Time.com has an article about Vermont’s secessionist movement: The Secessionist Campaign for the Republic of Vermont. The members have some right ideas, and some not so right ideas.

They strongly support state’s rights.  They recognize that liberal statism is corrupting and undesired.  The article describes the movement as “left-libertarian, anti-big government, anti-empire, antiwar, with small is beautiful as our guiding philosophy.”  They recognize that they only get $.75 back for every $1.00 they send to Washington, DC.  

An independent Vermont, the group believes, would expolit its already highly developed local small-scale agriculture, its “locavore” farm exchanges, with a tax structure reformed to incentivize small business and industry (and to make life difficult for large out-of-state corporations). By 2020, they foresee Vermont producing at least 75% of its own electricity and heat, using wind-, solar-, biomass- and hydro-power. They want to establish a Bank of Vermont owned by the people of Vermont — freed from the arbitrary controls of central bankers — as well as a local alternative currency, with Vermont pension and operating funds invested not in Wall Street but in locally owned financial institutions. “We favor devolution of political power from the state back to local communities, making the governing structure for towns, schools, hospitals and social services much like that of small, decentralized states like Switzerland,” declares the group’s “21st Century Statement of Principles.”

While total state independence sounds like a good idea, there are some problems with their stance. 

Pushing for peace at all costs is a bad idea.  There are real bad guys in the world.  They are mass murderers with agendas to take over the world, or at least as much as they can take.  Peace is something to desire.  We wish for peace.  We pray for peace.  We try achieve a greater peace.  But political peace is not to be found in this world.  Human nature makes it so.  Trying to achieve an agenda that is based on a willingness to capitulate to every power-hungry mass murderer on the planet is a recipe for disaster.  It is a self-defeating philosophy. 

Breaking away from the central banks is an excellent idea. 

Supporting small businesses is good.  Preventing centralization of business power must also be addressed.  The cutthroat manipulations of big business must be minimized.

The US government will not allow a state to break away from the union.  The secessionist movement will not be allowed to happen. 

The Obama administration clearly wants to destroy the US.  Obama wants the nation to fragment.  Calling for secession is playing into the hands of the statists.  If Vermont were to seriously try to secede, that would give Obama, the radical leader of the O-Men, an excuse to exercise greater power.  The people behind the O-Men are gleefully wringing their pale emaciated hands, overjoyed that the US is showing signs of fragmenting.  That means they are succeeding.

Our cold war fight requires that we stand together, not pull apart.    We must keep in mind that the enemy is not the United States, rather, our enemies are the usurpers and seditionists in Congress and the White House.  Our battle is the struggle to remember, learn and live up to our American values; the values of freedom, and the right ways of pursuing happiness, and our struggle is to remember those values that lead to failure; the ways to lose freedom, and the ways to lose our ability to thrive.  Our fight is the struggle to teach and learn the ways of our American ancestors, and to prevent the usurpers and seditionists from changing our way of government.  Classic liberalism is the answer.  National fragmentation, and peace-at-any-price approaches to government are recipes for failure.

We will reel in the Vermont secessionists.  We support their ideas of independence and freedom from an over centralized government, but we need to steer them away from national fragmentation and from an unwillingness to defend freedom from tyrants.

Stumble it!