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Michigan Marks the 34th State Necessary to Commence a Constitutional Convention

The following news alert conveys what is perhaps the most important development in these United States of America this year … this decade … this millennium.  Truly, it does not get any bigger when the appropriate legal mechanisms have been triggered to initiate a Constitutional Convention.  The upshot of this extremely profound and unparalleled initiative implemented by 34 states is as nation-transforming as it is highly consequential for every American citizen.

Regardless of where this US Federal Government-altering procedure goes regarding the proposed Balanced Budget Amendment, the message that it sends cannot be misunderstood: We the People are fed up with business-as-usual in Washington DC!  That said, the Obama Administration has so operated as a lawless tyranny that the ultimate outcome from this state-driven process was rapidly advanced perhaps by several years.  Thank you, President Obama.  It appears that he has unwittingly become the ‘change agent’ that he promised to be … only not quite in the way that he planned.

Whereas Barack Obama did promise the USA ‘Hope and Change‘, the real change that he is likely to experience in his lifetime has no historical precedence in US history. The inevitable revolution being waged by the states — at the insistence of their citizens — does not ignore the impelling influences by the previous Bush Administration. Back-to-back despotic and rogue administrations served to show the American people just how far the political class has fallen.  It is now quite clear, to virtually everyone concerned, that there is no hope for their ‘brand’ of leadership, and therefore no lasting and much needed change can be expected under their watch.

For those who comprehend the defining moment at hand, it is still premature to celebrate.  The politicos and powerbrokers, corporate titans and business magnates, financiers and bankers, lawyers and lobbyists, will do everything in their power to subvert the upcoming process of realignment.  They will do everything in their power to sabotage the originally conceived Constitutional Republic from taking shape.  They will seek to disempower both the states and people, as they have always done.  Therefore —>

Be Aware, and Beware, of the wolves in sheep’s clothing! ! !

From TRN News:

The most important political development in 200 years was triggered last week, when the state legislature of Michigan became the 34 th state to demand a “Constitutional Convention” in the United States. Under Article 5 of the US Constitution, if 2/3rds of the states call for such a convention, (meaning 34 states) it MUST take place. During such a convention, the ENTIRE Constitution can be changed; nothing is off-limits. This would even allow the States to dismantle the federal government without its consent, and repudiate the debt which that government has incurred! When it voted for the convention last week, Michigan became the 34 th state, thus meeting the requirement.

A goal has been reached behind what would be an unprecedented effort to amend the U.S. Constitution, through a little-known provision that gives states rather than Congress the power to initiate changes. This [may be] the most significant political development in the entire world in the last 200 years.

At issue is what’s known as a “constitutional convention,” a scenario tucked into Article V of the U.S. Constitution. At its core, Article V provides two ways for amendments to be proposed. The first – which has been used for all 27 amendments to date – requires two-thirds of both the House and Senate to approve a resolution, before sending it to the states for ratification. The Founding Fathers, though, devised an alternative way which says if two-thirds of state legislatures demand a meeting, Congress “shall call a convention for proposing amendments.”

The idea has gained popularity among constitutional scholars in recent years — but got a big boost last week when Michigan lawmakers endorsed it.

Michigan matters, because by some counts it was the 34th state to do so. That makes two-thirds.

In the wake of the vote, California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter pressed House Speaker John Boehner on today to determine whether the states just crossed the threshold for this kind of convention. Like Michigan lawmakers, Hunter’s interest in the matter stems from a desire to push a balanced-budget amendment — something that could be done at a constitutional convention.

“Based on several reports and opinions, Michigan is the 34thstate to issue such a call and therefore presents the constitutionally-required number of states to begin the process of achieving a balanced budget amendment,” Hunter wrote.

“With the recent decision by Michigan lawmakers, it is important that the House – and those of us who support a balanced budget amendment — determine whether the necessary number of states have acted and the appropriate role of Congress should this be the case.”

If two-thirds of the states have indeed applied, the ball is presumably in Congress’ court to call the convention.

But Article V is rather vague, and it’s ultimately unclear whether 34 states have technically applied. In the past, states like Oregon, Utah and Arizona have quietly voted to approve the provision in their legislature.

But some of the 34 or so have rescinded their requests. Others have rescinded, and then re-applied.

Alabama rescinded its request in 1988 but in 2011, lawmakers again applied for a convention related to an amendment requiring that the federal budget be balanced. It was a similar story in Florida in 2010.

Louisiana rescinded in 1990 but lawmakers have tried several times, unsuccessfully, to reinstate the application since then.

It’s unclear whether the applications still count in these scenarios.

Some constitutional scholars like Gregory Watson, an analyst in Texas, say once states ask, there may be no take-backs.

“There is a disagreement among scholars as to whether a state that has approved an application may later rescind that application,” Watson told The Washington Times. “If it is ultimately adjudicated that a state may not rescind a prior application, then Ohio’s 2013 application for a Balanced Budget Amendment convention would be the 33 rd and Michigan’s 2014 application would be the 34th on that topic.”

Others say if a state changes its mind, it can no longer be part of the 34.

Even if the requisite number of states have applied, questions remain about how such a convention would work — and whether, as Michigan wants, such a convention could be limited to only discussing a balanced-budget amendment.

It still may be a long shot, but some analysts are warning about the unintended consequences of such a move.

In Louisiana, Budget Project Policy Analyst Steve Spire argued against the state’s resolution, saying the convention could permanently damage the nation’s political system. What he calls “damage” others call improvement.

Conclusion:

The USA now finds itself at a critical moment of the American Experiment. Since the 2000 election of George W. Bush, the divisions between red and blue states have never been so wide and deep. The socio-economic conflicts, political acrimony and philosophical arguments between people of different political persuasions and religious stripes are as intense and reconcile as ever.  Given this volatile state of affairs, there must be a new forum in which to rationally discuss and objectively debate the future of the nation.

To our thinking, a full blown Constitutional Convention may be the only way out of the current political paralysis. Where such a forum may be exploited by those with selfish and/or narrow interests, the states can act as a gatekeeper to ensure proper and proportionate representation. At the end of the day, the people must be represented in full force, or else such a convention will be an unsuccessful exercise in futility.

Now the challenge will be to determine to hold a conference in an ‘unbiased’ location. Or, through a digital format using all the tools available on the internet to keep the dialogue flowing and open to all US citizens. In this way, the corporate media cannot screen out their own prejudiced problems areas or filter in their favorite biases. They are already guilty of giving very little reporting to such an important and historic opportunity, which has emerged from the constitutional crisis they  shamelessly helped to create.

Perhaps the time has come for the USA to assume the form of constitutional republic that it was designed to be.  Although this nation purports to export ‘freedom and democracy’ around the world, our brand of democracy has become totalitarian in nature vacillating between fascism and communism, relentlessly bogged down in political correctness, and administered by leadership that is perennially addicted to deception.

Clearly, the time has come for a new form of governance and political economy which truly serve the citizenry; not the other way around.

Michael Thomas
May 4, 2014
StateoftheNation2012.com

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    • The Hot Gates

      Heh. The progressives and fascists would dominate the process. We’d be screwed.

      Which is why they all ignore it, really. They’ve pretty much gotten all they want, now. Why argue with people at a silly convention?

      Now, the next question…if you do want such a convention:

      1.) Anti-federalists or Federalists? Hamiltonian or Jeffersonian? (Hamiltonian federalism got us where we are today.)

      2.) How far back do you want to go in ‘repairing’ things? Fifty years? A hundred? A hundred and fifty? How about a return to the Articles of Confederation? (The Hamiltonians didn’t like it because it didn’t give them enough power. The only reason the Bill of Rights was included in The Constitution was to prevent a civil war between the Federalists and Anti-federalists.)

      • Hannon

        Yup, the Constitution is mostly good the way it is, but they refuse to follow it, if this goes into an actual convention, they’ll just use it to legitimize their treachery.

        • hateriarch

          It isn’t that they aren’t following it. There are separate jurisdictions. Colorable law, statutory jurisdiction. Invisible contracts that you have signed and are party to.

          http://www.state-citizen.org

          nationallibertyalliance.org

          There are numerous supreme court cases citing the fact that there is state citizenship and U.S. citizenship. Which one you are depends on how the laws affect you.

        • freedomringsforall

          Amen

          You are correct that having a convention of states in which the Internationalist elites can hi-jack it to change the Constitution as they have wanted to for over 100 years is stupid and makes no legal or political sense what so ever.
          It is like an addicted gambler that wants to go back to the table after winning all the money just so that he can loose the money he already won because it would open the convention to be taken over by those that want the constitution changed.

          Stupid, Stupid, Stupid

          The answers to our governance problems in America seems to be a secret to everyone.

          It is only a secret because nobody wants to hear or believe in the simple truthful solutions handed down to us by God in the rights and freedoms that he has given us and no one seems to want to follow the simple road-map that our founders forged for us by using those simple truths, rights, and freedoms that God has handed us.

          Are we no longer responsible enough to pick up the hammer of those rights and freedoms that our Lord has given us and to again use that hammer to strike our future on the anvil of our Constitution that our founders gave us to forge our future down the road-map and across the bridge to the future and destiny that God desires for us?

          Are we all so faint and week of heart that we cannot pick up that hammer of truth and right and freedom that God has blessed us with?

          I do not believe so!

          I believe that there are still many among us that have a heart of Iron and a wrist of steel to pick up that hammer of truth and right and freedom and to slam it down on the anvil of the great constitution that our founders set before us to continue to forge a still greater nation
          unto a greater future.

          The truth is that we can still stop those who wish to destroy this great nation; this beacon of hope unto the world.

          If we maintain our second amendment rights and freedoms we can retain our other rights and freedoms; and in the end, if necessary, by the end of the barrel.

          If we do that we can:

          Take back our local schools by recall and firing those who do not swear to support the constitutional principles that this nation was founded on.

          Take back our colleges and Universities the same way because those who run them are elected and/or appointed by our state governance.

          Take back our local elected governance by voting only for those who swear to uphold our constitution and protect it from all foreign and domestic foes.

          Vote out those who do not or get a big head and change while in office.

          Promote electorally and within the party structures only those who will swear to uphold our constitution and protect it from all enemies from without and within and again do not support those who do not or those that get a big head while in office and change from those ideals.

          If we will follow that road map that our founders set up, whether democrat or republican, we will (no maybes about it) take our nation back and we will retain it for the foreseeable future and if we train our sons and daughters to do the same they will retain it longer.

          Upon following that roadmap that our founders laid before us;
          Then we will also regain our standing amongst the world of nations as the beacon of light and the harbinger of hope of the ultimate God given (natural) rights and freedoms that God on high has handed down unto the people of this earth.

          God speed
          Long live the Republic!

          P.S.
          We must force the narrative:

          1.) Declare your support for The Constitution of these United States of America against all foreign and domestic opposition

          2.) Declare your opposition to The Constitution of these United States of America

          Either you stand for the constitution or you do not and we must force those who do not to publicly admit it.

      • TonysTake

        I agree. Be careful of what you wish for. Your enemies just may take advantage of the situation and trash the Constitution as we know it.

        • Anonymous

          Yup. Don’t fix what ain’t broke. What’s broken is the trustworthiness of politicians. We’ve been had. The face-off won’t be bloodless.

    • vaalix

      If they can change the constitution you’d all be screwed. They will strip all your rights to bear arms. Sure they could dismantle the federal government, but do you all honestly think anything good would come from this.. They control everything, and kill anyone or anything standing in their way.. Sure this sounds nice, but I seriously doubt any good will come out of this that will benefit the common man.

      • Ryan

        I have to agree, This is very Bad Idea and One that they are drooling over and waiting for THIS VERY OPPORTUNITY to Implement the ALREADY DRAFTED NEW US-CONSTITUTION that Barry had drafted before he was ever INSTALLED into his Dictator Role……. one that is SHARIA COMPLIANT in EVERY CONCEIVABLE WAY…………..

        We don’t NEED to Fix something that isn’t Broken , Instead We need to Break the Ones that are Stopping Us FROM ENFORCING the One that Is WORKING VERY WELL already………….

    • Dominus Vobiscum

      I expect a first draft of the new Constitution already exists and it looks a lot like the Georgia Guidestones.

      Sheeple who think they’re really smart will fight over whether America’s population should end up at 15 million or 16 million. Fox News and CNN will foment a red/blue controversy.

      Maybe the Sheeple can vote on it, like American Idol.

      • Dominus Vobiscum

        Self-righteous liberals will fight for 15 million, claiming it will create better harmony with nature. Conservatives will fight for 16 million as a means of protecting the basic rights to liberty and freedom.

        Boehner will fight for 15.8 million and then settle for 15.05 million at the last minute.

        Then he’ll cry for the camera.

        Obama will read something irrelevant from his Teleprompter.

        Biden will say something stupid.

        And the Sheeple will all go back to sleep, completely satisfied that justice has been served.

      • Ryan

        Yep, Georgia Guide-Stones mixed with a Heap Of Alinsky, and a HUGE Dose Of SHARIA and Spread over a Satanic Sand-witch with Islamic Dressing………

    • tsimitpo

      There’s nothing wrong with the constitution we already had. The problem is that it was sold down the river when the nation went bankrupt half a century ago and we came under the Uniform Commercial Code without telling the people.

      If we get another constitution at this point – guess who’s going to write it. That’s right – those with all the “influence”.

    • Rexd63

      How about just follow the Constitution and arrest all who have betrayed us. The blood of tyrants needed to water the tree of liberty.

    • DOOMSDAY!

      WHAT NICE SPEECH RETARD! :roll: :roll:

    • BlackSunshine84

      We should be wary of this because of the states calling for it. Many would like to remove our 2nd Amendment.

      • Tribe of DAN

        …delegates will be Strictly restricted as to what will be allowed & not…

    • BlackSunshine84

      Is there a list of the states calling for a constitutional convention somewhere?

      • Tribe of DAN

        …information is available at conventionofstates.com…

    • AJjj100

      If they change the second amendment there will be civil war!

    • Anonymous

      I find this to be quite humorous. So why would a government that has not kept the constitution in over 100 years be bound by any new ‘rules’ that are added by the states, such as a ‘balanced budget amendment’?

      The constitution clearly requires a yearly budged be passed by congress, but this law has not been followed for at least the past 6 years. What’s the penalty for violating the constitution? Nothing. No penalty. No jail, no charges of treason. In fact, they get re-elected. So please do tell, of what force will this new law have on people that do not keep what is already written? Sorry folks, you you have to take your own rights by force. Politicians will not do it for you, and neither will this ‘convention of states’.

    • Anonymous

      the msm probably has been told to not pay attention to it so they can stealthily destroy the USA by creating a new constitution without the Bill of Rights. THAT is the plan of this Trojan Horse idea.

    • Shaun

      The CON-Stitution is nothing more than a CONTRACT that was written up by the Vatican (our owners) and sent to the U.S. and ADOPTED in…No Signers…Just witnessed…In actuality THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INC. is a PRIVATE FOREIGN CORPORATION. George Washington was the first president of the private foreign CORPORATION. Can you be a CITIZEN of WAL-MART or MCDONALDS etc? No! Just like you can’t be a CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INC. UNLESS YOU ALSO ARE A CORPORATION!!! Time to wake up people!!!

    • Geotracker

      A balanced budget amendment
      A redefinition of the General Welfare Clause (the original view was the federal government could not spend money on any topic within the jurisdiction of the states)
      A redefinition of the Commerce Clause (the original view was that Congress was granted a narrow and exclusive power to regulate shipments across state lines–not all the economic activity of the nation)
      A prohibition of using international treaties and law to govern the domestic law of the United States
      A limitation on using Executive Orders and federal regulations to enact laws (since Congress is supposed to be the exclusive agency to enact laws)
      Imposing term limits on Congress and the Supreme Court
      Placing an upper limit on federal taxation
      Requiring the sunset of all existing federal taxes and a super-majority vote to replace them with new, fairer taxes

    • Shaun

      The 10 square mile are known as WASHINGTON, D.C. (CORPORATION) is the only district which is located in the United States that is NOT part of the United States…All US citizens are under custodial arrest 24/7,a US citizen is a bonded corporation, it is not you, the UNITED STATES is not a country it is a corporation, through adhesion contracts … voter registration, drivers licenses, you agreed to pay all the debts of the parent corporation along with the BAR association they pass as many “laws” as they possibly can to collect funds from your bond trust account that’s set up via your birth cert and ss-5 form, if and when you get arrested a bond is filed out and you through your dishonor and UN awareness plead not guilty, you as the real creditor for the US bond are in default and are held in contempt your vessel body is then stored in a warehouse as collateral and the default judgement is insured security on the stock exchange, that’s how they make money.we are actually the creditors not debtors and through our good natured ignorance and brain washed patriotism. The CORPORATION called the USA has turned us into bonded debt slaves with a giant dollar sign on are heads….We live in a giant prison grid,and the reason they want to tag or microchip their slaves is so you can no longer refute the strawman fiction….We have all been deceived and betrayed!

      • Tribe of DAN

        …so sad, but entirely correct, friend. Most are totally ignorant of the facts you’ve presented…

    • Bossmanrocks

      We don’t need a Constitutional Convention. That would be the most dangerous thing we could do. It would give the Leftists the opportunity to eviscerate the Constitution.

    • Sic Semper Tyrannis

      Here’s an example of an instance in 1929 when the requisite 34 State Legislatures had been met. In this particular case, even 35 had petitioned the US Congress, but nothing was done about it. In fact, the US Congress, since its inception, has not ever even once acknowledge this failsafe of the Article V Convention and there have been many other instances when the requisite 2/3rds amount was met and the US Congress wasn’t even keeping a tally. When a State Legislature petitions the US Congress for an Article V Convention, Congress just enters it into the Congressional record for that Session of Congress “In Memoriam” and does not bother to keep a running tally, preferring to forget the whole affair rather than do their due diligence to abide by the inherent obligations of the constraints of Article V…

      http://foa5c.org/file.php/1/Amendments/071_cg_r_03369_1929_HL.JPG

      There have already been over 700 petitions (Applications) for an Article V Convention by 49 States since the founding of the US Constitution…

      http://foa5c.org/file.php/1/Articles/AmendmentsTables.htm

      For those of you who still fear a “runaway Convention”, you need not fear. The States themselves have already had 679 State Constitutional Conventions of their own, and not a single one of them “ran away”…

      http://www.foa5c.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=13

    • Trip

      Warren, I’m sorry but this is nonsense, and the same sort of nonsense that got us to where we are today.

      1) Federalism is not the unbridled authority of the federal government, but rather only the marginal increase of federal authority to do the things minimal to what the federal governent can do, and specifically covered by enumerated powers.

      What you’re talking about is authoritarian Statism.

      I’m sure to the surprise of many, the only original founder who was entirely in favor of that statism, and actually the total transfer of sovereign power from the States to the federal government, was James Madison. In advance of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Madison wrote the Virginia Plan to get the convention started off. This Virginia Plan arose out of Madison’s frustration in the Virginia legislature, and involved the total transfer of sovereign authority to that federal government. What Madison argued at that time is virtually identical to British common law feudal government, where the government is entirely sovereign and compelled upon the individual. Madison’s would require more than just altering the Articles of Confederation, and would required a thorough change in the character of the national compact, with citizens and states no longer sovereign. It would even necessitate nullifying or ignoring all the claims made in the Declaration of Independence, of the citizen being sovereign, and the sole purpose of government being to protect those unalienable individual rights. Fortunately every other delegate rejected Madison’s plan, but because his effort created the starting point of the discussions, he was warded the honorific “Father of the Constitution.”

      Actually Hamilton’s perspective and warnings about how we lost our freedoms is quite accurate; read the following;

      “How the Bill of Rights Enslaved Us” http://x2t.com/1/BOR

      2) “How far back” we should go is to the Civil War. The problems we see today are invariably from the federal government’s usurpation of authority by the force of arms under martial law dictated by Lincoln.

      The claim of the federal government’s ability to own lands within the States is a fabrication of Lincoln, even national parks. The federal govrnment’s claim of authority to write laws, ANY law, applicable to the people within a State, came about from Lincoln, and then expanded under the Civil Rights movement where the federal government turned rights on their head, making them become “on-demand licenses” to be used against other individuals, enforced by the federal government, when rights are specifically to prevent against that federal government from acting against the individuals and States. The prohibition of such laws by the federal government would remove hate crimes, a slate of federal laws and punishment above and beyond state laws, the EPA, FDA, DHS, ATF, DOI, and other laws, and intrusions.

      Even the Bundy Bunkerville Standoff, with the federal claim of owning 85% of Nevada lands, is entirely the result of Lincoln, with Lincoln having ignored the decision of Pollard Lessee v Hagan recognizing the State to have sovereign authority over all the lands within its borders, to Lincoln rushing Nevada statehood under martial law government, in order to claim Nevada’s ore mines (gold) to pay for the Civil War.

      3) This is not a “Constitutional Convention”. A Constitutional Convention was what was held at the beginning of this country, to write a new Constitution. This would be a “convention fo the States”, and there is some suggestion it would be a very bad idea because such a convention would be under the authority and direction of the Congress.

      See Vieira, “Prudent Fear of the Unknown is no Fallacy”
      http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin262.htm

      What we need is NOT any sort of convention, but rather the sovereign State athorities to reclaim the terms of the Constitution and prevent its abuse, and to demand the federal government stick to its limited enumerated powers. What good is throwing up the Constitution to a whole range of new amendments with today’s politicians do not grasp the Constitution as written, nor do they recognizing the existing limitations on federal government. It is nothing but an extremely bad, poorly thought out plan, that can only result in the validation of our loss of freedoms by further corruption of the Constitution.

      • Jack Straw

        Trip, —I agree wholeheartedly with what you say. We do NOT need any sort of re-write of the Constitution, what we need is the removal of 98% of the so called leaders of this country, and a rescindment of all laws, so called laws that are against the existing Constitution, and the arrest of all those guilty of treason, and then new fresh blood that are wiling to right all of the wrongs done, and all according to what the Constitution lays out. The last thing we need is the chance of those in Congress the free hand to rewrite what we have now.

        • Sic Semper Tyrannis

          The US Congress has no say-so whatsoever in an Article V Convention. They are merely ordered to immediately call for its establishment when the 2/3rds requirement is met. They cannot even decide the purview of the Article V Convention or make any qualitative and quantitative judgments on what is to be discussed, how long it is to be debated or even what voting means are to be used by the State delegations. The State delegations will only consist, just as with the original Constitutional Convention, of delegates chosen to represent their respective States by their respective State Legislatures. There will be not a single US government official allowed in such a convention.

      • Sic Semper Tyrannis

        It may be called a “Constitutional Convention” by convention, but it is only for the purpose of amendments to the original US Constitution. The absolutely correct term for it is an “Article V Convention” if you want to get technical about it.

        The US Congress has no say-so whatsoever in an Article V Convention. They are merely ordered to immediately call for its establishment when the 2/3rds requirement is met. They cannot even decide the purview of the Article V Convention or make any qualitative and quantitative judgments on what is to be discussed, how long it is to be debated or even what voting means are to be used by the State delegations. The State delegations will only consist, just as with the original Constitutional Convention, of delegates chosen to represent their respective States by their respective State Legislatures. There will be not a single US government official allowed in such a convention.

        I have to concur with your last statement. At this juncture, it just may be too late to really make a difference with anything we do. Even with 28 States protesting and going to court over Obamacare with their State Attorneys General, the federal crimocracy just gave the States – aka the American People – the one-finger salute. A ConCon at this juncture would likely be just another exercise in futility like the Bikers’ Protest, the Truckers’ Protest, the TEA Parties, and the upcoming American Spring this May 16th, which will be ignored and ridiculed by the US State Propaganda Ministry like all of the others with maybe just a token of coverage on Faux News to keep up appearances for the sheeple.

        The ONLY protest that made a difference so far was Bunkerville when the federales got a taste of their own medicine with Militia troops with their fingers on the trigger. State Governors need to start pouring money into their State Militias and even mandating 2 years of State Militia training for all State residents over the age of 18 to send a stern message to the District of Criminals that they mean business!

    • Sic Semper Tyrannis

      Many things need to be addressed with an Article V Constitutional Convention to end and overturn so many abuses of Congress, the Executive, and the Judiciary. The prevailing question remains: Will the current apostate criminal US Mafia Crimocracy even acknowledge a new Constitutional Convention and any new Amendments to the existing Constitution if they do not even acknowledge and abide by the current US Constitution???

    • Anonymous

      We live in very strange and evil times, thank you for this post.

      I guess things have got to go down now

      Today also is bad May 5

      but tomorrow May 6 is Beltane
      and Bel being served for so long is very strong, now, and these leaders are very powerful now

      however, we are all seeing their fruits are indeed rotted to the core
      Bel is bad, Baal is against you, against us all
      Moloch does not like anybody, but desires to feed off you and your young…
      why do we still devotedly serve this ugly, heinously evil God?

    • Sic Semper Tyrannis

      Some Amendments that are desperately needed…

      1.) FEDERAL BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT
      2.) ANTI-ABORTION AMENDMENT
      3.) AN AMENDMENT FOR MANDATORY ESTABLISHMENT OF STATE MILITIAS IN ALL 50 STATES
      4.) TERM LIMITS AMENDMENT – 3 TERMS FOR CONGRESSMEN, ONE TERM FOR SENATORS, TWO TERMS FOR PRESIDENTS, ONE 4-YEAR TERM FOR A FEDERAL JUDGE AT EACH LEVEL NOT TO EXCEED 12 YEARS (4@DISTRICT, 4@CIRCUIT, 4@SCOTUS)
      5.) AN AMENDMENT TO REPEAL THE 17TH AMENDMENT WHICH WILL ALLOW ONLY STATE LEGISLATURES TO ELECT SENATORS PER THE ORIGINAL US CONSTITUTION AS THE FOUNDERS INTENDED.
      6.) AN AMENDMENT TO END ALL ELECTRONIC VOTING IMMEDIATELY!!!
      7.) NO GAY MARRIAGE AMENDMENT
      8.) END THE FED AMENDMENT
      9.) ANTI-OBAMACARE AMENDMENT
      10.) AMENDMENT TO ABOLISH THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND RIDICULOUS DEPARTMENTS OF ENERGY, EDUCATION, HOMELAND SECURITY, AND THE EPA
      11.) AMENDMENT TO RETURN LAND TO THE WESTERN STATES THAT WAS UNLAWFULLY AND UNCONSTITUTIONALLY TAKEN BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
      12.) AMENDMENT TO HAVE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FUNDED BY AND REPORTING TO A COMMITTEE OF 50 STATE GOVERNORS AND NO LONGER REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OR ANY FEDERAL ENTITY WHATSOEVER TO INSURE FEDERAL CRIMES COMMITTED BY THE US GOVERNMENT WILL BE PROSECUTED INSTEAD OF IGNORED.
      13.) AMENDMENT TO CALL FOR THE US ATTORNEY GENERAL TO BE NOMINATED BY AND ELECTED BY A COMMITTEE OF 50 STATE GOVERNORS TO INSURE FEDERAL CRIMES COMMITTED BY THE US GOVERNMENT WILL BE PROSECUTED INSTEAD OF IGNORED, WHICH IS A MATTER OF VITAL INTEREST TO NATIONAL SECURITY.
      14.) AMENDMENT TO REQUIRE ALL 50 SECRETARIES OF STATE OF THE 50 STATES TO VET ALL FEDERAL CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE AND ESPECIALLY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES WITH A HARD COPY OF THEIR BIRTH CERTIFICATES UP TO 3 MONTHS BEFORE ANY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TO ALLOW FOR SCRUTINY BY THE ENTIRE PUBLIC, INSURE VALIDATION OF RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT, INSURE VALIDATION OF SSN.
      15.) AN AMENDMENT TO REPEAL THE 16TH AMENDMENT WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A FAIR TAX AND COMPLETE ABOLISHMENT OF THE IRS DEPARTMENT.
      16.) AN AMENDMENT TO REPEAL WTO-GATT WHICH HAS DESTROYED THE US ECONOMY, THE US MANUFACTURING BASE, CAUSED VAST UNEMPLOYMENT, AND CREATED A THREAT TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY.
      17.) AN AMENDMENT TO OUTLAW BAILOUT OF THE TOO BIG TO FAIL BANKSTER BANKS ON WALL STREET AND THE PRACTICE OF CORPORATE WELFARE WITH TAXPAYER MONEY
      18.) AN AMENDMENT TO ESTABLISH AN INVESTIGATION AND EVENTUALLY PROSECUTION BY THE NEWLY ELECTED ATTORNEY GENERAL, WHO IS TO BE ELECTED BY THE 50 GOVERNORS OF THE 50 STATES, INTO THE INSIDE JOB OF 9/11 INCLUDING NEOCON CONSPIRATORS WHO ARE DUAL ISRAELI/US CITIZENS AND THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE CIA, ISRAELI MOSSAD, SAUDI INTELLIGENCE, AND THE US MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. UNTIL WE PROPERLY PROSECUTE THE CULPRITS BEHIND 9/11/01, ALL OF THE OTHER AMENDMENTS AND INDEED THE CURRENT CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES IS MEANINGLESS!!!

      • Sic Semper Tyrannis

        19.) An Amendment whereby all federal District Attorneys are to be appointed by the Attorney General who is to elected by a Committee of 50 Governors and no longer appointed by the President.

      • Sic Semper Tyrannis

        The Crimocracy that is today’s federal government is sytemic beyond our Founding Father’s wildest Nightmare on Elm Street. It is a satanic RICO operation that the Mafia could only have dreamed of because it is a Mafia itself on steroids! Until we prosecute the entire lot of these satanic criminals and the Banksters on Wall Street and in the FED who bankroll them, blackmail them, and bribe them, we are just spinning our wheels and pissing in the wind. When you have over 130 criminal cases in courts all across the country – federal, State, and county – that refuse to prosecute fraud and forgery in the office of the Commander-in-Chief, you know that the federal governemnt has become a seriously criminal RICO operation that will never be reigned in by conventional means. It’s time to seriously think way outside the box. The only solution are the State Militias unfortunately. It’s that far gone! Even the Sheriffs won’t arrest the President when he enters their jurisdiction when they have all the right in the world to do so. The US military at the Pentagon level is just a bunch of buttkissers and enablers; they will not do anything. Where is the US Army Provost Marshal who has the jurisdiction to lock up the Commander-in-Chief for his numerous crimes??? We are left to our own devices – meaning our State Militias to do the dirty deed.

      • Trip

        Sic Semper,

        While I agree generally with those amendments, but some of them are not just dumb, but destructive and representative of not only why we got where we are now, but also demonstrative of how a convention to amend the constitution would move more to undermine the constitution than uphold it.

        For starters, the “militia” is every able-bodied man woman and child. Furthermore the states already have organized militia, and they are known as the Guard. Any amendment that compels the militia to be a certain group, can be used in counter to prohibit arms from those held by that group, and generally undermine the recognition that a militia is ‘the people’ generally who are armed in defense.

        By having the Secretaries of State only look at “birth certificates”, you are reducing the qualification from natural born citizen, to born citizen. They two are not the same. The Supreme Court throughout this nation’s history, in a half dozen cases, has recognized a natural born citizen to be those who are born on American soil, AND born to parents who were citizens. It’s a real thing, not some made up specification, involving birth from a society, and birth into that society by its members, resulting in offspring that own no allegiance to any other society.

        And we shouldn’t have to have an “anti ObamaCare Amendment” as the federal government has literally no constitutional authority to write laws directly applicable to the people of the several States. ObamaCare itself is a violation of 90% of the Bill of Rights, as well as the violation of the prohibition on a direct tax not applied (to the State) according to the census, as well as a violation on the prohbition of bills of attainder. It’s pure sophistry, not to mention criminality, to indicate that the authority to tax provides any sort of legitimacy to Obamacare.

        And, no, a Convention would not be spared from influence by Congress, as Edmund Vieira shows in his article, “Prudent Fear of the Unknown is no Fallacy”
        http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin262.htm

        But more importantly, we need to be spared from our own ignorance, as your list of Amendments have shown.

        • Sic Semper Tyrannis

          The National Guards in each State are NOT Militias. That is a popular misconception. The National Guards were established by the equally deceiving misnamed legislation in 1903 known as The Militia Act, but a true State Militia answers ONLY to the Governor and is not subject to being federalized as National Guard units are at the drop of a hat. That’s why JFK federalized the Alabama National Guard when Governor Wallace tried to block blacks from going to college there back in the 60′s.

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_Act_of_1903

          The essence of a Militia is its independence to guard against the tyranny of the Executive (internal invasion) as well as foreign invasion.

        • Sic Semper Tyrannis

          Who said I was not requiring the SOS’s to ascertain the President was a natural born citizen? You’re putting words in my mouth that I did not say or even imply. Of course, the SOS would verify NATURAL BORN CITIZENSHIP in the case of the President and just citizenship for all other federal elected offices.

          Yes, you are right. Obamacare on its face is completely illegal in so many ways. Because the criminals in the District of Criminals – all branches – do whatever they please these days is precisely why an Amendment is needed to force them to cease and desist. The anti-Obamacare Amendment would serve the same purpose similarly as the 21st Amendment that repealed the 18th Amendment (Prohibition). It would serve to completely formally nullify the entire legislation in its entirety to clean the slate and discourage any attempts in the future to “go there” again.

        • Trip

          Sic Semper,

          The Constitution itself indicates the Guard are, in fact, the militia. There are organized and un-organized (disorganized) militia. Some of those organized militia are organized under the auspices of the state, we know them today as the State Guard, and by the Constitution they can be ordered in service to the nation.

          Article 1, Section 8. Clause 15:
          “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;”

          A1,S8, Clause 16:
          “To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;”

          The Portion of them in service of the United States are “the guard”, and they are, in fact, militia.

          And as far as the Amendment regarding S.O.S’s verifying the qualification of candidates, what is said is as important as what is NOT said.

          The fact is that proposed amendments indicates that SOS’s will “vet ..candidates… with a hard copy of their birth certificate”, which more than implies that a birth certificate alone is sufficient to establish if someone is a natural born citizen, when it is not sufficient at all.

          And from your comments, I gather that you might be a supporter of the Arpaio “Possee” assertions that they proved the Obama digital document to be a “fraud” and a “forgery” when this is not at all the case.

          That argument is made fully here:
          http://x2t.com/1/HDOH

        • Sic Semper Tyrannis

          Vieira brings up some good points, but let’s see what the Founding Fathers themselves had to say about the matter because although Congress may seek to impede and forego their Constitutional duty and put up roadblocks, if the State Attorneys General take it to the SCOTUS in a multi-State lawsuit, invariably in the lack of precedent (stare decisis) in this case, they will have no other recourse than to look at the Federalist Papers and other such commentaries by the Founding Fathers who wrote and determined the Constitution themselves…

          Citing the following source…

          http://www.foavc.org/reference/file47.pdf

          “As discussed by Congressmen Elias Boudinot and James Madison (author of
          Article V at the 1787 Convention) the call is based “on a certain number of states” and “proper number of applications”. No mention is made of any other term or condition such as amendment subject, age of application and so forth. The record was to be kept, according to Boudinot, until “the proper number of applications came forward.” Madison then stated Congress shall have “no debate, vote or committee” in the matter as such acts would imply “a right to deliberate upon the subject” and this “was not the case.”

          Congress may machinate all it wants to put up legislative roadblocks, and it may go to SCOTUS as the exigency of such multi-State lawsuits warrants, but in the end, with the total lack of stare decisis in this case, the commentaries of the Founding Fathers speak for themselves. They meant Article V to be the failsafe for the Republic, a means of last resort in which the States were to take the reigns away if necessary to right the Ship of State and squelch the usurpations of the imminent tyranny. They made it clear that Congress had no say-so whatsoever in the deliberations of this convention. The State Governments were the Sovereign governments that created the Constitution which in turn created the federal government, and it was always understood that when this Sovereignty was threatened, they had the right reserved in the Constitution to make some drastic changes with no interference whatsoever from the created entity.

        • Trip

          Sic Semper,

          While the quote the references are fine, that quote by Madison does not even apply to anything beyond the tallying of the calls from the States for a convention. None of it even martinally refutes Vieira’s points in any way!

          Beyond that, where do you get the claim that James Madison actually wrote Article V? Do you have a source for this claim?

          Also as to your previous reference to Prohibition, the entire premise of the 18th Amendment, that the Constitution might in any way be used to tell the people what they could or could not do, much less what they might imbibe, is nothing but a gross corruption of the Constitution itself, which is only intended to indicate the terms of the government and its relationship to the States, and foreign countries.

          The federal government already has no authority to mandate healthcare, nor to take over the health care industry. The idea that an Amendment would be needed to prohibit that action, only implies that that with further amendment removing the proposed amendment, then the federal government might do those things, thereby undermining the Constitution.

          This is a similar argument used by Hamilton in Federalist #84, as to WHY a Bill of Rights was not only an unnecessary inclusion in the Constitution, but also that such an inclusion would be “dangerous” and serve as a “colorable pretext” (excuse) for government to actually engage in altering those rights, even as it has done.

          For a further discussion of “How the Bill of Rights Enslaved Us” see the link here:

          http://x2t.com/2/BOR

          .

    • The Spirit

      This is the only chance we have.
      There is no national dialogue on anything, this would be the way to enlighten millions.

      Get Ready for it and take advantage, this is what we have been waiting for.
      Either follow the constitution or change it.
      It still takes 2/3rds to ratify.
      End the Fed.

      • Sic Semper Tyrannis

        It takes 3/4ths to ratify and 2/3rds to start a convention.

    • AJjj100

      Gun powder and lead made America free and only gun powder and lead will set America straight again and only gun powder and lead will keep America free. It is to bad that we have a criminal minded government. The Constitution as it is, is perfect. All that needs to be done is to force the government to honor there oath to uphold the U.S. constitution so help them God!

    • Za-kuZu

      This we the mankind have been telling you the humankind for the last 2000 years only to be get humiliated.

      As much as you have realized this now, you will also realize very soon that, governance, politics, multi-party system, election system, business system, voting system, letting the stupid masses decide on everything, the western educational system and bringing parrots forward in the guise of intelligent beings, creating the most non-natural notion that all persons are equal whilst the entire universe operates on diversity, giving women duties and responsibilities of men and vise versa as if you have forgotten the difference between sexes, giving persons of neither sex either physically or just mentally totally disregarding their mental disability and total destruction of the planet by industrialization driven by greed and trying to prove fruitlessly that the human kind can achieve by machines what the mankind achieved by mind power, has brought complete destruction not only to you but to all the nations on to whom this was forced on to.

      If the universe to exist, every action must must have an equal an opposite reaction. Thus when the repercussions come no one will be spared.

      When you hold memorials for those who died in recent shootings such as school children please do remember those innocent people including children you killed around the world with your drones. Also watch the videos of fathers, mothers crying in Afghanistan pleading to stop drone attacks holding the dead children in their hands.

      ‘Kra’s of the west destroyed the world. Tables have turned and now God has started to punish the sinners. Should have thought about it much before, not when the point of no return has passed.

    • TRUTH

      HOW TRUE

      TIME TO TAKE BACK OUR WORLD

    • Bob DD

      One huge PROBLEM! It is alleged Soros is behind this. He and his operatives are well organized, “We the People” are not. Have you noticed how easy and quickly this convention qualification has gone. If this is so, we can really kiss our rights good bye?

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