The speakers, who
argued against state legislatures asking Congress to call for a convention to
amend the Constitution, included:
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Jeff Lewis, National
Director of the Patriot Coalition
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Richard D. Fry General
Counsel, Patriot Coalition
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Dr. Edwin Vieira,
Author and Constitutional Scholar
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Robert Broadus, former
Congressional Candidate in District 4 Maryland
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Mitchell Shaw,
Citizens for Constitutional Government
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Peter Boyce, political
activist and Chairman leading the effort to stop a call for an Article V
Convention in New Jersey
Mitchell Shaw was the
first to address the audience. He described the Constitutional convention known
as “con-con,” “amendments convention,” “article V convention,” all phrases referring
to the same event, a “convention held for the purpose of proposing amendments
to the U.S. Constitution as authorized by Art. V of the present Constitution as
it was written.”
He enumerated the
conservative groups interested in this “con-con” are the Convention of States,
Compact for America, Balanced Budget Amendment Task Force, Middle Resolution,
and other individuals interested in addressing what is wrong with America.
Shaw mentioned many
groups and individuals on the left equally interested in amending or potentially
replacing the existing Constitution such as “Code Pink, Alliance for Democracy,
Wolf Pack, Center for Media and Democracy, Independent Progressive Politics
Network, Vermont Single Payer, Sierra Club, MoveOn.org, occupy groups,” and some
billionaires.
Are there flaws in the
Constitution? Why do we need to amend it in order to rein in an out-of-control
government? What “magic language would an amendment adopt,” wondered Mitchell
Shaw, in order to force Congress to abide by the Constitution that they are
already ignoring? In his opinion, there are no flaws in the Constitution. Congress
is ignoring it and American citizens allow it because they are too ignorant of
their own Constitution. An amendment is not the solution, Shaw said, the
solution is the creation of an informed electorate that understands the power
of the state legislators to rein in the federal government. Unfortunately states
compromise because they have become dependent on federal money to pay their
bills.
Robert Broadus, a Navy
veteran and the host of the east coast anti-federalist radio show, presented
the anti-federalist viewpoint of an article V convention of the states.
Richard D. Fry
explained that our current legislators no longer fear the people and God. They are
no longer serving the interests of the American people; they are serving their
own interests. We as citizens are not doing our job of holding them
accountable. “This article V convention has been promoted for 50 years,
starting with the Ford Foundation.” Fry concentrated his speech on the idea of
sovereignty of a state with inherent power to regulate itself internally. “The
states themselves are sovereign.”
Dr. Edwin Vieira, a Constitutional
scholar, summed up the Constitution convention in three words, “imprudence,
incoherence, and irrelevance.” He made the most important point of the evening that
any kind of amendment, agenda, proposal, or draft are irrelevant in light of
the looming national debt which is impossible to repay or manage currently or in
the near future.
“We are on a Titanic right now,” $18 trillion
in national debt. If we add unfunded liabilities, we are at over $200 trillion.”
That is the biggest threat to our national security. “And the solution is
hyperinflation, followed by depression, or hyperinflation with depression.” He
continued that the debt is unpayable and must be written off through currency
depreciation. “We already have currency wars around the world in reference to
the dollar being the reserve currency. This is the run up to WWI again. WWI was
ultimately caused by trade rivalries between Germany and England. This war is
going to be caused by monetary rivalries.”
Dr. Vieira believes
that the Constitutional convention will not happen before “these monetary and
geostrategic events come to fruition.” “The Ship is going to come down first,”
he said, referring to the irreparably damaged ship of state.
When the monetary
system and the banking system collapse, prices will go into freefall, there
will be social effects, civil disobedience, a breakdown of society, and other unpredictable
events caused by a devastated economy.
Preserving the
original Constitution is most important. How long would an amendment take to
pass if that is the only intent? Quoting Oswald Spangler and his “Decline of
the West,” Dr. Vieira said that the “Untergang” (fall, downfall, doom)
of the West will occur first. “The amendment might pass after the Carpathia
shows up,” he concluded.
Copyright: Ileana Johnson 2014
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