Posted on 01/17/2018 5:28:02 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants
Two men have launched a campaign to divide rural California from the coastal cities, motivated by what they referred to as a tyrannical form of government, that doesnt follow the state or federal constitution, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Unlike the failed 2016 campaign to split California into 6 states, the New California movement, founded by Robert Paul Preston and Tom Reed, seeks to consolidate rural California into a dinstinct economy separate from the coast.
Preston and Reed say the citizens of the state live under a tyrannical form of government that does not follow the California and U.S. Constitutions.
The "founders" have evoked Article IV Section 3 of the United States Constitution as justification for establishing a new economy with a new state constitution.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
The State of Jefferson has been in the works since WWII. Just a dream.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_(proposed_Pacific_state)
Bettet —> Better
Well.... nice effort guys but.... youre stupid. Contra Costa is lib. Santa Clara is Silicon Valley for Petes sake and I think has somewhere near 2 million residents. Orange County doesnt even live off its Republican stronghold fumes any more, and think were doomed to lose San Diego as well. This would be as rigidly a rat state as California is now, wither Republican hinterland tyrannized by these Ive mentioned
50 is a nice round number. Make Hawaii a protectorate. Better yet make all of New England New England.
So now we have the Left Coast and the Lefter Coast?
Add Roanoke & Albemarle/Charlottesville to the VA Democratic base.....
You can check out anytime you like... but you can never leave.
There should probably be two or three states made out of California.
They would control all of the water = ain’t gonna happen.
A group called "New California" has taken its first step towards carving the Golden State in two - issuing a "declaration of independence" which would incorporate most of the state's rural counties - while coastal counties from the northern San Francisco Bay Area to the southern tip of Los Angeles would remain part of the existing state.
Quoted by CBS, founder Paul Preston said "Well, it's been ungovernable for a long time. High taxes, education, you name it, and we're rated around 48th or 50th from a business climate and standpoint in California."
"There's something wrong when you have a rural county such as this one, and you go down to Orange County which is mostly urban, and it has the same set of problems, and it happens because of how the state is being governed and taxed," Preston said.
The group is serious about this effort - printing pamphlets (here and here and here) citing authority granted in the U.S. Constitution "to provide a republican form of government as guaranteed by Article IV, Section 4," which co-founder Robert Paul Preston says has not been the case in California for a long time. Theres something wrong when you have a rural county such as this one, and you go down to Orange County which is mostly urban, and it has the same set of problems, and it happens because of how the state is being governed and taxed, Preston said.
With faith, diligence, and our sacred honor, we do hereby declare our Unity with Natural Law and the United States of Americas Constitution. We stand firm in our pledge to maintain and support the freedoms of the people of our Nation and New California at all times, at home and abroad. With God as our witness, honoring the foundational principles, we take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, to stand together as free citizens of New California, to be a sovereign state of that nation which we hold dear, the United States of America.
As we seek to remain a member of our Union, in order to form a more perfect Union we resolve to create the Free, Sovereign and Independent State of New California due to the past and current government of California having failed in their oath of office, obligations, and responsibilities as representatives of We the People to provide a republican form of government as guaranteed by Article IV, Section 4 of the United States Constitution.
Declaration of Independence Intention to form the State of New California
January 15, 2018
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, Property and the pursuit of happiness.
To secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them they should declare the causes which cause them to separate.
Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such design that is most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown mankind is more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
However when a long train of abuses and acts to seize and hold the peoples power without legal authority and pursuing invariably the same
Object that clearly demonstrates a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
The history of the present Governor and Government of California is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of a Tyranny over the Counties of New California and the State of California.
Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to seek a constitutional remedy to the abuse of powers. We the people of the Counties of New California solemnly publish and declare these counties are, and of Right ought to be, a free and Independent State, that we strive to be free from the State of California, and that as a Free and Independent State, have full power to establish and maintain law and order, to promote general prosperity, and to do all other acts and things, which an Independent New California State may rightfully do.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the Counties of New California, appeal to the California Legislature and the Federal Congress to pass resolutions to create the State of New California.
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor.
The last serious bout of American Secessionism involved 13 states are led to the Civil War.
Thus, we have to wonder where something like this will lead, therefore,
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Save money by kicking out the old states and replace them with the new states and you can keep the old flags.
My in laws live near Placerville. Beautiful country. Too bad its full of Californians.
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Hi. Hope you are doing well.
I can’t hump ammo anymore, but I can still engage a moving target at 300m.
If I’m going to participate in any way, this war has got to start soon.
5.56mm
I lived there in the early 1990s. A good friend stayed in Santa Cruz, where he had a paid for house and he was near retirement. Now he’s in his early 70s and the gun laws are becoming truly stupid. I believe you have to show ID to buy ammo. Massive taxes on that ammo, too. All sorts of guns are banned. All sorts of magazines are banned.
That’s his main hobby, so even though he’s in a nice house in a (still pretty) nice neighborhood, he’s being pushed out.
Another self-sufficient Californian gone, to be replaced by a welfare parasite.
He’s been active in trying to get the County to stop catering to heroin addicts. Santa Cruz has a huge population of junkies, and the city/county do all sorts of stuff for “the homeless”, who, when not mooching off the libtarded Social Services and community group charity do normal junkie things like break into cars, steal bicycles, and leave AIDS infected needles all over playgrounds and beaches.
Yes, I noticed that. Those four counties should be in the socialist state of West California, too.
Same situation exists in the State of Washington. Instead of having the border run horizontally along the Columbia River, the two states should be divided vertically along the Cascade Range. Put Western Washington and Western Oregon into one state and call it Washington. Put Eastern Washington and Eastern Oregon into one state and call it Oregon.
I wonder how this would impact the Electoral College tallying. I guess they’d have to divvy up the count that exists now.
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