Posted on 09/29/2015 3:28:39 AM PDT by Jacquerie
The Constitution was to be our republican house, our shelter from tyranny.
Its four load bearing walls were the three federal branches plus the state governments. This structure in turn was protected from the harsh elements of despotism by a roof composed of ten recognized, God-given and societal rights. Various interior design details in the form of enumerated powers and those prohibited to the states, made for prosperous living to a free people.
Since 1913 we have largely failed to maintain our home. What began as seemingly minor alterations to the structure, beginning with the 17th Amendment, rot was introduced that slowly weakened the entire framework.
In time, the roof to our republic also suffered from neglect. Entire sections were blown off as most of the Bill of Rights came to be ignored.
When the corrupted structure began to fail, an arsonist by the name of Barack Obama came along to hasten its destruction.
I don’t know if our home can be saved. What is certain is the late hour. There is little time, and this isn’t the time to delay. It isn’t time to measure for window treatments when one’s home is burning down, such as whether 26 or 30 legitimate applications have been submitted when we know that over 400 have.
It is foolish to diddle around with the unimportant when what is needed is a 911 call to the fire department to put out the blaze.
The mere act of convening constitutes putting out the fire, for it will serve notice to the Uniparty we will fight the arsonists and work to save our heavily damaged house.
Why should Congress be trusted to call the fire department when it has already ignored over 400 calls?
While we squabble over what constitutes legitimate state applications and the scope of standing convention committees, Obola is importing unknown millions of not just third-worlders, but islamic soldiers bent on our destruction.
The time has passed to conform to peacetime niceties. The muslim-in-chief and his Uniparty allies are waging war on the American People. Because we are in extremis, the states should not await a call to convention that will likely never arrive.
Just do it, convene while we still can.
Matthew 7:24-27
BTTT
The United States has surely done all it could to run God out of our house.
I’m not so sure most Americans have much concern for the constitution these days. Seems that everybody just wants a friendly dictator.
Yes, the government has done just that, and it has accelerated into a parallel war on Christianity itself.
I suppose 95% of Americans are unaware of Article V, and still believe elections can reverse our national course.
no dictators. Unless you're referring to 0bola's favorite snack.
Article I Section 10:
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
When do we call bringing 100,000 Syrian soldiers to the United States an invasion, and let the states Constitutionally mobilize?
-PJ
You want the electorate that voted for Obama twice to have a go at re-writing the Constitution?
It appears you have lost all faith in free government.
Agreed. The electoral pool is tainted by the dishonest and befouled by the ignorant.
I have little faith in having a Constitutional Convention with an uneducated populace. With voting and the normal machinations of government, their ability to do harm is at least somewhat mitigated.
Be careful what you wish for.
I recall Scotus recently determined the states had no control whatsoever over their borders with foreign nations.
Arizona was told that border matters were entirely in the hands of Obama.
This isn't republican government.
Ask a Trump supporter how Trump will get his grand plans through congress.
I've forgotten how many times Article V opponents have resorted to empty bumper-sticker rhetoric.
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” - Churchill
95 percent of Republicans don’t give a rip and that goes right down to the state and local levels, not just in Washington where we see the existence of a Uniparty.
The people will have to organize outside the political structures and keep the Uniparty politicians out.
I’m not against participating in elections but only to elect real conservatives in a primary or to vote for real conservatives in a general election and if that means third party or write-in so be it.
Meanwhile, we have to wait for leaders to emerge to lead things. We need sober and sane people, not racists, not crackpots or crazies-although opponents may end pinning those labels on them in the end.
A new third party that runs candidates in elections and runs conventions to amend the constitution might be the route to take.
Ding, ding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your comments are the starting point. The reason the lights have gone out in Georgia so to speak. The primary reason IMHO we are in the state we are in, where it appears our liberties are vanishing faster than we can react is because we have run God out of our house. We have said in essence we don’t need God.
Rather than focus on a fools errand with a COS we should be focusing on what got us to this point in time. Those humble pilgrims who came here with the purpose of worshiping God Almighty, and his precious Son, did so out of a desire for freedom and liberty to worship the one true God and his Son Jesus. We in this day are overcome by a Godless society bent on removing God, religion, and Good, from the public discourse.
We should be getting the feeling that God is not pleased with how things in this promised land are going, else we would be enjoying the fruits of the land far more than we are. Just maybe a revival of that early spirit that drove the first white people to this land will bring back the liberty we all seek.
Yep I have a running thread of Michigan legislative activities that no one seems to care about. Its attached to every Michigan ping and has only had a handful of comments in more than 2 years.
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