NYC Secession Talk Resurfaces

"I think secession's time has definitely come again," Mr. Vallone, who spearheaded a similar push in 2003, told The New York Sun yesterday. "If not secession, somebody please tell me what other options we have if the state is going to continue to take billions from us and give us back pennies. Should we raise taxes some more? Should we cut services some more? Or should we consider seriously going out on our own?"...
"Not only is it about self-determination and self-rule, but it's about fairness," Mr. Vallone said. "It's something we see every year in the budget. They take $11 billion from us and give us back a mere pittance and they make it seem like they're doing us a favor to give that pittance back. Somehow they missed the point that that is New York City's own tax money and we deserve it."

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This ain't the first time New York City has considered this option. Can you blame them? One can only be pushed so far.

The word "secession" is being spoken in all sections of the country, not just the South. It may be the only option left. I once read that...

whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

Sounds like a good idea to me. How about you?

Black Southerners in Confederate Gray

"There have been many major contributions to our nation and to our society by black Americans some that have changed history – and are continuing to do so today. One area that has never received the recognition it deserved and has even been over-looked to a certain degree was that of black Southerners who fought for the Confederacy..." - The Murfreesboro Post

This is a story that needs to be told, told, and retold. It is a truly fascinating subject that really needs to be fully explored. There are some books available on the topic, but no tour de force yet-- at least to my knowledge.

Please follow link below to read entire article.

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Sitting Bull's people secedes from U.S.

The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the US. "We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us,'' long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means said.''

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The Palmetto Star and Crescent congratulates the Lakota People and wishes them peace, heath, and prosperity as they now take their destiny into their own hands.

Happy Secession Day!

On this day in 1860, South Carolina resumed the powers it had delegated to the Federal Union by its ratification of the U.S. Constitution and became a free and independent State:

AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the union between the State of South Carolina and other States united with her under the compact entitled "The Constitution of the United States of America."
We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the ordinance adopted by us in convention on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America," is hereby dissolved.

Done at Charleston the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

Because ordinance was never legally rescinded, South Carolina must of necessity be considered occupied territory-- subject to the will and whim of the United States government. One may consider this an obscure historical oddity, but it is a fact and this fact tells us all we need to know about the nature of the union.

While many of our citizens, like a battered wife, have accepted their second class status in the union, many of us find it odious, offensive, and unacceptable.

While I do not object to the union of the states in principle, I believe this union should be completely voluntary and that this union should be strictly governed by the terms mutually agreed to by the ALL of the states.

If I had but one wish for this country, it would be that a new constitutional convention be called to determine whether or not the current arrangement is acceptable to all parties comprising these united States of America. Such a convention would provide each State the opportunity to renegotiate the terms of this union, thus guaranteeing that one state or region does not arbitrarily dictate la règle du jeu to any other state or region.

Otherwise, we should peaceably go our separate ways.

Such a separation would not necessitate the inability of the citizens of the various polities to maintain friendship, trade, and travel. This does not mean that we would not come to one another's aid should a defense of the continent become a necessity. This does mean, however, that we would no longer be unequally yoked together in a political marriage held together by guns and bayonets.

The next best thing, of course, would be a return to the original agreement between the States, i.e., the U.S. Constitution, which is what Ron Paul is trying to achieve in his bid for President.

Our current elected politician, however, will never restrict themselves of their own free will and accord. It will have to be forced upon them by the governed. This is why the Ron Paul Revolution is so important. It is our chance, as the people of the several states, to serve notice to those in positions of power that we will no longer consent to arbitrary and unconstitutional rule.

Only by binding the government with the heavy chains of a lawful constitution can we be in a position to secure our freedom reclaim our liberty.

So, today as we reflect on this day in the history of South Carolina, we are reminded that there one existed a people who loved LIBERTY more than UNION and FREEDOM more than SAFETY.

So, to my fellow South Carolinians and lovers of liberty everywhere: Happy Secession Day!

May we one day reclaim our place among the nations of the earth and once again be truly free!

Coming together to ponder pulling apart

Latter-day secessionists of all stripes convene in Vermont... The First North American Secessionist Convention, billed as the first national gathering of secessionists since the [so-called] Civil War, included an eclectic mix of conservatives, liberals, libertarians, left-wing Green Party zealots, and right-wing Christian activists.

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While I believe that there is a better chance for actual secession than these various groups from agreeing on much of anything (except for their contempt for the American Empire), at least they are talking. The idea of secession, long suppressed, is the foundation upon which these United States are founded. Without secession, there is no USA. Without the OPTION of secession, we are never free. We should feel no different about throwing off the tyranny of a domestic government should it continue on its present path than we do about our founding fathers throwing off the yoke of Great Britain when disunion was the only option left.

The farce which will be thrust upon the people tomorrow on Election Day gives the illusion that the people have a choice. Republican or Democrat is not much of a choice if you ask me. They TALK a different game, but it is what they DO which lays the fraud bare.

I'll go and vote, but I do not expect change. It will take more than a Republicrat majority in the Senate or House to accomplish that.

My only gripe about the article is the obligatory charge of racism against the Southern folks. It’s tough for the righteous north to resist…

God! Those folks just don't get it!

Until next time, I remain yours

In the cause,

~ P. C.

"One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence. " ~Charles A. Beard

Happy Secession Day!

- Originally Published July 4th, 2006 -
Hello & Greetings from Dixie!

Today marks the 230th anniversary of the American Colonies seceding from the British Empire-- a great day in the history of liberty and self determination.

The prose employed by Thomas Jefferson in our Declaration of Independence is sublime!

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government...

Sadly, we no longer believe that government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed. That "revolutionary" idea ended in 1865 when the South was forced to submit to an authority from which they had withdrawn their consent.

This set a precedent that has continued to destroy our personal liberties since its innovation and implementation by wicked usurpers and tyrants who have trampled the Constitution of our forbearers under foot to make us subjects to the State when it was the intent of our forbearers to have it the other way around.

Now we know that the government derives its (unjust) powers from the point of a bayonet, the barrel of a gun, or the receiving end of the bomb.

It also derives its (unjust) powers by the intimidation of the citizens by the tax collector and other government regulator who terrorize and intimidate the people into submission.

They are powerful, we are weak.

Now, we believe, or have been lead to believe, that MIGHT MAKES RIGHT.

This was not the foundation on which our country was established.

I see no reason to celebrate the principles that lead the Colonies to secede from the British Empire because we, as a people, no longer hold those truths to be self-evident or unalienable.

Although glorious in 1776, "Independence Day" in 2006 is a troubling day-- a day filled with joy, sorrow, and anger-- especially for those of us who still believe in those unalienable rights-- those rights which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle us; those rights claimed by our forbearers and paid for with the blood of patriots...

I think we ought to think about what has been gained and what has been lost since out first war of secession.

Until next time, I remain yours

In the cause,

~ P. C.

One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence.
~Charles A. Beard