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Secession through geography

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the_Trev:
I'm not a great writer by any means but it's a boring Wednesday night in hippie town and I had a thought. A couple years back a bunch of Republican trendys signed a petition to secede from the union in various states. I don't disagree in principle. There should be anger that people are slaves of the state. There should be outrage that the government lives by a different set of laws, if any laws at all. However, their delivery system for this missile of rebellion was an electronic file submitted on a government website. It was on the MSM. So i'm sure it was talked about in realms of the signers. If that energy could've been aimed at spreading liberty and freedom, secession would've occurred naturally. I'm sure some of you have heard of the free state project. A movement to get 20,000 liberty minded folks into Maine. They reached the goal and now have seats in the state house  (or senate idk). Maine wouldn't be my first choice but for freedom, i would do anything. Imagine if a movement could be started to get libertarians, rational Republicans, real progressives and a whole slew of other people to move to an entire region. Like the southeast (Republican mostly but I think Republicans are persuaded more easily), where the entire region could simply ignore the federal government. No need to fight or bicker, simply ignore. The states can operate independently until a problem arises. Sound familiar? I'm sure there were more points I had but i've forgotten them.

polymathpangram:

--- Quote from: the_Trev on April 27, 2016, 08:39:45 PM ---I'm sure some of you have heard of the free state project. A movement to get 20,000 liberty minded folks into Maine.

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Hey Trev, not to knit-pick, but it's actually New Hampshire, which, incidentally, afaik, is the only state that, upon joining the union, included a term which reserved the right to secede as a condition in so doing.

But I agree: secession is small fries, and in itself an act of subservience. Fuck asking for freedom. Just make the authority increasingly irrelevant and obsolete, both of which it is already becoming with technological advancement and economic failure.

Adam Kokesh:
YES! I remember covering that with the whitehouse.gov petitions for secession after Obama was reelected. This is why I think a national campaign can happen to transform the national conversation. The demand is there! There are pockets of freedom all over the US, and I'm helping develop a strong community here in Juniperwood Ranch in Arizona.

the_Trev:
Polymathpangram, you're absolutely right. Brainfart. I've been watching your YouTube ranch videos Adam. I hope Juniperwood's success can spread like wildfire. There was a commune type place where I live in North Carolina that was self sustaining, off the grid, kept to itself and everything but the city shut them down saying it wasn't sanitary. I'm sure it was because they just wanted to be left alone.

Slow poke:
Just gotta get everyone out there to buy a little piece of Arizona then that is a good start.

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