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Term Limits...

Answer, “We have elections every two years to change things...If you do not show up to exercise that right, do not come crying to me...”

Limiting Federal power to take private property...

Answer, “Repeal Executive Order 13603 for starters...”

Limiting Taxation...

Answer, “Repeal the Affordable Healthcare Act, for starters...”

Yes, there is a lot of work that needs to be done, there are a LOT of elected officials from D.C. to our local State houses that need to be flushed...

It is work that will take longer than we have left on this earth, and until we have a legacy of activism and educate our future, ou job keeps getting harder and harder the more we fiddle fart around with such mechanisms as this project so far eludes to...

Don’t get me wrong, it is a proper mechanism and something we may very well have to do and support, but we already have the tools at hand to restore the basic, fundamental constraints on our Federal Government at this time, and the more we side-track ourselves into these “other” things, the more we lose the things we already have at our disposal...

If we put the right pressure (positive or negative) on the right people that we send to represent us, it will eventually garner results...

It may not be a splashy as a Constitutional Convention, but if that trigger is pulled, how can we be 100% sure that effort will get the results originalists, like us, desire???

I do not have a high degree of confidence, as yet, in this projects ideals...

In the end, you are still going to have to deal with the people up in those houses of government, that might not be very amiable to the cause and they might very well be on your side, in most if not all cases and issues...

Kinda like cutting your nose off, dispite your face...Or shooting yerself in the foot...

Even thought you might live through that kind of trauma, its still going to hurt like hell...And some people might not be ready to deal with that kind of pain, regardless if you have the numbers you are talking about that these COS folks say they intend to put on the field of battle...

The pride of the folks that we will be opposing will be tremendous, and that, in some cases can be used against them very effectively...But the opposition will have many more people lined up against us in this process, and spies and saboteurs will be infiltrated within our ranks as well, doing what they can to torpedo every single effort, however big or small it is...

I’m just putting my thoughts into premonitions, and caution anyone that believes this is a simple thing to organize and implement...I am not saying it is unachievable, it is just something that I feel is the wrong effort, at the wrong time in our countries history, when we still have these other mechanisms to actually do what needs to be done...

What else would I like to see???

I would like to see a huge turnout to replace and primary out those representatives fromthe Federal down to the local level those people not doing everything they can and then some to restore the originalist constraints placed upon them as government officials within our Federal and State Constitutions...

The definitions and constraints are already there...You just have to ensure that those people are in place to do what needs to be done, however painful that is to get us back on the correct path...

There will be tens of millions of people, fellow citizens, that will resist, and they will be put into a froth by the media and the politicl apparatus of opposition to these efforts...

A lot more than we can put on the battlefield...

Sorry for the long rant, but I am tempered in my passions to remind everyone that we still have to maintain our efforts in the system we have now, that even though it is difficult to see results, and sometimes it doesn’t always go our way, that is still our process, and it needs to be protected and participated in...

I will get off my soapbox now, and Mr. Chairman, I yield the balance of my time...;-)