Declaration of Expulsion: A Modest Proposal

[mfidelman at ntcorp.com]

I expect quite a few of us in the Northeast would be happy to join with 
Canada.  It might be problematic that DC went blue :-)




On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, R.A. Hettinga wrote:

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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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