Thursday, August 11, 2011

Will Austin Become “Liberty Central” or “Little Washington?”

by Russell D. Longcore
DumpDC.com

The Texas Nationalist Movement is working hard to sell secession to its fellow Texans. And some state here in the not good ol’ USA is eventually going to succeed at seceding. But there are a lot of very complicated issues facing any state that will have to be settled in advance.

Texas has as good a chance at secession success as any…maybe even better. They have a long memory about independence, having fought for that independence from Mexico in 1836. But in reality, Texas was only a nation for nine years! They lost their minds in 1845 and assumed their place in American statehood. They’ve been a subservient slave state for 166 years. But at least they WERE a nation before becoming a state. Everyone makes mistakes. Forgive them.

So Texas could have the best chance of becoming the first new nation. But will Austin, the state capitol, become a beacon of liberty for the rest of the world, or simply a smaller version of Washington DC?

24.6 million people live in Texas. Let’s estimate that half are registered voters. If the Nationalists can get a referendum for secession on a state-wide ballot someday, then about 6.2 million Texans will have to vote ‘Yes’ for secession. That’s a pretty tall order. Not impossible, but daunting.

But that’s when the work begins.

Listed below are just 20 of the issues that Texans would have to settle in order to build a new nation.

1. A formal Declaration of Independence and Secession would have to be written and ratified, likely by the legislature and signed by the Governor. A date for presenting that document to someone like the sitting US President would have to be chosen.

2. The actual form of the new government must be chosen. Will it be a Constitutional Republic…a Parliament…or what? Remember that this is a new constitution for a single nation, not a confederacy of nations. The new constitution doesn’t need to be articles of confederation, but should be more like the Virginia Constitution of 1776 or the Swiss canton system.

3. Will all the existing politicians in Texas have to stand for election in the new government? The present legislators in Austin are infected with statism and opponents of sovereignty. I nominate Daniel Miller, president of the Texas Nationalist Movement, as the first President of New Texas. Why not Ron Paul? Doctor Paul has spent too many years in the belly of the beast. No person who has aspirations to be the American president gets my approval.

4. Monetary policy is the keystone of the new nation. All commerce, and the very existence of New Texas hangs on this one issue. But if Texas decides to adopt any monetary policy other than 100% gold/silver dollar, it will have swallowed the poison pill of Keynesianism before its life even begins. No government in the history of mankind has devalued its money and survived. Not One.

4. Courts system – Will the new Texas begin with a clean slate, or will it adopt the corrupt American court precedents existing today? You can predict that entrenched interests in the legal system will attempt to tie up the secession in court forever. Where will Texas find judges that are pro-secession? Will Texans allow themselves to be drawn into Federal legal battles when the US should have no jurisdiction in secession?

5. What method of tax collection will the new nation choose? Any income tax will likely foment yet another revolution. I recommend a flat sales tax that applies to everyone.

6. There are a lot of Federal lands and military bases in Texas. Will the new nation buy them from Washington or simply confiscate them? And why should the New Texas national government presume that it should own the former Federal lands and bases? Should they not be sold to private parties?

7. The new Texas will have to create an immigration policy. Not only is there the existing problem with the Texas/Mexican border, but hundreds of thousands of Americans will want to relocate to Texas to take part in the birth of the new nation.

8. Millions of Texans presently receive Social Security benefits of some sort. What will happen to their benefits after secession? Will Washington cut them off in retaliation? Will Texas assume that obligation? Not if they have any brains whatsoever.

9. Privatization of state services – will Texas try to set up new bureaucracies to deliver mail, collect the taxes, etc? The free market always performs better than government, and no compelling reason can be made for government services.

9. Will the new Texas continue with the failed War on Drugs, or recognize that drugs are morally equal to alcohol and lift its prohibition?

10. What will the New Texas do about a military? Will it embrace a national militia like Switzerland, or establish Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines?

11. Foreign policy issues will involve border states and other sovereign nations. Will New Texas make the same foreign policy blunders that Washington loves to make?

12. Will New Texas assume the liability of a Medicare/Medicaid system?

13. Will New Texas protect religious liberty and eschew religious subsidy? After all, there is no practical reason that religious organizations and churches should enjoy tax-free status at the expense of the rest of the population. This issue will be decided as New Texas forms tax policy.

14. Insurance makes the world go around. New Texas will need the wisdom of Solomon in its Department of Insurance to properly regulate insurance companies.

15. Securities law must be enacted. But copying the corrupt FTC and SEC won’t work.

16. How many of the existing US Cabinet departments will find a place in the New Texas government? New Texas would probably run fine without most of the unconstitutional bureaucracies operating in Washington today. Copying Washington won’t work.

17. Texas is a microcosm of all the environmental issues facing America today. The “greenies” will fight hard to continue some of the dumb environmental laws in New Texas. They have money and they are patient.

18. New Texas will have to make an early decision on public education. Will New Texas continue the failed policies of the federal Department of Education and the deathgrip of the teacher’s unions?

19. Texas has great colleges and universities. What will happen to them when Federal money dries up? More importantly, will Texas football teams be thrown out of American football conferences and the BCS? God help us.

20. New Texas will need an intelligent Energy policy which embraces nuclear energy, oil and gas, and alternative sources. Texas must throw off the American regulations that prohibit new nuclear power plants. 100% of the electricity for New Texas should come from nuclear power.

Texas has the real chance to become the freest place on earth. But it won’t achieve that status if it simply becomes Washington West. The reason for secession is Washington and statism. The men and women crafting a New Texas must keep their vision of liberty in our lifetimes always before them as they do their holy work.

Secession is the only hope for mankind. Who will be first?

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© Copyright 2011, Russell D. Longcore. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given.

10 comments:

  1. Secession is the only hope for mankind.

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  2. NobodysaysBOO!:
    Thanks for the great ideas.
    Just
    a note on a few of the listed items: #19

    19. Texas has great colleges and universities. What will happen to them when Federal money dries up? More importantly, will Texas football teams be thrown out of American football conferences and the BCS? God help us.

    Texas schools get the money from the state oil and gas trusts. good law works sometimes.

    #20

    20. New Texas will need an intelligent Energy policy which embraces nuclear energy, oil and gas, and alternative sources. Texas must throw off the American regulations that prohibit new nuclear power plants. 100% of the electricity for New Texas should come from nuclear power.

    Texas has lakes and hydro power that is neglected and a brush up will provide lots of electricity,with natural gas for sale to the US and Mexico with wind and solar TEXAS can go it alone and sell power like ENRON!

    Item #21
    New Texas must select a language for the New land. Spanish? English? Both? maybe FRENCH would be better for a change?

    Note: the latest census shows Texas as 38% Hispanic. More likely 55% or more is the more accurate number.
    "VOTE EARLY AND VOTE OFTEN"
    LOL thanks for the free speech zone

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  3. In mentioning Austin, the author makes the strongest argument against his case.

    Austin and Houston and hundreds of miles apart geographically, but a million miles apart philosophically.

    The secessionist from Dallas would feel nothing in common with his counterpart in Austin. "Succession" for Texas is a one-size-fits-all approach, every bit as wrong as the one-size-fits-all approach of the Federal government.

    In know this is a Texas centered blog, but Vermont succession is a lot more interesting, organized, and frankly, plausible.

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  4. I see your handler has taken control of the situation and is turning your work over to qualified and literate minds to peruse and add to your scriblings now. Your subject verb tense is now equivalent perhaps to a school of $10k per year rather than your typical high schoole' grad, I'll illustrate more here: "20. New Texas will need an intelligent Energy policy which embraces nuclear energy, oil and gas, and alternative sources. Texas must throw off the American regulations that prohibit new nuclear power plants. 100% of the electricity for New Texas should come from nuclear power." Anyone who thinks this person is sane or not a 'gubmint' plant after that line is a fucking moron. Period. 2+2=5 asshole, happy now? Is this what the Neocons do with the black budget cash these days? Troll!

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  5. Though you get somewhat onto the subject in #8, there are maybe three reasons why Texans will never go for secession:
    1. Fed gov Benefits
    2. Fed gov Benefits and
    3. Fed gov Benefits

    70 percent of Texans derive a benefit from some fed gov program: SS, MC, Medicaid, food stamps, military benefits, retirement benefits, union benefits (union of fed employees, that is) and others, plus the fact that with all the military bases, Fed parks and wildlife, NOAA, NASA, Border Patrol, Coast Guard, etc. etc. etc., the only way Texans will agree to secede is if the feds can no longer pay these benefits.

    Plus, you're gonna need a real leader, not a demogogue like Rick "ROT" McLaren, to lead this movement. I should know. I live out here where the ROT standoff happened in 1997.

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  6. LA RAZA UNITA and the reconquestas say NADA!

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  7. OOPS LULAC also says NO!

    If you do not know WHO LULAC and LA RAZA UNITA are then you sir are NO TEXICAN!

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  8. I Know Who La Raza and Lulac are. I Know about the Plan of San Diego too. DO you you know what the 2nd Amendment is? If you do not know that you do not know how to be a Texan

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  9. hello from austin. this article is the stupidest shit i've read in a long time. it would be funny if it were not so sad that i have to share the state with you retards. hiding your head in the sand and pretending texas is some magical utopia is just ignorant. as a born and raised texan, i love every state in the USA and would never hope to see texas secede. instead, why don't we all man up and face our problems in DC, do what needs to be done to put this nation back on the right course? if you are chickening out this early, I would be ashamed to be a citizen of any nation of texas with you fools anyway. fuck you!

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  10. This was NOT ment for realman just a general comment to all.

    Just Facts not insults.

    "WHO LULAC and LA RAZA UNITA are then you sir are NO TEXICAN!"

    We call each other TEXICANS around here mostly just a frendly JOKE.

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