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Secessionist No. 7
Considering Secession
Mr. Brian Puckett of "Citizens of America" recently sent me a copy of an article
by him that was published on the Sierra Times website at
www.sierraTimes.com. Mr. Puckett is a thoughtful and patriotic man, a leader
in the struggle to preserve our constitutional right to own firearms. Sierra
Times is a first class web site for people who value freedom.
Why then, do I choose to debate the issue of secession with Mr. Puckett? Well,
for one thing, he is against it. The title of his essay was "Secession is Not
the Best Solution." Here is his opinion on the matter:
"Before it is all lost, before we are subjugated by socialists, before the last
vestiges of Constitutional rule are subverted, should we divide the country into
states dominated by the two divergent factions?
No, we should not. We should instead drive the socialists out of our schools,
out of our government, and out of our lives."
Since I respect his well reasoned arguments and am aware of his deep commitment
to the cause of freedom, I gave the issue some more thought, facing the
infinitely difficult task of trying to think like someone who doesn’t agree with
me. To do this it was necessary to take the approach that secession is a bad
idea. It hurts just to write those words! Yet it wasn’t hard to come up with a
lot of reasons why this might be true. As an exercise, let’s look at the issue
from that point of view.
First the obvious one – our first experiment with secession nearly drowned the
country in blood. Hundreds of thousands of the best men in America died or were
maimed in a war that devastated the South for decades and left many a family on
both sides in mourning for years. Yet it must always be remembered – it was
Northern troops, under the auspices of an out of control central government, who
invaded the South. What choice was there for Southerners? Sometimes it really is
necessary to fight. The question that confronts us is two fold, would it come to
that? And if so, is it worth it?
There are administrative issues as well. What of the Federal government
programs? What of the media? Who gets what? (I don’t want Sam Donaldson!) What
of the military, particularly the nuclear weapons? Who would get the aircraft
carriers? How soon could we break up that communist teacher’s union and bring
the schools back on board, teaching our values? Would there be civil disorder?
These are serious issues, and must be considered.
Having done so, it always comes back to same old questions. How can long can we
tolerate this cesspool into which we and our children have been dragged? We have
pretty graphic evidence that the Democratic party, the party of socialism,
depravity, abortion and treason, will do virtually anything to retain control of
the government apparatus. They already have control of the media and the
schools. It is equally true that about one third of our population supports
them, and that demographic is unfortunately, distributed through out the
country. While heavily concentrated along the coasts, it’s a safe bet that some
of these folks are living in our neighborhoods as well. Splitting this thing up
would not be easy.
Yet we all have seen the map displaying the voter breakdown by county. The
population that votes democratic is heavily massed on the coastal cities and
some of the more porous areas of the border with Mexico. What a surprise.
Never was the cultural divide more graphically obvious. We, the cultural
conservatives and "joe six-packs" of "flyover country" went overwhelmingly for
Bush. We didn’t love him – we were voting against the Democrats. We want our
country back and voted accordingly. The cultural Marxists however, are very
close to winning. Most of the people who live on entitlements, work for the
government, the media or otherwise suck at the public trough, voted to continue
re-distributing our wealth at the expense of our republic.
Academe, that haven for the very communistic theories rejected by the rest of
the civilized world, went heavily for cultural Marxists; many if not most of the
bigger colleges must be considered training grounds for the enemy. When one
thinks of Marxism in the context of our colleges, it is hard to determine if we
should be thinking of Karl or Groucho! We have a lot of house cleaning to do
right in our own back yards, and since we can’t just shoot all these lame brains
we’ll be hard pressed to come up with something useful for them to do. That part
of it might just be fun.
The saddest commentary of all is this: we may assume that the Christian Church,
in particular the mainstream denominations, has been heavily infiltrated by
these weasels, even in the traditional Bible Belt. Satan knows his enemy, even
if we do not.
So we have a political party that supports homosexual activists, labor unions,
including the extremely dangerous teacher's unions, the race baiters, feminists,
Hollywood elite, and those old leftists who still cling feebly but
enthusiastically to the Stalinist creed. They were fronted in this contest by
"Moses" Lieberman, he of the elastic morals, and Al Gore, he of the no morals
whatsoever. Admittedly, these wretches are worthy successors to Bill Clinton,
and for those who believe as they believe, Lieberman and Gore are satisfactory
if not inspiring. No soul searching on the left, no honor or desire to do the
best thing for the country. Just naked venality and an overwhelming lust for
power. Even the more principled leftists abandoned them in disgust, and went for
Nader.
Essentially, this element of our body politic is at war with the principals upon
which this country was founded and the people who believe in those principals.
They want our money and they want our souls. They want absolute power, and they
want it in the name of some bastardized imitation of democracy where everyone
can have all the sex they want and call it freedom. It reeks of the barnyard –
Orwell was strangely prescient in his use of metaphor.
It is time to consider that, and forget this loyal opposition nonsense. Get it
through your heads that these people are most definitely not loyal. There is no
"agreeing to disagree" with this bunch, no compromise. Study the workings of the
communist party from the thirties and forties and you will soon learn where the
Democrats get this incredible tenacity – they will never stop: every compromise
is to them, a short step forward toward their devilish goal of absolute power.
They will use whatever tactics it takes, and that includes importing millions of
foreigners and declaring them citizens to skew the election results. They proved
that by doing it: both in the recent election and in ’96. At the rate they are
flooding this country with immigrants, immigrants beholden to them, we can soon
forget about western European culture. This benefits no one, not even the
immigrants, and will lead to anarchy.
So I say to Mr. Puckett, and to the others out there who wish to work within the
system, that the time for compromise was over years ago. Ask your kids what they
are learning in school. I’m not just speaking to Southerners here. How about you
Northern Californians who are virtually dominated by the leftists in your state?
How about you westerners, who learned in this recent farce of an election that
your voice is literally a voice crying in the wilderness. Clinton stole another
eighty million acres of your land while the country was focused on the election!
There are additionally, large blocks of freedom loving individuals in the north
east. What about them? Do you reckon they really like seeing homosexuals flood
into Vermont to participate in the now "legal" mockery of God’s own institution,
marriage? How must it feel to live under the yoke of the socialist upstarts in
Massachusetts or New York?
Can we roll over any longer? Immigration wasn’t discussed in this election yet
it is the second most crucial issue facing this country, with the exception of
the slaughter of unborn children. The latter issue apparently doesn’t exist on
our political landscape either. Even those of you who disagree with me on that
must admit that there has been no political or electoral dialogue on the issue:
it was decided by the Supreme Court, the chief agency of our decline. Working
well outside it’s constitutional authority I might add. Shouldn’t issues like
these be decided by the states?
In the midst of this upheaval the government is quietly usurping our God given
right to own weapons of self defense. We don’t even need a constitution to see
the logic in that one – if the government has the guns and we don’t, the
government owns us, and if you think that is too simplistic, then consider why
the framers wrote so copiously about that very issue. Indeed, our constitution
and Bill of Rights are designed for one purpose only: to limit government. How
sickening it is to hear these tawdry politicians even mention the constitution
they are sworn to uphold. Can we continue under the rule of such men? Dare we?
Mr. Puckett continues his argument by saying " all of the United States is
ours." Well, it sure doesn’t seem like it to me. If a cop in the Northern states
pulls me over and finds my sidearm, I’m going to jail. If the government has
it’s way, that despotism will soon find it’s way into the South as well. So no,
let’s not pretend all of these United States are ours. In New York, arguably one
of the most dangerous towns in the US, we are required to walk around unarmed.
Presumably, this is acceptable to New Yorkers or they would not tolerate it. Yet
homosexuals dressed as nuns caper in the streets and no perversity is too vile
to tolerate except the outmoded desire for political freedom. Do I wish to be
ruled over by such people? Is it worth it? Let them have their way, but only
with each other. And make them apply for visas to come here!
People on the left of the argument wish to tell us what to do, and are doing so.
We are rolling over supinely and may well be fully cooked before we realize
we’re even in the oven. That these people are often well meaning is of scant
consequence to me. A dummy can hurt me just as easily as a wise, evil
antagonist. That they will is obvious from the state of our education system,
and from the systemic acceptance of the demise of our constitutional republic.
For those slow learners out there, take a look at our penal system, and the
police. Do constitutional republics lock up or shoot people for smoking a weed?
To you Christian brothers let me add that the very police state being brought to
bear in the drug war you have been supporting, will ultimately be used against
you as well. Time to put on the thinking caps folks.
Perhaps this recent attempt at an electoral coup will alert people to the danger
we face. And perhaps not... Stealing the votes of military men must certainly
set a new standard for sheer venality yet where are the public cries of outrage.
They may well get away with it.
I’ve actually heard people on the other side blaming the Republicans for trying
to steal the election. As if the vacuous Republicans would have the gusto to
fight dirty. What we learn from this, however, is that our country is
irrevocably divided. They are not going to convince us, and we are not going to
convince them. Despite the fact that many leftists are decent people trying to
do the right thing, it’s time to realize that their core beliefs are evil and to
separate from them lest we be further corrupted by them.
Despite the traitor Clinton’s efforts to subvert the military, that remains the
single largest group in America that do not embrace his beastly ideas. Military
personnel actually believe in the constitution, at a rate far exceeding that of
say, public school teachers, politicians or TV news commentators. Will that
military, most of whom are our neighbors, shoot us for exercising our
constitutional right to separate? Probably not – but give the democrats another
eight years and the military will purged to the point where it will become the
storm troopers of America and then we better watch out. They are rapidly weeding
out the real soldiers and turning our military into an extension of the PC
police.
Another eight years of these wretches and another generation will have been
turned against us by the media and the public schools. We cannot afford to wait.
We must raise up leaders among us who will take a stand and who will get us out
of this tainted union with evil. We are out of time, we must do it now, and we
must make it stick.
Here in America the people who still believe in freedom have reached the point
of no return. It can only go downhill for us from here. We must act, or we will
have to learn to kiss the boot of an oppressor who is not only evil, but boring.
That’s right, I said boring. Hitler was charismatic in his evil – Stalin was
downright demonic. Take a long hard look at Al Gore – his principals, if such a
one can be said to have any, are very much in line with theirs. Yet this is a
mediocre villain of a man who even while grasping rapaciously for power,
provokes a yawn – a tedious despotism may well be the worst of all!
A final consideration for every Christian who contemplates secession must be
this: we are enjoined by the very Word of God to respect the power of the state.
I have considered this one at great length – to be found disobedient by the One
who died that we might have life would be dreadful. So we must consider the
Office of the State, that second kingdom of God, the one which wields the sword.
Our loyalty to the state is commanded of us in holy Scripture.
In America – we the people are the state, and we live in a constitutional
republic which has been usurped. Ours is a voluntary union of states – an old
and familiar argument, in no way obviated by the ruthless application of
coercive force applied by the central government against us in 1861. We are
indeed remiss, but only in that we have failed in our first duty which is to
govern ourselves responsibly.
As a Lutheran, I believe more than most in separation of the church and state,
and fear the possibility of a theocracy. I can’t imagine why I’m not allowed to
buy beer on Sunday yet conversely, neither can I imagine why on earth we
tolerate leaders who would forbid us the guidance of the Ten Commandments in the
courtroom! It has been noted that ours has become a country where the unborn are
murdered in the womb yet the dead can vote and run for office. A country that
sins corporately will be judged corporately and I have no wish to be judged for
the sins of those who are currently running this country.
Since America was defined as a loose confederation of states, I’m convinced that
we in no way violate the law of God as defined by Paul in Romans and by Peter in
his epistles, when we espouse secession. Secession was and is, a natural and
perfectly normal response of states which have become dissatisfied with the
union into which they voluntarily entered. Remember that the legality of this
was put to the test when the Yankees failed to try Jefferson Davis for treason,
because they could not find a law under which to prosecute him. Exercising the
rights inherent in our form of government is in no way sedition!
It is our legal right (despite the war criminal Lincoln’s admonitions to the
contrary) to separate, and separate we must.
The real question is this: why have let it go this far, that secession has
become our last hope for an existence as free men?
by
Michael Peirce
November 20, 2000
Originally posted on
lewrockwell.com, included in the collection of Secessionist Papers with the
express consent and support of the author
North American * Secession and Independence Movements
*Hawaii and Puerto Rico are obviously not part of North America, no offense intended
Active Secession Movements Around the World
One Nation Indivisible? A Study of Secession and the Constitution