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'Secession may seem like an outlandish idea at first, but when considered forthrightly and un-prejudicially it becomes a powerful alternative to other kinds of political action. Thomas Naylour has here charted a brave and inspiring course for any American interested in practical, useful, thoroughgoing social and political change in America.'-from the introduction by Kirkpatrick Sale, author of Rebels Against the Future
Secession, the growing and evolving means to fundamentally change our national government, has been the recent subject of major articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The O'Reilly Factor.
Thomas H. Naylor, professor emeritus of Duke University and co-author of Affluenza and The Search for Meaning, is founder and chair of the Second Vermont Republic, the foremost secessionist organization in the country.
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ON STRIKE UNTIL AMAZON STOPS DELETING FAVORABLE VOTES FROM FANS AND COUNTING NEGATIVE VOTES FROM THOSE WHO HATE THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE BOOK BEING REVIEWED MORE THAN THEY CARE ABOUT THE REVIEW.
This book is a follow-on to The Vermont Manifesto, which I absorbed and reviewed in 2006 when I very first realized that there existed a vibrant nation-wide network of secessionist movements, with Vermont being among the most ably represented.
I strongly recommend this book for every citizen. Regardless of who "wins" this mock election, we all lose--the two-party bi-opoly is a crime family, and absent electoral reform the Republic is dead. As the author of this book puts it, "our" government is corrupt to the core." I will be speaking briefly to the annual reunion of the two dozen secessionist movements in New Hampshire on 15 November 2008, and I will be encouraging every one of the movement to announce an intent to exercise its right to withdraw from a corrupt Union *unless* the pseudo-President agrees to implement four core reforms (they are outlined, along with the legitimate grievances of the varied secessionist movements, in Election 2008: Lipstick on the Pig (Substance of Governance; Legitimate Grievances; Candidates on the Issues; Balanced Budget 101; Call to Arms: Fund We Not Them; Annotated Bibliography).
This book opens with a tremendous introduction by Kirkpatrick Sale, author of Human Scale and dean of the Middlebury Institute that furthers the secessionist movement.
The book then offers a summary of the earlier work, eight points in the manifesto:
1) increasingly difficult to protect ourselves from big everything
2) government is too everything, including intrusive and unresponsive
3) US government has lost its moral authority both at home and abroad
4) we have a single (criminal) political party [I for one weep at the charade that the Democrats have put on with 700 million in largely illegal contributions made possible by Obama not being able to honor his word to the public)
5) The "American way" is a way of greed, exploitation, and waste
6) America's foreign policy is immoral and illegal as well as unconstitutional
7) To be a part of the Empire is to invite terrorist attack
8) The existing "nation" is ungovernable, unfixable, and unsustainable.
Beginning on page 43 the author addresses each of the options he can think of (the author is a professor emeritus from Duke):
1) denial
2) compliance
3) political reform
4) implosion
5) rebellion
6) dissolution
I am charmed by the author's overview of many of the emerging trends, mostly negative, that I have found in so many non-fiction books over these past few years. He outlines examples of domestic imperialism, calls into question the 9/11 "official story", and lambastes both corporations and the federal government for fraudulent book-keeping.
On page 76 he lists the eight principles that are explained at length in the earlier work:
1) Political Independence
2) Human Scale
3) Sustainability
4) Economic Solidarity (some would call this "buy local")
5) Power Sharing
6) Equal Opportunity
7) Tension Reduction
8) Mutuality
This program is achieved in four steps that are discussed in detail by the author:
1) Denunciation (I have certainly tried to do that with my own reviews)
2) Disengagement
3) Demystification (i.e. secession is NOT sedition, it cannot be)
4) Defiance
The middle of the book is a description of Vermont in compellingly attractive terms, and two points stay with me: they outlawed billboards; and Vermont is one of two states whose banks did not fail in the Great Depression, and one of three states whose banks did not fail in the 1980's.
The author observes that the Inter-State Commerce Act is used to force Wal-Mart into Vermont, and sadly notes the reality that too many Vermonters do not understand that cheap prices from Wal-Mart are achieved by destroyed local jobs and the rest of the earth (see among many works, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price.
The author provides a very helpful overview of Constitutional History of Secession which is the thickest book in my secession reading pile, and the last I will get to. Bottom line: every state has a right to secede from the Union, and it is the Constitution, not the Union, that we are all sworn to uphold.
The author provides a fine overview of how Eastern Europe led the way in modern secession, with favorable references to Vaclav Havel and his book, Power of the Powerless: A Brother's Legacy of Love (Crossroad Book).
The book moves to a conclusion in observing that Alaska, Hawaii, Texas, and California (the latter with three secessionist movements calling for ... Read More
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The author most often argues from emotion not logic. There is good information about how succesion could be done. A suggestion for reading this, skip chapter one. Many problems are identified, but are incoherently lumped together. With no endeavor to find an underlying cause, this chapter is a snowball rolling down hill.
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An interesting read. He makes some great points about why the United States is destined to fall, and constructs many good arguments for the approach of secession to terminate it with some dignity.
That said, the author claims to be a computer science professor, which makes his luddism all the more spectacular. I'm a big fan of organic food, sustainable farming, renewable power, etc., but the notion that computers and networking (for example) are responsible for the state of civic discourse in the United States is demonstrably false: in fact, the internet is almost singlehandedly responsible for the increased awareness of alternatives to centralized control--from secession to libertarianism to anarchy--among the populace.
Furthermore, his grasp of economics is poor to say the least. He gets many of the symptoms right, including consumerism and debt financing, but doesn't demonstrate that he understands why these problems exist, nor how he would solve them.
Anyone interested in this book would do better, in my opinion, to very first read a combination of The Omnivore's Dilemma and Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto, as well as (perhaps) Hoppe's Democracy: The God that Failed and Murray Rothbard's What Has Government Done to Our Money? (also available for free at mises.org). At that point, the reader will be better equipped to pull the interesting bits from this book and be able to point out the flaws in the rest.
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I believe books of this type are very important as Americans try to cope with ever decreasing efficiencies of government and the accompanying increasing of injustice.
This book puts forth a viable alternative to the massive federal system of supposedly sovereign states we now have, and it should not be lightly dismissed as many are wont to do.
I would like to see the U.S. break-up into several smaller confederations, and perhaps Northern New England is the place to start! All great empires fall apart. Let's do it with dignity!
This book is a must read!
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Professor Naylour provides a brilliant rationale for secession from the degenerate zionist controlled American Empire. Neither revolution nor reformation is a viable option at this time so why not a third way? Secession, an idea whose time has come. Secession, the answer to tyranny. Why be a slave when you can be free? After reading this tome you will want to pack your bags and head for Vermont to take part in what will no doubt be the climatic struggle for freedom in this century. Where do I sign up to join the Second Vermont Republic?
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