URGENT BLAST ALERT against South Carolina H 3166 (Term Limits) & more — Hearing Tuesday (4/30/2019)!

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A5C, Article V convention, H3017, H3125, H3166 Term Limits, South Carolina, South Carolina House Judiciary Committee, South Carolina Legislature, Vote No!

The following applications for an Article V convention (A5C) have been pending in the South Carolina House Judiciary Committee since early January.  A hearing is scheduled for the Term Limits application on Tuesday:

H 3166 (Term Limits) – [highlight]Hearing Tuesday 4/30/19 @ 2:30 pm Eastern. [/highlight]

H 3125 (COSP) – Hearing not yet scheduled

H 3017 (BBA) – Hearing not yet scheduled

Attached is our State flyer which explains the dangers of an A5C.

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HERE are words from brilliant men who warned against an A5C.

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Most legislators vote based on the subject of the application (such as congressional term limits).  [highlight] But the subject is just window-dressing to help “sell” the legislators on the application.  In fact, an A5C can’t be limited to the subject of the application. [/highlight]

Nevertheless, the bottom line is that we need Senators to vote “No!” on H 3166 using any arguments we can.  So, please choose a short argument or two against term limits to throw in with your general objection to an Article V convention.  Term limits is a horrible idea, and there are plenty of arguments to choose from.  See attached or HERE.

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In this excellent VIDEO (4:23 – 9:22) Robert Brown shows the absurdity of a term limits amendment when he explains why it should be called the “Lame Duck Amendment.”

 

This ARTICLE is good for showing Democrats why they need to oppose all A5C resolutions.

Please back up our ground team and write to House Speaker Jay Lucas, Chairman Peter McCoy, and the remaining 120 SC House members.  The same letter will do for all with different “asks”:

First, write Republican [highlight]Committee Chair Peter McCoy[/highlight], and ask him to hold H 3166, H 3125, H 3017, and all Article V convention applications in committee without taking a vote: Dear Representative McCoy: PeterMcCoy@schouse.gov.

Next, write Republican [highlight]House Speaker Jay Lucas [/highlight], and ask him to prevent H 3166, H 3125, H 3017, and all Article V convention applications from going to the House floor, should they get out of committee.  Dear Speaker Lucas: JayLucas@schouse.gov,

[highlight]Then write the remaining 120 South Carolina House Members[/highlight] and ask them to VOTE “No!” on H 3166, H 3125, H 3017, and all applications from South Carolina asking Congress to call an Article V convention:

House Republicans (76) – Dear Representative:

RitaAllison@schouse.gov, WilliamBailey@schouse.gov, NathanBallentine@schouse.gov, BruceBannister@schouse.gov, LinBennett@schouse.gov, BartBlackwell@schouse.gov, JeffBradley@schouse.gov, BruceBryant@schouse.gov, MikeBurns@schouse.gov, PaulaCalhoon@schouse.gov, MicahCaskey@schouse.gov, ConverseChellis@schouse.gov, BillChumley@schouse.gov, GaryClary@schouse.gov, AlanClemmons@schouse.gov, WilliamCogswell@schouse.gov, NealCollins@schouse.gov, WestleyCox@schouse.gov, BobbyCox@schouse.gov, heathercrawford@schouse.gov, JosephDaning@schouse.gov, SyllesteDavis@schouse.gov, JasonElliott@schouse.gov, ShannonErickson@schouse.gov,

RayeFelder@schouse.gov, KirkmanFinlay@schouse.gov, CalForrest@schouse.gov, MikeForrester@schouse.gov, russellfry@schouse.gov, CraigGagnon@schouse.gov, LeonGilliam@schouse.gov, KevinHardee@schouse.gov, BillHerbkersman@schouse.gov, LeeHewitt@schouse.gov, JHill@schouse.gov, DavidHiott@schouse.gov, BillHixon@schouse.gov, ChipHuggins@schouse.gov, MaxHyde@schouse.gov, JeffJohnson@schouse.gov, jayjordan@schouse.gov, MandyKimmons@schouse.gov, ThomasLigon@schouse.gov, StevenLong@schouse.gov, PhillipLowe@schouse.gov, NancyMace@schouse.gov, JosiahMagnuson@schouse.gov,

RickMartin@schouse.gov, JohnMcCravy@schouse.gov, TimMcGinnis@schouse.gov, AdamMorgan@schouse.gov, DennisMoss@schouse.gov, SteveMoss@schouse.gov, ChrisMurphy@schouse.gov, BrandonNewton@schouse.gov, WestonNewton@schouse.gov, TommyPope@schouse.gov, BillSandifer@schouse.gov, GarySimrill@schouse.gov, GarrySmith@schouse.gov, MurrellSmith@schouse.gov, MikeSottile@schouse.gov, KitSpires@schouse.gov, TommyStringer@schouse.gov, EddieTallon@schouse.gov, BillTaylor@schouse.gov, AnneThayer@schouse.gov, MacToole@schouse.gov, AshleyTrantham@schouse.gov, JayWest@schouse.gov, BrianWhite@schouse.gov, BillWhitmire@schouse.gov, MarkWillis@schouse.gov, ChrisWooten@schouse.gov, RonaldYoung@schouse.gov, RichardYow@schouse.gov,

House Democrats (44) – Dear Representative:

TerryAlexander@schouse.gov, CarlAnderson@schouse.gov, LucasAtkinson@schouse.gov, JimmyBales@schouse.gov, JustinBamberg@schouse.gov, BethBernstein@schouse.gov, WendyBrawley@schouse.gov, RobertBrown@schouse.gov, BillClyburn@schouse.gov, GildaCobbHunter@schouse.gov, ChandraDillard@schouse.gov, LaurieFunderburk@schouse.gov, KambrellGarvin@schouse.gov, WendellGilliard@schouse.gov, JerryGovan@schouse.gov, ChrisHart@schouse.gov, JackieHayes@schouse.gov, RosalynHendersonMyers@schouse.gov, PatriciaHenegan@schouse.gov, LonnieHosey@schouse.gov, LeonHoward@schouse.gov, JosephJefferson@schouse.gov,

JohnKing@schouse.gov, RogerKirby@schouse.gov, DavidMack@schouse.gov, AnnieMcDaniel@schouse.gov, CezarMcKnight@schouse.gov, JAMoore@schouse.gov, russellott@schouse.gov, AnneParks@schouse.gov, MarvinPendarvis@schouse.gov, MandyNorrell@schouse.gov, BobbyRidgeway@schouse.gov, MichaelRivers@schouse.gov, LeolaRobinsonSimpson@schouse.gov, SethRose@schouse.gov, ToddRutherford@schouse.gov, KrystleSimmons@schouse.gov, LeonStav@schouse.gov, IvoryThigpen@schouse.gov, JDavidWeeks@schouse.gov, WillWheeler@schouse.gov, RobertWilliams@schouse.gov, ShedronWilliams@schouse.gov,

Thank you for defending our Constitution!

Alan Keyes Liberty Fest flyer Pigeon Forge, TN April 27, 2019

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Alan Keyes, Frank Gaffney, Liberty Fest, LibertyFest 2019, Pigeon Forge Tennessee, Publius Huldah

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For details and the schedule visit https://www.iamtv.us/libertyfest/

and for a short video with Alan Keyes discussing the event and introducing the speakers,

If unable to view video above, see:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cShKAEf4UeM.

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Target: Not the President, but the Presidency

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2018 election, Art II US Constitution, Bureaucracy, Buzzfeed, CNN, Democrat Party, law, Media

Unified Patriots by Vassar Bushmills

The argument is often made that First Amendment protections means we can’t do anything about the Media.

Well, yes and no.

You see, the Media is a Thing, just as a corporation is a Thing, the FBI is a Thing. You know what I’m saying. Liars, traitors, criminals of every stripe, are people…with names and faces, and dozens of personal weaknesses, even addictions.

And this ‘Thing’ is protected by the First Amendment.

You can sue a corporation, but you can’t put it in jail. You can bring criminal charges against a corporation, but then you have to dig way deep to find the individual “trigger finger” that did it. Then you have to make sure you can prove your case and not convict a fall-guy, which large organizations are filled with.

Finding the genuinely guilty is often very difficult to prove and teams of lawyers are there to try to blight your path every step of the way.

And for the Media, the First Amendment is there to blight your path almost every step of the way, generally beginning in 1971.

These days, the most difficult task is to simply know what is actually a crime, or civilly, an actionable injury, or tort, since the law makes so many exemptions, especially for the Media.

In the 1971, New York Times v United States, (the famous Pentagon Papers trial) the Supreme Court ruled that the NYT was protected by the First Amendment.

All that was sought in that case was an injunction, stopping the publication of a “classified” history of the United States involvement in SE Asia going back to the Eisenhower Days.

Virtually no one even knows what that history revealed, probably more damaging to the Democrats than the Republicans on the history end, but more damaging to The Republicans politically since, by 1971, Vietnam was Nixon’s War, and the leftwing media wanted to hang that war around his and the GOP’s neck, which they effectively did. Most Millennials believe he started it, and lost it.

In 1971, CNN was still almost a decade away from being born, and the founders of Buzzfeed’s fathers were still in college, their sons but gleams in their eyes. Besides the Pentagon Papers case said nothing about Fake News, or the malicious intent to do injury. No lies were involved in the passing by Daniel Ellsburg of the Papers to an NYT reporter named Neil Shaheen.

Ellsburg was indicted under the federal law for giving Shaheen the Papers in 1973, but his case was dismissed for misconduct by the Nixon DOJ five months later, and three years after SCOTUS allowed the NYT to publish the Papers[…]

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The Circle Shall Not be Broken

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Communism, Conservatism, Constitution, Democrat Party, Elitism and Class, President Donald J. Trump, Progressives, Republican Party, Republican Party establishment, Revolution, sedition, The Left, Treason

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By God!

I sat up with a start this morning, around 2:04.

It hit me, “Why are we all pretending this is politics…when it’s revolution?”

Their media, our media, their talk-show people, our talk show people, all have to pretend to be matter-of-fact about a situation that is probably the most significant series of events in American history since the southern states seceded in 1860…

…all because a solitary man was elected with a solitary purpose, but which had to be postponed until he could complete the new mission his election forced on him, to win a civil war and restore the Union.

Out of the mouths of babes Beto O’Rourke, three term congressman from Texas, near-miss (by some accounts) senator from Texas, and sure fire presidential candidate for 2020, (assuming there will be a contested one) let it slip this week the dirty little secret that every one but the most self-delusional on his side knows to be true:

“The Constitution of the United States is no longer a fit foundation for a modern government. It is no longer relevant.”

For what it’s worth, I first heard this same concept in the classroom in 1968, as a lecture by a political science professor, his argument being that the structure of our society and economy was too complex for a ham-fisted Congress to manage or, or for the general population to have anything more than a ceremonial say in it.

He was of course echoing the thoughts of Wilsonian Progressivism from around 1910, and slashed me a letter grade for disagreeing with him on the final exam.

In other words, all the elements of disavowing the Rights of Man on the one hand, and keeping academic students in line on the other, were fully in place in the academy 50 years ago. Had I wanted to go on to pursue a masters and PhD, he would have insured I couldn’t. I’d been tagged[…]

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What Donald Trump has not Done, But Can, and Should Do

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Bureaucracy, Constitution, Democratic Party, Elitism and Class, President Donald J. Trump, Religion

Woodrow Wilson’s sheep grazing on White House lawn to reduce grounds keeping costs during World War I, c. 1917. Source: Library of Congress (digital. id. hec.10788)

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Needed: A Forty-Year Legacy

Donald Trump has broken down major barriers simply by being elected president.

In the greatest sense of the term, his election was “historic” for it represented the first time in many generations that the people of the United States, as was always their power to do, reached up and took charge of their government despite all the urgings, warnings, and finally, direct opposition from the people who had carved out a very comfortable existence inside government as the self-appointed managers for the people.

That took both courage and wisdom by the people.

How Donald Trump even got the opportunity to be allowed to take on this job is a story unto itself. But from the citizens’ perspective instead of the government class’s point of view, it was simply a matter of the people invoking a power that had always belonged exclusively to themselves, to throw down an entire government.

Call it our “nuclear option”, only it had laid dormant for so long the government class had almost forgotten we had it.

A little history: For the first half of America’s existence, to around Reconstruction, nearly a century, the people didn’t need to use this nuclear option simply because everyone in government knew the people had it, and would likely use it, so minded their P’s and Q’s.

I call that our Classic Era, when the federal government was dirt poor and the federal payroll consisted of a few clerks, customs agent and the post office, which didn’t even print its first postage stamp until 1847.

After the Civil War, for a variety of reasons; industrialization, massive immigration of poor European laborers, and the attendant rise of a government class to tend to both, by the end of the 19th century, a growing state class took shape, which began to believe this nuclear option wasn’t safe in the hands of the people. In an evolutionary process natural to all bureaucracies, if allowed to survive that long, the state class began to believe the people no longer possessed this power of the nuclear option[…]

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The Canons of Conservatism, “Those Other Guys”, and the Veterans, A Preamble

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Communist Agenda, Conservatism, Constitution, Democrats, Education, Elitism and Class, military and veterans, Progrerssives, Religion, Veterans, Veterans' Tales

The twelve Apostles receiving inspiration from the Holy Spirit and composing the Creed Illumination by Somme_le_Roy_f.10v – Date: 1295 (Wikipedia)

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William F Buckley, Jr. was the founding figure of modern conservatism in America. He wrote God and Man at Yale when he was 25, and wrote many books afterward until he died in 2008.

But he had an extra dimension which seems to have been lost on the newer generations of conservatives, which I’ll discuss here.

In 1960, at age 35, in his home, WFB and several other “founders”, penned the Sharon Statement, which became the founding statement of the Young Americans for Freedom, (the YAF) which went on to become the central conservative campus organization for over 50 years.

I never joined, as I was not a conservative in my college days.

It was not until 1964, and the Goldwater campaign, that I became aware of Mr Buckley, who was then still not yet 40, 4 years younger than my dad, who subscribed to National Review that year and sent back- issues to me every few weeks or so.

By the time Ronald Reagan was elected, and I was 35, I had been a conservative for only four years, but never disagreed with National Review in all those earlier years about conservatism, just still holding onto my own brand of “Civil Rights liberalism”.

Like many liberals of my generation, my error was in believing government could do good things, which, later reading and real-life experience proved to me was wrong-headed and that the Founders knew exactly what they were doing when they designed government small, and left the people in charge.

In 1976 I had my Road to Damascus moment while in the Army, during the Ford-Carter campaign. I read a Mary McGrory column in the Arizona Republic where she stated (and I paraphrase) that “Modern Liberalism stands for the proposition that all human conduct should be subject to the political process.”

At that instant I ceased being a liberal, and never looked back.

The Sharon Statement, which I link here, while aimed at defining the YAF, is essentially the Canons of Conservatism. Virtually every conservative, including #NeverTrumpers, would agree with it, if they’d bother to read it.

So I recommend every millennial and Gen X’er to do just that.

But in 1960 it was written for college students who already possessed a core set of principles that inclined them to see threats to democracy, internal and external, and the freedom found in free markets and the uniqueness of America in the first place[…]

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