Re: Schlafly on crypto

If we are having a Schlafy bash then i think it fair to bring up her "Con-Con" paranoia. She has published a series of articles predicting that there will be a "Constitutional Convention" - that is not one of your ordinary constitutional ammendment sessions but a wholesale rewritting of the US constitution by a cabal as happened when it was first written. A typical rant:-
They adopted a plan to plunge America into a Constitutional Convention. Article V of the U.S. Constitution requires that "on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, [Congress] shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments." This method has never been used; all 27 Amendments now in the Constitution were adopted in the traditional way (passage by a two-thirds majority in each House of Congress followed by ratification by three-fourths of the states). http://www.eagleforum.org/users/eagle/public_html/psr/1996/may96/psrmay96.ht...
In fact despite Schlafy having predicted such a conference many times over the past years (I have seen more than 10) her claims are entirely false, not to say fraudulent. She uses the usual tricks of citing fraudulent references and making up quotes. In short she is a fraud hoping to get people to join her foundation to stop a Con con that nobody is proposing. I don't think that Schlafy is a usefull aly any more than Bob Dole basically its just opportunist politicians latching onto the rhetoric of debates without engaging in the argument. Dole senses that the mood of the country is pro crypto so he supports that, he senses that it is anti porn so he will support that. Basically Schlafy is playing the same game. She is saying things that she knows will curry favour so she can get people to join her Wacko club. Phill
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