[extropy-chat] FSP: Killington Votes to Secede

[Technotranscendence]

On Wednesday, March 03, 2004 4:35 PM The Avantguardian
avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com wrote:
> Actually there is talk amongst certain
> circles of the entire State of California
> seceeding and taking Oregon,
> Washington, and possibly Hawaii and
> Alaska with us. It has a lot to do the
> Federal government continously
> interfering with our rights of self
> determination in such matters as
> marijuana legalization, gay marriage,
> embarrassed to the whole world by Bush.
> etc. I think sophisticated California
> urbanites are sick of being pushed
> around in the electoral college by the
> huge swath of red states in the middle
> of the country that really have less in
> common in California than Mexico,
> Japan or other modern Pacific Rim
> culture does. At least our current
> governor owns up to smoking marijuana
> to "relax his muscles". He can't become
> president of the United States of America...
> but the United States of
> Pacifica? Who knows. *wg*

It wouldn't be the first time secession was discussed in the US.  Well,
the origin of the US was a secession from the British Empire, but, IIRC,
in the early 1800s, some of the New England States wanted to secede.
Even up to the US Civil War, there was talk about many Northern States
seceding.

The actual result, though, of a strong secession movement would probably
just be the Federal government handing out some favors to certain
individuals and groups to stifle it.  Doesn't mean it shouldn't be
tried.  And who knows?  Maybe the secession itself won't happen, but the
Feds might back off on marijuana laws, etc.

BTW, if you're interested in this topic, you might want to read
_Secession, State & Liberty_, a collection of essays edited by David
Gordon.  I haven't read the book, but I've listened to the taped
lectures the book is based on.  The lectures actually had a healthy
diversity of viewpoints on the issue, including speakers on Eastern
Europe and Canada.  See:

http://www.mises.org/store/product1.asp?SID=2&Product_ID=88

Actually, the Amazon price is 5 cents cheaper and the reviews there give
me the idea that the the book probably contains much the same material
as the lectures.

Regards,

Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/MyWorksBySubject.html