[PA_hayseed]

I'll probably get flamed big-time for this ---

I believe the time has come for another Constitutional Convention -- a good start would be to abolish the 16th & 17th amendments, and all laws infringing on the 1st, 2nd, & 4th amendments. There are enough States in the "RED ZONE" to make this happen (2/3 & 3/4 majority) before it is too late ---- We'll all become slaves of the "Government Overseers", and be murdered by the "State" at their leisure!

[gjenkins]

If you get a contitutional convention, I would bet my money on them scrapping all of the current ammendments and codifying 8 of the 10 planks of the communist manifesto.

[freefly]

I think the BEST way to get the government back under control is to have
the president revoke the War and Emergency Powers Act that, since 1933,
has kept our Constitution and Bill of Rights SUSPENDED.
(Senate Report 93-549 ,93rd Congress, 1st Session, 1973)
A good discussion of this can be found at:

War and Emergency Powers Act

The text of the book:
WAR AND EMERGENCY POWERS-
A SPECIAL REPORT ON THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
can be found at:

WAR AND EMERGENCY POWERS-A SPECIAL REPORT

Since those in DC are well aware of what this act does for them as far as
giving them power/jurisdiction over the citizens of this country, we can plan on it being
revoked only when we get a president that believes in Constitutional government in office.
NOT before.

[Darth Sidious]

I believe the time has come for another Constitutional Convention -- a good start would be to abolish the 16th & 17th amendments, and all laws infringing on the 1st, 2nd, & 4th amendments. There are enough States in the "RED ZONE" to make this happen (2/3 & 3/4 majority) before it is too late ---- We'll all become slaves of the "Government Overseers", and be murdered by the "State" at their leisure!

Won't get no flames from me... because in principle, a Constitutional Convention WOULD be a good idea.

Here's the vast pitfall between us and what we'd like the convention to do, though: the sorry lot of big-government types, like Ted Kennedy et al, would like little more than to have a Constitutional Convention also. You want to get rid of the 16th? Me too... but some people would also be licking their chops at scrapping the 2nd too. A convention could be our dream ticket to more responsible government... but it could also just as easily become our nightmare of government getting to write it's own check, too.

Unless it was agreed to from the getgo that the first ten amendments shall not be infringed upon, nor any amendment passed that nullfies or weakens them in any way.

[DAnconia55]

There are enough States in the "RED ZONE" to make this happen (2/3 & 3/4 majority) before it is too late ---- We'll all become slaves of the "Government Overseers", and be murdered by the "State" at their leisure

One small problem.
The rulers of the Red Zones are RINOs, and 99% of their constituents are sheep.