What happens when the government decides to skip the courtroom and issue a death sentence via missile? Since late 2025, over 200 people have been killed in secret U.S. military strikes on small boats. The military claims these are narco-terrorists, but admits they lack the evidence to actually hold or prosecute survivors in a court of law. It is a stark deprivation of life without due process, performed openly as state policy.

A convention should be judged first by what it accomplished, and the body that met in Grand Rapids accomplished more than its sharpest critics will credit. The case for the convention, stated as charitably as the record permits, is substantial.