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Saturday, October 5, 2013

Secession. Time To Encourage The Red States To Get The Hell Out?

"Secession: The Hope For Humanity"
This passionate plea for secession will remind armchair secessionists 
why they don't want to "go there."

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Dear F,

Encouraging the blood-red states to secede is a good idea. (For decades I have been baffled by Lincoln's obsessive determination to preserve the Union.)

However I can not imagine red state dimwits "taking us up on the offer" even though they pretend to want "out."

Still, it's worth suggesting secession if only to see how the addlepates react.

The Red States have been feeding at the Federal Trough so long -- and so "slurpily" -- that they know damn well which side their bread is buttered on.

I think they also realize (on some level) that their own viciousness, violence and disdain for The Common Good would soon result in regression to troglodytism.  http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/if-obamacare-succeeds-republican-party.html


My post, "Bobby Jindal And Government Shutdown: "We've Got To Stop Being The Stupid Party" is also informative. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/bobby-jindal-and-government-shutdown.html

Sundry:

  1. Pax on both houses: Next time... let them secede.

    paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/11/next-time-let-them-secede.html
    by Alan Archibald Nov 14, 2012 - Alan: The tremendous advantage to letting red states secede is that the "new confederacy" would soon be 
    begging readmission. Deprived of ...
  2. Pax on both houses: Militias, Secession and The Dimwits Who ...

    paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../militias-secession-and-dimwits-who.ht...
    by Alan Archibald Jan 2, 2013 - The booby prize for people who never got a life. Paranoia. ***. Texas v. Texas. 
    (RadioLab). https://soundcloud.com/snapjudgment/texas-v-texas ...
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Love

A


On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:28 PM, FV wrote:

Dear A

I’m thinking, why not offer the option of secession to the blood red states as a way out of this stalemate? This way we don’t have to put up with crazy and crazy doesn’t have to put up with affordable health care, gun control, taxes etc.  Anyone in those states who are sane will have to move. Problem solved.

Love

F

From: Alan Archibald [mailto:alanarchibaldo@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 2:47 PM
To: JT
Subject: Re: Fw: Gary Michaels updated his status: "From a letter to the editor in today's Washington Post: “We hav...

Dear John,

Thanks for sharing your former student's excellent letter.

I have posted your email under the title, "Abraham Lincoln On Obamacare"  http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/history-lesson-from-abe-lincoln.html

Please note that in this post I thank you by name. 

If public attribution is not to your liking, just let me know and I will remove it at once.

Thanks again!

Pax vobiscum

Alan

PS I think you will enjoy "The Tea Party's Revolt Against Reality" by conservative columnist and former Bush speech writer, Michael Gerson. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-tea-partys-revolt-against-reality.html

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 2:18 PM, John Tarantino <johntarantino@nc.rr.com> wrote:
An old student of mine from Pgh now a lawyer at the FCC


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Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 9:45 PM
Subject: Gary Michaels updated his status: "From a letter to the editor in today's Washington Post: “We hav...


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Gary Michaels updated his status: "From a letter to the editor in today's Washington Post:
“We have just carried an election on principles fairly stated to the people. Now we are told in advance, the government shall be broken up, unless we surrender to those we have beaten.... If we surrender, it is the end of us.” So said Abraham Lincoln in 1860 following his victory in the presidential election.
Southern states were demanding a “compromise” on slavery in exchange for not seceding from the union. However, their proposed “compromise” required that the victorious party make all the concessions to ensure the continuation of the institution of slavery. We just completed an election in 2012 in which Democrats won the White House, the Senate and a majority of the popular vote in the House “on principles fairly stated to the people,” yet the Republicans a large percentage of them Southerners) threaten to “break up” the government (through defunding and defaulting on debt) unless the victors surrender to the losers. Has anything changed in 150 years?"


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