(Actor Jim Hogue, playing the role of Ethan Allen, addressed a convention on independence for Vermont at the Statehouse in Montpelier today.) Am I the only one that thinks that this is not the only costume that Jim has in his closet?
Posted on 10/28/2005 3:12:42 PM PDT by Airborne1986
MONTPELIER, Vt. --A car parked outside the Statehouse bore a bumper sticker saying, "Regime change begins at home." Inside, about 100 Vermonters gathered in the House chamber for the Vermont Independence Convention --devoted to Vermont creating a regime of its own.
If participants have their way, the state whose former governor was laughed out of the 2004 presidential race after the infamous Iowa scream is going to take what some call its wackiness and others call its sanity in a crazy world and go home.
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Ethan Allen, who led the Green Mountain Boys to take Fort Ticonderoga from the British in 1775, was among those in attendance, in the person of actor Jim Hogue. Ticonderoga fell without a shot fired, and it was agreed Friday that the new revolution would have to be nonviolent as well.
"Let history record that we, still carrying on without firing a shot, brought to their knees all those who, in the name of security made enemies, in the name of patriotism wrought treason and tyranny, in the name of peace made war and in the name of liberty would turn us into slaves," Hogue's Allen said.
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Independence was the subject of a series of light-hearted debates around the state in 1991, on the bicentennial of Vermont's statehood. State Supreme Court Justice John Dooley -- a Stephen Douglas look-alike -- supported staying in. University of Vermont history professor Frank Bryan argued for getting out.
At the end of each debate the audience voted, and in every case, they voted to leave the Union. Nothing much happened as a result, but the message of Friday's convention appeared to be: If at first you don't secede ...
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(Actor Jim Hogue, playing the role of Ethan Allen, addressed a convention on independence for Vermont at the Statehouse in Montpelier today.) Am I the only one that thinks that this is not the only costume that Jim has in his closet?
Works for me.
They should have just let us go in 1860.
Fine with me. And with their gay civil unions, it won't be a self-sustaining ecosystem.
He looks like Icabod Crane.
Somehow I doubt that Mr. Allen was a freakin' COMMIE like those folks!
Tejas! Tenga éxito!
Your question is priceless as well as a side splitter.
He looks like a 270 year old guy who would run a furniture store.
Don't worry, we'll be okay... really...
[Googles for senators...]
Jeffords and Leahy...
[Googles for congressman...]
Bernie Sanders...
...SEE YA!!!
Good Riddance...you NO longer carry the values patriotic Americans hold so dear.
Didja catch Bernie's lovefest with DeFazio yesterday? Yuck.
What a gay blade this flop appears to be.
I think we should simply take their names, process their overt request to renounce their citizenship, revoke said citizenship, and immediately deport them to a neutral 3rd country such as CUBA.
Strip them of all assets due to their violation of the 14th amendment's provisions of their being a non-person having supported insurrection and/or rebellion making a government debt due to confiscation of assets null and void.
Shoot them in the face if they attempt to re-enter the United States. Issue letters of Marque to anyone who asks so that we can sink, shoot, and set ablaze any and all boats, ships, dingies, or rafts they may board with an intent to re-enter the United States.
In short, to hell with them.
Yes, it's rather shocking to me. I had once considered living there, believing it would be a place where the Founding Spirit would live on.
But they are already an independent republic. Shouldn't we simply recognize that fact, and start the process of restoring our Constitution?
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