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To: Smokin' Joe
We have a perfectly good Constitution. Let's use it for a change.

What do you propose to ensure its implementation?

46 posted on 09/21/2014 5:35:09 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: Jacquerie
I'm not saying I have the answers, but there are things which won't work. For instance, what makes anyone think an administration accountable only to itself will heed any changes to a document it already ignores, even if the convention isn't hijacked and the Amendments are heeded.

What are you going to add to statements like "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated...", like "...shall not be infringed."

Aside from sprinkling it with a few expletives for emphasis, what are you going to do? (I am being facetious)

When the entire raison d'etre of the Government en masse has become that of subverting the constraining documents of Government and perverting the allocations of and restrictions on power, how do you make them pay attention to their duty?

Is there any peaceful way to do this within the system?

They ignored a million marchers from the TEA party, "non-event".

They laughed at those who questioned the credentials of the one in the White House.

They have used Federal Agencies and abused Federal Power to attack those who disagree with them.

They have, in violation of our laws, armed foreign insurgents who have for profit and in criminal enterprise turned those arms against our own people.

They have failed to secure our borders and the persons of our ambassadors overseas.

They have taken direct action to damage the morale and effectiveness of our fighting forces and given aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war.

What does it take to hold them to account?

The simpering mavens of Congress have also failed in their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution.

But do you seriously think any new Amendments to the Constitution are going to give them pause? ...That one more word will be the tipping point where they go, "Oh, I can only break 999 laws, 1000 would be too many?"

If the ballot box fails again, we're down to one box. If that's the case, may Almighty God help us.

56 posted on 09/21/2014 6:32:31 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Jacquerie

“What do you propose to ensure its implementation?”

Go read Amendment II.


76 posted on 09/21/2014 7:41:40 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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