. You do realize that everything you enjoy today is because many people years ago died for you; and now you, faced with all the facts of governance since 9/11 are somehow of the opinion you’re scot-free? No one has ever been willing to die without a reason.
So calling me an "Anti-Conventionist" is not entirely accurate.
Perhaps it isn't. When I began advocating for a convention some years ago, I erroneously thought anyone against it was an operative. Although there are many operatives out on the Internet, I’ve come to find out that’s entirely not true--some people are simply afraid of what they don’t understand. We can excuse a child of being afraid of the dark, but can we really excuse an adult of shying away from the light? Bill Walker, nor Gordie Hayduk, nor myself wrote the Constitution, and upon close examination, we’ve all found out the truth: the fear of a convention is not only irrational, but illogical.
I also believe that if the states manage to build enough momentum to actually form a Constitutional Convention, it is likely that Washington would view such a development as a threat to its existence and will likely seek every means within its power to supress it.
You bet your sweet bibby they fear it as a threat to their dictatorial existence, and upon close examination that’s been the name of their game for decades--let We the People talk about whatever symptoms--just never let them build steam for the founding principle of the Constitution--the people’s right to alter or abolish a long train of abuse--the Article V Convention.
Here’s the kicker: all reformations the world over, since history began, have always come down to one thing: a tipping point. Once a tipping point joins in a common cause, it’s over. And the reason the Powers That Be have never said outright--Take The Constitution And Shove It--is because they can’t--because it will break the gaze of corporate media. Instead, what they’re doing is attempting to slowly boil us, kill us with a thousand cuts, because it’s the only way they can hope to kill the American spirit.
Personally, I would prefer to see the state collapse under its own weight and then work to pick up the pieces and make it better once the dust clears.
By this comment I understand that you don’t understand what you’re talking about. Do you actually know what it would mean for the state to collapse? We’re talking tens of millions of innocent fathers and mothers (single or not), and their children scattered to the wind, and all the terror, mayhem, and misery that will result? And when we could keep them all safe and move forward into a better future on authority of the Constitution? I’m not going to address the rest of your comments because you haven’t read the two articles posted above. I hope you do as they lay out the political dynamic of a federal convention quite clearly. My hope is that you consider for a moment that you’re wrong, that you simply haven’t consider things as deeply as they can be considered. There is genius in changing one’s mind. I hope you change yours.
