On October 5, London daily The Guardian published an essay by Chicago-area Keynesian labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan calling for “Blue States” to hold their own “Constitutional Convention.”
Demonstrating his total ignorance and/or contempt for the founders of the American Republic, Geoghegan writes: “We could consider the kind of political theatre that Americans created from 1768 to 1776 to resist Britain’s growing crackdown.” He claims that the first continental congress had “no apparent legitimacy or precedent.”
He goes on: “However weak, those acts of political theater led to formal independence. After the war, American leaders held a convention—nominally to amend the Articles of Confederation with a unanimous vote by every state. Instead, the framers worked in secret, replaced the articles altogether, and changed the process for amending the new constitution to a three quarters vote.”
Nowhere does he mention the British occupation and abuse of the British Empire colony, nor does he reference the thousands of pages of pamphlets, articles, and letters wherein Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Gouverneur Morris and dozens of other American leaders express the principles of natural law which “compel the separation” of the United States from England.
Having thus created a fake narrative of the founding of the United States, Geoghegan goes on to propose a secret convention of people in states which oppose President Donald Trump, who could be aided by all of the lawyers who have been fired or resigned in giving this “theatre” the cover of legality.
He writes: “Like the founders, we should create a limited, invitation-only body—an embryonic constitutional convention—that the anti-Trump blue states exclusively set up for themselves, limit to themselves, and control.
“The constitution already provides some authority for doing so.
“These selected states are meeting to propose an interstate compact by and between themselves, in the spirit if not the letter of the compacts that the constitution’s article I, section 10, clause 3 describes, and for them to submit formally to Congress to adopt as federal law.”
Is he attempting to argue that the deployment by President Trump of the National Guard from one state into another is an “invasion” which would allow the “invaded” state to form its own militia?
Nowhere does Geoghegan mention anything about the danger of thermonuclear war, the genocide in Gaza, the military incursions against Venezuela, or the potential war against Iran, nor does he have any proposal for how his new “compact” could actually fund all of the medical and research activities he says it would mandate.
On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the British Empire and their loyal subjects in the Party “Potty” System would like nothing better than to rip apart our republic.
