Posted on 06/20/2011 1:38:05 PM PDT by Jack Black
The New Barbarians of Secession
When secession finally occurs in the first American state, it will come first from the New Barbarians, not from the state house.
This article explores the definition of the word “Barbarian,” and how I perceive that secession will be moved forward into reality by the New Barbarians.
I am one of the New Barbarians.
From Wikipedia: “Barbarian” is a pejorative term used to refer to a person who is perceived to be uncivilized. The word is often used either in a general reference to a member of a nation or ethnos, typically a tribal society as seen by an urban civilization either viewed as inferior, or admired as a noble savage. In idiomatic or figurative usage, a “barbarian” may also be an individual reference to a brutal, cruel, warlike, insensitive person. The primary function of the word “barbarian”, and its cognates, is to differentiate members of one’s own society from people perceived as being outside of it, and to posit that one’s own culture is superior.
In history, the Barbarians were the Germanic tribes that overthrew the Roman Empire. Rome had become an empire covering most of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and the cost of their armies and wars was bankrupting the government. Rome had conquered these vast areas, and conscripted many of the tribal warriors into the Roman armies. But the barbarians never lost their identification with their tribes, and eventually the Visigoths sacked Rome in 410 AD.
The present American society’s elected ruling class is filled with “the cream” of our civilization from bottom to top. But smelling of cologne and wearing expensive suits, they pillage, sack and destroy our free enterprise system through taxation and regulation. So they operate like barbarians under the cover of respectability and the citizens’ acceptance of their roles in the American government. They are the old guard, much like Rome at its end. Bloated, corrupt and hopelessly overextended, the ruling class can see their demise just over the horizon. But they cannot wrap their brains around a solution that includes the breaking apart of the United States of America by secession.
You think that the power structure of Washington doesn’t see the end coming fast? Watch this video from Ready.gov, a division of FEMA.
Dear readers, that “world upside down” video is not just about a tornado or hurricane. It is easy to see how this Public Service Announcement is meant for the coming economic collapse. If the very government causing all of this chaos is telling you openly to prepare for disaster, perhaps you should listen? There is another Ready.gov PSA I just saw in the past few days that is not available to post quite yet. It features a husband and wife being interviewed about how much food they have in the house to survive on in an emergency. They very matter-of-factly state that they have a little rice, some beans, a few cans of tuna, and some canned tomatoes. They seemed blithely unconcerned.
Do you still believe that the ruling class in any state government will voluntarily band together and secede from the Union? Think about all of the ways that Washington taxes and spends. Now consider that most of that taxation and spending is entirely unconstitutional. Now consider that Washington taxes and then sends hundreds of billions of dollars back to the state governments annually so the money can be spent on the local level. From roads to public safety to welfare payments to mortgage guarantees to myriad other programs, your state and local governments are complicit in the crimes of Washington. They are accessories after the fact. If someone steals property and you receive it, you’re as guilty as the perpetrator.
It is impossible for Washington to do what it does without the voluntary cooperation of the 50 state governments. Do not kid yourself. What the states do is entirely voluntary. The state politicians might bitch about unfunded mandates or DC regulations or Supreme Court rulings, but states have ALL the power to resist or just simply stop the Washington madness. But the states do not stop it. What does that tell you?
The ruling class, from bottom to top, cannot fix America. Consider:
1. They cannot forsake fractional reserve banking (counterfeiting). 2. They cannot reign in spending because of entitlement programs. 3. They cannot increase interest rates to curb inflation since that would make the debt payments balloon upward. 4. They cannot stop allowing the Federal Reserve to control the money supply (more counterfeiting). 5. They cannot fund the outstanding and future pension commitments, and cannot cover the pension defaults. 6. They cannot stop selling Treasury bonds to borrow more money, and cannot prevent the inevitable default of the bond market. 7. They cannot cease military expansion and war. 8. They cannot prevent the collapse of the US Dollar as world reserve currency. 9. They reject free-market solutions for all problems, and continue to fiercely defend Keynesian economics. 10. States are so inured to Federal funds that they are unwilling to even try to control Washington.
Witness all the cities, townships, counties and states that are functionally bankrupt. They can thank their betters in Washington for a fiat money system and decades of inflation for their present situation. And they can look in the mirror to see who enabled Washington to become the most criminal government in history. Yes…even more criminal than the USSR. The Soviets did not defraud the entire population of the planet with fiat money. Washington did.
The concept of state secession will have to come from the grassroots…the ordinary people…the great unwashed…the New Barbarians. Politicians are not leaders. My opinion is that a person cannot voluntarily agree to work in a criminal enterprise without becoming a criminal. (Ron Paul, call your office.) And while we all love a story of a bad boy turned good…or of a missionary to the heathen…we cannot expect government shills to voluntarily bite the hand that feeds them and promote a philosophically opposite concept. A few solons might get religion about secession, but I believe that most will oppose it. And the ones that do convert to the church of secession should be watched very carefully, since it would appear that they are simply trying to lead a new parade by running out in front of it. If a politician wanted to convince me of his altered beliefs, let him switch to secession now…while it’s still wildly unpopular.
The New Barbarians will develop as a tribe, rising voluntarily from the citizenry, with individual liberty, property rights and sound money as the organizing and sustaining principles of the tribe. (I wrote about tribes HERE.) For the purpose of this article, the word “tribe” is defined as “a social group comprised of numerous families, clans, or generations together with dependents or adopted strangers, all having a common character, occupation, or interest.” I am not suggesting that the New Barbarians will adopt all the characteristics of tribes. But I am suggesting that the New Barbarians will forsake the old ways of the US Constitution, and begin thinking as a single nation instead of a 50-state confederation. Most of the Constitution doesn’t apply to a single sovereign nation.
Think about secession for just a moment. There is no perceivable benefit for ANY present American state to continue as a member of the United States of America. I issued a challenge long ago for any reader to prove JUST ONE benefit of statehood. I’m still waiting. Yet, ALL of the unsolvable problems created by Washington and enabled by the States EVAPORATE at the moment of secession. No US taxation, no US regulation, no US national debt, no US wars, no more interference from Washington. In one instant, that state’s hard drive is wiped clean and they get to invent THEIR OWN new operating system.
The Founding Fathers of the mid-18th Century were the New Barbarians of their time. Their numbers were small. Their cause was individual liberty and property rights, and to be thirteen sovereign nations. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. It’s commonly accepted that those in favor of throwing off the tyranny of King George numbered less than 10% of the population of the 13 colonies. The rest of the colonials waited to see who won, and supported the winner.
The archetype of the New Barbarian is Daniel Miller, president of the Texas Nationalist Movement. Miller has been working for years for Texas Independence, not as a cause célèbre, but as a holy calling. He is a businessman from Nederland, Texas, dedicated to convincing his fellow Texans that their state’s highest purpose is as a new sovereign nation, not as just another American state. He crisscrosses Texas, speaking to home meetings as well as big crowds, reminding Texans of their heritage and culture, and offering the hope that Texas could actually escape from America and its coming catastrophic collapse and become a nation once again. In my opinion, the name of Daniel Miller should be at the very top of any list of potential first Presidents of a new Texas nation. Guys like Rick Perry and Ron Paul have careers as part of the problem, not as part of the solution.
The numbers of New Barbarians will explode after the economic collapse in America. There are only a few of us that are presently ideologues promoting secession. But once America descends into chaos, those that rejected the concept of secession will still be looking for answers that work…not more of the same. And they will be desperate, not willing or able to wait for government to offer some lame-assed pseudo-solution, or another Ponzi scheme to replace the one that just collapsed. At that point, the tribe will grow very quickly. Mass migrations of people will occur, as individuals and families pack up and move to the new nations.
One of the topics that most proponents of secession will not talk about is defending a secession by militia. I’m not saying that secession has to be done by some form of physical force, but I’m also not saying that military defense won’t be required. I keep the collapse of the Soviet Union foremost in my mind. Here was a purely communist 15-republic Union that simply dissolved in 1989. The giant Red Army did nothing. The Kremlin was powerless to stop secession. I believe that Washington will likewise be powerless to stop American states from secession. But I believe that DC will only be powerless after the dollar collapses.
The push for secession will come up from the people, not down from the politicians. Political power only acknowledges superior force. If the politicians fear the People, they will carry out the will of the People. When the People fear the government, there is only tyranny.
Secession is the only hope for humanity. Who will be first?
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Sure, and because the PRC is so nice and kind and democratic and decadent they'd just keel over and take it.
Grow up! They'd do whatever they could to get their investment back. You might be surprised at how far they'd go.
Good luck trying to get money to maintain bridges, dams, and highways. You don't want to be around when they start repossesses things, either.
With the US fragmented and the credit of the successor states nonexistent, China becomes the dominant power in the world. Enjoy!
Secession's an "emotivist" thing. It's cutting off your head to spite your face.
People get all emotionally worked up about severing ties with other parts of the country and don't think about the actual consequences of their actions.
Thumbs up you three folks...”Patrick1”, “x” and “allmendream”
We can only hope that the yoke you bear, in the future, will be light, and when the time comes please, please stay out of the way...
I, and a few others may not have a problem distinguishing between patriots, and those who wish to take the middle ground, your Quaker sensibilities will only aggravate the process...
I am obviously not an idiot, or nuts as you state...Some of us have been trying to effect change in the mentality of government by holding those we elect accountable for their actions and effort, and if they fail,most of the time we can replace them in the “normal” way thru elections...I will still try to get it done that way...But the enemies of the state hope we just tire of that effort and sucumb to the tyranny so well camoflaged as hope and change...
But in the mean time, some of us idiots keep a few other options ready to implement...But you would classify that as nuts...And all you do is insult those who truely understand what is at stake...You do not...
But I am sure you’ll have some pithy retort to argue for your apathetic approach to the issue...
Good evening...
You’re joking right?
Secession would not be a peaceful, clean split with most states now fairly evenly divided politically between Libs & Cons. Nor would it be a clean geographic split like the North/South split of the Civil War. Many states would become landlocked or surrounded by FORMER fellow states.
What happens to the state whose population is a close split? It wouldn't take much for the state to become a flip-flopper that secedes, then rejoins the USA. The dissatisfaction of those who reject their state's succession or reunification could very likely lead to civil war, not just between states, but also within states. During the Civil War this was the case for some border states. Missouri was in chaos during this time.
Any serious secession attempt could spawn a general civil war between the “haves” & the “Have nots”, much like the bloody French Revolution. As much as I'd like to believe that conservatives would triumph in such a conflict, there is no guarantee.
” I wonder what effect it would have to shut down all the electricity and other utilities feeding DC? Perhaps block the highways too? “
Interesting thing for discussion
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest. Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles. You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together; the independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.
But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility, are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to your interest. Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union of the whole.
-- Farewell Address
IMHO..at some point all 50 states will secede from DC....we’re probably past the point that they should already..
A lot of people suffer from the “bias of normalcy”. They think things either aren’t as bad as they are (I wonder why??), or they won’t get worse, or they won’t get “that much” worse. Things will generally muddle along as they have been, the future will be more or less just like the past, etc.
History tells us a different story, and those not suffering from the bias of normalcy see the writing on the wall. I don’t know about secession, but I do know that it’s getting worse, daily; much worse. And the direction leads right off the cliff.
The Federal Boot Lickers can really piss you off, I know. You don’t expect FedGov™ sycophants on Free Republic but there they are, all over the place wringing their little grubby hands tickling keyboards fretting over the secesh...
Liberals won't know what to do, so they will stay in the cities for the most part. Perhaps there will be shortages and hunger, and not knowing how to survive, perhaps they will then form armies to forage, rape, and pillage the immediate surroundings, like in Africa, socialist style, with an Obama/Odinga type dictator tyrant.
Or perhaps there will be an amicable dissolution, live and let live.
Either way, there is no fixing this country, it is already divided. What do we have in common with an Anthony Weiner, or a Nancy Pelosi, or a Barack Obama? Nothing.
We must reclaim our freedom and liberty.
Foremost this is a republic, never forget that. We aren’t city-states, but entire states, i.e. countries, 50 of them.
All of the above is of utmost importance, and none of it is any longer true.
There’s more of us than you think.
In every poll, there are more conservatives than liberals. IN EVERY SINGLE STATE.
That’s not the problem. The problem is that the party that is supposed to represent them has become a false flag.
As I suspected; No replies.
I agree, and believe that is the gist of the article. The politicians that are elected to represent us are two sides of the same statist, elitist, ruling-class coin, and that is not going to change. The past 50 years at least prove that no matter what, government gets bigger and more powerful. We are near the end game.
For god's sake man, they won't even vote to repeal that asinine incandescent light bulb ban! Look at what they do, not what they say.
You are correct. States do not have to secede to go their own way. Its already starting to happen. In another year or so you will see it ramping up big time.
>>” I wonder what effect it would have to shut down all the electricity and other utilities feeding DC? Perhaps block the highways too? “
Interesting thing for discussion<<
The thought has crossed my mind. Four things are necessary: Communications (who, what, when, where and why), capture(roads, utilities, airports, etc.), control (access and shutdown) and commitment.
Remember the Bonus March experience. Their mistake was setting foot IN DC.
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