And I made the graphic, enclosed, to prove it - spread it around. It will be interesting to see how quickly people become discouraged by Obama's a) inability to fix problems, most of them created by big government policies; b) obvious exacerbation of such problems; c) appointing people like Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff? A real mafioso type, as the British BBC and Telegraph will tell you. But it takes ruthless mafioso unionists (who formerly served with Israeli Defense Forces!) to try to stop an American people bent on liberty, including through secession.

I've been busy boning up on how big government programs lead to the current, predicable and predicted economic crisis - i.e. fighting with big government liberals on wikipedia to create reliably sourced articles on who's really to blame, "libertarians" (and by extensions decentralists of all stripes) or special interests of all stripes and grasping bureaucrats.  All so I can better address - including writing here - why we need to dismantle big government through nonviolent secession.

Yes, it's true. This Washington DC resident won't be on Alaska Senator Ted Steven's jury in his corruption trial. Sigh? When they call you for jury duty, they warn you to be honest in responding to the twenty page questionnaire and I know jurors have been tossed in jail for withholding information that a judge later decided prejudiced the juror, so I decided baring my wicked associations and opinions was the safest course.  Surprise!  The prosecutors AND defense dropped me like a hot potatoe or is it potater?

I hope you'll enjoy my long rant The Empire Melts Down... on the current economic crisis at my personal blog. Especially check out my article linked there written in the mid-1980s called Finding Freedom in Your Own Back Yard about local economics. My bottom line: Solution wise, we have to assume people will always do stupid, manic and crooked things with money, especially with lots of money. What is the best way to protect yourself? Trusting politicians and bureaucrats who are constantly corrupted by wealthy, greedy and often crooked special interests? Or hiring an affordable private consumer agency whose researchers are totally on top of which banks, investment houses, insurers are trustworthy and which are not. Who do you trust - Bill Clinton and George Bush or Ralph Nader and Consumer Reports?...Keeping things local where we can keep our eyes on them remains a pretty good idea. In economics and in government... secede and survive!!

Austrian Leopold Kohr (1909-1994) is a great hero of political decentralists and secessionists worldwide.  Famous for his dictum "There seems to be only one cause behind all forms of social misery: bigness," he is known as the father of the "small is beautiful" movement. His early manifesto "Disunion Now," published in 1941 - well into World War II - still inspires those who seek freedom from mighty nation states.  Read the whole thing at the panarchy.org web site.  Excerpts enclosed.

Christopher Ketcham has gotten himself - and all secessionists - a nice little opinion piece in the Los Angeles times. The Americans secessionist streak    A few quotes below. Check it out!

First, in case you missed it, read the (reprint of) the New Hampshire Union Leader’s article “New England groups look to secede”! 

Then at least read some of quotes enclosed from mainstream sources supporting the rights of South Ossetia and Abkhazia to secede from Georgia. And look for the surprise ending!

As noted here last month, the Middlebury Institute commissioned a Zogby telephone poll that found that 22% of Americans believe that any state or region has the right to “peaceably secede from the United States and become an independent republic."  I have a feeling the mainstream media was terrified to carry the story, but Middlebury's not finished promoting it. Feel free to get the word out yourself! See some news and blogs that did cover it below.

On August 8th the military of the Republic of Georgia decided to celebrate the opening of the Olympics by attacking citizens of South Ossetia, a small section of the nation with a different language and culture, most of whose residents would like to reunite with North Ossetia. The "pro-Western" Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili has been excusing his murderous attacks using Lincolnesque language and worse...

See them here, including this one.Vermont Secedes