Secession A Growing Movement in Vermont
Written by Sam on April 1st, 2007
The winds of secession are blowing in the Green Mountain State.
Vermont was once an independent republic, and it can be one again. We think the time to make that happen is now. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. government has grown too big, too corrupt and too aggressive toward the world, toward its own citizens and toward local democratic institutions. It has abandoned the democratic vision of its founders and eroded Americans’ fundamental freedoms.
Vermont did not join the Union to become part of an empire.
Some of us therefore seek permission to leave.
Granted, Vermont has pretty much become a bastion of Socialist Marxism, having elected a Socialist to the United State Senate and seven members of the newly formed Progressive Party to their state legislature. Aside from that, the author actually does make a striking case for secession in his article and I get the opinion from his writing that he is not a far left guy, but a libertarian in nature.
It’s quite simple. The United States has destroyed the 10th Amendment, which says that “powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
The present movement for secession has been gathering steam for a decade and a half. In preparation for Vermont’s bicentennial in 1991, public debates — moderated by then-Lt. Gov. Howard Dean — were held in seven towns before crowds that averaged 230 citizens. At the end of each, Dean asked all those in favor of Vermont’s seceding from the Union to stand and be counted. In town after town, solid majorities stood. The final count: 999 (62 percent) for secession and 608 opposed.
While I think secession in the near future for Vermonters is unlikely, the long term possibility is not. Vermont is not the first state in recent times to have a serious discussion about breaking away from the union and as the country overall gets more polarized politically, that movement seems to be growing. I have felt for some years now that by the time I am an old man (I am 30 years old now) that the United States will likely have a different makeup than today. I think secession of at least one state or region in our country is inevitable by the mid century.
It certainly may not be in the best interest of the United States as a whole to lose one or more states, but I fully support the right of a state to secede if that is what the residents so desire. The author rightfully points out that most states, particularly the original 13, entered into an agreement of a union under much different circumstances than what we have today. They joined into a contract, per say, in which the Federal government was virtually nonexistent and the states retained much of their sovereignty. Today the states have almost no independence left and are frequently held hostage to the demands of Washington D.C. The 10th Amendment may as well be scratched out of the Constitution altogether as even the Supreme Court does not have the will to uphold it.
Nonetheless, this will be interesting to follow and see if anything actually comes of this.
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Oh let them go….where can I send money….and a nice little side prize would be that the Senate would revert back to GOP control :-).
Let ‘em go and then boycott em….I’m sure that great Vermont economy will do just fine! *sarcasm should be noted*
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Vermont is actually a sad, sad case study for Republican politics. Some people may not know but Vermont had one of the largest unchecked strings of Republican victories in history. Along with Maine, Vermont was the only state to never vote for FDR. Vermont voted Republican for President in every election of the 1900’s except for the 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson landslide until Bill Clinton came along. What happened was that a bunch of tree huggers started flooding the state in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. It is now a liberal, quasi-Marxist haven with probably only Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut and New Jersey and California being more commie.
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But I thought liberals were supposed to love their country!
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You’re thirty years old and you write on a ‘blog?
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I don’t know, but I suspect that’s an April Fools’ story.
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I suspected so too…only to find out that there is this site: http://www.vermontrepublic.org/
It’s called the 2nd Vermont Republic with the motto: The Green Mountain Independence Movement.
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rightwingprof, that was my first thought as I was reading the article, but it appears to be legitimate.
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Hey Shiffman, so what if I’m 30?
Ever hear of Arianna Huffington???
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The site is very real and it is accompanied by sites from at least 27 other groups representing various states and reagions from accross the country. One month ago, heads of these varying groups met in Tennessee for there second annual secessionist convention. These groups are serious and are growing rapidly. Economic collaps and an Obama presidency may be the catalyst that begins the splintering of the United States. Check them out. google secession and see what comes up. It will curl your hair.
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Wow, now not only is Obama going to get us all killed and bring upon an economic depression, now he will actually lead to the union being fragmented?
Lane, there are crazy people everywhere, it doesn’t mean they actually have influence.