This thread is depressing. Freepers acting so stupidly towards our current Constitutional crises. I don’t get it. “Normalcy bias” I guess.
But the people behind the COS movement have done their homework. They know about the Dillon and Coleman decisions, and how Congress will try to take control of the process using them as a pretext. They also know that if Congress tried that, it would violate the original intent of the Framers when they wrote Article V. Dr. Natelson, ALEC and the COS movement are working to occupy that legal ground before Congress can. The organizational meetings that COS has held are putting together the legal grounds for freezing Congress out of the process, which is what the Framers wanted.
The first thing that frightens the Birchers and Eagle Forum types is the possibility that the DC power structure will pervert original intent and hand the convention's organization, staffing and supervision over to Congress. The second thing they fear is the Left's plans to pervert an Amendments Convention, which shouldn't be a surprise because a successful convention would roll the federal government back to 1860. The third thing is their fear of the moral character of the American people, the fear that we are long past any capacity for self-government. I handled that directly in an earlier post.
I understand their fears, but I'm willing to try this solution. The alternative is bloodshed.
I have observed that the “Normalcy Bias” is one of the strongest forces in human nature.