Posted on 06/12/2007 10:31:16 AM PDT by mngran
The leader of a small group that ultimately wants to secede from the United States and form a Christian republic is preparing to move to the South Carolina county his organization has picked as a good base of operations.
Cory Burnell, leader of Christian Exodus, said he has found a job and is ready to move his family and operations by July from California to Anderson, in the state's northwest corner.
His family, which includes his wife and three children, will join more than a dozen other like-minded families already living in the Upstate region of South Carolina. Burnell said he expects another two dozen families in his movement to move to the area by 2008.
Christian Exodus aims to claim a voice in the South Carolina state government, and eventually secede from the United States to form its own separate Christian republic.
The group is a political organization, Burnell says, that also seeks to limit the power of the federal government. Burnell claims federal oversight of education, health and human services and housing and urban development violate the 10th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
"It's totally illegal for the federal government to do it," said Burnell, a financial adviser. "Authority for those programs is on the state level. It cannot come out of Washington, it has to come out of Columbia."
Burnell's hope in encouraging other families to move to South Carolina is to put up candidates for public office who share his agenda and get them elected.
Burnell has said he picked South Carolina - and the Upstate area in particular - because there already were so many conservative Christians there.
Baaaah....Baaaaaaah...Baah...Baaaaah... /sheep
I would prefer to see folks forming these types of cities, than to see them cow towing to the libs, especially when I look at places like Boston, and SF!! Those places will eventually, if they have their way, infiltrate every other city in America.
I also think it’s interesting that folks are against secession when it comes to people like this, but when something comes up in MA or SF, the same people say that state is a lost cause and are just willing to give it away.
To a non-SEC outsider like me (I lived in Columbia for 7 1/2 years 1997-2004), Gamecock Nation is endearingly weird. This is a football program that has a 100-year tradition of mediocrity unmatched in Division I-A. They’re at a slight competitive disadvantage in the SEC due to a smaller recruiting pool and another big football school in their small state cutting that pool down even further. They’re not good, they’re not bad, if you look at their historical record, they’re very average. And yet, every year is going to be THE YEAR...the year that the Cocks go 12-0, stomp Clemson, dominate the SEC, and win the national championship.
Ain’t happening, guys. USC fans are loyal to a fault, they were still packing the place when Lou Holtz went 0-11 his first year. They’re devoted, they travel well, they’re great fans. But just like Chicago Cubs fans, it’s always going to be “wait until next year.” Enjoy watching the team win seven games and end up in the Humanitarian Bowl, have fun with 84,000 of your closest friends in Williams-Brice every home game, but not even the Ol’ Ball Coach is going to get you to the Promised Land. Not in the Murderer’s Row that is the Southeastern Conference.
But what do I know. I went to a Division I-AA school, James Madison. But, we do have one more national football championship than the Gamecocks do in the past 100 years... *zing!*
I love South Carolina, though. It’s a fantastic place to visit and live, and I had a great time there.
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You are using the terms secession, rebellion, and treason very loosely. What does the U.S. Constitution say about secession?
One of the real tragedies is Stanton & Grant would not allow prisoner negotiations, exchanges, nor the ability to provide food, medicine, and supplies to Camp Sumter.
I don't care who you are, that's funny right there! LOL
I was born in SC but lived as a young boy in TN for a while where my blood turned orange. I get along fine with Clemson fans and even have attended a few games at Death Valley. But the Shamecocks, as you so eloquently put it, are a 100 yr tradition of mediocrity. Love that line and can't wait to put it to use come fall. :)
It's economic. They want to corner the maple syrup market.
I think the rest of the country isn't far left enough.
Not a bad thing... let’s balkanize into 50 states or 200. This is why most of the Founders wanted a federal system, not a Leviathan national state.
Why do the “Children of God” come to mind...
I always say that the next hurricane to hit Spurrierlumbia will do millions of dollars in improvements.
I do love the roadkill chicken fans magical tradition of turning into empty seats in the 3rd quarter. The fans also hate this;
THIS IS SOUTH CAROLINA FOOTBALL
I was always puzzled while growing up in the state that so many people could get so excited about those two teams constituted of 18-22 year olds in an educational enviromnent they had never personally experienced, much less actual universities they had never attended.
Are you from Vermont?
I believe that Thomas Jefferson would disagree with you:
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
And I disagree with you also. The Second Amendment was not put in the Constitution to protect duck hunting.
I don’t blame these people at all.
But if a company does the same thing, they're traitors? ROFLMAO!!
Oh so now you are stalking me huh?
You mean kind of like British citizens in 13 British colonies “rebeled against their nation”? Perhaps your allegience is to the Union Jack.
In 1776, we would have called you a Tory.
Perhaps you should re-reads the first paragraph of a document called the “Declaration of Independence”. Apparently there is something about the God-given right to liberty that you don’t understand.
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