A Real estate developer wants to put together an investor group to buy the 982-acre park in the middle of the Detroit River -- polish it up with $20 billion in construction projects on the island which would lead to another $20 billion in construction projects off the island and tens of thousands of temporary construction jobs and tens of thousands of permanent jobs.
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Let's Just All Go Our Separate Ways
I think we can all agree that this whole 'United States' thing has been sort of a mess. From Vietnam to Afghanistan, we've really been shitting the sheets recently and maybe we should all just pack it in.
We'd like to ask President Obama to dissolve the United States government as well as the Executive branch. Then we should all just part ways and try to forget that any of this nonsense happened.
Read more »The Last Amendment, De-Ratification, Poll
One year after the ratification of this Amendment this Constitution and all of its Amendments shall be null and void and the Union of these States shall be dissolved. Each Sovereign State shall then be free to pursue its own destiny.
Link to “The Last Amendment:”
Poll: Should We Deratify the Constitution and Let the 50 States Go Their Own Ways as Independent Countries?
polldaddy: http://poll.fm/315us
Read more »Ben Swann Video. A quick look at current efforts, documents, and history. Check it out.
Read more »As of Saturday November 10, 2012, 15 States have petitioned the Obama Administration for withdrawal from the United States of America in order to create its own government.
States following this action include: Louisiana, Texas, Montana, North Dakota, Indiana, Mississippi, Kentucky, North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, Colorado, Oregon and New York. These States have requested that the Obama Administration grant a peaceful withdrawal from the United States.
Read more »Peacefully grant the State of Louisiana to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government.
"...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and institute new Government..."
secession of lakota sioux nation
invite residents of 5 states to join
conservative cns news takes a very condescending and dismissive view in reporting story.
Scotland's leaders now wrestle with how will the question be put to the Scot people in a referendum in 2014? Is America watching?
Read more »What if we abolished of the Federal government all together. An amicable divorce between states with irreconcilable differences. No bloodshed, no civil war.
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In a bold and unprecedented move, representatives of the Lakota Freedom Delegation recently declared the Lakota Nation is formally and unilaterally withdrawing from all agreements and treaties with the government of the United States.
“We are no longer citizens of the United States,” said longtime indigenous rights activist Russell Means at a press conference at Plymouth Congregational Church in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 19. “We offer citizenship to anyone provided they renounce their U.S. citizenship,” said Mr. Means.
Read more »Forgoing the plan to build independent floating cities away from chafing laws, some libertarians—led by Milton Friedman’s grandson, no less—have found something better: desperate countries willing to allow the founding of autonomous libertarian cities within their borders.
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Republicans enthused by Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer's recent tough talk on wolves are getting closer to using an ancient "nullification" doctrine to disregard the federal law protecting endangered and threatened species — a plan the governor quickly dismissed as "off base."
Read more »Vowing to push back against Washington, the state Senate's majority Republicans on Thursday approved two states' rights measures, including a bill that would make it a crime for government officials to enforce federal regulation of economic activity that doesn't go outside the state.
The other bill would have Arizona join other states in a compact to challenge the federal health care overhaul and its mandates on individuals.
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Sunday's referendum in southern Sudan gives voters a choice between staying united with the rest of Sudan or becoming an independent country. Most analysts predict southerners will choose independence. The new country would be Africa's first since Eritrea won independence in 1993.
Read more »Labor day has come and gone, and there is an election this November. The campaign season is on. The airwaves, the internet, and what’s left of the print media are saturated with political ads. All of this leads many Americans to wonder who they’re going to vote for. Quite a few realize that the choice is essentially limited to the Democratic scoundrel or the Republican scoundrel. Regardless, to too many people voting is seen as a patriotic, almost sacred duty. Clichés abound about how our forefathers gave their lives so we can have the right to vote today.
Read more »Now, there's a movement afoot to secede once again from the United States of America and create a third Palmetto Republic.
Read more »By doing so, residents contend that they no longer have to pay taxes, claiming their homes as embassies and using identification cards that show them as diplomats
Read more »Several times I've heard Ian and Mark talking about "making a new Declaration of Independence", most recently on the show Monday, 2001-02-22.Well, guys, what do you think of this one?
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