Calexit III? New ballot measure plots another route to California independence

By Jim Miller jmiller@sacbee.com August 17, 2017
                                        

First there was Calexit. Then came Calexit II.   On Thursday, people unhappy with California’s place in the United States filed yet another proposed ballot measure that could lead to the Golden State striking out on its own.  This time, the goal is convening a U.S. constitutional convention to overhaul what proponents call a moldy national blueprint out of step with life in California......To Read More...

My Take - The video is mildly interesting, but it's wrong when it states no state ever legally ceceded from the United States. The Southern states cecession was absolutely legal at the time.

But back to the point - if they want to leave - good!

At that point they become a foreign power, and we have no obligation to finacially support the state or pay anything to their citizens, including Social Security.  This action then becomes a tacit admission the northern counties of California can cecede from California. 

What's left will be a fourth rate foreign power on our border.  All the manufacturing they do there will have to move, their agriculture will collapse because of their green initiatives, the illegal immigrants will surge into this new nation and take it over turning it into Mexico, and they will face absolute bankruptcy. 

At that point the U.S. can decide their actions are a national threat and invade California, conquer it in 24 hours, dismiss the government, including the bureaucracies, create a military authority to run the state, devide the state into three territories with a territorial governor appointed by the President of the United States in each territory with no Congressional representation - voting or non-voting - and confiscate all state property for public sale to pay for the invasion and the cost of occupation.

Any protests will be viewed as treason and terrorism and all protesters will be jailed as felons, in a California jail with no pardons.  They love leftism so much maybe they could use a dose of it.  So if California want's to leave - let me hold the door.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article167823307.html#storylink=cpy

Break Up the USA

By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. February 18, 2017

Some of our assumptions are so deeply embedded that we cannot perceive them ourselves.

Case in point: everyone takes for granted that it’s normal for a country of 320 million to be dictated to by a single central authority. The only debate we’re permitted to have is who should be selected to carry out this grotesque and inhumane function.

Here’s the debate we should be having instead: what if we simply abandoned this quixotic mission, and went our separate ways? It’s an idea that’s gaining traction – much too late, to be sure, but better late than never.

For a long time it seemed as if the idea of secession was unlikely to take hold in modern America. Schoolchildren, after all, are told to associate secession with slavery and treason. American journalists treat the idea as if it were self-evidently ridiculous and contemptible (an attitude they curiously do not adopt when faced with US war propaganda, I might add).

And yet all it took was the election of Donald Trump for the alleged toxicity of secession to vanish entirely. The left’s principled opposition to secession and devotion to the holy Union went promptly out the window on November 8, 2016. Today, about one in three Californians polled favors the Golden State’s secession from the Union. .....To Read More....

FEATURED ARTICLE: Is the United States Splitting Apart?

By Ben Shapiro  September 26, 2013

In September, the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors voted to secede from the State of California. "Many proposed laws are unconstitutional and deny us our God-given rights," said one attendee at the council meeting. "We need our own state so we can make laws that fit our way of life."  A few weeks later, the Modoc County Board of Supervisors voted to join Siskiyou in the new state of Jefferson, voting 4-0 to leave California.

The board votes didn't mean much legally — the federal government and state government of California would have to recognize the new proposed state of Jefferson. But symbolically, the vote recognizes the growing incompatibility of leftist governance and conservative populations, and vice versa. …..To Read More…..