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WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING 

A DE FACTO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION IS SWEEPING THIS NATION UNDER THE 
FALSE AUSPICES OF A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS CALLING 
FOR A NATIONAL "CONFERENCE OF THE STATES"

A proposed resolution is spreading throughout the State legislators like 
a cancer through the body politic.  I have obtained a copy of 
Pennsylvania Senate Bill 12 now called House Resolution 30 that calls for 
a meeting of "elected officials" only, composed of the Governor of the 
state, and four other legislators designated from both the State Senate 
and House.

This resolution is to remain standard throughout all the legislatures so 
they can unanimously call for a convention.  Here is the first paragraph:

                        A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Appointing a delegation of the Pennsylvania General Assembly and the 
Governor and alternates to represent the Commonwealth at a Conference of 
the States to be convened under the auspices of the Council of State 
Governments in cooperation with the National Governors' Association and 
the National Conference of State Legislatures no later than 270 days 
after at least 26 legislatures adopt this resolution without amendment; 
and imposing duties on the Joint State Government Commission.

THERE ARE THEN FIVE PAGES OF SUPPORTING MATERIAL

THIS IS DANGEROUS, AND RECKLESS!	

They are not calling this a Constitutional Convention, but the result is 
the same.  If it walks like a duck and it quacks, like a duck, you can 
call it a pig all day long, to me it is a duck!

This resolution would concentrate the sovereign powers of the people, 
through their state-appointed delegates, in a de facto constitutional 
convention -- without actually calling it one.

The passage of this "resolution" would authorize three extraordinary 
developments:

1.  The formal calling of a convocation of the states is tantamount to, 
and in possession of, the process essential to a constitutional convention.

2.  The formalized appointment of certified delegates emowered to vote at 
this federal convocation.

3.  Resolutions which become legal instruments authorizing the delegates 
to deliberate, propose, and adopt long-term fundamental structural 
changes in the U.S. Constitution.

If you live in Pennsylvania, call your State Senator and request SB12 and 
ask your State Representative for House Resolution 30.  Ask why you 
haven't heard about this in the news media.  It wasn't in any paper in 
Philadelphia, why is this so silent?

I will post the entire Senate Bill 26 when I can get a decent copy to OCR 
instead of the fax I just received.  

THIS CONSTITUTES AN EMERGENCY THIS IS NOT SOMETHING TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY!
THE REPUBLICANS GUTTED THE 4TH AMENDMENT YESTERDAY WITH THE NEW SEARCH 
AND SIEZURE AMENDMENTS PASSED BY THE HOUSE YESTERDAY.  WHAT OTHER 
AMENDMENTS ARE UP FOR GRABS?  WHICH AMENDMENTS WILL BE GUTTED OR STRIPPED 
IN A DE FACTO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION?  

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Posted by Howard L. Bloom, Vice Chair of the Delaware County Pennsylvania 
Libertarian Party.  All rights reserved per UCC 1-207 without prejudice.

If you are in Pennsylvania, the Libertarians will meet Thursday 16th of 
February at the Villanova Diner in Villanova Pennsylvania.  1/2 mile from 
interstate 476 at the Villanova exit.  Dinner at 6:00 PM Meeting at 
7:30.  For more information call 610-353-8006 or fax to 610-622-5944.

Call your state legislatures, meet, and exert your influence before it is 
too late.



 
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