Posted on 06/03/2007 1:39:50 PM PDT by television is just wrong
In chance they can take Ithaca and Berkeley with them?
Crippled children will quickly walk, thanks to amazing medical research coming out of embryonic stem cell research. There will be very few crippled children to do this research for. Any child that has the slightest imperfection while in the womb will quickly be aborted.
I hope that the Left wants to take Vermont out of the Union. I can’t wait to hear the public debate on the legality of secession, which can only occur with great conflicts in the Left’s understanding of Lincoln. But we know that if the Left wants something bad enough, that no prior myth is too big for the left to want to talk past, in fast spin mode, in order to justify what they want today.
I feel sorry for the old Vermont natives who have gotten their State hijacked by every left-wing moron in the northeastern United States. Case in point: Howeird Dean.
I’m voting for the people of Vermont to put out the left-wing trash.
and maple syrup.
There are laws against peonage that should apply to State as well as man. The National Debt is perpetual, of the nature that Jefferson warned us about. It is illicit and against Natural Law. Repudiating the national debt should be on the table provided Vermont is serious about implenting truly honest money the Common Law way.
Hmmm…Let me see. We down South made this case over 140 years ago. We believed that it was the right, when the (federal) government did not serve our citizens needs, that it was “our right to alter or abolish it.”
Mr. Lincoln and a bunch of folks up North — including VERMONT — killed hundreds of thousands of our forefathers and burnt down or stole everything they owned to keep us from achieving what the good citizens of Vermont are now increasingly demanding.
Surprisingly, I FULLY SUPPORT Vermont’s right to secede. Yea, I am THRILLED by it. We didn’t want to be in a Union with them for at least 14 decades. If they get out — and other blue states, for that matter — so much the better.
Either way, the day of “the Union” is coming to an end — not because I desire it, but because the partners in this political, shotgun marriage just can’t agree or get along. I’d rather have an amicable divorce than a murder-suicide.
quite frankly, I support Vermont,
I do not support the seccession of the Southwest, because it is a HOSTILE take over on the part of the Mexican government.
Exactly. While it could be argued that the constitution and declaration represent a voluntary association, most recognize that secession as a practical matter ended in 1865.
We are not the nation we were in 1856. Or even in 1956. Imagine, for the sake of discussion, that a state does secede from the Union, by passing resoulutions.
Would the anti-war Democrats now suddenly change their spots? Would the editorial board of the NY Times which has oppposed “Bush’s adventure” in Iraq now be OK with, say Obama using the US Army against it’s own citizens?
And suppose Vermont does not even field any military. They simply keep passing laws. How would that be fought? Would Federal Prosecutors be used to arrest and jail the State legislature.
I support them. Goodbye, have fun, best of luck.
Or put another way, a lot of things don’t work the first time but eventually do. The Federal Reserve bank was the third or fourth attempt at nationalizing banking under a private cartel.
I don’t think the example of the Civil War is the end of the story.
“The argument for secession is that the U.S. has become an empire that is essentially ungovernable — it’s too big, it’s too corrupt and it no longer serves the needs of its citizens,”
I agree with this too.
Be realistic. We all know libs view consistency as the hobgoblin of little minds. Not only do they engage in double standards, they usually engage in triple or quadruple standards. I've even meant some honest libs who freely admit it.
Case in point: compare and contrast, in 500 words or less, the allegations against Clarence Thomas with the multitude of proven sexual offenses Slick Willie engaged in.
Another example, what was the attitude of the usual lib suspects to Clinton's Kosovo (Serbian) war? They loved it! It does not bother them a bit that there are still US troops there protecting Muslim terrorists who are committing genocide against Christians.
So, as usual it will come down to ends justifying the means.
If it's a leftist secession, libs will be all for it. If it's a conservative secession, expect to see the seceding states/region burned to the ground.
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