Posted on 05/24/2014 6:48:40 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine
“to defend against this government or any government in the future from becoming oppressive, tyrannical, or in any other way obnoxious to freedom”
The entire concept is already all of those things.
Why would the people’s republic of Maine be looking for born agains to move there and water down their socialist tendencies?
Join Quebec and go on the dole.
Will the militia be enforcing religion? Let’s take an example. Let’s say your Pastor defines Christianity as Trinitarian. (I see the Trinity mentioned in one of the clauses.) Let’s say the religious authorities hear of a Unitarian sect holding worship services. Will the militia be called out to suppress their worship?
Of course. How else are you going to protect ‘freedom’.
What about your huge Somali population? They’re invited to the big dance too? ROFL
Exactly. They profess freedom, but sound like the Taliban. You are free as long as you submit completly to Allah.
Maine can’t even get rid of the RINOs - Susan Collins and the former Ole Snow...
The only rational secessionist movement even remotely possible is one where the states rebel legislatively and economically against federal government and that isn’t even secession. Its just the states reasserting their rightful powers.
Personally I would be satisfied if we could re-amend the 16th and 17th amendments.
People who speak using definitives are usually proven wrong. Time will tell.
I agree.
President Obama won in ME by 110,000 votes or almost 17%.
TROM is telling us that ME will go from voting 57% for a socialist to voting 60% to secede from the Union in a few years.
In order to overcome the deficit and get to 60% in that time, he needs to find 300,000 more voters - ME's population needs to increase by more than 33% in that time frame, maybe 40% since his targeted newcomers have larger than average families.
ME has about 10,000 houses on the market in any given year and about 700,000 total. So ME's housing stock would have to increase by about 25% or more over that period, or at about 20 times its normal pace.
Quite obviously this is a fool's errand, but the conceit of the thread is that we should ignore the impossibility of the scheme.
A meaningless statement without statistics to back it up.
Time will tell.
Math tells us now.
Allow me to speak the following, definitively: 2 + 2 = 4.
Am I right about that? Or shall we wait for time to tell us the answer to this too?
I sure hope they’re calling for the military to remove all their personnel AND equipment. After all, they are federally funded and the nation of Maine won’t be able to afford to maintain them anyway.
Oh, and I’m lowballing the housing issue since ME has so many summer homes and second homes.
Question about Section 4: does this wording allow the Republic of Maine to prohibit obscenity and pornography? How does the Republic of Maine intend to deal with the border-trespassing by the Internet with regard to pornography?
“Quite obviously this is a fool’s errand, but the conceit of the thread is that we should ignore the impossibility of the scheme.”
Nothing is impossible with God and an armed militia on your side to enforce your religious dogma.
Feasibility shouldn’t even play a part in judging a plan like this. It’s diametrically opposed to the principles of freedom and liberty it claims to champion.
Pornography is not covered under freedom of speech. As for the internet, now that is a problem we are hoping that there will be a way to block it but fear this will not be, as a result we ahve Section 7a. Education. All education is left to the local community, to the parents first and foremost and then to the city, town or community in which the family resides. The counties and the Republic are explicitly denied any role in a child's education with the exception of Militia members while on duty and prisoners while in the care of the county jail or prison of the Republic. The first and foremost responsibility to teach a child Religion, obedience, patriotism, loyalty, righteousness, and to be a productive member of society rest squarely upon the shoulders of the parent(s), the local communities role is to support and reinforce that parental responsibility.
So that fixes everything.
With no welfare and being a Christian nation, why would they stay?
Once they understand that they ahve to be out of Maine and into a welfare state six months before we secede, they will be gone. those who want to work are welcome to stay, as long as they understand that there is no govt welfare at any level of govt.
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