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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Jumping From the Sinking Ship of Empire: Vermonters Move to Secede From USA
  • Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 11:47:11 -0600


Jumping From the Sinking Ship of Empire: Vermonters Move to Secede From
USA
http://peakoilanarchy.blogspot.com/

James Howard Kunstler, author of the book about Peak Oil The Long
Emergency, will be the keynote speaker at The Vermont Convention on
Independence to be held in the House Chamber of the State House in
Montpelier, VT on Friday, October 28th, 2005. Sponsored by the Second
Vermont Republic, the convention, which will begin at 9 am and conclude at
5 pm, is open to the public and free of charge. This historic event will be
the first statewide convention on secession in the United States since
North Carolina voted to secede from the Union on May 20, 1861.

Organizers of the convention say it has two objectives: First, to raise the
level of awareness of Vermonters of the feasibility of independence as a
viable alternative to a nation which has lost its moral authority and is
unsustainable. And second, to provide an example and a process for other
states and nations which may be seriously considering separatism,
secession, independence, and similar devolutionary strategies. The Second
Vermont Republic describes itself as "a peaceful, democratic, grassroots,
libertarian populist movement committed to the return of Vermont to its
status as an independent republic as it once was between 1777 and 1791."

Earlier this year, Vermont secession activists published their opening
salvo, the Middlebury Institute Letter. It declared: "We believe that, of
the options open to those who would dissent from the actions and
institutions of a government grown too big and unwieldy and its handmaiden
corporate sponsors grown too powerful and corrupt, the only comprehensive
and practical one is some form of separatism. Exploring this option is not
a step to be taken lightly, because there are established forces that will
hamper and resist, and yet it is a legal and viable enterprise, squarely in
the American tradition...

"Moreover, the accumulating signs point to a series of major crises that
will seriously disrupt and may even destroy the American system in the near
future. These include economic disruptions in the wake of global “peak
oil” production before 2010, deterioration of the power of the dollar
through mounting and uncontrollable national debt and trade imbalances,
continued degradation of vital ecosystems on which the nation depends,
climate change and severe weather causing widespread devastation of coastal
areas, extended use of military force worldwide leading to increased
terrorism and the reinstitution of the draft, [and] judicial takeovers at
the Federal level by rightwing ideologues capable of altering fundamental
legal rights... Those who want to absent and cushion themselves from
suchlike devastations would reasonably want to explore ways of removing
their communities and regions from dangerous national political and
economic mechanisms that are incapable of reform." Read the complete
Middlebury Institute Letter
http://www.vermontrepublic.org/writings/middinstltr.html





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