Groups trying to secede should be allowed to … just don’t come back

[Kreskin]

Cerabino: Groups trying to secede because of Obama win should be allowed to … just don’t come back

By Frank Cerabino
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Thousands of Floridians have gotten the idea this week that seceding from the United States is the proper reaction to last week’s presidential election.

This is good news for me.

Especially if these foes of tyranny follow through on their rugged individualism by extending their symbolic gesture into actual action.

In particular, not driving on Interstate 95. It’s going to make my commute much easier without having to share this federal highway with freeloading secessionists.

Since President Barack Obama was re-elected — an outrageous perversion of democracy that ended with the person with the most votes being declared the winner — online petitions of secession have popped up in more than two dozen states.

Florida’s go-it-alone crowd has two petitions to choose from.

There’s the “Peacefully grant the State of Florida to withdraw from the United States” petition and the “Petition calling for the Independence for the State of Florida.”

The second one appears on a web page featuring the Confederate flag with a “Never Apologize for Being Right” motto. So that one is apparently geared for people who are dismayed at the results of both the 2012 and the 1860 elections.

“Reform is not possible,” that petition says. “We must now demand our independence.”

Please. Do us a favor. Many of the states where these secession petitions were filed are states that receive more federal assistance than they pay in taxes. So it’s a win-win proposition.

Your quest for freedom is our freedom from underachievers.

But I do feel a little sorry for you secessionists and your Founding Bubbas.

It’s going to be rough at first, considering that you’ll need your own currency, national defense and disaster relief funds. And it will be challenging to grow old without your federal retirement and health care plans.
To wean yourselves off Medicare and Medicaid, you might consider experimenting with leeches, mustard plasters and tincture of opium.

Also, it wouldn’t be fair for you to still take advantage of all that tyrannical federal support of education.
And you’re going to need some educating. One of the Florida petitions, the non-Confederate one, was apparently written by somebody sorely in need of a Pell grant.

“We therefore as free men and women of our great state do believe that it is time to take matters upon ourselves to ensure our continued freedom, and to enact our own laws and here buy govern ourselves without the federal government’s involvement in our internal matters from this day forward,” it says.

I hereby declare that you here should buy into the idea of a more perfect union of your secession language with the English language.

But go, please go. You can always bone up on English while you’re trying to protect your sovereign citizens from the next flu pandemic.

As a final note, I’ve noticed that many of the people who signed onto the Florida petition for secession claim to live in other states.

Knock it off. You’re only allowed to secede from your own state. And what you’re doing is unnecessary.
Because Florida has proven over the years that it doesn’t need outside help in embarrassing itself.

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[petros]

A State does indeed have that option.

 

[WLDB]

The ultimate temper tantrum.

 

[petros]

Not really. States created the Feds. The Feds didn't create the States.

States governments have the power to make laws for all citizens that are not granted to the federal government or denied to the states in the U.S. Constitution.These include education, family law, contract law, and most crimes. Unlike the federal government, which only has those powers granted to it in the Constitution, a state government has inherent powers allowing it to act unless limited by a provision of the state or national constitution.

 

[Cliffy]

A State does indeed have that option.

So does a province.

 

[damngrumpy]

Imagine, every time a government changes we have people coming and going.
This is the ultimate temper tantrum and people like the Donald clearly demonstrate
that they should not be in positions of leadership. Throughout America's history they
have ruled with impunity saying the silent majority agrees with us, they claimed as
the majority the law was fair and people had to live by the will of the majority.
Aside from the fact that those in the minority were never as childish as this crowd,
the new majority has come out from being silent and they are demanding their share
of the pie. The old boys club is now in the minority and they are having a problem
adjusting to the new reality.
I prefer to say, the silent majority has finally spoken, you know, all those people that
were excluded, Youth, Black America, Hispanics, the not so religious, Liberals and a
host of others. The old folks born again in Jesus are retreating to the golf course in
Augusta, asking what happened?
Quite simply the ordinary folk, the seniors, who want their benefits, the poor who want
a job, and all those people who had no intention of giving the private medicare planners
back the power they once enjoyed. Medicare in my opinion was the single biggest silent
issue. The Republicans lost the election, one they counted on as a sure thing and when
the people didn't agree they are outraged. How dare that poor and middle class rabble
those folks of different foreign backgrounds step up and vote for something different in a
democratic and open society. It is all so silly and if one of these States leaves you will see
the State Guard become the National Guard and America will send in the troops pretty fast.
Just like they did in 1860. Remember there is a big difference between the ideal on paper
and the reality of marching boots.

 

[BaalsTears]

Illegal aliens can come and go as they want in America with full protection of the law in many states. America already has open borders. I think American secessionists will feel they have as much right to come and go as illegal aliens.