From WorldNet Daily’s Oklahoma to feds: Don’t tread on me: “Steamed over a perceived increase in federal usurping of states’ rights, Oklahoma’s House of Representatives told Washington, D.C., to back off. Joint House Resolution 1089, passed by an overwhelming 92-3 margin, reasserts Oklahoma’s sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and, according to [...]
From Alternet’s Vermont Secessionists Meet with Racist League of the South: “The image of SVR as a quixotic band of idealistic Vermontophiles fighting for an independent Green Mountain State has taken a public beating since 2006, when Naylor and Sale began openly working with the League of the South and other neo-Confederates. But the fact [...]
December 21, 2007 – 06:22 pm
From USA TODAY’s Lakota withdraw from treaties, declare independence from U.S.: “The Lakota Sioux Indians, whose ancestors include Sitting Bull, Red Cloud and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from all treaties their forefathers signed with the U.S. government and have declared their independence.” [Yes...the Lakota have just 'seceded' from the United States].
December 4, 2007 – 01:42 pm
From Financial Times’ For nations, small is beautiful: “Europe seems intent on slicing itself up into ever smaller pieces. In the next month, Kosovo is likely to declare independence – making it the seventh new country to emerge from the wreckage of Yugoslavia. The Soviet Union has given way to 15 new states. Even in [...]
November 29, 2007 – 03:30 pm
From Huffington Post’s article on The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, which passed in the House last month and is waiting for Senate approval: “…the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act could easily be abused to define any group that is pressuring the political system as “terrorist,” ranging from polygamists, to second [...]
October 5, 2007 – 10:46 am
From Yahoo News’ Secessionists meeting in Tennessee: “Separated by hundreds of miles and divergent political philosophies, the Middlebury Institute and the League of the South are hosting a two-day Secessionist Convention starting Wednesday in Chattanooga. They expect to attract supporters from California, Alaska and Hawaii, inviting anyone who wants to dissolve the Union so states [...]
From Bye, Bye, Miss American Empire: “Secession is the next radical idea poised to enter mainstream discourse—or at least the realm of the conceivable. You can’t bloat a modest republic into a crapulent empire without sparking one hell of a centrifugal reaction.”
From The Once and Future Republic of Vermont, an editorial in Sunday’s Washington Post: “Vermont was once an independent republic, and it can be one again. We think the time to make that happen is now. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. government has grown too big, too corrupt and too aggressive toward the [...]
From H. 424, a bill before the General Assembly of Vermont: “(a) A village, of which the majority of its voters has approved a plan of merger…, may separate from an adjoining town if the majority of the voters of the town has rejected the same plan of merger; (b) A village may separate from [...]
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