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Real list User ID: 7371184 United States 11/14/2012 07:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There is a riot, a peaceful riot going on now. Average Joe is petitioning to suceed Business are scaling back or closing and laying off Investors are pulling out of the stock market (600 point drop since election) gun and ammo sales up 20% or more. Retailers expecting a bad season (comsumers not spending). This is the way civilized people riot. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 27731573 United States 11/14/2012 08:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There was talk that if Obama lost the election minorities, especially blacks would riot. Quoting: Real list There is a riot, a peaceful riot going on now. Average Joe is petitioning to suceed Business are scaling back or closing and laying off Investors are pulling out of the stock market (600 point drop since election) gun and ammo sales up 20% or more. Retailers expecting a bad season (comsumers not spending). This is the way civilized people riot. guns and ammo sales up. Gun Store Reports 400% Surge In Sales After Obama Re-Election . Gun shop owners are reporting a spike in sales of up to 400 per cent in the aftermath of President Obama’s re-election, with some celebrating all time one day record sales, as fears over a lame duck administration eviscerating second amendment rights continue to dominate. We sold 26 firearms in a period of 12 hours, 40,000 rounds of ammunition, there’s no telling how many magazines, just phenomenal,” said Bayazes. [link to www.kltv.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1491473 United States 11/14/2012 08:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I never in all of my 50 plus years thought I'd want to leave America. In fact, I once swore that I'd never leave America even to visit a foreign nation. If I wanted Chinese, there's China towns in several states. Cincinnati is a good place for Vietnamese. We have people from every country and their signatures are all over America. Some of them are on petitions for their states to leave America. Times come and times change and America is dead to me. It's breathed its last. It's eyes have dimmed. And patriots, such as myself, are dying inside by the millions. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25166254 I signed the petition for my State. I don't believe the states should drown just because the federal government is sinking. That's what lifeboats are for, to escape death. All the states have done good individually, but Washington has failed the nation. Politics are so corrupt that we can't even get an American into the White House. I can usually come up with a solution to most problems, but it appears that America's only hope is for the states to withdraw from the false federal government, then reform under a new contract that will not allow our government to be stolen by the rich, the corporations, the secret societies, or the serpent breed. I'd like to offer hope for America, but I see none. Maybe one of you can see a meaningful solution to our problems, but if you can't see a meaningful solution to our nations problems, then you should sign your state's petition to withdraw from a government that has never really been ours. Peace. You Sir have no idea what being an American is then. Do some research on the Revolutionary War and get a clue as to what is going on now. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 25166254 United States 11/14/2012 08:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There was talk that if Obama lost the election minorities, especially blacks would riot. Quoting: Real list There is a riot, a peaceful riot going on now. Average Joe is petitioning to suceed Business are scaling back or closing and laying off Investors are pulling out of the stock market (600 point drop since election) gun and ammo sales up 20% or more. Retailers expecting a bad season (comsumers not spending). This is the way civilized people riot. If Obama had lost the election, America might now be at war with itself, but it would have still been America. What is it now? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 27731573 United States 11/14/2012 08:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There was talk that if Obama lost the election minorities, especially blacks would riot. Quoting: Real list There is a riot, a peaceful riot going on now. Average Joe is petitioning to suceed Business are scaling back or closing and laying off Investors are pulling out of the stock market (600 point drop since election) gun and ammo sales up 20% or more. Retailers expecting a bad season (comsumers not spending). This is the way civilized people riot. If Obama had lost the election, America might now be at war with itself, but it would have still been America. What is it now? what is it now? Obama lamby pamby land , the land of the entitlements where sheep are plentiful |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 25166254 United States 11/14/2012 08:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I never in all of my 50 plus years thought I'd want to leave America. In fact, I once swore that I'd never leave America even to visit a foreign nation. If I wanted Chinese, there's China towns in several states. Cincinnati is a good place for Vietnamese. We have people from every country and their signatures are all over America. Some of them are on petitions for their states to leave America. Times come and times change and America is dead to me. It's breathed its last. It's eyes have dimmed. And patriots, such as myself, are dying inside by the millions. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25166254 I signed the petition for my State. I don't believe the states should drown just because the federal government is sinking. That's what lifeboats are for, to escape death. All the states have done good individually, but Washington has failed the nation. Politics are so corrupt that we can't even get an American into the White House. I can usually come up with a solution to most problems, but it appears that America's only hope is for the states to withdraw from the false federal government, then reform under a new contract that will not allow our government to be stolen by the rich, the corporations, the secret societies, or the serpent breed. I'd like to offer hope for America, but I see none. Maybe one of you can see a meaningful solution to our problems, but if you can't see a meaningful solution to our nations problems, then you should sign your state's petition to withdraw from a government that has never really been ours. Peace. You Sir have no idea what being an American is then. Do some research on the Revolutionary War and get a clue as to what is going on now. The request was for somebody to come up with a meaningful solution to current problems. Your cryptic message is meaningless. If you can't come up with a meaningful solution, why are you even in my thread? I didn't invite your kind. You have all the answers, but you say nothing, you know all, but spread no knowledge. Yes, I can see what's brewing, but that which is brewing is not a solution but another problem. Take your idiotic wisdom to another thread. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 25166254 United States 11/14/2012 08:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There was talk that if Obama lost the election minorities, especially blacks would riot. Quoting: Real list There is a riot, a peaceful riot going on now. Average Joe is petitioning to suceed Business are scaling back or closing and laying off Investors are pulling out of the stock market (600 point drop since election) gun and ammo sales up 20% or more. Retailers expecting a bad season (comsumers not spending). This is the way civilized people riot. If Obama had lost the election, America might now be at war with itself, but it would have still been America. What is it now? what is it now? Obama lamby pamby land , the land of the entitlements where sheep are plentiful That's at least a start. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 25166254 United States 11/14/2012 08:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That saying came out of an era where that the Federal government still had a pretense of being American. I haven't heard that in a while. It was, "America, love it or leave it." And similarly, "get your heart in dixie or get your ass out". |
MHz User ID: 25505891 Canada 11/14/2012 08:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Does this mean Alberta and such are also going to revert to being sovereign nations like when the Queen pretended to let us go. She actually did really lets us free but the Canada formation was supposed to be done 'quickly' but it took 2 steps, 1 was to have representatives from the Provinces and Territories would meet and hammer out the finer details and then a vote would be taken from the voters. The 2nd step was never taken so by right that still has to be voted on before the places lose their sovereign status. That fact has a 'so what' reception from Canadians in general. lol Guess when they say you should know more about politics they mean just 'a little' more. |
MHz User ID: 25505891 Canada 11/14/2012 08:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That saying came out of an era where that the Federal government still had a pretense of being American. I haven't heard that in a while. It was, "America, love it or leave it." And similarly, "get your heart in dixie or get your ass out". Wasn't America supposed to be kept in the 'condition' that was 'the foundation' and if it took some effort to make it happen then the citizens were expected to let the Gov (hired people btw)know they were on the wrong direction. For the last 50 years lots of bills that got passed should have been voted on by all the voters because the ones hired to do it right were taking advise from ones that didn't care if the 'voters' got shafted. You fire a thief, you don't give him a raise and give him an even more important job. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 25166254 United States 11/14/2012 08:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If Obama had lost the election, America might now be at war with itself, but it would have still been America. What is it now? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25166254 Zimbabwe on the Potomac. It's Kenya, Kenya. Nobody has accused Obama of being Zimbabwean. It's Kenya on the Potomac. |
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11:11 User ID: 23345820 United States 11/14/2012 08:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Actually, I think that a citizens grand jury could mobilize the court into action? Is that possible? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 13739618 There are already a few attempts to indite by grand jury all have failed so far. The law is trying to say that grand jury is a joke! (I have a lot of feelings toward this subject. Caution rant on.) That the people can't assemble as a recognizable power of authority over the government. When that is the main damn reason we have a system for a grand jury of pears so that we don't have the shit we see happening today. People think the federal government has authority, and that is only true because that believe is what gives that power. The way the constitution and bill of rights lays it down is simple. THE POWER LIES WITHIN THE PEOPLE AND SOLELY WITH THE PEOPLE! The supreme court has already ruled in favor of grand jury and it's power in the past. We do have the power, we just have to remind people that we all have this power. The President is here to serve us, not the other way around. He has no authority over us. Any law or provision of any kind that isn't constitutional is unlawful and actually illegal. But we don't have an authority that enforces constitutionality because that is unconstitutional. But here is the law, trying to limit the power of a grand jury and keep it under control. "" Reform of federal grand jury system Due to the criticism against the federal grand jury system[39] there are some reform proposals which include the following proposals:[39] Better instructions from judges to jurors about the grand jury's powers and its independence from prosecutors Increased access to grand jury transcripts for suspects who are eventually indicted Expanded safeguards against abuse of witnesses, including education about their rights and the presence of their attorneys Notification of targets of investigations that they are targets Optional rather than mandatory appearances by targets of investigations An end to the requirement that prosecutors present defense evidence, and replacement with a requirement that grand jurors be informed that the defense was not represented in the hearing. Besides the above stated reform proposals the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) established "The Commission to Reform the Federal Grand Jury," a bi-partisan, blue-ribbon panel that included current and former prosecutors, as well as academics and defense attorneys. The unanimous conclusions and proposals of this diverse group were contained in the publication Federal Grand Jury Reform Report & 'Bill of Rights'.[40] Among the reforms detailed in that report were: (1) the right to counsel for grand jury witnesses who are not receiving immunity; (2) an obligation to present evidence which may exonerate the target or subject of the offense; and (3) the right for targets or subjects to testify.[35] Researchers Erin Crites, Jon Gould and Colleen Shepard of the Center for Justice, Law & Society at George Mason University studied the experiences of prosecutors, defense lawyers and retired judges in New York and Colorado. Four key reform recommendations emerged from their "Evaluating Grand Jury Reform in Two States: The Case for Reform" research study: (i) defense representation in the grand jury room, (ii) production of witness transcripts for the defense, (iii) advance notice for witnesses to appear, and (iv) the presentation of exculpatory evidence to the grand jury.[41] For further reading please see The Cato Institute report, "A Grand Facade: How the Grand Jury was Captured by Government," which addresses the history of, problems with, and reforms for the grand jury system. "" Grand Juries don't need a system of control because they are formed of citizens with no agenda other than to reconcile between constitutional authority and the illegal "Law(Government)". We are the people and we are the true authority over ourselves and our communities. The power any official has is an illusion over the people. The truth is you can not have an authority at all. Not one person has authority over you. It's your life, not anyone else's. If they infringe on your right to live it is up to you to decide the right course of action. That is why the first amendment says we can say whatever the FUCK we want wherever, however to whoever we feel, no matter how nice or nasty. Because it is our responsibility on how we decide to conduct ourselves and how it comes back around to us. You have a second amendment right because you need to deal with any threat to your life from so called authority. How many people are falsely serving life or got the death penalty? It's your life and you should be able to do what you want and be able to defend yourself if someone threatens it. Anyways, the majority of the population has an IQ of 95. That is pathetic really, it's odd how we have as a population gotten dumber. Oh wait, no it's not. That is the control mechanism at work. If you can't relate to what I am saying, congratulations you are the disconnected. The 90 percent, again congratulations. Your FEMA coffin is ready, why wait...just jump on in. 11:11 P.S. Love be to all who deserve it and to those who don't. Love of being Created, love to live a life, at least you got to have a conscious experience. You could be nothing at all ever! Enjoy it while it is still going on. Threat it like your last life and only life and be thankful your even here. It could end tomorrow as it has for many people and still happens each day. |
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13th-Century User ID: 27478775 Canada 11/14/2012 08:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | in response, most of the comments coming from political hacks display a deep, deep ignorance of the history of secession and the Constitutional realities behind it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27731573 In response, I thought I’d list some retorts to the basic myths which most of the anti-secession screeds are intent on perpetuating. 1. The Constitution does not prohibit secession. The legal argument boils down to this: 1. The Constitution does not mention secession. In any way. 2. The Tenth Amendment says: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Now, I don’t have a Ph.D. in logic, but even I can figure out that if something is not mentioned, then, according to the 10th Amendment, it isn’t prohibited to the states. In fact is is the opposite of prohibited. Now, I know that the Supreme Court says no secession allowed, which means the federal government has declared that you can’t escape the federal government. Gee, that’s no shocker. So sure, if you believe that the federal government should be the last word on what the federal government can and cannot do, then that’s fine. Just don’t pretend that we have constitutional government. If the federal government gets to decide what the Constitution says, then the Constitution is nothing more than a suggestion box for the feds. 2. The Civil War did not “settle” the issue. Well, it settled the issue in the way that I settled the matter of ownership of that Steve Garvey baseball card when I beat up that other kid and took it. (OK, that never happened, but you get my point.) Secession was never settled beyond the federal government’s assertion that it has the right to kill people who try to exercise their rights protected by the Tenth Amendment. 3. Secession is treason/unAmerican/craaaazy/for slavers only. Prior to the confederacy, there were some slaveowners who got together and seceded from their government. They were called Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. If you’re opposed to the secession of 1776, then that’s fine, you might be consistent on this issue, but if you’re one of these right-wing pundits who thinks the Declaration of Independence should be read aloud every July 4, and then says that secession is nutso, you might try actually reading that document you profess to love. The Declaration makes a simple argument: 1. Humans have rights from the Creator 2. Governments exist to secure those rights (a debatable assertion but we’ll roll with it.) 3. When the government fails to secure those rights, we can ditch it and start our own government. That’s pretty much all it says. If you thought that was true in 1776, when tax rates were 1% and there was not such thing as a the EPA or the FBI or the IRS, why is it not true now? Because we’re so much more free now? And no, the Declaration did not say that the government is free to violate rights as long as people get to vote on it. The Declaration establishes that there’s no such thing as treason, and a free government requires the assumption of just secession. Lysander Spooner explains (in No Treason #1): Thus the whole Revolution [of 1775-1783] turned upon, asserted, and, in theory, established, the right of each and every man, at his discretion, to release himself from the support of the government under which he had lived. And this principle was asserted, not as a right peculiar to themselves, or to that time, or as applicable only to the government then existing; but as a universal right of all men, at all times, and under all circumstances. I am in awe. This is a spontaneous mass movement. It was not started by a YouTube video. (Little tasteless joke.) There are no leaders.... Glenn Beck just stabbed everybody in the back today saying "Don't sign that petition! Are you crazy? The White House will get your name!"... as if everybody who is registered on his Tea Party site isn't known to the Feds already. What a phony. America's is the most precious, the most special lawful association of peoples in the entire world... because it is voluntary, and not enforced by a police state. Although a police state did crush the Civil War. Ron Paul spoke today in his Farewell Address about "Liberty" being the Moral Value that enables America to function, economically, politically, and spiritually. Actually, there is a Video that might help: VIDEO LINK: [link to www.youtube.com] |
eatinmraw User ID: 13951732 United States 11/14/2012 08:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I never in all of my 50 plus years thought I'd want to leave America. In fact, I once swore that I'd never leave America even to visit a foreign nation. If I wanted Chinese, there's China towns in several states. Cincinnati is a good place for Vietnamese. We have people from every country and their signatures are all over America. Some of them are on petitions for their states to leave America. Times come and times change and America is dead to me. It's breathed its last. It's eyes have dimmed. And patriots, such as myself, are dying inside by the millions. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25166254 I signed the petition for my State. I don't believe the states should drown just because the federal government is sinking. That's what lifeboats are for, to escape death. All the states have done good individually, but Washington has failed the nation. Politics are so corrupt that we can't even get an American into the White House. I can usually come up with a solution to most problems, but it appears that America's only hope is for the states to withdraw from the false federal government, then reform under a new contract that will not allow our government to be stolen by the rich, the corporations, the secret societies, or the serpent breed. I'd like to offer hope for America, but I see none. Maybe one of you can see a meaningful solution to our problems, but if you can't see a meaningful solution to our nations problems, then you should sign your state's petition to withdraw from a government that has never really been ours. Peace. There's supposedly a petition going around now that wants to consider those that signed these petitions in a nutshell enemies of the state. People on GLP for the most part knows the government world wide is corrupt. You're basically bring attention to yourself for when SHTF, particularly when they start rounding up people for the FEMA camps. they'll pass along the lists to the irs and the audits will increase mysteriously for the names on those lists. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 3538082 United States 11/14/2012 08:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | While it is perfectly understandable to demand States rights and to secede and no longer deal with a corrupted government. Corrupted in that Congress is treated ceremoniously, the Constitution being the Supreme Law of the Land is ignored. Where Wars are declared without a declaration of war which is required, and unconstitutional legislation is written, passed, signed, upheld and unconstitutionally enforced. It is also important to acknowledge how we got to this point. We "seceded" pretty much from England, declaring our Independence due to England's own faults and oppressions against us as a people. From that, we have created a country for ourselves and put forth one of the greatest documents of all time, our Constitution. Which has been constructed over time to ensure power to the people who would be the true governing force, listed fundamental rights we've already possessed as further redundancy to state openly and loudly to all that this is what we can do and it should not be violated by anyone or any entity, and limited the power and scope a necessary evil such as government is meant to have. However, since the beginning of our countries conception, there have been many who did not fully agree with that document. Many who would ignore it, ignore our rights, and attempt to usurp it and govern as if themselves were kings. From John Adams to Abraham Lincoln to the multitude of administrations of the past hundred plus years. What this means is that the fight for our Independence, for our freedom has never ended. It has been ongoing. What this also means, if you look around you, is that the Liberty movement has been losing these past hundred plus years. What does this mean? That we dissolve the Union and divide amongst each other? While there are pluses and minuses to everything, surely there could be a better solution? Would the States secede and reunite under a new name and new laws? A new Constitution or remain individual? If history teaches us anything, all such actions would mean is that, in time, the corruption being fled from would rear it's ugly head once more and gradually take over. Whether it's at a united level of the States, or within each State individually by themselves. If that were to happen, what then? Another secession somewhere down the line, or States splitting in two through civil war? No. As it stands, there is nothing wrong with our Constitution other then a few Amendments illegally ratified here and there which contradict the Constitution ( Having a Federal Reserve in charge of the monetary when the Constitution puts that power to Congress). So what is the answer to correcting a corrupted Constitution and a corrupted government? Accountability. We the People are charged with holding our elected officials accountable for their actions. You may think you would be able to do this by voting them out. No. By that time the damage has already been done. If the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land, and it is, and any actions by our elected officials, who work for us, act in violation of it, then that is a crime. A violation against the Supreme Law is a violation against the law, and no matter how you word it, law violators do not get time to see if they stay in office via election once they've violated the law, they are charged, tried, and judged accordingly. If the States are responsible for their representatives in the Congress and the Senate, then they should handle them accordingly. Until our representatives are held accountable for their unconstitutional actions via the court system, then whether the States stay in this union, form their own through secession, or remain independent, they will never defeat corruption. You can not run from your problems, but must tackle them head on. Should the States choose to secede, then they must acknowledge that unless they work to prevent what they are running from, from happening in their own systems, then it would be for nothing. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 25166254 United States 11/14/2012 08:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Our right to petition rests upon this excerpt: That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. There's a lot of people who just roll over and take it, but true Americans will stand up and be counted. Hiding won't help. When people cover their eyes with their hands, they can still be seen but they don't count for anything... |
FinePrint User ID: 20197005 United States 11/14/2012 08:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | All of this secession bullshit is funny to me... If you actually take the time to read all the fine print and terms of use on the whitehouse.gov website where all these petitions are being signed, you will notice that only petitions opened by the States (meaning the body of individuals who comprise the state government), not individuals, are legitimate. This means that each and every signature on each of the petitions is null and void. They mean nothing. Unless, of course, the petition was opened by the State government and not some random citizen. Sorry to throw a "reality-check" wrench in the gears of all the people actually getting excited about secession. |
CalmShock User ID: 5056346 Canada 11/14/2012 08:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is the prelude to martial law. A potential civil war. The groundwork has already been laid out, and surprisingly it's Ron Paul who is leading this bull by the horns. Ron Paul just made a video supporting secession and a day later gives his farewell speech, warning Americans of the current government. Remember Ron Pauls campaign motto....? Ron Paul REVOLUTION. All part of the script. Patience is a virtue I just can't wait to achieve - CalmShock |