State Secession
by Bob Serrao www.intodaysenglish.com

In the light of a bullish Administration, should states secede from the United States? Why ask such a question?

Well, to say that today’s centralized U.S. government has drifted wildly from its original moorings is an understatement. In doing so it has morphed into a grotesque freak resembling nothing of the “republican form of Government” envisioned by the Framers (Article Four, Section 4). It has miniaturized every citizen and trashed every commendable virtue that has made America great…travesties of immeasurable disgrace.

The U.S. government has loosed the chains with which WE THE PEOPLE had bound it, picked up these very chains and bound US! No longer do we have a government that is “of, by and for the People” (Lincoln), for our “safety, happiness and security,” (Declaration, Paragraph 2). We are now re-entering the bottom of the tyranny cycle from which we had once escaped…and the crush is growing more painful with every new law. We citizens are becoming slaves once again, being disadvantaged by our own ignorance and indifference. We have accepted the bondage and taken liberty to unhealthy extremes. In one sense, we get what we deserve; in another sense, we deserve better.

Obviously, the “consent of the governed” (Declaration) is being crushed to death at the despotic will of an elite oligarchy who know very well what they are doing, being aided by all three treasonous branches of its hanging tree. Cautiously, the Constitution does not call for a two-party system -- Republicans and Democrats. With this crippling paradigm, we are so basically screwed. This alone is moral justification for secession.

To secede; Latin -- to move, to depart or to separate, Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary http://www.1828-dictionary.com/d/search/word,secede ; to withdraw from a political or religious body, organization, union, or especially a political entity. 

So, is secession the remedy? Absolutely and ultimately! Secession is morally justified when it involves oppression of those governed. If the individual States would interpose themselves, nullify in their boundaries all unconstitutional “laws” and secede from the Union, we might put big government back in chains and right our nation.

Secession movements have been successful in many nations, even America. The American Revolutionary War for Independence from England, 1775-83 was, by definition, an act of secession by a grassroots movement of the colonies. The Declaration put the King of England on notice that they no longer considered themselves “royal subjects,” but “free and independent states.” It was monumental and gutsy. U.S. President Thomas Jefferson: "If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation...to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.’”

And in 1860-61, eleven of the Southern states seceded from the Union, South Carolina being the first. Did we have wars? Oh, yes! So what? Things worked themselves out with the Constitution and Amendments, and we are a better nation for it.

U.S. President James Buchanan, Fourth Annual Message to Congress on the State of the Union December 3, 1860: "The fact is that our Union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war. If it cannot live in the affections of the people, it must one day perish.”

Secede? Yes, “…whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or 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.” “…it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” Declaration of Independence, 1776.

But, do the states have the will and fortitude to do this today? Here is the weak link in the secession chain. Every State is held hostage in the chains of bribery because it receives mucho dinero from the government. The Feds just might decapitate a State’s funds, leaving the co-dependent State to bleed to death. How scary! Ask Ben Nelson and Mary Landau about political bribery and handouts. Ask Stupak about Administrative thuggery.

So, if our government refuses to function on principles and powers of laws of government which the people ordain, empower and subscribe, they can and should interpose themselves, nullify all unconstitutional “legislation” and secede. It is the only practical and moral solution to protect human freedom and manageable governance.

When the irresistible force of human freedom crashes into the immoveable object of big government, sooner or later human freedom will always win.

Thomas Jefferson: “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”

CONSTITUTION or SUCESSION? Liberty or death? You decide for yourself, for America!