Secede & Survive
Today is the 19th anniversary of the 1993 federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms government’s first military-style attack on the Branch Davidian religious group outside of Waco, Texas. It resulted in the deaths of four federal agents and six Davidians - four of them allegedly killed by indiscriminate fire from helicopters. Many speculate the FBI spent the next fifty-one days harassing the Davidians because they knew ATF agents could be prosecuted for those deaths and wanted an excuse to destroy the building that held the evidence of ATF crimes. On April 19, 1993, after hours of tanks ramming the building, pulling it apart, a fire started that destroyed all of it and killed 76 more Davidians.
My book THE DAVIDIAN MASSACRE...
Better late than ever to inform you that there's another free online liberty conference for the coming weekend (September 23-25). It includes a couple dozen libertarian speakers on philosophy and strategy. See http://agora.io/laozi/schedule/ for details and how to connect to the videos and chat via Facebook.
I’m speaking on "Alternative Constitutions for Independent Communities" on Saturday September 24th at 11 AM Est. I would love for you to join me and participate.
Note that this will be an extension of my March talk "Libertarian Decentralism and Secessionist Strategy" now at http://youtu.be/lkBmoTuWgs0 (And I've got a better web cam now!) The whole March conference is at that GeorgeDonnelly youtube channel.
Other speakers include...
Posted: Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 09:10
I noticed that last week the New York Times had an interesting opinion piece on current secession movements in America called "Splitsville." Of course the typically centralist/statist author writes: " The men who wrote the Constitution feared secession, and didn’t allow states to leave the collective fold."
Not explicitly. More importantly, we celebrate the Fourth of July and the Declaration of Independence which says it is the right of the people to alter or abolish government, and that includes secession. Even the centralists who wrote the Constitution (whose date of ratification is barely noticed) had to add the 10th Amendment explicitly says: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to...
April 12th is the 150th anniversary of the first battle of the U.S. Civil War, the attack on Fort Sumter. Of course, this was a civil war mostly about states rights to impose slavery - plus several other lesser complaints about the federal government.
Future secessionist efforts by states, regions, counties, cities will be about getting out from under the slavery imposed by an authoritarian central government that thinks it has the right to commandeer our monies and our lives to serve the ends of rich and/or well organized special interests, in and out of government. Now some secessionists DO have delusions that they will be able to impose their particular political, economic, religious, cultural or other views on the newly independent...
Going through my computer files I discovered a secret archive of all the original VermontSecession/Thomas Rowley material. I went to a shrink who diagnosed me with multiple personality disorder. So the whole time I thought I was fighting Thomas Rowley, I was Thomas Rowley! As soon as I remember my password I'll remove the whole blog and the NotCarolMoore blog I did about myself. My sincere apologies to everyone!!
I'll be speaking on "Libertarian Decentralism and Secession Strategies" this Saturday 10AM EST at an online libertarian conference with 70 plus of speakers, many with green, sustainability, or self-sufficiency viewpoints. Go here for my channel and here for speakers list.
I'll be regurgitating some of the material I've blogged here, which has been an expansion of my woefully out of date Secession.Net website. Agora I/O is (hopefully) easy to use: just go to the schedule page. Pick talks you want to view and watch them. If you have a Facebook account you can participate through a chat.
Check out a couple of speakers during the three day conference (March 25-27) conference as an experiment in online education that you could apply to your...
First there was Time Magazine touting Vermont secessionism and the Second Vermont Republic. Now Thomas Naylor's latest article at CounterPunch.org - "The Politics of VIolence in America" - takes on a leading Vermont "progressive." And on top of it all, those rebelling Arabs are just the leading edge of a rising sunspot cycle whose energizing effects may turn millions of Americans into secessionists over the next few years. Unionists in Vermont and nationwide may not be gnashing their teeth yet, but give them another year! Two high octane quotes:.. To illustrate how absurd the politics of violence is consider the case of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who now refers to himself as “the most progressive member of the United States Senate.” ...
Kirkpatrick Sale strikes another home run. States, mini-states and non-states under 500,000 are definitely are far better solution for peace and freedom. See article here.
That according to the headline of a New Republic slideshow of good ones, including East Timor, Kosovo, South Sudan, Tibet and the United States (in 1776). This, of course, is a response to the "Secession Ball" marking the 150th anniversary of South Carolina. In publicizing and defending it, once again some southerners prove they don't get it - slavery was bad! They won't admit that in 1860 the south should have freed the slaves, given them just reparations and THEN seceded. And they won't admit today that slavery was a really big issue for most of the states, many of which called themselves the "slave states." But are the neoliberals at The New Republic really that much better? (Let's not even start on their nefarious reasons for...
Rob Williams recommended I share my tag line with any of you who might want to use it.
"NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without judicial or legislative oversight or warning, warrant, or notice. You have no recourse nor protection save to secede from the union."
http://secession.net remains a good place to read about radical political decentralization with secession as a primary strategy. It's inevitable the big nation states will destroy themselves, so we have start working on alternatives.