Do we want to destroy our country and replace it with a more progressive one? Or obey our Constitution and restore the republic?
April 12, 2016
[This letter was sent to newspapers all over the state of West Virginia. Only a few of them published it so I am publishing it here.]
Dear Editor,
Is the United States Constitution doomed?
Well, history shows that governments come and go—sometimes violently, sometimes quietly slipping away. Our constitutionally-based government has been slipping away for decades. The banana peel that could cause that final glide into oblivion is lurking in state legislatures.
At the request of 2/3 of state legislatures, Congress may call a convention to propose amendments to the Constitution. Such a convention would open the door to all sorts of shenanigans where spoils and power would be bought and sold and traded away. Where power would be in the hands of the same oligarchs who control our elections.
West Virginia legislators were pleaded with to reject the Article V resolution. They chose not to listen to the people but to the counsel of organizations like the corporate funded ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) and the Soros funded Wolf-Pac. You might assume that, since both the “Left” and the “Right” want this convention, it must be a good thing. What you must realize is what all these organizations have in common—a yearning for global, one-world government, a desire to control the masses, a disdain for the individual freedoms protected by our Constitution and an absolute loathing for the restrictions that the Constitution imposes on the federal government. They don’t want it amended; they want the Constitution annihilated.
If the legislators were actually friends of freedom and small government then they merely had to exercise their Constitutional authority to nullify unconstitutional demands from the federal government and protect us from federal tyranny.
State legislators—at the very least—have been part of the problem and now want to blame their counterparts in Washington. Why are they intentionally placing this “banana peel” in the path of constitutional government?