The Case Against Secession

According to the WhiteHouse.gov petition website, there is a petition from almost every state requesting that it have the right to peacefully secede from the Union (Texas example). These are not official petitions from state governments, but from individuals within the states.  In effect, these petitions are circumventing the authority of the states.

In response to this multitude of secessionist desires, I contend that this is not the time for secession.

Over the past four years, a prominent Community Organizer has done his job agitating the people of this nation...and done it quite well.  According to Saul Alinsky, that is exactly what a community organizer is supposed to do--agitate:

“Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.”
“A revolutionary organizer must shake up the prevailing patterns of their lives; agitate, create disenchantment and discontent with the current values....”  (Rules for Radicals)

And this is exactly what has been done to us, leading some after the President's re-election to petition for the secession of their state.

Think about it--the dissolution of our Republic is exactly what our enemies want, and if it can be accomplished through internal agitation, all the better.  Secession will not happen peacefully.  There are already comparisons being made between the current President and Lincoln (and a timely release of a film about Lincoln).  And what did Lincoln do?  Lincoln used the power of coercion possessed by the State to forcefully hold the Union together.  The current President would most likely act in the same manner.

In his farewell speech, George Washington admonished us that the most important thing for us to do is hold the Union together:

"The Unity of Government which constitutes you one people...is a main Pillar in the Edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home; your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very Liberty which you so highly prize.  But...much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth..."  He advised us to "indignantly [frown] upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest..."  He also warns that "To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a Government for the whole is indispensable.  No alliances however strict between the parts can be an adequate substitute."  He states that "your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other...the continuance of the Union as a primary object of Patriotic desire." (from George Washington's Farewell Speech)

To break apart our Union would leave us vulnerable to being ravaged by foreign powers.  And that is what will happen this time should our Union be dissolved.

Should secession occur, and if the military (which is largely located in self-described "red" states) not act on behalf of the federal government to hold the Union together, the President may request assistance from outside powers..."peacekeepers."  These "peacekeepers" will come from every nation that ever hoped to see the United States carved up and sold at auction--Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, to name a few.  Carved up and occupied we will become, magnificently achieving the collectivist and globalist goal of destroying America and our freedoms, for there is no place for our freedoms in a collectivist world.

There is opportunity amidst this national crisis.  As our countrymen experience the tyranny and oppression of a pseudo-socialist system, they will look for the light...for hope.  Point them to our nation's founding, and point them to God.  This battle isn't over, and we still have a chance to win.  There are still Patriots left amidst our ranks, and more will flock to the cause.

We must stand firm in the Constitutional foundation of our nation and never compromise.  The tyrannical opposition never compromises...they keep getting everything they want in incremental steps.  And every one of those steps is a step away from our founding.  We must reverse course.  We must redirect this rising desire to secede into an unrelenting resolve to stop the excesses, perversion and tyranny of our government in its current form.  It is time to get it back on track with our founding.

Should an all-out attempt to get our nation back on track fail and it falls into tyranny, then it would be worth considering secession.  For now, we Patriots have only just begun to fight.  And as a patient whose body rejects an organ transplant, the American body needs to reject this insidious organ of socialism that has somehow slipped into our borders.

Once we turn our back on the Union that we have, we will never, ever be able to gain it back.

If you would permit me a final comment, the very existence of the WhiteHouse.gov petition site undermines our republic.  It smacks of serfs petitioning an all-powerful king.  We are not serfs, and the President is most certainly not a king.  If you want something to happen, fix it at your local or state level, and only bring it up through your representatives if it has to be dealt with on the federal level.  The Executive Branch of the United States Government was not created to solve every problem under the sun...and we most certainly do not want it to.

--Against All Enemies

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Will Arizona Secede?

Will Arizona Secede?

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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I have no idea if Arizona will make an attempt at secession, or not. If they do, it will not be the first time. You see, back in 1861 Arizona chose to become a part of the old Confederacy during the War Between the States. You may read the Arizona Ordinance of Secession HERE.

So, secession, as unthinkable as you MAY think it is today, is NOT outside the realm of possibility.

Let’s see what others are saying about this issue:

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“Will Arizona be the first state to secede?”

Check this out HERE.

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HCR 2034:If Martial Law, Arizona Will Secede
1. “That when or if the President of the United States, the Congress of the United States or any other federal agent or agency declares the Constitution of the United States to be suspended or abolished, if the President or any other federal entity attempts to institute martial law or its equivalent without an official declaration in one or more of the states without the consent of that state or if any federal order attempts to make it unlawful for individual Americans to own firearms or to confiscate firearms, the State of Arizona, when joined by thirty-four of the other fifty states, declares as follows: That the states resume all state powers delegated by the Constitution of the United States and assume total sovereignty; … …”

You will find this story HERE.
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”Arizona Becoming First State to Secede From Union”
This is a VERY interesting article by Will Bunch and you will find it HERE.

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"The Civil War and Arizona"
“Arizona's Civil War story is a colorful one. Colonel John R. Baylor of the Confederate States of America (CSA) defeated Union troops in Arizona and New Mexico in March 1861. Arizona became a Confederate Territory when it was annexed by the Confederate President Jefferson Davis who was also the ex Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln.”Read the rest of this very interesting article HERE.
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"What will Washington do about the Arizona immigration law?"
You will find this article HERE.
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Now -- these are but a small sampling of the articles on the Internet.What you are seeing unfold between the political left in America, and the sovereign state of Arizona, over Arizona’s legal right to regulate illegal immigration into their state is but a small part of the overall plan the political left has of being rid of both the US/Mexican border and the US/Canadian border. Arizona, you see, just tossed a fly into the left’s “ointment,” if you please. That ointment? Why “Global Governance,” of course -- a “one-world government.” With a one-world government there will be no borders. None will be needed.

Arizona just spat in the faces of the political left all over the world. And they are seriously PO’ed!
Look, even a fool knows the US government could close, seal, and secure the borders -- if it wanted to. The simple truth is -- the American government does not want to secure her borders.
The progressives in the US government have been working for decades to pave the way for global governance, which would include the US. A global government would override the US Constitution, making it null and void. The same group has been working feverishly to destroy the US Constitution of 1787 by claiming it is a “living document” and crying out for a new US Constitution for the 21st century.

Understand: the proposed global government would be a socialist/marxist/communist government. The socialist Obama Regime (which actually believes it is running the country), the socialist Congress -- including both the US House and the US Senate, were necessary to move the progressive agenda for global governance to fruition. The so-called “Shadow Government” now has control of the Executive and the Legislative branches of the US Government and it is closing in on control of the third branch of our government – the Judicial branch. Anything that gets in the way of the socialist/progressives must be crushed. I give you: The Political Left’s War on Arizona!

If you have read the articles we pointed you towards (above) then you know that Arizona has prepared the way for the state’s secession from the USA. She has set the stage to claim, that which is hers -- her sovereignty.

We have warned countless times, in our scribblings, that what is happening in Arizona today was going to happen. History does, indeed, repeat itself.

We Southern folk know the history of this country leading up to the secession of the states that formed the Confederate States of America. We know the REAL history, not the bunk taught our children in the "government schools," or "indoctrination centers."

Look, dear reader, Arizona was mis-treated by the federal government, in exactly the same way as the Southern states were mistreated from, at least, 1820 until Confederate troops fired on Ft. Sumter in April of 1861. The "so-called" Civil War was NOT an overnight thing -- and it was not about slavery. The issue of slavery was a peripheral issue and NOT THE ISSUE that brought us the “War for Southern Independence.” It was, in fact, “State’s Rights!” It is the very issue we are dealing with today as the sovereign state of Arizona bucks the overgrown US federal government.

Just as they are today, the federal government was dictating to the states and simply ignoring the constitutional rights of those states. It went on for decades with the southern states continually warning the federal government that if the disrespectful treatment continued, at some point, the southern states would leave the union! Southern Senators and Representatives told the Congress and the President -- plainly -- they would be forced to secede.

Are Americans of the 21st century ready to revisit the dark days when US federal troops face off with Arizona National Guard troops -- or militias? Are we ready for another "brother against brother" confrontation? It is important to ask, for that is exactly where we are headed.

Rest assured the federal government stands ready to crush the sovereignty of ANY US state that tries to assert those rights. To the Obama Regime the US Constitution is an outdated piece of paper not applicable to 21st century America. They will walk all over it to ensure that Arizona does nothing that might lead to the securing of the open border between Mexico and America.

Any amateur historian can tell you where this all is leading. We are living in the early stages of the dissolution of the United States. The Rubicon has been crossed.

J. D. Longstreet
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J.D. Longstreet blogs daily at INSIGHT on Freedom.