A year ago I would probably would have laughed at the notion of another secession, but with small undertones coming out of the Republic of Texas maybe I should refrain from laughing. Rumblings of session and asserting state’s rights can now be heard from Montana.
On April 15, 2009 Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer (D-not a mistake), signed a bill exempting Montana-made guns from federal regulation. Schweitzer said:
“It’s a gun bill, but it’s another way of demonstrating the sovereignty of the state of Montana.”
Montana is also considering resolutions reaffirming state’s rights outlined in the Constitution and highlighted in the 10th Amendment. It seems strange that a resolution would be needed when it is already the Law of the Land.
From Helenair dot com:
“The whole goal is to awaken the people so that we can return to a properly grounded republic,” Rep. Michael More, R-Gallatin Gateway and the Montana resolution’s sponsor, said at a House committee hearing Wednesday.
As many as fifteen other Legislatures have also been mulling resolutions that buck federal control in states such as New Hampshire, South Carolina, Missouri and Oklahoma.
Montana State Legislator Michael More went on to say:
“The balance has swung far to the extreme to the empowerment of the federal government, and to the harm of the individual states,”
That’s and understatement. The Civil War and the passage of the 16th and 17th amendments have virtually emasculated the states and created one giant federal establishment with no limitations on its reach and power. The federal bureaucracy has been running rough shod over the states, and more importantly, the individual, for nearly 100 years. Maybe the threat of secession is the only thing that can restore the balance and separation of powers our founders envisioned and articulated in the Constitution.
Mahatma (‘Great Soul’) Gandhi once said,
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Perhaps it’s time to stop laughing at the notion of secession. Perhaps the fight, hopefully a non-violent one, is upon on us, victory is within reach, and God will once again shed his grace on America, truly the world’s last best hope.
God help us!
Daniel Horowitz
Neil Stevens
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
Jake Walker
Yes, when it is no longer in your interest to stay in the union then I say leave
izoneguy (Diary) Tuesday, April 28th at 8:42PM EST (link)Texas would be much better off in the long run as it’s own country. I would not lose anything if the feds never gave Texas one more dime. If you cannot say the same thing and rely on the federal government and you live in Texas then I would be moving to a blue state.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
What about
Crippy (Diary) Tuesday, April 28th at 8:52PM EST (link)Alaska? Besides their proximity to Russian, what do they get from being in the union besides federal restrictions on oil production. I think I’d still hate to see real secession but sometimes I wonder what else it is going to take to stop the federal intrusion.
God help us!
-Crippy’s World
Texas, Alaska & Oklahoma
izoneguy (Diary) Tuesday, April 28th at 9:28PM EST (link)Would make a nice trio.
Texskahoma
Maybe then Texas could crack down on the border.
Imagine who much money Texas could make
drilling & selling oil without constraints.
The rest of the US would be begging for oil & power
as Obama & the EPA start shutting down all the coal
fired plants. Texas would become a leader in research & development in nuclear power. Don’t read to much into any polls on the subject of secession. The feds are paying for the polls and slanting them anyway they want.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
My family having tried that secession stuff once,
Achance (Diary) Tuesday, April 28th at 9:46PM EST (link)I’m perhaps a little less enthusiastic about it than some. Alaska’s situation is very different from the Original 13 or Texas. Alaska is chattel of the United States, bought it lock, stock, and barrel; fair and square. If Alaska secedes, its only legal status is a territory or military district. That said, so long as we remain a state, we actually have a lot of power under that archaic old Constitution. We’re working on it!
In Vino Veritas
Did the SCOTUS ever hear a case against seccession? n/t
Matt Genk (Diary) Wednesday, April 29th at 12:08PM EST (link)n/t
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, 1946
No, nor a case regarding treason related to
Achance (Diary) Wednesday, April 29th at 12:16PM EST (link)the Civil War, though most Confederate leaders fully expected it. Davis was imprisoned for some time but ultimately was “parolled” as if he had been a soldier giving his oath to not take up arms again.
Rather than face a treason charge, Judah Benjamin, CS Seccretary of State and War, fled the US. Benjamin’s case would have been somewhat different and the US might have been more highly motivated to try him as he headed the CS’ intelligence efforts and was held by some to have been responisble for Lincoln’s assassination.
In Vino Veritas