Posted on 04/05/2010 5:15:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
Ten years ago I asked the following question in a column titled "It's Time To Part Company":
"If one group of people prefers government control and management of people's lives and another prefers liberty and a desire to be left alone, should they be required to fight, antagonize one another, risk bloodshed and loss of life in order to impose their preferences or should they be able to peaceably part company and go their separate ways?"
The problem that our nation faces is very much like a marriage where one partner has broken, and has no intention of keeping, the marital vows. Of course, the marriage can remain intact and one party tries to impose his will on the other and engage in the deviousness of one-upmanship. Rather than submission by one party or domestic violence, a more peaceable alternative is separation.
I believe we are nearing a point where there are enough irreconcilable differences between those Americans who want to control other Americans and those Americans who want to be left alone that separation is the only peaceable alternative. Just as in a marriage, where vows are broken, our human rights protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution have been grossly violated by a government instituted to protect them.
The Democrat-controlled Washington is simply an escalation of a process that has been in full stride for at least two decades. There is no evidence that Americans who are responsible for and support constitutional abrogation have any intention of mending their ways.
You say, "Williams, what do you mean by constitutional abrogation?" Let's look at just some of the magnitude of the violations.
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The USSR was a superpower.
“I shudder to think of a world in which the United States is unable to project its superior military power.”
Russia is still the second most powerful military power even after losing the other 14 states of the former USSR.
“That said, if the split was a “virtual” one — where, because of a return to federalism, states were allowed to reinvent themselves in their own image — the union would be preserved and the one great task of the federal government would be to focus on national security and military defense”
That could work.
You know, you’re right. I’ll have to ponder that.
However, I still wish to see the union preserved. I just want to have a limtited federal government and be able to live in a state that is not socialist or worse.
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Dang, I like living where my ancestors settled ~320 years ago...
No, hell no, we are going to have the best borders in the world. Once they’re out, they’re OUT. No crawling back in.
I and the fam went to the 9/12 Tea Party in D.C. this year. There were some people handing out fliers that urged conservatives to move to New Hampshire. Had info on the taxes and so on. Basically, they were working hard to get reinforcements up there.
It was an interesting concept and an interesting proposition.
As for conservatives leaving Mass., yes, I hadn’t thought of that twist on the trend. And, yes, they will continue to vote conservative, so that’s a good thing. Plus, having experienced a taste of socialism, they’ll be good advocates against it in their new state.
And by the way, why would we want Canada anyway?
With the exception of one dingbat couple the entire group were Conservatives and very pissed off Conservatives. It broke their hearts to leave the state they had been born in, a state where their ancestors had been for generations but they felt they had no choice.
Once the subject came up that they were moving out of state all of their frustration would come boiling out of them. It was sad really but I know they'll make us proud in their new state.
Most of CA would also be red if a tiny sliver was split off to the blue side. And probably the same for IL.
Good point by Walter Williams.
Thank you very kindly for that very HOPEFUL report.
I have a little experience with something like this myself, having been in a position where I could choose between two states from which to commute to my job in D.C.
I did not choose Maryland.
Then one time we were looking to buy a house. It was an election year. We pulled up to a rather nice place, but the political signs up and down the street told us all we needed to know. We told the real estate agent to keep driving. She was puzzled and we didn’t elaborate. But with so many neighborhoods to choose from, we felt there was no way we would knowingly plop down in the middle of a steaming stew of Rat voters.
Well said!. We cannot trade one central-planning tyranny for another. Any interstate government must be extremely limited and checked by the States. For example, no taxation at the interstate level -- all taxes must be state or local.
>>> To keep (or at least discourage) the freeloaders from moving into free states, the free states should carefully amend their constitutions to have as ironclad as possible provisions against enacting anything that even smells like socialism from 200 miles away.
They called it McCarthyism I think... and it doesn’t work either.
The answer is education and morality... the two legs of a three legged stool they have successfully destroyed in this country.
Oh... and the third leg?.... Responsibility.
But didn’t Sam Houston get ousted on his keester for refusing to secede....???
That is the basic idea put forth in the book The Sovereign Individual - that the nation states are going to break up as the ability of smaller and smaller groups to use force increases. It predicts the possiblity of the re-emergence of city-states or march regions. It’s a very interesting take on history and the future.
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Ehh dude, we do not want to let Ontario, or Quebec into our Union!
Indeed we should be iffy on every province except Alberta.
In any case let us reserve the right to leave(unilaterally) as well as perhaps most importantly, the right to kick delinquent States out of our union.
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