Secession as a Viable Option

EXTREME CONSERVATIVES are always good for a few laughs. Anyone over the age of thirty will remember that twenty years ago, when bill clinton was elected, right wingers showed their displeasure by ganging up, getting their weapons together, of which there was a not inconsiderable number, and going out into the woods on weekends, and doing...whatever. klannish sounding.

the "militia" movement as it was called, was infused with a good deal of old time religious spirit; guns and bibles, a potent combination of christian fundamentalism and militarism. The idea was to show power and independence from the dreadful liberal controlled government in far off washington D.C.

when two of the militia boys brought down the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing two hundred people including infants, mainstream america squashed  the fun n games in the forest; it was time for the little boys to put their toys away, and grow up.

When obama was reelected two and a half months ago, whitie boy took a quick glance in his closet, thought about it, then decided the pen just might be mightier than the sword during these times of continuous and unpopular gun violence.

So they scraped up petitions and some signatures, in all fifty states, and sent notices of secession to washington. They arrived at the white house, in congress, at the supreme court, and they came in all shapes and sizes, with a wide variety of claims, demands, and assorted garbled lunacy.

The more courteous ones ask the government for permission to secede, the more angry ones
unconditionally declare their independence from the federal union.  come to think about it, why would any inmate request permission from the guards to escape?

Thousands of ultra conservatives in every state want to secede, and at this writing the federal government is declining to give its permission, but promises to think about it. And really, it might not be such a bad idea.

Here's an idea, anyone who signed one of the petitions and really wants to leave the united states is free to do so, no papers required, and for those wishing to start a new country within existing borders, perhaps every state could set asid a parcel of land....or, the country as a whole might consider establisihng a new reservation, somewhere out west, presumably.

Maybe abraham lincoln would have had it easier if he had taken a similar approach; we love y'all to death, but if you decide to leave, don't let the door hit your butt on the way out"....and so forth.

gotta admit, it might've saved a lotta trouble, then, and might also, now.