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Politics : Is Secession Doable? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (513)	11/5/2004 8:11:12 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1968

Nobody would be kicking anybody out of anyplace. That's right. Because you're not going anyplace. That's what nice about the ballot box. There's one in the US Senate too. And if it decides you're not leaving peacefully, you're not leaving peacefully. And it will. I find it interesting that the immediate first response of the reds is to fight; Civil War, Revolution, Nuke, whatever. The first response would be a declaration of a state of insurrection by the POTUS and an order for US troops to occupy key points in the state. Then you get to decide what comes next. You might want to be a little careful when consider what that should be. ALL the US missile fields are in those red states. They were put there intentionally because they are prime targets for incoming nukes and you want them in an area with low population density. That pretty much summarizes the difference between Red and Blue. Yeah. Their methods WORK. Also, as in most divorce settlements, something has to be done with the communal property. I'd settle for everything in place, with the exception of half the gold in Ft. Knox. You'd best rethink that. That was the POV the South took at the outbreak of the Civil War. They said that fort in Charleston Harbor was theirs because it was on South Carolinian territory. The feds said it was federal property and, no, they had no intention of abandoning any federal property anywhere. The South Carolinians opened fire on Fort Sumter. The war was on. Hundreds of thousands of dead and millions of casualties later, the feds had possession of it all. And, like it or not, the rebels did what the federals wanted.