Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: trisham
and then let them explain this: We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their CREATOR, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.--

Why bother? It's the introduction to a secessionist document that holds no legal stance. And we all know how 'good' Republicans feel about secession. We're stuck in it till the bitter end by God.

Your group unfortunately may get its way. Final destruction of the powers of the states. Screw limited government. We don't need that, we need to tell people how to live!! And when it does happen, there will be repercussions. Ones you won't expect in your gleeful celebration of having 537 idiots decide every little thing for us, but there will be consequences. Of course you'll whine about that, but in your push to give the State all decision making processes you won't be able to do anything about it. Keep paving that road with good intentions...

145 posted on 08/30/2007 11:44:27 AM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 135 | View Replies ]


To: billbears
Setting the record straight, I have always believed and posted here that it is the right of each and every state to secede whatever Lincoln, Sherman and Sheridan might have thought and that the Confederate States were right in seceding under the 10th Amendment. Therefore, do not assume that all Republicans oppose the right to secede.

Somehow, though, I don't see North Carolina or South Carolina or Virginia or Tennessee or Georgia or Alabama or Mississippi or Texas or Arkansas or Florida Louisiana attempting secession to preserve either the right to murder the unborn or the right of lavenders and other perverts to play make-believe "marriage" with attendant tax benefits.

If you want to preserve lifestyle "choices" like babykilling and pervert "marriage," you will have to vote Demonrat to be really effective. Voting Libertoonian or Constitution Party just splits the social revolutionary vote and is not a practical strategy from that POV.

If you genuinely are concerned that social conservatives may "win," then you might want to see to it that strict antiabhortion laws are enacted now state by state. You might be surprised at how much steam that would remove from social conservatism. Then again, such a sensible prescription would violate kneejerk libertoonianism.

151 posted on 08/30/2007 11:56:28 AM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 145 | View Replies ]

To: billbears
Your group unfortunately may get its way. Final destruction of the powers of the states. Screw limited government. We don't need that, we need to tell people how to live!! And when it does happen, there will be repercussions. Ones you won't expect in your gleeful celebration of having 537 idiots decide every little thing for us, but there will be consequences. Of course you'll whine about that, but in your push to give the State all decision making processes you won't be able to do anything about it. Keep paving that road with good intentions...

***************

Other than being socially conservative, I'm not sure to what "group" you think I belong. Pro-life? Yes, I am pro-life. Other than that, specifically what were you railing against?

153 posted on 08/30/2007 12:08:45 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 145 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson