Ironically, in this extremely volatile period of covert and overt threats of a deep state coup d’état against the Trump regime, more and more naive mainstream conservative Republicans are joining the grassroots effort to amend the US Constitution via a Convention of the States. This “reform movement” is very dangerous and may prove suicidal. Here precisely is why.   For a very long period we have had an extra-Constitutional government, acting unrestrained by what Thomas Jefferson described as “the chains of the Constitution.” After the attacks of September 11, 2001, our government has engaged in systematic policies of torture, targeted killing, … Continue reading The Con Con/COG Dual Threat To The Republic