Forum Post: Time to make a demand soon?
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 29, 2011, 12:07 p.m. EST by HDBinTN
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Adbusters is pushing a Robin Hood tax - a tax on all financial transactions that will make some of the more dangerous financial speculation unprofitable. It seems to me about time to put our protesting power behind a specific demand, maybe not this one. Thoughts?
IF 34 STATES demand an Article V Amendments Convention without a specific topic -- nothing but an Article V Convention -- Congress can't try for a work-around and bypass "We The People". Once "We The People" have a convention, any number of potential amendments can and will be discussed rationally under Roberts Rules of Order. It will get everyone's attention in the entire country -- and Congress is left with egg on its face! We are the 99%!
Ya, this:
http://occupywallst.org/forum/i-demand-informed-direct-democracy-online-whos-wit/
I'd rather push for an end to money in politics. Once we have a return to citizen-legislators, we can solves these other problems one at a time.
getmoneyout.com
I demand this movement work to gain the authority to have its demands met. to see the ultimate form of democracy, we need to use our first constitutional right, article 5 of the constitution. This is the only way any demand will be met.--
Congress is very afraid of an Article 5 because congress has no control IF 3/4 of the states are ratifying Meaning, we need to stay in our states and make the demand for an article 5. We only need 2 more states then congress is in OBVIOUS violation of the constitution and the military, YES, the military will have to defnd the constitution. -
If the state won't, apply, you are looking at a state controlled at key points by the nwo- jack up the pressure! talk about "lawful government" a lot and cite violations of laws on a federal level that impair the states constitution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_to_propose_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution "Congress acted preemptively to propose the amendments instead. At least four amendments (the Seventeenth, Twenty-First, Twenty-Second, and Twenty-Fifth Amendments) have been identified as being proposed by Congress at least partly in response to the threat of an Article V convention."
Our first right in our contract is Article V, the right to have congress convene delgates when 2/3 of the states have applied for an amendatory convention.
Article. V.
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.-------
http://algoxy.com/ows/strategyofamerica.html