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As a long absent southern patriot having lived in Italy, Germany, Mexico, as well as Yankee land I have finally come home back to Florida after a long 42 year absence. It is a new century and a very different time. I well remember Sarasota and Siesta Key, and can tell you they don't look feel or appear even similar to what I remembered. What was a peaceful rural town of Southerners is now for all intension purpose a Yankee enclave right here smack dab in the middle of Dixie. My reflections of the past and my trepidation of our future have left me in a quandary of what to do. After some considerable thought I have come to the conclusion that the decision reached by our Southern patriots in the 1850's was then the only logical option they had, and circumstances of the 21st century place us in very much the same situation. The first consideration is to judge what benefits the federal union provides to us, and then to weigh that against the cost we must bear for it. If we consider the total amount of taxes collected by the federal state from our citizens we must reach the conclusion that we are paying a great deal more than we receive. Then we see all the federal mandates that remain un-funded by them that cause us to spend untold billions for things we neither want nor need. The poignant presence of our federal empire and its imperialist technofascism managed by a consortium of government and multi-national corporations has so manipulated our materialistic society that we seem to have lost the will to resist. Society not only here but all over the world is consumed with a burning desire for more and more useless junk. Civility, culture, religion, and the constitution have been relegated to some black hole. With the passage of the American Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Act we can kiss our constitutionally mandated freedoms goodbye. This surely is not the deal worked out by our forefathers when they joined the federal republic. It, no longer is a republic, it is an empire and we did not join it, it consumed us. In my opinion America has become to big to invasive to federalized, to dictatorial, to globalized, far to militarized and to damn bureaucratic. The time has come to bail ship. This by the way is not just a southern perspective, no indeed, VT, NH, and ME espouse much the same opinion. They may well be Yankees but they're far from stupid, and just as angry as we are here about the state of things. Our elections are a farcical shell game in which he with the most cash wins. We all suffer form some complex of idolatry worship of useless leaders that are barely able to debate opponents, and thereby rig elections to eliminate dialogue or debate. And we are enthralled with everything big, in fact the bigger the better. We run about the world demonizing anyone who disagrees with us, and try to force our culture, business, and way of life down everyone's throat, and if they have the nerve to disagree are labeled terrorists, or we jut bomb them into the stone age. Thus our federal state created, all by itself, the terrorists who attack us. With our intimidating one sided foreign policy, by our overbearing military posture, and our unrelenting support of the last colonial nation in the world. And by our federal states hunger for control of the oil in the ground in the Middle East. It is for this reason that I say the only option left to us is to consider a lawful, reasonable and legal seceding form the union. Thomas Jefferson a great Virginian said, "Whenever a form of government becomes destructive, it is the right of the people to abolish it and institute a new one". That this government is destructive is beyond any debate. It should be our individual state goals to call for election, or referendum, to return our individual states back to what they were before the federal leviathan changed our state rights, and individual rights into government rights. That's one mans opinion. Page URL: http://www.kriegbooks.com/how_much.html |