Comments on: Most Likely to Secede

By: luling

luling — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:17:56 +0000

No state is going to secede. It will not occur anywhere.

By: Virginian

Virginian — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:58:33 +0000

If our forefathers fought for freedom, shouldn’t we continue to do so? My forefathers fought to have the Magna Carta signed as British citizens.When Britain became a centralized oppressive power, my forefathers fought to secede from her – in the Revolutionary War.I love my nation, Virginia. My family has been here for 10 generations.The mantra that America is the greatest country on earth, is reminiscent of how British people thought of themselves until WWII. Maybe Britain used to be, but today it is an oppressive socialist welfare state that has been overrun by Muslim Turks.I have traveled three continents and I don’t buy the line that “America is the greatest country on Earth.” America isn’t the freest nation on Earth anymore. We’ve been enslaved by socialism, and those shackles of slavery are being forged every day as the US Congress writes more laws every day.It’s time to break it up into smaller sovereign pieces. The good things about America are true of Virginia, and Alaska, and Texas, etc. The bad things about America are mostly coming from Washington, DC. Peaceful dissolution of the Union seems like a good deal to me. And I think the legislatures of the States will soon agree.When the almighty dollar has been destroyed by Congress and the Federal Reserve, the wisdom of dissolution will become obvious to everyone.

By: Schvenzlerman

Schvenzlerman — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:43:24 +0000

Christopher Blair is a dope. Oregonians had virtually no involvement in the Civil War. “We did it from 1861-65…” – what nonsense.

By: Tyler Ward

Tyler Ward — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:40:41 +0000

Folks, if yall hate us Southrons so much, why not let us go? Face it you people(Yankees) need us, without the South yalls precious Union will be ruined. I for one support seccession, bein from TN. I support the League of the South for their doings. And no, Seccession isnt treason at all, the reason why yall say it is, is to make us fear uns and not do it. But let me tell you this, bein related to a famous outlaw from Tennessee, he supported seccssion as well as I do. He fought for his homeland, and was full blooded Cherokee, he fought against the Union not for slavery but for freedom. My whole family never owned slaves, but they all fought for freedom. MAY DIXIE RISE UP AGAIN N HER FORMER GLORY!

DEO VINDICE

By: Jeannette

Jeannette — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:50:26 +0000

Those people should leave this country. To many people fought so this country be free. The Civil War what Lincoln did to preserve this country. any talk of secession those people should be tried for treason. Or give them a one way ticket to Iraq, Iran Afganistan or Pakastan or any of those Countries in the Middleeast who have no regard for life.

I hope the law arrest the nuts in Vermont and get them for treason

By: jeannette

jeannette — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:41:52 +0000

Any talk of Secession and leaving the Union After so many laid their lives down so we can have freedom that most countries don’t have the luxury should leave this country or be tried for treason. Vermont is full of Loons and Jerks. Just Like Bill O’reilly said their are some serious weirdos just like your senator. The Maple Syrup must be loaded with drugs.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:01:52 +0000

“You may all go to hell. I am going to Texas.” – Davey Crockett 1835Before joining the union in 1845, Texas was a sovereign, recognized, independent nation. We were annexed to the U.S. by a congressional resolution. International standards required that we be annexed by treaty and that never happened. Our last binding vote in 1861 was to secede from the union. The union has continued to fail us and is now trying to steal Texas wealth to support their failed policies. The Federal Republicrats have given us inflation prone paper money backed by nothing, an erosion of our most cherished rights and endless bogus and unconstitutional wars. It’s time for Texans of all political affiliations to stand up and embrace the privilege our birthright to become a nation again. SECEDE SECEDE SECEDE!!!
Yesterday (4/15/09) the Governor of Texas the Honorable Rick Perry asserted states rights and put the Feds on warning that continued disregard of the constitution and our fundamental rights may very well lead to secession. So there you have it Mr. Christopher Blair, your *second* of traction. Get you gun and come on down, we’ll meet you at the Red River.

Chuck Thomas
Austin
Republic of Texas

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:34:48 +0000

All you educated, upper-middle-class whiterpeople hate corporations and capitalism and technology and all the other things that your fathers created and you now rebel against. Now you want to secede.Me? I’m a lower-middle-class, dark-skinned man. My parents came to this country with nothing.I’m firmly of the opinion that your kind are too stupid to handle America, too incompetent to carry on the legacy of this country, too weak-willed to master the tools of this country the way humble immigrants from China do every day.So go, I say. You’ve been born in this country yet rail against it. Go and re-create the Communist experiments we ran from, and leave us this great Republic where we can live between our oceans in peace.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:17:45 +0000

My “Go Fuck Yourself” would go to the Nancy Pelosis of the country but, nevertheless, to each his own. That’s the whole point…life is too short to live in a country with which you disagree on almost everything.

By: charinkopunk

charinkopunk — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lately we've been standing dumbstruck at the edges of the media celebration of vaunted American democracy in action as caucuses organize energy back into the the suffocating binary of U.S. electoral politics. Mr. Ketcham does well to bring us this timely reminder of other ways to be--necessary reconceptualizations of the U.S. possibility. Vermont's political and environmental exceptionalism pings an ominous note against the condition of other states to acclimate to new political geographies. As the article also reminds us, the notions of independence-minded Green Mountain folks reverberate darkly in the hearts of those who hold secession as a fundamentally American tool to conceal older race hatreds and fears of difference.

However, the issues of scale and the implementation of policies, ways of doing and living, that are good for the local land and the people who share it need to be made central to our debates. The war in Iraq and the refusal of the government to withdraw there, the recent EPA decision to refuse California's proposed environmental regulations are examples of systemic maladies that require a cure likely involving some drastic reduction in the vast, naturalized sweep of what paints itself as the national government. We are confronted with Wal-Mart's methods for economic colonialism that heeds no national borders while simultaneously facing violent nationalist, anti-immigration rhetoric and actions evolved from this same old capitalist necessity of disenfranchisement. Americans are increasingly forced to buy from the very commercial powers that are profiting from weakened local self-determination and the widespread displacement of people into the whirlpools of cheap and cheaper labor markets.

The need for us all to resist this plague of fiscal and political agglomeration is readily apparent. It is crucial for us to have farms that are defensible against agri-business and communities with the collective power to legislate protections and wise-use policies apart from distant powers that are largely unaccountable. Secession may be a radical step but certainly the logic stirs much-needed hope. Vermont stands as a model though of state's power in some respects, but without dismantling the national super-structure, states such as North Carolina can never hope for such autonomy as they exist as the physical sites of national military power.

Secession is alluring, but I tremble to think of the massive upheavals it might also produce as factions seize power and threats, real or perceived, are leveled at other groups. How do we navigate ourselves into a more hopeful place without the looming danger of massive violence visited back upon us in as recompense for our own hubris and lust?