We all know what happens to those who disagree with our "masters." Let's just hope that the next folks that do so, decide that it isn't the wisest idea to have a "discussion" with the paid servants of the "masters," but instead decide to talk things over with the "masters" themselves. Such discussions, if entered into persuasively enough by sufficient numbers of "servants," should serve to persuade the "masters" to significantly reduce the number of property seizures and other unconstitutional acts that the servants will have to endure in the future.
[Ancesthntr] Let's just hope that the next folks that do so, decide that it isn't the wisest idea to have a "discussion" with the paid servants of the "masters," but instead decide to talk things over with the "masters"
A Constitutional convention to originate amendments is exactly how you hold such a "discussion".
The Old Money, the real powers-that-be, people you've never heard of, will try to send their mouthpieces: brilliant, domineering attorneys, famous senators, eminent statesmen and "Wise Men" frauds, like the frauds that David Halberstam wrote about in The Best and the Brightest, who, when the chips were down and things got ugly during Tet in 1968, simply swallowed their advice and encouragement of six weeks earlier that they had given LBJ face-to-face to "stay the course," and instead advised the President to cut his losses and end the Vietnamese War on the best terms he could get. Johnson was stunned, and after the "Wise Men" (Averell Harriman, George Kennan, Robert Lovatt, and the rest of the roll call) had left the conference room, leaving LBJ and a few of his aides to confer, LBJ said nothing for a while, and then murmured, "Somebody poisoned the well."
Identifying and neutralizing the mouthpieces in convention will do one thing: it will finally strip the Old Money of control of the national agenda and return it to the People. The key is to ensure that all the convention delegates are local people, independent people without ties to regional banking or law firms that in turn have important business connections back East: that, after all, was how Theodore White, in his Making of the President series, explains that Old Money controlled the GOP in the 1940's and 1950's -- through the New York law firms and their regional "farmout" connections.
A convention, therefore, wouldn't be a walkover for Big Money and the Establishment, if the People control the selection of delegates -- and carefully exclude known "players" and mouthpieces of whatever local Regency has been arrogating the right to sit on the People's faces, like the Texas Big Rich who buy and sell governors and senators and walk around the floor of the Texas Legislature handing out envelopes with checks for $10,000 in them as "thank-you's" for passing helpful legislation, like Bo Pilgrim, the chicken magnate, once got caught doing by a TV camera in the gallery. (The state senators had to give the checks back, when the media showed up in their offices asking about them.)