LEANING RIGHT-With America’s diminishing trust in our elected officials, we are hard pressed to trust ANY action our leaders take to protect us or the Constitution. Most of our leaders seem hell bent on circumventing the Constitution with their corporate lobbyists and foreign funds and agendas. So why should we eagerly embrace the Convention of States?
Bill Thornton posed the questions that are on our minds;
- Do you think the untrustworthy legislatures can now be trusted to "improve" the US Constitution for our benefit?
- Do you think the quality of representation will be anything close to the quality of the founders?
- Do you think the corporations will idly stand by to let the representatives do their work?
- If they are ignoring the Constitution now, do you think they will actually obey the new constitution?
Thornton acknowledges that “The state legislatures have a reliable record of passing statutes that step by step deprive the citizens of their rights” and “Because of U.S. Constitution limitations, they have been repeatedly reversed.” But now “we see a pattern of the Constitution being ignored in favor of corporations.”
It appears to be a leap of faith into the abyss. But either way you look at it, the constitution is being ignored and treated as irrelevant. So you will have to fight for your liberties, but the enemies of liberty will be flushed out into the daylight once and for all. What we do next will change our history forever.
So far, the following states have filed the “Convention of States Resolution” for the 2015 session.
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Virginia
South Carolina
Missouri
Nebraska
Minnesota
Arizona
Wyoming
Montana
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Kansas (with 41 Co-Sponsors!)
Pennsylvania
Oregon
South Dakota
Texas
Utah
North Carolina
West Virginia (with 60 Co-Sponsors, in the House, 17 Co-Sponsors in the Senate)
Arkansas
Kentucky
New Mexico
With a total of 40 states expected to file COS Resolutions, (26 states filed to date), the 38 states requirement is nearing a reality. It is no wonder that 18% of Americans polled in a Gallup March 8th survey found that the #1 problem in America is their government. This overshadowed many serious concerns like economy, terrorism, immigration, and so forth.
Mark Meckler, the President of COSAction, is hand delivering petitions in real time to State Legislatures across the nation. You may sign a petition here: Sign Petition
With 97% of the nations legislature reached, you can help them reach the remaining 3%.
(Lisa Cerda is Editor and columnist of American Outrage, and a contributor to CityWatch since 2008. She became a land use activist, fighting an avalanche of approved projects that could not meet local and state zoning laws and successfully won each case. She is VP of Community Rights Foundation of LA.)Twitter: @CerdafiedLisa
CityWatch
Vol 13 Issue 24
Pub: Mar 20, 2015
