Free Republic was way out in front on secession. Looks like the rest of the country is waking up.
Any attempt to succeed will be brutally put down by the Gay Military. Obama is the Gay Abraham Lincoln.
Hmm. Where to start. Advocating secession is not something that JimRob has ever done. He's been pretty clear about this since day one. And in fact the FR rules forbid it.
Free Republic does not advocate or condone racism, violence, rebellion, secession, or an overthrow of the government. Free Republic advocates a return to constitutionally limited government, reserving all government powers not expressly delegated by the constitution to the United States to the States respectively, or the people, emphasizing sovereign state governments, local government, self-government and self-rule, while restricting government powers to only those enumerated in the constitution and maximizing individual rights and liberty as originally envisioned and established by our Founding Fathers and secured and defended by the blood of patriots and statesmen for over two hundred years.
On the other hand FR has always encouraged like-minded Conservatives to speak their minds and discuss events in the news. And the topic of secession has been in the news more and more. As the full reality of what having the executive branch dominated by far-left crazies has grown on us all, the discussions have naturally moved into the discussion of secession. It's in the news, so it's fair game.
But I wouldn't say that FR has had a leadership role in promoting secession. And in fact I can remember JimRob banning people who were aggressively promoting such ideas six or seven years ago.
The website DumpDC is probably the leading website advocating secession as a general cure-all for what ails the USA. And there are lots of other ones focusing on the secession of a particular state or region, like Texas or Dixie. Some of these sites are on FR's permanent list of banned sites.
Anyway, that's my view. It's certainly a topic in the news that is discussed here but FR is dedicated to maintaining and perfecting the Republic - the whole Republic, not just parts of it.