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To: raygun
What the secessionists doesn’t realize,

I guess you don't understand secession. What you wrote in your silly post could have been written by King George III. You probably don't even know who that is, so do your own research.

When the citizens of a state(s) VOTE TO SECEDE, what they are doing IS THE OPPOSITE of revolution. They are not overthrowing anything, just separating from the old FedGov™, and creating a new one. The old FedGov™ is still there, just with a smaller jurisdiction. In the last secession, the blood thirsty Illinois Butcher™ was responsible for 600,000 dead, as the South would have negotiated a unconditional peace AT ANYTIME.

Just to prove a point, the states are independent sovereigns, perfectly capable of running their own affairs, did it every occur to you during the last unpleasantness that seceding states formed their own National Government in Richmond and an Army capable of defending huge nation in about 2 months. So much for the myth of the Federal domination. We don't really need a federal government at all, it is only a convenience at best.

Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the states are sovereign. There was a time when none denied it. I hope the time may come again, when a better comprehension of the theory of our government, and the inalienable rights of the people of the States, will prevent any one from denying that each state is a sovereign, and thus may reclaim the grants which it has made to any agent whomsoever.

                             -- Jefferson David Pres. CSA

254 posted on 01/09/2011 4:25:58 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
I am of the Hunter opinion: y'all should've been put down by Hunter.
256 posted on 01/18/2011 11:21:13 PM PST by raygun
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