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[nancylebov]

William F. Buckley's _Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription_ is a collection of the more interesting correspondence he got at the National Review and his mostly wiseass answers--it's arranged chronologically.

For some reason, his explanation of immanentizing the eschaton is on page 23.

(This will only make sense to people who know something about _Illuminatus!_--that's the book. The game doesn't count.

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Has anyone asked Ron Paul what he'll do if one of his consistant with the Constitution programs looks like it's failing badly?

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[captain-button.livejournal.com]

Ewige Blumenkraft!

And the idea for Illuminatus! supposedly came from speculation about what it would be like if the "interesting correspondence" (crazy conspiracy letters) sent to Playboy were all true.

Ron Paul and the Constitution

[stripeyseven.livejournal.com]

As I understand it, Paul refuses to endorse the idea of an Article V constitutional convention, even though Congress has been mandated to call one since 1911. And this IMO is the most fundamental Constitutional(ist) obligation of all, because implementing Article V's option for amendment by state initiative is the legal embodiment of the principle of "government by consent of the governed," which gives everything else in our system its claim to democratic legitimacy.

Evidently Paul's "constitutionalism" is about worship of the Constitution as its currently written (and as Paul interprets it), not about respect for its underlying principle.

Re: Ron Paul and the Constitution

[stripeyseven.livejournal.com]

For more info on this issue, see stripey7.blogspot.com/2007/01/government-by-consent-of-governed.html.