Article V Movement
Make no mistake, if the hardcore Right of the GOP (AKA “The Freedom Caucus”) takes control of all three Branches, the "Article V" movement within that Party will seek to repeal the 14th, 16th and 17th Amendments to the Constitution, achieving the "victory" for States' Rights (read: "right to discriminate") that they were not able to achieve in 1865. It is frightening to read their stuff, but they cite many "mainline" GOP supporters in Congress so this isn't as farfetched as some of us would like to think. Hello, and welcome to Red State Amerika's version of Kristallnacht...
Here are some small extracts from their Site. I suggest that people who care about our country's future look into this movement very closely.
Objectives: Propose a Twenty-eighth Amendment*
- The fourteenth, the sixteenth, and the seventeenth articles of amendment to the Constitution of the United States are hereby repealed.
2. The article shall be inoperative unless it, [Section 1]; shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the conventions in several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of submission hereof, to the States by the Congress.
* If not successful in that Proposal, this group maintains the position that secession is a viable alternative:
“We The People, in the interests of maintaining a peaceful solution to redress our legitimate concerns, will accordingly petition our fellow Nation States within the Union for permission to remove ourselves from that Union which in our considered opinion no longer represents our interests. We are basing that decision on the sections of the Declaration of Independence which is the moral basis for our Nation’s founding. We will agree that we will only invoke the declared secession valid and enforceable with the express permission of our Sister States. We will do this by requiring the same percentages of votes by our Sister States to approve Secession as the same percentage necessary for ratification of an amendment. We will accord every State that wishes to leave the "Perpetual Union" the right to secede using that peaceful artifice.”
“We The People, according to the current Constitution, are invested by it as the highest embodiment of government and governmental power and authority, that being codified and protected by the very Constitution itself. We do not take this step lightly, nor do we take if frivolously. We take it because all of our pleas of the the vast majority of our fellow citizens, amounting to approximately 3/4 of the population of the United States, have in fact been denied their lawful desires by the very representatives who were elected expressly to represent their desired cases for incorporation into general law. We stand in the circumstances that our forebears did before the American Revolution with King George. We seem to be facing King Obama and his Parliament of Congressional Fops who kowtow to his every whim with no regard to the people whom they are legally and honor bound to represent. It is the sickness of modern Progressivism that has brought us to this brink.”
“Furthermore, if any States decide to Secede, We The People will annex all the Regular Military Assets, and Materials, and all Assets of the National Guard units residing in the respective States. We will take peaceful political control of all the Regular Military and National Guard Bases within those States. We will contract with their support industries within those respective states to supply the necessary items to protect and defend our New Nation. However if any of the Military or National Guard Personnel stationed within those Seceded States decide they do not want to be part of the New Nation, we will give them leave to remove themselves peaceably to any States that decided not to secede, but they will not be allowed to take their issued equipment with them other than their personal gear and uniforms.”
articlevprojecttorestoreliberty.com/...
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You can't make this stuff up. These nutjobs are serious.
