Turning Point USA Student Action Summit 2018

12/30/18 • 47 min

On this special edition we interview attendees at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit 2018 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in Florida. 5000 mostly college and high school students were invited to this event. We met many young people actively engaged in promoting limited government and fiscal responsibility.

Speakers at the event included Laura Ingram, Pete Hegseth, Dinesh D'Souza, Greg Gutfeld, Tucker Carlson, Sebastian Gorka, Jesse Watters, Mark Levin, Kimberly Gilfoile, Jordan Peterson, Dave Rubin, Kyle Kashuv, Anna Paulina, Donald Trump Jr., and others.

Attendees interviewed and starting time for each:
1:20 Will Miller, student
6:50 Jessica Ramirez, Student Programs Manager, Atlas Society
8:08 Eddy Neret, Student Journalist, Red Alert Politics
11:48 Will, Penn State student, Penn State Republicans Secretary
13:35 Marshal Hoffman, Cornell University student, civil engineering
23:28 Tom Miller, Convention of States District Capitan FL D89, attorney
24:54 John Paul, Grand Opportunity USA, President & CEO
34:21 Philip Blumel, President, U.S. Term Limits
38:15 Dexter Taylor, TPUSA Urban Engagement Director
43:07 12 Days of Christmas, TPUSA version
Convention of States Action was represented at the convention by:
Keith Bessette Liberty Solutions Host, State Content Writer, SMW
Nancy Suits Florida State Communications Director
Ed Vidal Attorney, WSQF FM radio co-host, COS supporter at large
Thomas Miller Attorney, District Captain FL D-89
Will Miller Student

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Unsafe Space - Time To Change The Constitution?

In this episode Keith Bessette appears as a guest on Carter Laren's Unsafe Space YouTube/Podcast show. We discuss a range of topics including a convention to propose amendments and the Convention Of States Project, birthright citizenship, the caravan "walking" through Mexico, immigration, where rights come from, the founder's intent, and individual State's authority over the federal government.

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Syria Withdraw and Middle East Wars

Trump's December 2018 Syria full withdraw order and the Middle East wars since George Bush Sr. are discussed with guest Eduardo Vidal. Ed is the co-host of the Concrete Conservatives talk show on WSQF FM Key Biscayne/Miami and online, and is the corporate lawyer for a software firm. We talk about the multitude of excuses used to conduct the war in Syria and touch on a few of the many Middle East wars the US has engaged in over the last two decades. The Constitution and legislation with which Congress unconstitutionally delegated their power to declare war to the President are covered.
Keith rants a bit about the dismal failures of the many US interventions in the Middle East. The US military is excellent when allowed to win a fight. But the track record of what happens next with installing new governments is dismal.
A potential solution of a Constitution change proposed by the States in an Article V Convention for proposing Amendments is considered. An amendment could eliminate most future U.S. military actions in the Middle East by:
(1) reminding the government that Congress is the only branch with the expressly delegated power to declare war, and
(2) explicitly denying the President the power to send armed forces into battle without a Congressional declaration of war.
Such an amendment falls under the Convention of States Action topic of limiting the power and jurisdiction of the Federal government, putting it back to what the founders intended. It also falls into the fiscal responsibility topic.
The US military should not be world's police force, spending trillions of dollars protecting other countries. It should not overthrow other governments because DC politicians prefer some different form of government. Not our job, not what the founders wanted, and it is ludicrously expensive.