Posted on 11/29/2021 5:46:28 PM PST by devane617
Fed up with COVID-19 regulations and vaccine mandates, the leaders of one California city have decided to take matters into their own hands. Oroville’s City Council overwhelmingly voted to declare the town a “constitutional republic” earlier this month.
What that means, according to the declaration, is: “Any executive orders issued by the State of California or by the United States federal government that are overreaching or clearly violate our constitutionally protected rights will not be enforced by the City of Oroville against its citizens.”
What does it mean in practice? Oroville’s mayor told the East Bay Times it “doesn’t change anything.”
“It’s simply reminding people what kind of government we live under and that they do have personal choices and freedoms,” Mayor Chuck Reynolds told the Times.
Proponents of the constitutional republic told reporters they were especially upset with California’s requirement that children 12 and older eventually get vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to attend school. However, even after this vote, schools in Oroville will still be regulated (and largely funded) by the state.
Oroville isn’t the only California city to try and take a stand against the state’s COVID-19 policies. Earlier in the pandemic, two towns decided to defy Gov. Gavin Newsom’s shutdown orders for certain businesses, reports the Los Angeles Times. They lost some funding from the state as a result, according to the paper.
The desire to secede isn’t unique to California, either. The Washington Times and a USA Today columnist noticed the trend in 2020, pointing out that rural pockets of blue states are often the ones who want out. A few Virginia counties said they wanted to join their more conservative friends in West Virginia, but Adam Dean, a history professor at the University of Lynchburg, called the prospect of getting approval from both state legislatures and Congress “extremely unlikely.”
Some residents in southern Oregon and far northern California have also been trying to form a 51st state of Jefferson for nearly 80 years. But as The New York Times reports, the creation of the new state would not only require California and Oregon to give the OK — Congress would have to sign off, too.
Whoever is running the country just needs an excuse to send in the military.
we lost the great North American Republic that our founding fathers gave us, per Tho. Jefferson’s admonition
so it is nice that we now have at least a little teeny weeny bit of a republic back on this continent, again
may it grow and prosper!
Just Dam!
It’ll be the new Srebrenica!
Who’s going to play Peter Jennings?
Nice. For those that don’t know, Northern California is nothing like the rest of Califonia. For the most part, we have real conservatives all over the place once you get up into the north and east above Sacramento. I always tell people “I’m from Northern California” to make it clear that they don’t mistake me as a San Francisco / LA freak. (Then again, we have Fresno and other conservative places scattered all over the state too.)
Maybe they coud declare themselves to be an indigenous population reservation, like the injuns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_reservations_in_the_United_States
Seems like tilting at windmills. Oroville city is a political subdivision of the state. It would be more useful to be working toward a cultural separation.
Just like Key West declared itself “The Conch Republic”.
Add Mariposa County to that. Trump signs and State of Jefferson placards everywhere.
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