By Nathan Barton
No, I’m not referring to “fracking,” the nickname for a common and valuable (though hated) method of completing oil and gas wells.
I ceased long ago to refer to us as the “united States” – preferring to use the phrase, the “Fifty States” to describe the former federal republic that is now dead. Sometimes, there are a fair number of news items that remind us that the once-great nation is rapidly dividing, not by state lines but by often hard-to-define moral and political issues, for which there is little or no possibility of reconciliation or healing.
Mama’s Note: Unfortunately, the united States was never any kind of “great nation,” but always various collectives intent on controlling the ordinary people and everything else. Since that was the original purpose of the constitution, no “reconciliation” is possible. Why would free people want to compromise with slavery?
The endless number of factions attempting to control everything around them will guarantee that there is no healing until that very situation goes away. The sooner ordinary people realize that NONE of these warring factions and big shots have any legitimate authority over them… the sooner things may begin to resolve. Continue reading →
Libertarian Commentary on the News, 18 September 2015, #15-37D: Secession, Elections, and Other False Hopes
By Nathan Barton
The Texas Tribune reports that a separatist group is circulating petitions to put a non-binding question on the GOP 2016 primary ballot asking if Texas should secede from the Union. Now, don’t get me wrong: this is a good thing, even if it is going just to Republicans and is “non-binding,” and a good follow-up to that fad of totally-useless petitions (Petition.gov) called for secession of many states. Texas got a LOT of signatures.
The organization (Texas Nationalist Movement) that is seeking to get 75,000 signatures to force the GOP to put it on the ballot has 200,000 members itself. I hope it is successful, not just as a majority vote on a non-binding resolution, but goes on to restore Texas to its proper place. BUT it will NOT solve the problems that Texas society and individual and family and business face. They will still be stuck, not just with the idiots in Austin, but the idiots – nearly as bad – in 254 counties and who knows how many cities and towns. Unless we do something about government at ALL levels, all we are doing is making the cage more comfortable. Continue reading →