Has anyone else been checking out the Freeper goings-on lately? They have seriously discussing the constitutionality of secession. Most of their fantasies center around having the old confederate states break away from the Union! Big effing surprise, huh? These crazy bastards hope to re-fight the civil war! Now, this is entertaining to a point, but that point is quickly passing. Wholly irrational right-wing persecution complexes, combined with bigotry toward President Obama, have the makings for a highly volatile formulation.
Add to that insanity, scattered hinting of pending violent action if their demands for a "constitutional" succession from the Union are not recognized, and the mixture is set for an eruption of some kind I fear. The right-wing has gone completely insane after having been put out of power all of 3-months! Just a few wing-nuts, you might say. No doubt, but, I'd wager, enough of them to become the violent right-wing threat which that DHS report warned about.
Check it out: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235166/posts
Johnny Reb(publican) - the South will rise!
Yes and so will Jesus but I ain't holding my breath.
C
April 28, 2009 10:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's really strange how the people most prone jingoism and questioning of other people's patriotism are also the most likely to openly toy with the notion of secession.
And for the record, states do not have a Constitutional right to secede. Texas was not granted some special right to secede upon their annexation. There was some thought that it was too large to govern so they left open the question of division but the Constitution clearly states that Congress would have to approve, it's not a unilateral action.
When the US drafted and ratified the Constitution, there was nobody who advocated in any context that the Perpetual Union established by the Articles of Confederation was dissolved. They simply changed the manner of governance for the same nation.
Besides, the Union won the war.
April 29, 2009 1:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
It is a joke when its some nutty Texas governor sayin it aint a bad idea.
But it is scary if and when fifteen hundred people show up at a rally with guns ablazin.
The demagogues could stir things up. rush and others make money stirring things up.
The Civil War overruled the Dred Scott Decision.
But it took another hundred years just to see the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteen Amendments to the US Constitution to be enforced. And many decades after that to see the challenges dwindle.
We must remain alert to these threats while they are still a joke.
Good post and good comment.
April 29, 2009 1:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
Holy crap.
The comment section of that freerepublic link makes the hair on the back of my neck raise up.
Thanks, new10. I think.
April 29, 2009 9:33 AM | Reply | Permalink