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Comment by Larry Ross, April 4, 2007

Vermont is leading the way in a movement that could challenge the imperial ambitions of the Bush neocon regime.  Bush needs every state to perform an obedient role - no matter how crazy and insane it may be. If states like Vermont  secede and govern themselves and conduct their own foreign policy, Bush would soon lack the power, money and military to wage expensive overseas wars.

t's an interesting idea and an increasing slice of the US population is very unhappy with Bush's increasing dictatorship. Some may embrace this alternative. But will there be enough to accomplish it? And you can be sure the Bush regime will do everything in its power to derail this movement.

It remains to be seen.

As Bush generates bigger wars in the Middle East, such as his well-published assault on Iran, anything can happen including a World War III. If it does, secession will be fading into the fog of history as will any survivors. If global nuclear exchange does not take place, but new wars rage on new fronts, Bush can claim the justification to slap more stringent dictatorial controls on the people and increasing regimentation  through new regulations, patriot acts, renditions and imprisonment, martial law and the draft - and oh yes - indefinite postponement of elections 'due to the crisis'. He's hardly started yet. As usual Congress and enough of the people will do anything Bush wants - or orders.

In any case apathy has such a firm grip on the American electorate, there is unlikely to be enough people to make a viable movement for secession.

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Will Vermont Secede from the Union?

by Ian Baldwin and Frank Bryan, The Washington Post, April 3, 2007

The winds of secession are blowing in the Green Mountain State.

Vermont was once an independent republic, and it can be one again. We think the time to make that happen is now. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. government has grown too big, too corrupt and too aggressive toward the world, toward its own citizens and toward local democratic institutions. It has abandoned the democratic vision of its founders and eroded Americans' fundamental freedoms.

Vermont did not join the Union to become part of an empire.

Some of us therefore seek permission to leave.

A decade before the War of Independence, Vermont became New England's first frontier, settled by pioneers escaping colonial bondage who hewed settlements across a lush region whose spine is the Green Mountains. These independent folk brought with them what Henry David Thoreau called the "true American Congress" -- the New England town meeting, which is still the legislature for nearly all of Vermont's 237 towns. Here every citizen is a legislator who helps fashion the rules that govern the locality.

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