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By: acoustic_engr

acoustic_engr — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:37:49 +0000

Where exactly in the Constitution is secession prohibited? Virginia for one refused to ratify it until they received explicit assurances that they could secede if they chose to in the future. The US may no longer be a voluntary association of the states, but it once was.

[The Constitution defines the US as a federal government, not a voluntary confederation.

In Texas v. White, 74 U.S. 700 (1869) the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution did not permit states to secede from the United States.]

By: sdotbailey

sdotbailey — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:35:22 +0000

@ alexcurylo

OK, since no one has provided these videos and you’re just not willing to learn anything, here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxzmaXAg9E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itEucdhf4Us&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVFWahLTdUo

There, now that you’ve been schooled, go examine these people you’re obviously very strongly supporting. Good luck in your bubble-world where nothing bad ever happens and Fox News is completely right about everything everywhere.

By: bergump

bergump — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:31:19 +0000

dan, i would like your view on this story. this could prove to be the political scandal of the decade. i did more investigation and the evidence appears overwhelming of fraud. [Oh, please. You linked up extremist right wing nuttery about Obama's birth certificate. This is not a story, nor a "scandal." It's a pile of stupid that stinks to anyone with an IQ above 75. Seriously, if you think Obama has pulled off identity fraud long enough to spend years teaching Constitutional Law in a prestigious university, get elected to the Senate as serve on committees requiring a security clearance, and now faces the loss of his presidential race because of "questions" about birth certificate from the same people who "question" climate change, science, and the benefits of secular government, ask yourself: don't you think that Obama would have the capacity to generate a very genuine appearing birth certificate if he were actually challenged and were not, as wingnuts fantasize, a citizen? There is no plausible scenario where "I hear there's no paper, and parts aren't legible!!!!" rumors floating in the dead space of dittohead hate radio goose stepping extremist fear alarmist nutjobs that would bring any truth to light. Don't seek enlightenment from these dim bulbs. When you post this stuff, you are simply mocking yourself. Also, you're a bit late because the court already acted to throw this ridiculous case out. Let's keep the discussion on intelligent issues that matter, not catcalling "terrorist kill him" jackassery.]

By: tundraboy

tundraboy — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:49:41 +0000

Switzerland in WWII was impeccably neutral. As impeccably neutral as Spain.

(Okay for those whose knowledge of history is Palinian or Bushian: Beep beep! Irony alert, Irony alert! Beep beep!)

By: LuisDias

LuisDias — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:46:36 +0000

Hitler was quite offended indeed by stalwart Swiss independence blotching the map of the Third Reich, but even he accepted his generals’ evaluation that it would take at least 60 divisions to initially subdue the country and there was no possibility of pacification.

Now you confuse ideological achievements with geographic quagmires! How dumber can you get?

By: marsviolet

marsviolet — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:32:09 +0000

And as a testament to its effectiveness, examine World War II. Hitler was quite offended indeed by stalwart Swiss independence blotching the map of the Third Reich, but even he accepted his generals’ evaluation that it would take at least 60 divisions to initially subdue the country and there was no possibility of pacification. Thus, Switzerland was, remarkably, all but untouched by the war. Its worst damage was actually from Allied misidentifcation as German towns during bombing raids.

Actually, the Swiss appeased Hitler and gave him sanctuary. A single Nazi tank division likely could have taken Berne (the capital), and if Hitler had not been defeated by the coalition, most of German-speaking Switzerland would have been incorporated into the German empire.

By: tundraboy

tundraboy — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:26:28 +0000

As I always said, my libertarianism ends when my neighbor paints his house fluorescent pink. Libertarianism is a college-freshman level ideology for people who cannot wrap their minds around the complexities of real political life. And even dumber than social libertarianism is economic libertarianism. We had the robber-baron era, we had the great depression, now we’re going through the great Greenspan meltdown, and yet we still have people banging on their tired old Ayn Rand drum. Any self-professed libertarian who does not know what the ‘externality problem’ and the ‘private information problem’ are, and has no practical, proven solution for them is just an ignorant, cognitively dissonant, pseudo-intellectual loudmouth who really should not be taken seriously.

That aside, I do believe it appears to me that this long eight year nightmare will soon be over. One of the first things I would hope President Obama would do is declare that he will never use signing statements and will consider all signing statements unconstitutional and thus refuse to enforce them. Second, I would like him to return the primacy of objective, scholarly, and peer-reviewed science in the nation’s science and technology agencies and expel all the lobbyist-sponsored Republican political officers that have infected the various expert scientific commissions, boards, and panels of the federal government.

By: marsviolet

marsviolet — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:12:53 +0000

As pointed out earlier, I refer you to the Swiss experience.

America is not Switzerland.