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| Larry Pratt Photo: Ileana Johnson 2015 |
Some conservative factions are of the opinion that we have the world’s most perfect Constitution, 17 simple pages, and we don’t need to amend it or replace it in order to address a balanced-budget. Politicians must stop their out of control spending.
"There is nothing wrong with the Constitution," said the organizer of the event, Sevil Kalayci. She asked pointedly, "If politicians cannot abide by the current Constitution, what makes Americans think that this amendment will make any difference?"
An often stated fear has been that a Constitutional Convention has the potential to become a runaway convention that could replace the current Constitution with a progressive version.
So far, numerous states have already voted against an
Article V Constitutional Convention: Virginia, Utah, Indiana, West Virginia, Wyoming,
Kentucky, Nevada, Oklahoma, Montana, and North Dakota. North Carolina adjourned
without taking any action.
Article V of the Constitution states,
“The Congress,
whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose
Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of
two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing
Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes,
as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three
fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as
the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by Congress;”
Some ask the questions, Can we trust that they will only amend parts of the
Constitution? Can we trust that they will not rewrite the entire document? If
they are not honoring the current Constitution, what makes us think that they
will honor a new one, “unless it is to their liking?” Would they be honorable
men? “Self-serving politicians could plunge us into servitude or something much
worse. Are there more honorable men or more self-serving politicians currently
serving?”
Even though the Constitution is very clear on its intent and
has been settled for a long time, progressives consider it an outdated document
in terrible need of revision. A new book,
The Constitution in 2020 by Jack Balkin and Reva Siegel, and a companion
website propose the progressive vision of the U.S. Constitution in regards to
individual rights, citizenship, southern border, “personhood,” and the bizarre
questions, “Who counts as an
American?” and “What kind of law counts
as American?” http://constitution2020.org
Progressives opine that the U.S. Constitution must be
revised to agree with their political, cultural, and ideological thought,
except in cases where the exact wording of the Constitution suits their agenda
and intent. They would love to replace “freedom of religion” with “freedom of
worship” because worshipping would then only be allowed in a church and nowhere
else. “Individual rights” must include “social justice,” “economic justice,” “gender justice,” and “environmental justice,”
the hallmarks of global communism.
The keynote speaker was Larry Pratt, Executive Director of
Gun Owners of America, a non-profit lobbying organization formed in 1975 “to
preserve and defend the Second Amendment rights of gun owners. GOA sees
firearms ownership as a freedom issue.” GOA currently has over 300,000
activists who support the right to bear arms as described in the Second
Amendment. “A well-regulated Militia,
being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to
keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” https://gunowners.org/
The first convention actually was a runaway convention but
the participating men then were men of honor and the convention turned out well
for the American people. Today, it is a different story, “people are playing
with fire.” The delegates are already in power and are uncontrollable even in
the face of re-election and have not kept their promises to represent the fiscal
conservatives who have put them in power.
Time and time again, elected representatives have voted
against the wishes of their constituents, continuing the out of control
spending that has doubled our national debt in the last seven years. “We have
no political control over the ruling class,” said Pratt. Look at the recent
actions and votes of the Republican Party that support the Democrat Party’s
agenda against the wishes of Americans who put them in power specifically to
fight the destructive and anti-American Democrat agenda.
One of the monumental disappointments was the fact that the Republican
majority in Congress was easily “cowed” and it failed miserably to stop
Obamacare. “They are afraid of their shadow,” Pratt said. They had a chance to
stop Obamacare. ”As long as the Republicans tolerate Speaker Boehner and leader
McConnell, they are lying to us,” continued Pratt. “We are at a very critical
point in our national affairs,” as if we are having a grand time on the
Titanic, dancing and drunk, oblivious to the inevitable sinking.
Doctors were bought off; they are going right along with Castro
Care, knowing how bad socialized medicine is, and agreeing to ask patients
about their guns, a massive invasion of our privacy, a massive computer
gathering data, using taking a mild pill against depression as a reason to
confiscate guns from owners like they are doing in New York State.
Can politicians and bureaucrats be trusted that they are
going to do the right thing in any instance, including a Constitutional
Convention? Take for instance the case of ATF agents who were seen going into
gun shops and illegally wheeling-in photo copiers and demanding records of
anyone’s gun sales just in case some may have escaped the roving eye and ears
of the NSA, said Pratt.
Why are prominent conservatives, with whom many agree on a variety of issues except the
Constitutional Convention, support the Article V Con-Con? Pratt explained that perhaps
they “have misjudged how the political system really works,”
trust politicians to do the right thing, and want a balanced budget.
On the question of Jade Helm 15, Larry Pratt answered that
it is an “Unconstitutional exercises of federal police power and it is menacing
enough.” Gov. Abbott of Texas, who “stands
tall,” told the feds, Pratt added, he was going to keep an eye on them and so
is his National Guard.
A rhetorical question begs asking, is the progressive Leviathan
at bay or on defense? That remains to be seen, concluded Pratt.
Copyright: Ileana Johnson 2015
Our problem is not obama. It is not democrats. It is not RINOS. It is not the Trilateralists, the Bilderburgers, & the Illuminati. It is not "international zionist bankers". It is not due to the gold fringe on the flags. It is not due to the UCC or to "admiralty jurisdiction". It is not due the "emergency powers act". It is not "because the US gov't is a corporation". Need I go on?
ReplyDeleteDo you want to know the problem? It is the ignorance, laziness, and conceit of The American People. The Tea Party People REFUSED to learn the Declaration and Constitution. Simple, short documents. They were too LAZY to read them. All they want to do is engage in hero worship and put blind adoring faith in the "hero" of the moment: Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Allen West, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Mark Levin, etc. BLIND FAITH. And they don't want to have to make ANY mental effort - you know, like memorizing the list of powers delegated to Congress over the Country at large at Art. I, Sec. 8.
And they want to spout off what they think they know. When the problem is the ignorance and moral blindness and corruption of a People - the only Remedy is a moral and spiritual regeneration of those People. There is no quick fix - no magic pill.
Cristina M.