If at first you can't secede, try, try again.. With the Iraq war, overbearing federal government, high taxes, and whatnot, several US states are seriously considering seceding from the Union. From Yahoo News: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - In an unlikely marriage of desire to secede from the United States, two advocacy groups from opposite political traditions — New England and the South — are sitting down to talk. Tired of foreign wars and what they consider right-wing courts, the Middlebury Institute wants liberal states like Vermont to be able to secede peacefully. That sounds just fine to the League of the South, a conservative group that refuses to give up on Southern independence. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071003/ap_on_re_us/secessionist_movement_1 Personally, I'm not a big proponent of secession (tho I believe states should have the right to do so), I'd rather see a concerted effort by a unified front to change what they don't like about the current situation, rather than breaking away from it.. that's the easy way out. What do YOU Think?
Glory glory hallelujah! If anyone ever read the Confederate Constitution they would see it was a much more efficient plan for the government in some areas. I read the thing just a bit ago and I liked a few of the ideas in it - as a whole though I find it lacking. That last one I love... no more pork! http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/csa.htm
I agree with the last line of this story: The further you go out in the fringes, the more likely you'll find that the left and right meet. If, for different reasons.
LOL. I guess that's a point. I guess it's ashame it only happens between white supremicists and communists though.
Sounds a bit like the California movement that fizzled a few years ago. Northern Cal wanted to split from southern Cal due to the huge tax burden in the LA area. I knew a guy that was very active in that, but it didn't get very far. We need someone like former Senator William Proxmier who used to do the Golden Fleece Award back in the 1970s and 1980s. He was actually a Democrat who pointed out all of the foolish spending projects in the government. Many were way beyond ridiculous. He got a lot of attention, but it didn't change anything. I've always said that if any business tried to run itself like the way Senators and Congressmen try to run the government, the business would be bankrupted before it got started and the CFO imprisoned due to corrupt accounting methods.
Agreed. I think that was what Weimar Germany was about. The NASDAP and KPD gleefully stomping on the nascent democracy in Germany. However, I'd hardly classify the Vermont "secessionists" as revolutionary communists. More like folks who get really surly if Cherry Garcia is removed from the product mix. (Back to slinking silently away).