Posted on 02/21/2021 1:09:03 PM PST by RandFan
Mark Meckler, the new interim CEO of Parler, currently supports a Convention of States that could give George Soros and other interests the power to rewrite the Constitution. Meckler, who was appointed as interim CEO of Parler following the removal of founder John Matze, currently runs the Convention of States Project, a supposed “grassroots” organization pushing for a convention under Article V of the Constitution.
The project describes itself as a “national effort to call a convention under Article V of the United States Constitution, restricted to proposing amendments that will impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit its power and jurisdiction, and impose term limits on its officials and members of Congress,” which initially sounds appealing.
However, a report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities argued that such a restriction on an Article V convention would be impossible, with states unable to control what a convention could and could not discuss, and nobody else having clear constitutional control over the convention.
Former Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote in 1988 that “there is no way to effectively limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention. The Convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda. Congress might try to limit the Convention to one amendment or one issue, but there is no way to assure that the Convention would obey. After a Convention is convened, it will be too late to stop the Convention if we don’t like its agenda.”
Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia echoed this sentiment in 2014. “I certainly would not want a constitutional convention,” said Scalia. “Whoa! Who knows what would come out of it?”
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The trouble with most “Wealthy Conservatives” is that they are Not Conservatives.
They are the teats of the GOPe that have been suckled upon for cash, then the GOPE OWE them “favors.”
That is why the Voter owned Media Corporation.
Self Funding, and shareholder voting. One shareholder, One vote only.
Not if you got a million dollars you have a million votes.
That stops the dark money and the bribery, blackmail, and hidden agenda issues.
PDJT could have had 9 Billion dollars in funded account from donations, someone steered him back to a “Revenge Tour” with the GOP, to clean it up?
The GOPe are laughing all the way to their banks.
Blessings
There is, of course, the possibility that delegates may take the bit between their teeth and head off into political parts unknown - that is, after all, how we got the Constitution we have. George Mason didn't play along, but that didn't stop anything. Nevertheless, there is always that inconvenient process called ratification to guard against a radical putsch. Is it enough? I shall leave that for yet another passionate discussion.
I think we could do it, but we would have to keep control all the way, lest the Dunning-Krugerites of the Left use it to ruin the country even more.
A constitutional convention could turn into a nightmare. Just like the left has hijacked all institutions of the federal government, they would hijack the convention. On the other hand, fascists don’t need approval of the law to behave like fascists, but our current constitution at least gives us hope. That may be all we have left.
The first thing they would do is get rid of the 2nd Amendment.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Patriots are reminded that the product of a constitutional convention (con-con) is never a new amendment to the Constitution. The product of a con-con is only a proposed amendment to the Constitution which the states can choose not to ratify.
And if the states choose to not ratify a proposed amendment, then the con-con that produced the proposed amendment was arguably a waste of time.
So saying that a con-con will give Soros the power to rewrite the Constitution is seemingly intended to scare the states into not having a con-con imo.
And patriots really need to work with their state lawmakers to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments (17A). This is because the abuse of their 17A power by low-information citizens by electing crook senators has been instrumental in fostering the growth of the unconstitutionally big federal government that is oppressing patriots under its boots.
That’s why I don’t fear a Constitutional Convention or that somehow George Soros would be running it....he might be able to buy off a few states, but 38 would be tall order for anyone....
The point is that no one can control it. I would first want the current federal government dissolved and the states given the right to decide whether they want to join any newly formed government.
That way, the states can choose their own destiny.
Are you suggesting that somehow Levin is smarter than Scalia?
Okay, so Parler is no longer a somewhat conservative site.
I think many see a Constitutional Convention and a Convention of States as the same, they’re not.
Many won’t bother to research the differences, either.
https://conventionofstates.com/news/constitutional-convention-vs-a-convention-of-states
“An Article V Convention should only happen if Conservatives can control it.”
I’d feel a lot better if the nation’s voting system was fixed prior to any Convention of States. Otherwise the Democrats and pseudo conservatives who were fraudulently elected will be calling the shots.
Meatspace wrote: “An Article V Convention should only happen if Conservatives can control it.”
The chances that progressives would allow that are slim and none. (you know how that goes).
Conservatives would control an Article V Convention we good as they controlled the 2020 election.
I think a limited agenda, such as a Balanced Budget Amendment, would be ratifiable if enough State Legislatures are conservative enough. Not quite there today but it’s on the horizon.
I recall Mark Levin talking about this years ago.
Anything can happen.
The original Articles of Confederation required unanimous consent amnong the 13 states in order to be changed. The constitutional convention that wrote the current document arbitrarily decided that 3/4 would be sufficient.
Does anyone really think they can control the outcome of a convention?
You are correct about the privacy issue. Ron (CodeMonkey) of 8chan got into a huge fight with Bongino over Parler security. He had actually offered to help fix the issues he found and Bongino took offense and bashed him. It turned into a really embarrassing twitter fight.
People were being required to give a copy of their drivers license in order to DM. Nope! And when Parler got shut down all that data was breahced so as soon as I can get on I’m probably going to delete my account.
You name 37 states that would ratify a hard conservative constitution and then I might start believing this is anything more than fairy dust.
If those existed, there would never have been the steal.
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