I noticed that last week the New York Times had an interesting opinion piece on current secession movements in America called "Splitsville." Of course the typically centralist/statist author writes: " The men who wrote the Constitution feared secession, and didn’t allow states to leave the collective fold." Not explicitly. More importantly, we celebrate the Fourth of July and the Declaration of Independence which says it is the right of the people to alter or abolish government, and that includes secession. Even the centralists who wrote the Constitution (whose date of ratification is barely noticed) had to add the 10th Amendment explicitly says: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to...

Going through my computer files I discovered a secret archive of all the original VermontSecession/Thomas Rowley material. I went to a shrink who diagnosed me with multiple personality disorder. So the whole time I thought I was fighting Thomas Rowley, I was Thomas Rowley! As soon as I remember my password I'll remove the whole blog and the NotCarolMoore blog I did about myself. My sincere apologies to everyone!!

First there was Time Magazine touting Vermont secessionism and the Second Vermont Republic. Now Thomas Naylor's latest article at CounterPunch.org - "The Politics of VIolence in America" - takes on a leading Vermont "progressive." And on top of it all, those rebelling Arabs are just the leading edge of a rising sunspot cycle whose energizing effects may turn millions of Americans into secessionists over the next few years. Unionists in Vermont and nationwide may not be gnashing their teeth yet, but give them another year! Two high octane quotes:.. To illustrate how absurd the politics of violence is consider the case of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who now refers to himself as “the most progressive member of the United States Senate.” ...

That according to the headline of a New Republic slideshow of good ones, including East Timor, Kosovo, South Sudan, Tibet and the United States (in 1776). This, of course, is a response to the "Secession Ball" marking the 150th anniversary of South Carolina. In publicizing and defending it, once again some southerners prove they don't get it - slavery was bad! They won't admit that in 1860 the south should have freed the slaves, given them just reparations and THEN seceded. And they won't admit today that slavery was a really big issue for most of the states, many of which called themselves the "slave states." But are the neoliberals at The New Republic really that much better? (Let's not even start on their nefarious reasons for...