Monday, November 06, 2006

Can Secession be Made "Sexy"

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the First North American Secessionist Convention was held in Vermont over the weekend.

The First North American Secessionist Convention, billed as the first national gathering of secessionists since the Civil War, included an eclectic mix of conservatives, liberals, libertarians, left-wing Green Party zealots, and right-wing Christian activists.

Interesting.

Per the Inquirer’s article, the disparate group of participants were in the main “congenial,” though nothing definitive was actually accomplished, except for the adoption of the group’s “Burlington Declaration."

...At the end of the day Saturday, the group adopted a Burlington Declaration, borrowing liberally from the Declaration of Independence and asserting that “any political entity has the right to separate itself from a larger body… and peaceably to establish its independence."

I could find no link or posting of the Burlington Declaration on the web, so far, but if I do find it posted, I will update this post and provide a link.

The Inquirer’s article on this is titled Coming together to ponder pulling apart.

Via USA Today.

The secessionist group also has a blog, appropriately named The American Secessionist Blog.

Posted by John Venlet on 11/06 at 08:20 AM
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