“How to “force” Washington to respect it moves into an area where the government has the advantage via a standing army, the NSA, drones, WMD’s and a Mainstream Media slavishly devoted to it. To apply “force”, we need to begin an educational effort right now to cut the ground out from under the Washington establishment. To its credit, the Convention of the States movement is doing that right now.”
I see your point and concede that the Washington establishment thou a display of despotism and force could stimmy the judgement of our States in Convention.
I do not however believe that they would be able to do so, particularly after our Starts start holding votes or radicalizing conventions involving the people directly.
The press can bury this story for as long as they want but the people will get the message when they actually vote, and they will expect that vote to mean something. Just as the Citizens of Arizona did.
As for the military, that is a rather extremely unlikely Scenario the result of many years and conventions of States attempting to enforce the Constitution, during which a period we would have to have done precisely as you had suggested in informing the public of the Constitutional crisis. I doubt very few in the world would not know about whats going on here and many of them will have taken sides.
It is practically beyond immigration that Washington would let it even go down that path much less get to that point before conceding to do their duty. The damage to our Elites own prised reputation as democratic leaders would be irreparable.
Instead the Washington Elite will at the beging as soon as it is clear they cannot stop us try anther way to control or hijack the process of which there are many.
Congress is just beginning to smell gunpowder in the air, which is why the Clerk of the House has been deputized to monitor the situation. The Archivist by his own procedures doesn't communicate with Congress until a threshold has been reached, and Congress doesn't want to be blindsided.
We're at a cat-and-mouse phase in the struggle. We're moving quietly, and Congress now wants to monitor our movements. That's actually good. A badly reasoned and precipitous move on the part of a panicked and blindsided Congress could lead to chaos and even bloodshed. Cool heads need to prevail.
The cat-and-mouse phase will lead to a "chess" phase as we get closer to 34 applications. Both the state legislatures and Congress will be moving carefully to preserve their own interests. I'm heartened that the Convention of the States movement is at least 5 chess moves ahead of Congress right now. Let's hope it stays that way!
When the 34th application hits Congress, the "bare-knuckle brawl" phase begins. This will be about power, not finesse. This will be about legal facts on the ground, not legal theorizing. This is where the rubber meets the road. This is where the education effort will pay off.