Posted on 07/02/2012 5:58:14 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat
One of the regular callers to my local weekday radio show has been telling me for years the answer to my country’s woes is secession. He makes liberals foam at the mouth but if you take a moment to read a few more paragraphs you’ll see “Rick from Lewes” may be ahead of the curve.
Syria being the possible exception this has been a great week for totalitarians. In Washington and elsewhere across the United States the liberals claim they’ve been vindicated and are planning to chair John Roberts across Capitol Hill. When I was a teenager my Grandmother Colley handed me an old worn book. A History of Pyrrhus was the title and it was a surprisingly good read. It’s also why, unlike the lefties I don’t need to look up the meaning of Pyrrhic Victory.
While “Remember Obamacare” may not have the same ring as some historic rallying cries I see tremendous opportunity for liberty loving people and the candidates seeking their votes. Every candidate for House, Senate and President opposed to the march of big government can now attach Obamacare to a weak economy and that’s the positive side of today’s ruling. There’s also a darker outcome increasingly on the horizon and it’s secession.
I think you’re going to be hearing more people in polite society raising the possibility of going our own way. Do you think there are now more fellow American citizens in Arizona this week considering the meaning of sovereignty?
Some months ago I was watching MSDNC (for research purposes) and Eugene “Marvin the Martian” Robinson of the Washington Post was telling his host the question of state sovereignty had been answered during the Civil War. Really? The war didn’t end when one side raised the white flag and admitted the other had a more valid constitutional argument. It ended when one hungry side grew weary of bleeding. One member of my radio audience this week explained liberals traditionally support the secession of portions of states. West Virginia split from a larger unit during the Civil War and when the shooting stopped and the smoke cleared it never re-entered Richmond’s orbit.
There are a great many more reasons the word secession will gain more currency in political conversation. One of Eugene Robinson’s fellow columnists at the Post is writing about an economic stagnation lasting for generations. Robert Samuelson is neither conservative nor liberal according to his colleagues. He writes simply about dollars and cents and Monday argued the world and its competing nations must blaze a new economic path because as we’ve learned domestically consumer spending as an engine of growth has limits. Such as when indebted consumers can no longer spend.
Samuelson didn’t offer a solution for an obvious diagnosis. He isn’t an alarmist but you don’t need to be a PhD in economics to imagine life could become a serious struggle even for the traditionally comfortable of the Western World. A couple of summers ago the economist Robert Prechter writing a guest commentary for the New York Times predicted the worst economic downturn in three hundred years. Months later I saw him on television and he backed away from his warning. Then this past spring he came full circle, predicting a “deflationary implosion” that would rattle the globe.
Even the most brain-addled liberal understands governments can’t coerce without revenue. See Greece, Spain and California. Eventually the police and jailers don’t get paid and they join the looting and burning. Obamacare isn’t going to break the bank. It was broken a long time ago. The weight of Obamacare and other government programs supported by borrowing and taxing are going to implode the United States. Taxpayers in some states are going to rebel when told they need to pay for bad governance in the Northeast and California. Throughout the Southwest this will be coupled with anger at supporting Central and South Americans running roughshod across borders. When Texas and the Rocky Mountain States secede the federal government won’t have the resources to stamp out the rebellion.
“Rick from Lewes” isn’t just a guy off the streets. He was an assistant at the U.S. Justice Department. Rick worked for Robert Bork. Rick argues the liberals will rejoice as the red states go their own way. It means the left can consolidate power in the remaining Decrepit States of America. Eventually the leftist empire will collapse and the walls will fall and there will be a new dawn for a liberty loving USA. But for a Justice Bork this week.
Roberts and Obama have destroyed freedom in the U.S.. Government at all levels needs to be tremendously reduced immediately or we will not survive: Your share of the federal debt is already over $100,000 and exploding . The IRS and EPA need to be abolished immediately . The 100,000 pages of government regulations choking businesses need to be instantly eliminated. How to do this? My proposal is : (anybody have a better plan put it out there): The states need to secede from the union. And then those states write a new constitution that proclaims that the federal government’s only roles are in defending the country from Foreign threats like illegals and china. Never will it be allowed for government at any level to get involved in schools, healthcare, or welfare or charity.99% of what governments do know should be abolished and illegal. The only thing the government could have a small role is in roads as they already ruined that So governments should only deal with police(local), military , border control, customs( federal), roads( states), courts at all levels (only to protect individual and property rights )and only a sales tax and tariffs allowed at any level of government. That means an EPA,IRS, government schools, HUD,HHS , dept of energy,income tax, property taxes are always illegal(never never will any politician even propose legislation that would deal with any of this as it would be illegal).
Democrats really believe that the people who run the department of motor vehicles or government schools (Like a high school principle etc.) will be able to provide the cutting edge technology and diagnostics to save our lives.
what do you agree or disagree with my post?
One wonders if the Soviet Analyst was able to foresee the more proximate breakup of the Soviet Empire into Russia, Byelorussia, Georgia, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan? If not, why would someone think his predictions on the US would have any validity.
Rather odd to think that having 50 states feverishly printing money will lead to greater monetary stability than the federal reserve system we have now. We tried that approach under the Articles of Federation, and it didn’t work.
If you can’t get 3/4s to amend the constitution, you can’t get 3/4s for secession. Anything less would be rebellion, and would be punished harshly.
Of course Israel is more socialist than the US. That, and being the Chosen People of G-d makes then unique. If you don’t have the qualifications, don’t apply for the job.
It was the rebels that attacked the US, and then declared war against the US. After that, that the US fought back against traitors committing treason should not be a big surprise.
Rather than secession which would require state regulations to replace federal regulations, it would be better to win a few elections, and then rewrite the onerous regulations and laws to make them better.
If you can make the 3/4s majority necessary for secession, you can meet the 3/4s majority to amend the constitution as necessary. If you can’t, then you are advocating rebellion, which would be harshly punished.
Oh, you won't get secession by going through channels. That's like asking your wife for permission to start an affair. You have to just do it and be willing to suffer the consequences. There will be no turning back or the punishment will be harsh but I think a persuasive case can be made both to Texans and to Washington to let it happen once the move is made.
For example, how does it look to the rest of the world if the U.S. tries a violent putdown of Texas while condemning Russia for a violent putdown of Georgia and Chechnya? We might actually get a lot of diplomatic support from all the America-haters that either Bush or Obama have ticked off.
So your point of view is that treason is preferable because winning elections is too hard for you?
Get thee behind me Satan.
My point is that America is broken and elections will not fix it. The Titanic was a magnificent ocean liner but there came a time to abandon ship or die.
The America that was founded was the best country on earth but certain Supreme Court decisions (1962-present) and a federal government which has grown to believe itself infallible have destroyed the foundation upon which that greatness was founded on - a reverence for a Creator God, a belief in limited government and a reliance on self-responsibility and liberty has been traded in for a government just a few steps short of the Supreme Soviet.
Secession is the attempt to recreate the America that the founders created and for which conservatism bleeds and dies for. IMO, Texas (and maybe Alaska) is the best laboratory for doing this while not repeating the federal mistakes of the past 50 years. Perhaps it would fail but I’d rather try and fail than watch us be sucked into the insatiable federal leviathan that only desires more and more power over our lives each and every day when we know in our hearts there is a better way that we can’t get federal judges and Washington bureaucrats to see.
Call it treason if you wish. I call it survival.
I call it treason, cowardice, fecklessness.
Well, congratulations. Hope you enjoy a two-party system rigged to move further to the Left every year because government never votes against government control and this one has pretty much usurped states rights and individual freedom. You’re watching the death twitches of the America you grew up in and you’re willing to believe that a little bit of grass roots will solve it. I guess you haven’t been paying attention.
I paid attention in 2010 as the Tea Party won 60% of senate seats on offer. Just as the country has moved left in increments over the years, it can move right the same way. Just as it is rigged by people to move left, it can be rigged to move right by different people.
You just have to decide if you are one of the people who will move it right, or if you are one of the ones content to have it move left.
You don’t ask your wife for permission to have an affair. You do ask permission from the state for a divorce.
Unless you are just a thief, or a deadbeat.
The lesson of the Civil War was that right makes might. Slavery was such a bad cause that the slave power could gain no allies, and hence lost. It was such a bad cause that they had no legal case, and so had to seek power from the barrel of a gun. They didn’t find it there.
I have some definate problems with conditions 1, 2 and 4. They don’t include any rope.
A likely scenario that would take flame is the red states opting out of Obamacare and also opting out of following the next elections.
They will still have candidates but not through electors, it will be a popular vote, a Tea Party will arise. A leader will shine and step forth.
While the blue states have a successful election of either Romney or Obama the red states will have their own President.
This is what America should do, the blue states do have the option of standing around whining and saying they are so screwed while the ship is sinking, I for one do not and has never waited for permission, to me life right now is its better to stand tall by risking it all than sitting down with a downturned smile.
Not when the divorce is from the state. Why ask when you know the answer? Secession isn't some joyride. This is saying "I'm done with you" and going your own way. Keep your federal dollars but we aren't sending any more. Keep your monster debt. We'll fence our own borders and grow our own economy and we'll go it without you, not in violent opposition but in philosophical opposition.
To stay in will mean the eventual forced recognition of gay marriage, gun restrictions, the repeal of the death penalty, etc. because the federal government will force us to do it by judicial or legislative fiat. ObamaCare has essentially ruled the 10th amendment unconstitutional so what is to stop them from infringing on the 1st, 2nd and 4th amendments?
I believe other nations would recognize Texas as a separate nation because they aren't trying to impose slavery or a theocracy (as the critics will charge). Some will do it because they would like to see America weakened and some will do it because they see the potential in a Texas economy unencumbered by Washington's taxations and bureaucracy.
There is a legal procedure for a disagreement between a state and the federal government. It was the slave power’s failure to use that procedure that in large part led to the loss in 1860-1865.
The measures that you assert would be forced upon us without secession only happen if the people who are against them lose elections.
Of course the people who you hope will recognize a pretended independent Texas would largely also look down their noses at a Texas seeking independence because of homosexual rights, religious definitions of marriage, and the death penalty.
I personally find the death penalty appealing due to its low recidivism, but note it can be applied correctly as per Texas, or incorrectly as per California. In California the death penalty is just another welfare program for attorneys.
One might also make the observation that “Might makes Wrong” when you look at how the southron fire-eaters attempted to muscle their way into a political solution and got their asses handed to them as a result.
Or if you prefer, “Wrong makes Weakness.”
Prince Albert on his deathbed, knowing that a divided US could be exploited by England, still exacted promises from the two men likely to be Prime Minister that they would not support the slave power. He saw it as a moral duty.
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