SECESSION: A SOLUTION FOR RESTORING CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER

As I contemplate the Socialist Democrat onslaught on our liberties, it occurs to me that ONLY if patriots are organized and are not inclined to be "summertime patriots" when the rubber hits the road can we hope to restore constitutional order on any level of government, either State or national. That said, there are other alternatives, perhaps more efficacious and less daunting, the principal alternative being secession. (And no, secession need not entail bloodshed or needless national turmoil. The bloodletting and awful destruction attending secession in 1861 was entirely preventable and intolerably wrong. I think we learned that lesson. In short, the social, et. al. conditions which prevailed in 1861 do not exist today. Thus, to secede today only requires the unshakISable will of a State's citizenry fervently committed to restoring constitutional order in their State.)

For a time, I believed that State nullification was the best recourse to stem the tide of Federal corruption and overreach. I am no longer as convinced of that. Why? Because most State capitals have morphed into vassalized, ineffectual pawns and replicas of Leviathan, the very entity the States should have been checkmating all along. SO, if not the federal or State governments or We the People in the aggregate, then what sovereign governing entity remains to restore constitutional order, though, perhaps, on a more limited territorial basis? The citizens of the individual States, of course.

Since our chances of restoring order on a national level and in many States is most certainly wishful thinking, then a majority of citizens in individual States who are firmly committed to adhering to first principles as their foundation of government, is the obvious solution.

Providence and the founders provided us many remedies to tyranny. Whichever remedy works best is the remedy to be pursued. No need to feel cornered or helpless if we are organized, principled and committed. We must be mindful of our natural rights and of both the Constitution and of our Declaration of Independence. Those documents are more relevant today than ever before in our history.

Our Founders would tell us the People are the "final arbiters". And since restoring constitutional governance--as envisioned by our founders and adopted by the original 13 States--on a national level today is likely a pipe dream, the remedy or "fix" is in the hands of the citizens of the several States. Thus, I would counsel against civil war and revolution. Unnecessarily and avoidably turbulent and destructive. The most sensible and manageableable course of action to restore constitutional order may well be peaceful secession which might induce other States to follow suit. Such a ground swell might even eventually cascade into an uplifting national transformation. Point is our irreparably shattered constitutional government cannot be restored to full health without this intervening State-level action. Of this I am convinced. And, obviously, secession can only occur in a State where such an action is fully embraced by a majority of citizens in that State.

Something to ponder.