Georgia Senate Threatens to Leave the Union?
I missed this one earlier this month:
It wasn’t quite the firing on Fort Sumter that launched the Civil War. But on April 1, your Georgia Senate did threaten by a vote of 43-1 to secede from and even disband the United States.
It was not an April Fool’s joke.
In fact, Senate Resolution 632 did a lot more than merely threaten to end this country. It stated that under the Constitution, the only crimes the federal government could prosecute were treason, piracy and slavery.
“Therefore, all acts of Congress which assume to create, define or punish [other] crimes … are altogether void, and of no force,” the Georgia Senate declared.
In other words, in the infinite, almost unanimous wisdom of the Georgia Senate, Michael Vick is being imprisoned illegally, Bernie Madoff should serve no time for stealing $60 billion and the Unabomber must go free. In fact, the federal penitentiary in Atlanta should be emptied of its inmates.
Now, some would probably say that this is all part of a national debate about federalism and the powers of the federal government, but this is downright insane. If left up to the Georgia Senate, Washington, D.C. will not be worth a dime. Ludicrous.
What’s worse, the Georgia Senate makes all conservatives look out of touch and silly. Pathetic and stupid.
An empty, stupid, ignorant, counterproductive, useless resolution. Job well done dear state senators; even Daily Kos never succeeded at making Georgians look this bad.
For the record, it’s not only conservatives. There’s been a secessionist movement in Vermont for years, even decades.
Though, I don’t think any other one has ever gotten as powerful as to make it to the state legislature.
P.S. I mean recent secession movements. As in, since the Civil War.