Posted by
J Albert on Sunday, September 20, 2009 9:33:10 AM
What is Secession? Secession is defined as:
Secession – Act of Seceding
Seceding –verb (used without object), -ced⋅ed, -ced⋅ing.
to withdraw formally from an alliance, federation, or association, as from a political union, a religious organization, etc.
Through out history, there has been a time where Government and People begin moving in directions that are Counterproductive for each to support. Government’s wanting more and more control over the peoples daily lives; People wanting less and less Government involvement in their daily lives. When this happens, one of two things will happen.
The first is the government winning the battle and socialism comes to power. This is where the state (the little word for government) owns everything you do, earn, ideas, property and and you have little or no savings. There are no rich and no poor; there is only people and government (the wealthy then). This will sound familiar to those of us who grew up during the communist downfall, remembering what was happening in Russia and other Balkan countries before the Berlin Wall was destroyed by a US President not just carrying a big stick, but the world new he would use it. I don’t know about any of you, but the stark pictures of lines of people waiting to get a single roll of toilet paper, black market items that would cost a months pay, and communications from outside of the country or inside the country were very seldom received. What you watched, ate, thought, drank, when you got up, and when you went to bed was controlled by the state. It was said that the only thing the people had was their dreams and if the Kremlin could have controlled them, they would have.
The second is the people winning the battle, thus the colonies create the United States of America, via the Constitution of the United States of America. Since we are at a place where there are no more places on earth to discover, we have a choice to acquiesce to the Government or where possible, based on land groupings of the people, they can secede from the government peacefully and transition to the government that they desire to have in the first place. Sounds nice and easy? Not when you are battling the Government who says we control you and you have no choice but to stay. That is where civil wars come from.
So how do you have a Peaceful and Meaningful Secession? It has to be open, planned from the beginning as a Peaceful Secession. The Meaningful comes in after the secession, where the government is established for the new entity.
But J Albert. What happens if the State (Government) decides that it is not going to let its citizens leave and create the Secession State(s) and pulls the military in? Think about it folks, our military will do it to a point, but the world will look and ask, where is the Country that fights for people to be free? It is now fighting its own people who desire to be free? They world will not stand for it and I bet the people that are still under the “government” will begin fighting internally about if they have a right to forcefully detain states that wish to withdraw from the Union.
Here is some history folks. The group of southern states that seceded from the Union of the United States of America was separated for almost a year before the first battle, which was both sides fault. They maintained hostile environments and put their military’s nose to nose facing each other at every point they could between the secession and the time hostilities began.
If there is to be a secession, it has to be one that is clean, neat, efficient, economical, and above all, meaningful for the ones leaving the union. Meaningful means to me means we have a chance to once again lay down the foundation that was laid by our forefathers and determine a way or ways to ensure that the track that is happening now will be checked by the new constitution through better checks and balances between the branches that are powerful checks and balances. This would require each branch being wholly separate from the other branches, with each branch responsible for checking on both of the other branches and reporting on that status yearly to the people. Not a bureaucracy but limited sizes of business units that support the branches of government. There are tons of ideas on this subject. I just put up a few that came to mind.
The key is, peaceful and meaningful secession is one that is not a battle, but well defined differences between what the state(s) feel is there responsibilities, against what the federal government feels belongs to them. The answer is easy, it is in the Constitution, but if one or the other is not willing to follow the constitution, then they need to separate from each other so that the people have a government that is of the people, by the people and for the people.
That is where I am this morning. I am working on the next installment; Texas Constitution gives it a clear road to secession, one of the few. Until next time.
J Albert