Sunday, March 9, 2008

Second Vermont Republic

I emphasize again that secession is nowhere prohibited by the Constitution, and that being under a government is voluntary...at least in a free society.

http://www.vermontrepublic.org/

Please explore the above website.

Excerpt from http://www.goodmagazine.com/section/Features/most_likely_to_secede


"Here’s how it will be with Vermont: The leaders of its secessionist movement, the Second Vermont Republic, want to feed, shelter, clothe, and fuel a free republic broken from the empire. This doesn’t mean the little country will sink into Albanian isolation, its citizens ceasing to trade with China or refusing to watch the rot beamed on DirecTV satellites. It will continue to be a tourist destination, its slopes welcoming New Yorkers and Quebecois equally. But the state's secesh want to keep their tax dollars at home and put them toward localized food economies (calling it "food sovereignty"), energy supplies based on wind and water, and credit lines out of community lenders freed from the distant tyrannical rate controls of central banks."

Amen to that.

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