Out-Freakin-Standing!!!

Watchman · Nov 26, 2012

OUT-FREAKIN-STANDING!!!

http://www.starspangledbannerchallenge.com/ You won't be able to stay seated when you watch and listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGeFn5utrwM Alex Jones on secession

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q03cWio-zjk Congressman Ron Paul's Farewell Speech - Tells the FACTS and TRUTHS about what's been going on in America; tyranny and fascism.

Watchman · Nov 26, 2012

Warning:

You might be labeled a Terrorist and Extremist if you watch all of the above!!!

Leffe · Nov 28, 2012

Watchman said: ↑

Warning:

You might be labeled a Terrorist and Extremist if you watch all of the above!!!
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Or a nutter.

waltky · Dec 10, 2012

Granny quietly sits back an' counts her Confederate bonds...

Secession petitions: Why Americans don't really want to break up
9 December 2012 - Independence movements are on the march in many Western countries, but the secessionists who have been making news in the US since last month's election are not, realistically, going anywhere. Americans are, in fact, unusually keen to stick together. Why is this?

The USA is a divided country, we're often told, polarised in a cultural civil war between the blue and red bits on its map. Unlike almost all of their Western counterparts, however, Americans appear remarkably happy to stay together despite their differences. While separatist parties are thriving in Canada and Europe, recent bids to take individual states out of the union have only served to demonstrate just how little appetite there is for this kind of politics in the US. A series of petitions has been posted on the White House website calling for each of the 50 states to be allowed to secede.

So far Texas, South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, Missouri, Tennessee, North Carolina, Alabama, Oklahoma and Ohio have all attracted more than 25,000 names apiece - entitling them an official response from the administration. In the context of the US population of 312 million, however, the numbers involved are minuscule. Some 700,000 people in total are estimated to have signed so far - around 0.2% of all Americans. Even Texas's 118,000 signatures - the most of any state - represent less than 0.5% of its inhabitants. These tiny figures actually set Americans apart from their counterparts in other major Western countries.

Scotland, Catalonia and Quebec are all governed by parties seeking a referendum on independence. European nations such as Italy, France and Belgium all contain flourishing constituent nations demanding independence. Nor is the trend confined to the West. The USA's Cold War rival, the USSR, fragmented into no fewer than 15 different states upon its collapse some of which also contain smaller national groups eager to break away. China, meanwhile, has nationalist movements in Tibet and Xinjiang. The US is in an entirely different situation.

Even those who backed the petitions were most likely acting purely out of frustration with the presidential election result, believes Neil Caren, assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, who has carried out research into the signatories. "My reading would be that even among the people who signed these petitions, probably a majority wouldn't actually want secession," he says. "It's like saying you'll move to Canada - it's about how you express your dissatisfaction in the immediate aftermath of the election." Certainly, the states where the petitions have attracted the most support are all among those which most favoured the defeated Mitt Romney over Barack Obama. But any serious breakaway movement would be hampered by the memory it would resurrect of one of the most traumatic periods in American history - namely the civil war, which cost around 750,000 lives after the southern Confederate states declared independence in 1861.

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