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Yes-and become the 11th. Province of Canada...at least until Canada
balkanizes.
FWP.
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From: Kris Millegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 9:30 AM
Subject: [CTRL] Should Texas Declare Independence?
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>
>from:http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.41/texas.htm
>Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.41/texas.htm">Should Texas
>Declare Independence?, An intervie�</A>
>
>Should Texas Declare Independence?
>
>
>An Interview with Jim Davidson
>
>
>by Alberto Mingardi
>
>
>"All political power is inherent in the people, and all governments exist
by
>the will of the people.(...) Every individual has the inherent right of
life
>from physical conception to natural death. (...) Every individual has the
>inherent right of liberty, which is the unrestrained exercise of free will,
>which shall never be infringed provided the exercise thereof does not
violate
>the rights of any other individual. (...) Every individual's body, life,
>labor, ideas, thoughts, and possessions that the individual has lawfully
>created or acquired are that individual's property. Every individual has
the
>inherent right of the ownership, non-coercive acquisition, and use of
>property. (...)Every individual has the inherent right of defending the
life,
>liberty, or property of any individual using whatever force is necessary,
>through whatever means available, including the use of deadly force. (...)
>Every individual has the inherent right of owning, using, and carrying arms
>of any description."
>It isn�t an extract from a new, exciting libertarian book. These lines are
>from the "Texas Constitution 2000", a libertarian-leaning document for an
>independent Texas that anyone can read on the website of the Texas
>Constitution Ratification Fund, http://www.tcrf.com .
>Why independence for Texas? The Laissez Faire City Times interviewed Jim
>Davidson, chairman of the TCRF. Well-known in libertarian circles, Davidson
>has been a part of the Libertarian Party in Texas and elsewhere.
>He worked for a while for the Atlantis Project, writing The Atlantis Papers
>explaining and justifying the constitution of Oceania. He�s worked with a
>Dutch diplomat from East Africa, Michael van Notten, and has been active in
>the Liberty Round Table since roughly 1995. He recently started the Gold
>Dollar Ranch project.
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>What are the links between Texas independence and libertarian ideas?
>The links are very strong. Texas Constitution 2000 is a pro-liberty
document.
>Read it to see more of what I mean. It clearly states: no taxes, no war on
>drugs, no war on sex, very limited government, no warfare state, no welfare
>state. It runs to over a dozen pages of closely spaced type, and the links
>are all through it.
>There's only one type of crime other than violating the constitution if you
>work for the Texas government under Texas Constitution 2000. That type of
>crime is intentionally harming another person or his property. There will
be
>no more "victimless crimes."
>About half the Texas prison population will be released, because they are
>serving terms for non-violent "offenses" which aren't offenses under the
new
>constitution.
>As a Texan, what is your judgment of the work of George W. Bush jr. (maybe
>the next US President)?
>He isn't "jr." His father was George Herbert Walker Bush, and he is George
>Walker Bush, or George W. Bush. And he's a fraud. He uses his influence to
>help his rich buddies, like Waltrip, and to keep his taxes low while the
>sticking it to the rest of Texas, in my view. I believe he's a hypocrite,
who
>was not willing to go to war, so he had a family friend get him into the
>national guard, and I believe he used cocaine and marijuana, but now wants
>"stiffer penalties" for drug-related crimes.
>In other words, I have about as much use for him as for his father: not
much.
>What are the reasons that you work for Texas independence?
>The independence of Texas will not be recognized by other nations without
our
>efforts. It is barely recognized by most Texans. We mean to make Texas
>independent and Texans free.
>What�s wrong with the US, from a Texan�s point-of-view?
>Let me speak about regime. The history of the present regime in power is a
>history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object
the
>establishment of an absolute tyranny over Texas. To prove this, let facts
be
>submitted to a candid world.
>The regime in power has refused its assent to adhere to the Constitutions
of
>Texas and the United States.
>Give us please some examples.
>The regime declared an emergency as of 9 March 1933 effectively suspending
>these Constitutions, and has maintained that emergency declaration in
effect,
>in spite of the end of the Great Depression, the end of World War Two, and
>the end of the Cold War, which have intervened in the meantime. Then, it
>denied forcibly the right of freedom of speech through regulations
>controlling so-called commercial speech, so-called obscene speech,
broadcast
>amplification of speech, and in other ways made laws and enforced laws and
>regulations to abridge and deny free speech.
>In what sense has the US denied free speech?
>They denied forcibly the right of freedom of the press by taxing certain
>forms of printed matter, by imposing permits and regulations on printed
>matter, by limiting through laws and regulations so-called commerce-related
>printed matter, and by imposing limitations on the use of the Internet.
>In fact they denied forcibly the right of the people peacably to assemble
>through permits, regulations, taxes, fees, injunctions, court orders
against
>protesters near certain types of clinic, and other unconstitutional
>abridgements of the right to peacably assemble.
>What about religion and religious tolerance in the US?
>The regime denied forcibly the right of the people to freely exercise
>religion through prohibitions on traditional ceremonies, various forms of
>marriage, and by gassing, burning, crushing, mutilating, shooting, and
>killing dozens of men, women, and children in their church, establishing
>instead a religion through the construction of a "National Cathedral"
funded
>by taxpayers and in other ways.
>What is the importance of the Second Amendment, the right to carry guns?
>It was also violated by the regime (the right of the people to keep and
bear
>arms) through taxes, licenses, permits, fees, dealer registration, and now
>individual gun owner registration under the guise of instant background
>checks, and by killing, maiming, torturing, and imprisoning men and women,
as
>well as their children, for bravely failing to yield this sacred right.
>Denying this right, they have destroyed the right of the people to be
secure
>in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable
searches
>and seizures�by conducting searches without warrants, without probable
cause,
>without support of oath or affirmation, and without describing the places
to
>be searched and the persons or things to be seized. In one particular, the
>so-called income tax system denies the right of the people to be secure in
>their papers by falsely and maliciously placing the burden of proof on the
>accused. In another particular, numerous warrants have been issued on false
>or misleading claims by prosecutors and law enforcement officials, and many
>have been served unsigned by any judge.
>The US has however assured legal rights for Texans in its constitution.
>We�re not speaking about the US Constitution, but about facts.
>The regime has denied the right of the people to a trial by an impartial
jury
>of the State and district wherein the crime had been committed, often
>transfering cases to distant districts or other States for pretended
>purposes, sometimes denying any jury trial at all, and invariably denying
the
>jury its right to be fully informed and to judge both the law and the
facts.
>It also has denied forcibly the right of the people to be informed of the
>nature and cause of the accusation against them, often holding them for
days,
>weeks, months, or even occasionally years without this information, and
>denied the assured right of the people to be confronted with the witnesses
>against him, through elaborate "witness protection" schemes, artful
barriers
>and all manner of "anonymous informants" even to the point of trying
persons
>in absentia.
>They denied the right of the people to have compulsory process for
obtaining
>witnesses in his favor, often refusing certain lines of defense, generally
>refusing defenses on constitutional grounds, and invariably pretending to
>authority and honor not granted under any constitution.
>What are the crimes of regime with respect to fees, fines, and taxes?
>Of course, the regime denied forcibly the right of the people not to have
>excessive bail set, often setting bail in amounts exceeding the average
>annual income of individual Texans. And so with the right of the people not
>to have excessive fines imposed, often setting fines in amounts exceeding
the
>average annual income of individual Texans.
>The government has also given preference, by regulation of commerce or
>revenue, to the ports of one State over those of another, obliged vehicles
>and vessels bound to or from one state to enter, clear, and pay duties in
>another, drawn money from the treasury without consequence of
appropriations
>made by law and failed to publish periodically a regular statement and
>account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money, claiming that
>certain "black" projects must be kept secret even to the details of their
>budgets.
>What are the worst consequences of this regime interventionism on
individual
>(US) States?
>It encouraged States to pass bills of attainder and ex post facto laws, and
>forced them to adopt uniform commercial codes impairing the obligations of
>contracts.
>The regime denied to the States the power to engage in war when actually
>invaded or in such imminent danger as would not admit of delay.
>How has the regime influenced the freedom of enterprise?
>By denying the right of the people to have access to free markets�by the
>granting of unconstitutional monopolies to utility companies, to licensing
>boards, and to quasi-corporate entities such as the Postal Service and
>AMTRAK.
>And they have constrained the people to use licenses, permits, fees, union
>memberships, and compliance with a myriad of regulations.
>It sounds as though, for Texans, the real enemy in daily life is the state
>(in the general sense of "state").
>The state has combined with others to subject us to the jurisdiction of the
>so-called United Nations and to subject us to the jurisdiction of myriad
>Federal agencies, both jurisdictions foreign to our Constitutions, and
>unacknowledged by our laws; has given its assent to their acts of pretended
>legislation for quartering large bodies of armed foreign troops and
diplomats
>among us; has protected them by mock trials from punishment for any murders
>or crimes they should commit on the inhabitants of Texas; has cut off our
>trade with various parts of the world (e.g., Iraq, Cuba); has imposed taxes
>on us without our consent and without benefit of constitutional authority;
>has deprived us, in many cases, of the benefit of trial by jury (especially
>in tax matters); has taken away our individual rights; has abolished our
most
>valuable laws; and has altered, fundamentally, the relationship between the
>people and government.
>What should be the future strategy of Texans?
>In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress, in the
>most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by
repeated
>injury. A regime, whose character is thus marked by every act which may
>define a tyranny, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
>Nor have we been wanting in attention to our American brethren. We have
>warned them, from time to time, of attempts made by their legislatures to
>extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the
>circumstances of our settlement here. We have appealed to their native
>justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our
common
>kindred, to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our
>connections and correspondence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice of
>justice and consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity
>which denounces our separate status, and hold them, as we hold the rest of
>mankind, enemies in war, in peace, friends.
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Alberto Mingardi lives in Northern Italy (Padania). Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>-30-
>from The Laissez Faire City Times, Vol 3, No 41, October 18, 1999
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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>Aloha, He'Ping,
>Om, Shalom, Salaam.
>Em Hotep, Peace Be,
>Omnia Bona Bonis,
>All My Relations.
>Adieu, Adios, Aloha.
>Amen.
>Roads End
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