Posted on 11/21/2014 4:03:18 PM PST by Jacquerie
If you're so deluded to think that we can long survive as a people while these demonic Democrats infest our land, then you need to ride your unicorn off into the happy post-Convention future where you can all play with Puff the Magic Dragon. You can change the name of your country to Honalee.
Will that work our for you, excrement?
You're a miserable coward, because like every faux Pubbie I've ever known you lack the balls to admit the harsh reality that we either secede from this gutter Union with the Rats or perish as self-respecting and free human beings.
It's over. Got it? No, apparently not.
Had you half a brain (which you obviously haven't) then last night's Imperial Decree should have disabused you of any notion of a Constitutional remedy when over half the population of the former United States voted for Zero twice in a row.
There's no way this is gonna end nice. The Constitution is a dead letter. We fight or we allow ourselves to be enslaved.
If you're not able to embrace reality, kindly go pi$$ up a rope and stay clear of real Americans.
This Navy vet was not descended from timid men.
Respectfully, what you're missing is that the Framers explicitly predicated the entire enterprise on the American people being a self-reliant and moral people.
Quite clearly, the entire political process is based on the mutual trust that arises from a people united by deeply-held common (Christian) values. But that's not the case now. The American people, over half of them, have been corrupted beyond recall. They voted for Obama twice. The basic trust that we had for each other that sustained us since the Revolution is gone. Our hearts are no longer united. A Democrat is far more foreign to me than, say, a devout Brazilian Catholic. I have nothing in common with sodomy triumphant. Neither did the Framers.
So, the Constitution is a dead letter because the assumption underpinning it - namely, that a large majority of the citizens participating in the political process are basically decent and honorable - no longer holds. This is clear.
Therefore, an Article V Convention would only be rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. This American Ship of State slammed into an iceberg in the '60s. Despite the heroic efforts by many good people since then, it's time to admit that it's going down to the bottom and we need to man the lifeboats and save what we can.
We must secede from the union. All of our efforts must be aimed at that.
Secession now.
Quite an insane rant.
I agree with this: “We fight or we allow ourselves to be enslaved.”
Repealing the 17th? Absolutely! In a heartbeat, I support that.
The new American republics relied on a virtuous citizenry. While they were not quite constituted on the ancient city-state model, they were close.
Each new republic was dominated by the legislature. Most were bicameral, but PA and GA were single house. The governors and judiciary were kept week and totally dependent on the legislatures.
These new democratic republics were very close to democracies, i.e. annual elections, majority rule without protections for the property of the minority. During the war, it gave rise to paper money, legislative override of judicial decisions, screwing of creditors, and general mutability of the law. It was thought that state governments would improve after the war, but they didn't.
By 1787 it was clear the thirteen experiments in republicanism were failing, that it was chimera to rely on the good nature of a moral and virtuous people. What passed for government under the Articles of Confederation was dissolving. European monarchs watched the US and were certain they could pick us apart as we flailed about.
The purpose of government, as stated in our Declaration, to secure our unalienable rights, wasn't happening. It was time to frame a government that did.
Reliance on decent and moral people is not the underpinning of our constitution. The constitution's underpinning was separation of power, and the first and most important separation was between the new government and the states that created it. A senate of the states made the government federal, and divided the all important legislative power between the people and the states.
The 17th made rendered our government democratic, just like the first new American republics of 1776. We are headed for the same result.
In addition to Wood, Federalist #1 presents the problems that the constitution was designed to solve.
The states are starting to stand up, but if my assemblyman is any indication, most don't know of the power they have to restore republican freedom. Mark Levin will speak at the American Legislative Exchange Council on December 4th. I'm certain he is going to read them the riot act for not doing their duty and call for an Article V state amendment convention. The GOP dominates 66 of 99 state houses.
ARTICLE V NOW!
The only choice we have, therefore, is outside a Constitutional framework. We must rid ourselves of the Democrats physically. They must be removed from the areas left to our control, the so-called Red counties. We must be prepared to abandon the Blue areas. Once we have removed them from our presence we can talk about new Constitutional provisions that will prevent the formation of another parasitic Liberal majority that will attempt to enslave us. As people who respect the law, we will abide by it. But until we're physically free of the Democrats and have a territory of our own it makes no sense at all, since we'd only be passing more basic law that the lawless, parasitic 51% will ignore at will.
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