In Jesse Kelly’s 9/12/2022 episode he brought up how important it is that those of us who hope to restore our nation focus locally, and on state legislatures.
This is a great key, but does he realize that Convention of States action is already focused on local issues, and state legislatures? There is no need to reinvent the wheel.
The function of Article V convention of states is that state legislatures petition to amend the US Constitution. Once 34 states pass resolutions to that effect, Congress is required to provide a venue for this convention.
States then send delegations to this convention for the purpose of proposing constitutional amendments. Any amendment agreed to by 39 states becomes an integral part of our constitution. The governors, and supreme courts of the states have no input. The President, and US Supreme Court likewise have no input.
These amendments become part of the letter of US law as a result of state legislators, empowered by the will of the people.
Auron MacIntyre, author of the SubStack, “The Total State,” suggested on, “I’m Right, with Jesse Kelly,” that our framers believed that our constitution would protect us from the tyrants that we are currently experiencing. While I believe that he is correct concerning our current crop of “constitutionalists,” and Republicans, this is definitely not true of those that, “pledged their lives, their liberty, and their sacred honor.”
I can prove it with two famous quotes;
Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a democracy?”
With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, “ A republic if you can keep it.” Benjamin Franklin
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams
Much later, President Reagan spoke for the constitutionalist of his day;
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” Ronald Reagan
The problem is that too many so-called conservatives, and constitutionalists of today expect someone else to do the work, to provide the protections needed. Too many of us are unwilling to put forth the effort needed to resist the tyrants that work to conquer us.
Before the grand experiment, the United States of America, the conquests of nations were mostly accomplished through military conflicts. With the advent of our democratic republic, it was determined that a different approach would be necessary. Our public must be softened by Antonio Gramsci’s tactic of the, “ long march through the institutions.”
This tactic, along with those adopted by the USSR, and revealed by Yuri Bezmenov
have softened America for overthrow.
Abraham Lincoln , and others had already predicted that the overtaking of our nation would need to come from within.
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we lose our freedoms it will be because we have destroyed ourselves from within” – Abraham Lincoln. This quote is said to have been, “Paraphrased from his 1838 speech at the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois.”
I believe that our best avenue for the restoration of America is likely through the Article V convention of states process. Please look into becoming an activist in the effort to restore our nation. Find ways to use your time and talents for the restoration of our great nation, or one day we may well, “spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
God bless you, Dave