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Posted on 08/15/2009 10:30:59 AM PDT by dvan
BARACK OBAMA AND HIS ALLIES ARE TRYING TO CHANGE THE U.S. CONSTITUTION: HELP US STOP A NEW CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION!
Dear Friend,
BARACK OBAMA AND HIS ALLIES ARE TRYING TO CHANGE THE U.S. CONSTITUTION WITHOUT FOLLOWING THE AMENDMENT PROCESS -- IN FACT, THEY'RE TRYING TO REWRITE THE ENTIRE CONSTITUTION -- AND THEY'RE CLOSE TO SUCCEEDING!
What would you think if an amendment to the U.S. Constitution was introduced by liberal Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, which repealed the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights -- taking away our right to Free Speech?
What would you think if an amendment to the U.S. Constitution was introduced by liberal Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, which repealed the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights -- taking away our right to Keep and Bear Arms? (A right that the U.S. Supreme Court recently upheld!)
"That could never happen," you say. "No one would allow it!" Right? Well...
Did you know that there are TWO ways that our Constitution can be changed? And did you know that Pelosi, Reid and Barack Obama are using the less well-known way, without having to actually introduce amendments?
IT'S TRUE -- and WE have to stop it NOW!
One way to change the Constitution is to go through the amendment process -- a long and tedious process requiring two-thirds of both houses of Congress to pass an amendment, and then three-fourths of the states to ratify it.
That means a "super-majority" of our representatives at the National and State levels would have to be in favor of the amendment -- which safeguards us from the possibility of really "bad" amendments.
BUT... there is one other way that our Constitution can be changed... and it DOES NOT require all of those elected representatives to be in favor of it. It's called a Constitutional Convention, and all that it requires is 34 states to ask Congress to call one.
In fact, right now, all that is needed is for two more states to ask for a Constitutional Convention... and the basic law of the land could be changed forever by Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid! WE NEED YOUR HELP, RIGHT NOW, TO STOP BARACK OBAMA AND HIS ALLIES FROM CHANGING THE U.S. CONSTITUTION: CLICK HERE NOW!
Most people don't realize that Article V of the Constitution requires Congress to call a new Constitutional Convention (a "Con Con") if two-thirds (or 34) of the states request it. We've only had one other "Con Con" in our history: the one where the original Constitution was written in 1787!
The language of Article V is mandatory: it says that Congress "shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments" whenever requests are received from two-thirds of the states. Note that the word "amendments" is used in the plural. These are the only instructions we have about a Constitutional Convention. There are no other rules or guidelines.
We don't know how a Constitutional Convention would be apportioned, or how the delegates would be elected. We don't know what rules the Convention would operate under. We don't know whether changes to the Constitution could be proposed by a simple majority, or would require a super majority, of those attending. We don't know if the agenda could be limited or would be wide open to any proposal.
We don't know ANYTHING about how a Con Con would work -- which means that it will come down to Congress setting the rules!
And Congress is controlled by the most radically liberal Democrats in American history! Is that who we want to be in charge of a new Constitutional Convention?
Do we want BARACK OBAMA, NANCY PELOSI, and HARRY REID to completely rewrite our most basic document of law? WE NEED YOUR HELP, RIGHT NOW, TO STOP BARACK OBAMA AND HIS ALLIES FROM CHANGING THE U.S. CONSTITUTION: CLICK HERE NOW!
The fact is, under the vague language of Article V, a Constitutional Convention cannot be limited. It would be wide open, and able to consider ANY change in the Constitution that was proposed!
Former U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger once said, "There is no effective way to limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention. The convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda."
The Stanford Law School Professor whose case-book is used in the majority of U.S. law schools, Gerald Gunther, said that, even if Congress tried to limit the Convention to one subject, the delegates could decide for themselves that the Convention "is entitled to set its own agenda."
This means that, even if supporters of a "Con Con" claim that the convention would only cover one issue -- whether it's a balanced budget amendment or removing the requirement that to be eligible to serve as President, one must be a "natural born citizen," or anything else -- there is NO WAY to stop the Convention from changing EVERYTHING that we hold dear in America!
Barack Obama and his far-left supporters would be able to get THEIR people appointed as delegates to the Convention, so that THEIR agendas would be the Convention's agenda, and THEIR plans for socialism in America would come to pass.
Say BYE-BYE to the First Amendment's freedom of speech -- Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity could be taken off the air.
Say BYE-BYE to the Second Amendment's right to bear arms -- a total gun ban could be the law of the land!
Say BYE-BYE to the Constitution's requirement that to serve as President a man or a woman must be a "natural born citizen"!
You KNOW that's what they'll do if given the chance -- and we're only TWO STATES AWAY from seeing a Constitutional Convention convened!
You see, Article V says that it takes a request from two-thirds of the states to force a "Con Con" -- but it doesn't say there's any time limit on getting to that total!
Thirty-two states have already issued a call for a "Con Con" over the last few decades, including Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming.
It only takes 34 states to REQUIRE a Constitutional Convention be convened!
Some states, like Georgia, Virginia, and others, have since voted to "rescind" their call for a "Con Con" -- BUT no one is sure whether those "rescission" votes are actually Constitutional...so the danger is REAL! WE NEED YOUR HELP, RIGHT NOW, TO STOP BARACK OBAMA AND HIS ALLIES FROM CHANGING THE U.S. CONSTITUTION: CLICK HERE NOW!
The United States Justice Foundation is launching a major campaign to STOP a "Con Con" from taking place -- WE MUST CREATE a tremendous outpouring of publicity and public scrutiny to be given to this danger, so that Barack Obama and his radical liberal allies can't "sneak this past us" without anyone noticing, until it's too late. Right now, our staff is conducting legal and historical research, and preparing legal opinions, to submit to every state legislature, if necessary, and we'll be offering to represent any state, or state legislator, in fighting the Con-Con based on those documents.
We're also going to be leading a grassroots effort to attack this issue at both the state and federal levels: At the state level, leading the charge in every state to either NOT VOTE for a "Con Con" (if they haven't voted yet) or to RESCIND their past vote in favor (if they have). And, at the federal level, we'll be mobilizing citizens across the country to contact their Representatives and Senators to DEMAND that they come out, NOW, and announce their support for a state's right to rescind, and that they won't support a call for a "Con-Con." In addition, we'll be calling on the Attorney General of the United States, and the Attorney General of each and every State that has passed a "Con-Con" resolution, to issue an official Opinion on the legality of rescission.
THIS DANGER IS REAL. The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was called for the exclusive purpose of amending the Articles of Confederation. Once the Founding Fathers assembled in Philadelphia, however, they threw out the Articles of Confederation and wrote an entirely new Constitution, and even changed the ratification procedure so they could get it adopted more easily. The 1787 Convention is the only precedent we have for a national Constitutional Convention.
There's no guarantee that all of the changes to our Constitution passed at a Constitutional Convention would need to be ratified by 34 states this time -- if a "Con Con" can change our structure of government as defined in Articles I, II, and III, of the Constitution, then it can also change the Article V requirement that three-fourths of the states are needed to ratify any changes. The Convention of 1787 reduced the number of states required to ratify a change from 100% of the states to 75%, and a Convention today could "follow their example" and reduce it further, to 66%, or 60%, or even 51%!
WE MUST NOT LET THIS HAPPEN!
There's very little time to ramp this project up to FULL SPEED -- we need to raise at least $100,000 to prepare and distribute legal opinions, lobby state legislators and begin our grassroots activism campaign this coming month. Please, CLICK HERE NOW to make your best possible donation, and let's STOP Obama, Pelosi and Reid from ripping our Constitution to shreds, and re-writing it to their own socialist goals!
Sincerely,
Gary Kreep, Executive Director United States Justice Foundation
P.S. President Barack Obama has already expressed his belief that the U.S. Constitution needs to be interpreted in the context of current affairs and events. Can you imagine what he and his supporters would DO to that document if given the chance to re-write it completely? Our Bill of Rights could disappear overnight!
Red flag alert.
Eagles up.
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Call your Senator and Representative and ask him which of the czars is replacing him/her and could he/her please give you the address and phone number of that czar.
“Say BYE-BYE to the First Amendment’s freedom of speech — Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity could be taken off the air. “
The Union is like a marriage, with the Constitution being the wedding vows. If the man comes home and says he is going to change the marriage by sleeping with other women, the wife has every right in the world to walk out on him. If Obama & Co. manage to tear up the Constitution, every State that does not agree with the new arrangement has the right to walk away as well, i.e. secede.
I doubt, however, that it will come to this because most of the country has better sense than to allow it. Even the Left won’t put up with abolition of the First Amendment.
Wanna know who's ultimately responsible? Look in the mirror.
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; if it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it." -- Judge Learned Hand, 1944
THIS is what most of these clowns in Washington think of the Constitution.
I doubt, however, that it will come to this because most of the country has better sense than to allow it. Even the Left won’t put up with abolition of the First Amendment.
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Remember. We’re talking about the LEFT, here. As long as ‘their people’ are in charge.....they’ll make a deal with Satan, himself.
Definitely something to keep an eye on.
I scanned the article and don’t find anything to document the plans are already underway by the administration.
At any rate- to actually get a constitutional convention in session is no small feat- and given the loss of trust and respect Obama is undergoing I’m not going to put this topic at the top of my worry list.
First things first- health care and cap n trade must be soundly defeated.
A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION would work BOTH WAYS. We could END the Democrats/Liberals. We could OUTLAW welfare and MANDATE that ALL VOTING require picture IDs with biometric information. We could MANDATE that every adult be trained in and carry firearms. We could PROHIBIT a national debt and PROHIBIT any new taxes to pay for new programs. It would be WONDERFUL!
I think Im going to defect if Obama and Pelosi get their way.
DO NOT SEND DONATIONS! WASTE OF MONEY!
It is obvious that whoever wants the money does not want you to know how hard it is to pass a Constitutional Amendment. Pelosi can introduce it all she wants but can she get 2/3s of the House, and 2/3s of the Senate, and 3/4s of the States to ratify? NO WAY! All you need is a little search to realize this will NEVER pass:
How is the Constitution amended?
Article V of the Constitution prescribes how an amendment can become a part of the Constitution. While there are two ways, only one has ever been used. All 27 Amendments have been ratified after two-thirds of the House and Senate approve of the proposal and send it to the states for a vote. Then, three-fourths of the states must affirm the proposed Amendment.
The other method of passing an amendment requires a Constitutional Convention to be called by two-thirds of the legislatures of the States. That Convention can propose as many amendments as it deems necessary. Those amendments must be approved by three-fourths of the states.
The actual wording of Article V is: “The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.”
http://www.lexisnexis.com/constitution/amendments_howitsdone.asp
I just did a post in #13 what it takes to get a Constitutional amendment through and this will never pass. Whoever is dumb enough to send this group money will probably believe the Nigerian scam as well. :)
A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION ****** the natives are restless and seems I read somewhere on some site or another someone mentionion Revolution or something to that effect. All I can say is there seems to be a big storm coming and the dark clouds are getting thicker.
The sing-songing list of what-if’s is a parade of red-flags!
What if aliens invade your kitchen and steal your Cheerios... Go away!
Remember friend- Psalm 23
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD
The Lord is my shepherd,
I shall not want;
He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters;
He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness
for His name’s sake.
Even though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil;
for You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life;
and I shall dwell in the house of the
Lord forever.
Bring the Dark clouds. The folks perpetrating evil on this country and world have been operating from the shadows for too long.Its nice to see them getting dragged into the light- They hate it and will squirm and attack when they are frightened.
Let them do their worst.
We know who wins in the end.
Courage and stout hearts are all that is needed.
That’s why it’s so important that this guy is removed from office. He is not interested in the presidency, his intent is to CHANGE the Constitution in the HOPE to make the US a socialist nation.
These enemies of America need changed....from living to ****
>>Whoever is dumb enough to send this group money will probably believe the Nigerian scam as well.<<
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You’d be surprised of the many suckers in this country that are easily scammed.
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You’re right. We have only to look in the mirrow to see who’s responsible for the atrocious mess our country is in today.
We elected a racist, America hating/white hating Marxist/Muslim despite the fact that he told us exactly what he was in his books:
From Dreams From My Father, “ I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER’S RACE”. Barack Hussein Obama
From ‘Dreams From my Father’, “The emotion between the races could never be pure, even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race (WHITE) would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.” Barack Hussein Obama
From Dreams From My Father: “That hate hadn’t gone away,” he wrote, BLAMING “WHITE PEOPLE — some CRUEL, some IGNORANT, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.” Barack Hussein Obama
He added: “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”
“There was something about him that made me wary,” Obama wrote. “A little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.” ‘The Audacity of Hope’, Barack Hussein Obama
“that ghostly figure that haunted black dreams.”- Barack Hussein Obama, ‘ Audacity of Hope’
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From ‘Dreams From My Father’, “There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,” he wrote. “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on,to show your LOYALTY TO THE BLACK MASSES, TO STRIKE OUT and name names” Barack Hussein Obama
Quote from Barack Obama’s book, DreamsFrom My Father:
“THE PERSON WHO MADE ME PROUDEST OF ALL, THOUGH, WAS MY [half brother], ROY..HE CONVERTED TO ISLAM”.
From ‘Dreams From my Father’, “IN INDONESIA, I SPEND TWO YEARS AT A MUSLIM SCHOOL” “..I STUDIED THE KORAN..”
From ‘Audacity of Hope: “LOLO (Obama’s step father) FOLLOWED ISLAM....”I LOOKED TO LOLO FOR GUIDANCE”.
From ‘The Audacity Of Hope, “I WILL STAND WITH THEM (MUSLIMS) SHOULD THE POLITICAL WINDS OF WAR SHIFT IN AN UGLY DIRECTION..”
From The Audacity Of Hope, “WE ARE NO LONGER JUST A CHRISTIAN NATION, we are also a Jewish nation, a MUSLIM NATION, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”
http://www.examiner.com/a-536474~_Trapped_between_two_worlds_.html
http://www.examiner.com/a-534540~Can_a_past_of_Islam_change_the_path_to_president_for_Obama_.html?cid=dc-article-obama
And we continue to sit around, bloviate and whine and preach to the choir- and worse yet, dinegrate and fail
to support those few patiots brave enough to get out there and work 24/7 to bring the usuper down!!
A case in point- Dr. Orly Taitz:
Dr. Orly storms Israel and effectively spreads the word:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132880
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Canada Free Press
JB Williams
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12999
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Every member of the Supreme Court, every member of congress, every member of the Joint Chiefs, most members of the DOD, CIA, FBI, Secret Service and state run media, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS, NPR, MSNBC, Fox and print news, knows that Barack Hussein Obama does NOT meet Article II – Section I constitutional requirements for the office he holds. By his own biography, there is NO way he can pass the test. The hard evidence is so far beyond overwhelming, it is ridiculous.
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But not ONE member of America’s most powerful people will dare confront Obama and his anti-American cabal on the subject. The Constitution does NOT stand.
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Half of the people you expect to stop this insanity are quiet co-conspirators in the silent coup. The other half is paralyzed by fear, motivated only by political self-preservation.
(Snip)
Americans keep asking what they can do because they see that none of their leaders are doing anything to stop the demise of their beloved country. It’s the right question, because those leaders are NOT going to stop this thing.
(Snip)
WHO WILL SAVE FREEDOM?
A brave few… This is how it was in the beginning, how it has always been and how it will be.
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DR. ORLY TAITZ, Phil Berg and Gary Kreep, ALL OF WHOM HAVE MADE DEFENDING THE CONSTITUTION AND THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE A PERSONAL AMBITION, IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY CONSTITUTION LEADERSHIP.
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A PRECIOUS FEW, BUT THEY EXIST… and the walls are indeed closing in on Obama and his evil cabal. IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FAIL TO GET BEHIND THESE BRAVE FEW WHO ARE SEEKING PEACEFUL REDRESS, ALL THE PEACEFUL OPTIONS WILL EVAPORATE AS IF THEY NEVER EXISTED. WE WILL RETURN TO A PRE-1776 AMERICA OVERNIGHT..
Do YOU fear Obama?
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12999
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A precious few, indeed. Lets get behind those few brave patriots who are out there in the trenches every day working to prove Obama’s inelgibility:
Dr. Orly is the ONLY one out there in the trenches EVERY day hitting Obama on multiple fronts and trying to bring him down. It is reported that she is more than $8,000 in debt from using her own funds for expenses in her flights across the U.S for interviews, speeches, serving papers and meeting with officials!
Dr. Orly’s official website:
http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/
Or Dr. Orly’s blog:
http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/blog1/
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Another case in point:
Beckwith
We have used ‘The Obama File’ and neglected its author, Beckwith.
He spent over 2 1/2 years compiling the excellent ‘The Obama File’, devoting 60- 70 hours per week of his time to do research and keep it updated.
He is a 70 year old retired gentleman who is living on Social Security. He put up a PayPal which collected under $250.00 in the over 2 1/2 years that he struggled to maintain it. This is disgraceful.
Let’s show our appreciation for this great American patriot by sending a generous donation to his PayPal!
I’m ashamed that we dinegate and neglect these two brave patriots who have done so much to try save our country.
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Maybe if we’re this hateful and stupid
we deserve what we’ll get.
Obama will simply declare marshall law, disband the constitution, and declare himself leader for life.
This is obviously and State's Rights issue and I am surprised that the writer of the article is opposed to State's Rights in our Constitution.
So therefore, we should not impede the individual state's ability to call for a Constitutional Convention.
LOL! I see it on TV — ever so often someone will fall for the Nigerian scam or some other scam and report it to the TV and they cover it — keep thinking how can they be that stupid.
I had never been on Mr. Beckwith’s site, but I understand that he abruptly closed it down because of the lack of donations. I understand that he said he would not accept donations through PayPal when he decided to close down his site.
It’s one thing to maintain a website and do the research, but an entirely different set of skills are required for fundraising. He put up a donation button on his site but apparently did not do any sort of fundraising campaign. I am very sorry that so few people donated, but I think that he would have had a better outcome if he had asked somebody with skills in fundraising how to go about getting more donations.
See:
The US Constitutional Convention of 2009
http://thepoliticallyincorrectfish.com/pif2/?p=1533
They are doing a good enough job of destroying it without changing it.
It would be wise to stay away from Constitutional Conventions.
Since the Czars are not authorized by the Constitution nor subject to Senate confirmation, what authority do they have? If a State, business or individual refused to abide by rules and regulations handed down by one of the Czars, what mechanism would they use to enforce their edicts?
Actually there is still is one more limitation. Any amendments, whether written by Congress or a Constitutional Convention, must still be ratified by 3/4 of the states. This can be by the legislatures thereof, or by conventions in each state, as Congress indicates when they propose the amendment or call the Convention. The "state convention route" could be used even if Congress proposed the amendment(s), but it too has never been used.
Lots of danger there, but at least the ratifying conventions must be *in* the states, not composed of delegates *from* the states.
...Amendments, which in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress.
Oh they won't abolish it. They'll just put in exceptions for "Hate Speech", "spreading vicious rumors and lies about the Dear Leader" and so forth.
They've already banned some of the very type of speech the first amendment was supposed to protect, that is political speech. They didn't even bother with an amendment, the bill was called "McCain-Fiengold" and the Supreme Court upheld most of it.
Then of course there is Article II, Section 1, clause 5.
They act in the Name of the (alleged" President of the United States. Legally they are but personal staff/advisers to the President, but who in the bureaucracy would dare cross them? Maybe a few civil servants near retirement age, or a few high ranking officers also near retirement age. Their successors will not oppose them.
Say BYE-BYE to the Constitution’s requirement that to serve as President a man or a woman must be a “natural born citizen”!
***That seems to be already taking place even without a constitutional convention.
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