The timing is interesting here, in that just after the 2014 mid-terms, I imagine that other states will start to join in, leading up to the 2016 presidential race. With a far more conservative Republican congress, and hopefully a Republican president, an Article V convention in 2017 would be far more likely.
Fair warning, security for such a convention will have to be ridiculously tight, because there will be a legion of lobbyists, terrorists, spies, scoundrels, billionaires, Wall Street speculators, insane people, you name it, trying to force their way in.
The delegates will almost have to be sequestered to protect them and their families. All communications to and from the convention will have to be air tight, possibly even carried by couriers, kept out of the view of all who would spy on it. It should be limited to messages to and from the state legislatures, which should be open to inspection after receipt.
The US military should only be used for the “outer ring” of security, with security personnel in the interior rings sworn to defend the *convention*.
Seriously, security for this is going to have to be intensely paranoid, as not just the future of the United States is at stake, but the future of the entire world.
If at all possible, an enabling law should be passed making interference with the convention in any way a major felony, and authorizing the use of deadly force in all sorts of circumstances. If there is a major assault, or detected espionage, the convention may need to sit as a jury, whose decisions cannot be excused, commuted or pardoned.
I think the primary resistance will be of the back door, out of sight variety sort of pressure on individual state legislators. The rats fear a state amendment convention, for it could be the real beginning of the end to their power.
There is no evil they will shrink from to derail return to a FreeRepublic.
The attacks will come when the numbers begin to add up.
They will first come from the media.
Every possible lie misrepresentation and misconception will be told as fact.
The low information voters will hang on every word.
Some of them are right here on Free Republic.
It will get ugly.