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Title: The clock is ticking

Original CoS Document (slug): [[https://conventionofstates.com/the-clock-is-ticking-5-4-3-2-1|the-clock-is-ticking-5-4-3-2-1]]

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Created: 2021-02-03 14:00:38

Updated: 2021-02-12 03:00:00

Published: 2021-02-05 00:00:00

Converted: 2025-04-14T21:09:34.241304575


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//To Those Who Are Against Convention of States, I Say Unto Thee://

In my lifetime, elections have been held to determine who would run the government, not what its powers would be. While some candidates promised to limit government power, none have been remotely successful.

Note that I am not referring to efficient government. I am, without question, referring to the ever-growing, abusive, intrusive, arbitrary force of the state that is crushing Americans’ liberty—the very same power that our Framers feared.

“Government is not reason. It is not eloquence,” George Washington reportedly said. “Government is force; like fire it is a dangerous servant—and a fearful master.”

Our elections have become little more than a temporary changing of the guards (the guards protecting their prohibited confiscation of power).\\
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Whether you liked President Trump or not, his presidency exposed reprehensible levels of corruption in our nation’s capital, which is perpetuated by our “public servants” (and unlikely to be changed from within).\\
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In the past five years alone we have witnessed the leviathan:

  - protect two corrupt presidential candidates
  - weaponize intel agencies against a political candidate and other U.S. citizens outside the leviathan caste
  - lose control of the CIA’s cyber warfare arsenal
  - disseminate propaganda from the top echelons of government to the conglomerated media outlets (see the Smith-Mundt Act)
  - employ psych-ops on the American citizenry--encompassing all forms of media--to drive two impeachments: one an attempt to overthrow a duly-elected president, the other to render him inert in setting brushfires of America’s most unique patriotism. Furthermore, for all media, politicians or citizens, critical of President Trump’s demeanor or actions, it is important to note that these psyops were utilized 24/7 in the most malicious manner possible for the four years of the Trump presidency and continues to this day as a means to silence and preemptively removing any pro-American candidate from running for office in the future.  
  - organize government sanctioned “resistance” marches
  - acting as agitators and provocateurs instead of unifiers and truth tellers
  - fund, train, and organize anarchy groups to destabilize America
  - protect China from taking responsibility for unleashing the Wuhan Virus plague
  - mandate mask-wearing, while they carry on with their elitist life without them
  - force economic repression
  - censor the result of the most recent Census Report
  - facilitate election mistrust on a massive scale via corruptible machines, mail-in ballots, illegal votes, and propaganda tactics
  - nullify immigration laws

Did we get here by the “consent of the governed,” or did we get here by an insurrection led by career politicians and unelected bureaucrats seizing the rightful authority of the people?\\


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> //“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties or his possessions.”  -James Madison//

Our Framers obsessed over limiting government power. Unlimited power would crush liberty. They learned from history and from their own experience how freedom is lost to dictatorships.\\
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They had seen power in its worst form in the 1770s when British governors, ministers, and troops began exerting control over them.\\
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They had justifiably resisted such arbitrary rule and fought for independence, becoming the quintessential beacon of freedom for mankind. \\
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Speaking in Congress a decade after the Constitution was enacted, James Madison said the Constitution that had come from the Convention of 1787 “was nothing more than the draft of a plan, nothing but a dead letter, until life and validity were breathed into it by the voice of the people, speaking through the several State Conventions. If we were to look, therefore, for the meaning of the Constitution beyond the face of the instrument, we must look for it, not in the General Convention, which proposed, but in the State Conventions, which accepted and ratified the Constitution.”\\
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Our Constitution grants only limited and enumerated power to the general government. All remaining power in America, therefore, resides with the people and the states.  \\
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It is for the preservation of liberty that American citizens must realize that any government will become oppressive if left unchecked.

There is no question that we are on that cusp.\\
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Convention of States is an instrumental and constitutional function. It is a wise, calculated means of preserving the invaluable blessings of liberty, to secure the inestimable rights of mankind, and promote human happiness by standing resolute in the face of imminent despotic rule.

So to those who oppose Convention of States, I ask onto thee: What is your plan? What are you doing? 

The clock is ticking: 5...4...3...2...1.

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