I don't see how you have any chance of pulling this off. Even if you managed to "take over" a state (and it would have to be a very small state or a state with a small population and meager value for you to take it over with only 20,000 people in your "army"), you would have no standing, no power, no influence on the Federal Level. The Federal government (along with the other 49 states who would team up in opposition against you) would squash your seccessionist plans like a bug.
If Quebec is unable to successfully secede from Canada (and in my opinion Quebec has a better case for secession and is in a much better position to make a go of it alone than just about any state in the U.S. except California), no way will a state be able to secede from the U.S given the present economic, political, and social climate. Short of some unforseen calamity occurring to the entire country, 14 years is not enough time to alter that climate.
Exactly! That would be the whole purpose of seceding.
"The Federal government (along with the other 49 states who would team up in opposition against you) would squash your seccessionist plans like a bug."
I would ask if you remember Boris Yeltsin's stand in the Kremlin? One man stood firm against the Soviet Union. It was the Soviet Union that blinked! And one year later that one man was the leader of the largest successor country that rose from the ashes.
Do you really think the federal government would want to create a whole flock of martyrs? Do you think the federal government would really want to show the world the brutal truth of the empty lie that America is free and that the underlying foundation of our government is self-determination? Squashing our secession would reveal the truth that Declaration of Independence is dead and expose the myth that the Constitution of the United States still controls the federal government.
Quebec and Canada are irrelevant to freedom in the United States.