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Recent content by John De Herrera

  1. John De Herrera

    Article V Amendment Convention

    I've spoken to many people about this. They accept it because it seems quite obvious--or course there is a convention clause as part of the Constitution--of course those in power do not want a convention--of course those in power have ignored repeated calls for a convention. But if you do find...
  2. John De Herrera

    Article V Amendment Convention

    Instinct is based on knowledge in the sense you describe. We already have state/corporate propaganda now. That's why we are where we are as a society and nation. And the broadcast administrations, as mentioned, would be up for an election. If they didn't do a good job of journalism--including...
  3. John De Herrera

    Article V Amendment Convention

    You debunked nothing, I said I made a mistake on a fact. I appreciate that you'll take the time to look further into this misterman. I trust you'll find this is no bull****, it's all true. And you'll find the people behind that source are no bull**** either. They could use help with web design...
  4. John De Herrera

    Article V Amendment Convention

    No, it's not that they're not sapient, it's that their sapience has been inundated with misinformation, disinformation, and out-right lies. Fortunately sapience is dynamic. No, it's not a philisophically true to me, it's the truth--there is no more important thing to a human being than...
  5. John De Herrera

    Article V Amendment Convention

    It's not that it's a good or bad answer, it's the truth. There is nothing more important to a sapient being. Media reform, I have ideas. National theatre as an issue for a federal convention? No, but there's a reason we don't have it. No, connected to no group. I was a co-founder of the FOAVC...
  6. John De Herrera

    Article V Amendment Convention

    It doesn't depend on the human being. It's a universal. The latin root for sapience is to know, or further back, to taste (biblical connotations). To people who say the most important thing to a human being is food, then consider that many people have died, not because there wasn't food...
  7. John De Herrera

    Article V Amendment Convention

    Conspiracy on that scale would involve too many people for it to be kept secret, imo. This proves to be untrue in many cases. Conspiracy does not need to be explicit in order to become a co-conspiritor. You simly watch how they dance, and learn to dance the same way. Also, if it has indeed...
  8. John De Herrera

    Article V Amendment Convention

    I hope this doesn't sound rude, but I'm sure you're not aware of the past seven or eight year history in regards to voting and the privatization of it. What if our congresscritters are unafraid of what their constituents think because they know the fix is in? Conspiracy theory? OK, but you...
  9. John De Herrera

    Article V Amendment Convention

    The state bird of Vermont is the hermit thrush. Therefore the flag represents the hermit thrush. The state bird is symbolic of the state. But it's the state constitution which establishes the state and the laws by which the citizens of that state abide. That's why when you cross a state line...
  10. John De Herrera

    Article V Amendment Convention

    The Constitution establishes the states--no Constitution, no states. If a new state were admitted, the flag what change from what it is. The Constitution is what has the power to change the flag, thus the flag represents the Constitution, not the states. Exactly what I said. The Congressional...
  11. John De Herrera

    Article V Amendment Convention

    Oh--well aware the difference between the subjective and objective. For instance, the American Flag, subjectively, represents many different things to many different people. But objectively it represents one thing and one thing only: the combined words of the U.S. Constitution. Without that you...
  12. John De Herrera

    Article V Amendment Convention

    Transparent elections and a free society are one and the same thing. If we no longer have transparent elections, we're no longer free. If we're not free then I'm not sure what you fear in bringing the country together in a deliberative assembly in order to discuss things that politicians...
  13. John De Herrera

    Article V Amendment Convention

    Thanks for the clarification. I've been at this for going on a decade, and last remembered (wrongly) that the stipulation had been applied after the 27th. My mistake. Perhaps to you I've lost so much credibility, to the framers of the Constitution and like-minded individuals, maybe not so much...
  14. John De Herrera

    Article V Amendment Convention

    Yes, the same thing happened in the mid-1980s for a Balanced Budget Amendment, and again Congress failed to issue the call. I'm sorry I don't have the link for that particular application handy, but it is in that database. There is no time-limit for prosecution of the crime of murder, I myself...
  15. John De Herrera

    Article V Amendment Convention

    Care to show us some documentation regarding this assertion? If I'm wrong in that, I'd like that confirmed. And you still haven't answered the previous question: if you were shown actual volumnes of the Congressional Record, proving to you beyond all doubt that all fifty states had applied for...
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