Declaration of Expulsion: A Modest Proposal

Wed Nov 3 20:30:05 PST 2004

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Declaration of Expulsion: A Modest Proposal
It's Time to Reconfigure the United States

by Mike Thompson
Posted Nov 3, 2004
 [From the author: This is an essay I've been working on for the past
several weeks, updated moments ago with what appears to be Bush's final
number of victory states (31) once the nonsense of provisional votes in
Ohio is overcome.

 As an admitted "modest proposal" (a la Swift's satiric story of the same
name), it is nevertheless serious in pointing out the cancer that continues
to threaten our body politic.]

 Branded unconstitutional by President Abraham Lincoln, the South's
secession from the American Union ultimately sparked "The Civil War" (a
name that was rejected by Southerners, who correctly called it "The War
Between the States," for the South never sought to 1] seize the central
government or 2] rule the other side, two requisites for a civil war).

 No state may leave the Union without the other states' approval, according
to Lincoln's doctrine--an assertion that ignores the Declaration of
Independence, which was the vital basis for all 13 American colonies'
unilateral secession from the British Union eight decades earlier.
Lincoln's grotesque legal argument also disregards a state's inherent right
of secession which many scholars believe is found in the Ninth and Tenth
Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

 Meantime, America has become just as divided as it was a century and a
half ago, when it writhed in Brother-vs.-Brother War. Instead of wedge
issues like slavery, federal subsidies for regional business, and high
tariffs, society today is sundered by profound, insoluble Culture War
conflicts (such as abortion and gay marriage), and debate about our role
abroad (shall we remain the world's leader, or become an unprincipled chump
for the cabal of globalist sybarites who play endless word-games inside the
United Nations and European Union sanctuaries?).

 For many decades, conservative citizens and like-minded political leaders
(starting with President Calvin Coolidge) have been denigrated by the
vilest of lies and characterizations from hordes of liberals who now won't
even admit that they are liberals--because the word connotes such moral
stink and political silliness. As a class, liberals no longer are merely
the vigorous opponents of the Right; they are spiteful enemies of
civilization's core decency and traditions.

 Defamation, never envisioned by our Founding Fathers as being protected by
the First Amendment, flourishes and passes today for acceptable political
discourse. Movies, magazines, newspapers, radio/TV programs, plays,
concerts, public schools, colleges, and most other public vehicles openly
traffic in slander and libel. Hollywood salivated over the idea of placing
another golden Oscar into Michael Moore'sfat hands, for his Fahrenheit 9/11
jeremiad, the most bogus, deceitful film documentary since Herr Hitler and
Herr Goebbels gave propaganda a bad name.

 When they tire of showering conservative victims with ideological mud,
liberals promote the only other subjects with which they feel
conversationally comfortable: Obscenity and sexual perversion. It's as if
the genes of liberals have rendered them immune to all forms of filth.

 As a final insult, liberal lawyers and judges have become locusts of the
Left, conspiring to destroy democracy itself by excreting statutes and
courtroom tactics that fertilize electoral fraud and sprout fields of
vandals who will cast undeserved and copious ballots on Election Day.

 The truth is, America is not just broken--it is becoming irreparable. If
you believe that recent years of uncivil behavior are burdensome, imagine
the likelihood of a future in which all bizarre acts are the norm, and a
government-booted foot stands permanently on your face.

 That is why the unthinkable must become thinkable. If the so-called "Red
States" (those that voted for George W. Bush) cannot be respected or at
least tolerated by the "Blue States" (those that voted for Al Gore and John
Kerry), then the most disparate of them must live apart--not by secession
of the former (a majority), but by expulsion of the latter. Here is how to
do it.

 Having been amended only 17 times since 10 vital amendments (the Bill of
Rights) were added at the republic's inception, the U.S. Constitution is
not easily changed, primarily because so many states (75%, now 38 of 50)
must agree. Yet, there are 38 states today that may be inclined to adopt,
let us call it, a "Declaration of Expulsion," that is, a specific
constitutional amendment to kick out the systemically troublesome states
and those trending rapidly toward anti-American, if not outright
subversive, behavior. The 12 states that must go: California, Illinois, New
York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, Maryland, and Delaware. Only the remaining 38 states
would retain the name, "United States of America." The 12 expelled mobs
could call themselves the "Dirty Dozen," or individually keep their
identity and go their separate ways, probably straight to Hell.

 A difficult-to-pass constitutional amendment, however, is not necessary.
There is an equally lawful route that mercifully would be both easier and
faster. Inasmuch as Article IV, Section 3 of the Constitution specifies
that "New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union," it is
reasonable that the same congressional majority may expel a state from the
Union. Is there, after all, any human organization in existence (including
a family or law firm) that may not disown, disinherit, ostracize, alienate
or expel diabolical members? Whether the nation is purged of these 12
states via the Constitution or statute, the process of elimination must
begin now, for the need of societal detoxification has waxed so
overwhelmingly clear.

 Examine the "Mostly Mainstream 38" and "Fringe 12." Of the 50 states, Bush
won 30 in the 2000 presidential election against Gore, and 31 in 2004
against Kerry. More dramatic is the huge disparity among counties. Of 3,112
counties nationwide, Bush in 2000, for example, won 2,434, a crushing 78%
majority. (In the counties composing "Bush USA" live approximately 150
million persons; in the 678 of "Gore/Kerry USA," 140 million.) Gore/Kerry
denizens are concentrated in the metropolises of the East and West Coasts
and those big cities on the Great Lakes or Mississippi River. Other
significant pockets of ultraliberal extremists may be found in
intellectually incestuous college towns and pro-big-government state
capitals, along the estranged and overwhelmed Mexican border, and in
Dixie's welfare-addicted Cotton Belt.

 The demographics revealed by the two most recent presidential elections
are radically different and have resulted in "Two Americas" (but not the
simplistic "Two Americas" [one rich, one poor] envisioned by
Kerry'sMarxist-tongued running mate, John Edwards):
	* 	BUSH USA is predominantly white; devoutly Christian (mostly
Protestant); openly, vigorously heterosexual; an open land of single-family
homes and ranches; economically sound (except for a few farms), but not
drunk with cyberworld business development, and mainly English-speaking,
with a predilection for respectfully uttering "yes, ma'am" and "yes, sir."

	* 	GORE/KERRY USA is ethnically diverse; multi-religious,
irreligious or nastily antireligious; more sexually liberated (if not in
actual practice, certainly in attitude); awash with condo canyons and other
high-end real estate bordered by sprawling, squalid public housing or
neglected private homes, decidedly short of middle-class neighborhoods;
both high tech and oddly primitive in its commerce; very artsy, and
Babelesque, with abnormally loud speakers.
Bush USA also is far safer, its murder rate being about 16% of the
homicidal binge that plagues Gore/Kerry USA--2.1 per 100,000 residents,
compared with 13.2 per 100,000 (from a study by Professor Joseph Olson,
Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota).

 A downsized, post-expulsion United States still would be geographically
big enough (and personally generous enough) to welcome millions of
authentic refugees from the ousted former states, real Americans who crave
lower taxes, smaller government, safer neighborhoods, more secure borders,
greater moral leadership, and all the other aspects of a markedly better
society-- one that spawns harmony, not cacophony; excellence, not
dependence; justice, not histrionics; education, not brainwashing;
enterprise, not welfare, and Godliness, not devilishness. As for the dozen
ex-American states, they could always petition the UN and EU for foreign
aid. Moreover, with any good luck (or bon chance), socialist Canada would
annex our jettisoned territory, eh?

Still Relevant After All These Years

 Language of the 1776 Declaration of Independence that rings true today for
expulsion:

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another . . .

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to
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 . . .

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not
be changed for light and transient causes . . . but when a long train of
abuses . . . evinces a design to reduce them [the people] under absolute
Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such
Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

 Language of Barry Goldwater, 1964 Republican presidential nominee that
also rings true:

Sometimes I think this country would be better off if we could just saw off
the eastern seaboard and let it float out to sea.

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