Should this movement be taken seriously? You bet! And, behind closed doors, the Administration is pondering their options, hoping that it will merely go away. It is believed that there are that many more that are unaccounted for. I am certain that the President and Secretary of State have already done the math. The states are just as fascist as the federal government. Let the counties secede. It will be easier to fight them as they turn fascist.
Secession petitions are good PR but bad politics. There is a way for states to legally and politically secede from the American union but it must be a state-by-state process established by constitutional secession conventions in each state.
Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. I know. I saw that article too. The author should be hung for treason, no trial necessary. He or her convicted themselves by their own actions. Iowa just signed the other night, too and should be on the list.
That would be redundant. A member of SheKnows Media — Entertainment. Gossip On This. COM Politics U. Kellen Winslow Jr. Follow Us. Separatist activities have been active mostly in Turkey and Iraq, and Kurdish militias have been active in Syria since the uprising began against the Assad dictatorship in The longest secession has been the one in Turkey, where armed insurgents have been waging war against Ankara for decades.
Kurds appealed for an independent state when the Ottoman Empire fell, but their aspirations went unrewarded by diplomats. For more on Kurdistan, check out our sister site, RealClearWorld. Later that same year, London issued a Royal Proclamation that, among other things, created the Province of Quebec out of the ashes of New France.
In the following centuries since the proclamation, Quebec has had its fair share of disagreements with both London and, later, Ottawa. The shift from violent resistance to democratic decision making happened in the late s.
This is interesting to contrast with Kurdistan, as the late s marked a shift for Kurds from sporadic rebellion to violent resistance. For more on Quebec, check out economic historian and Quebecer Vincent Geloso.
Darfur is a region in eastern Sudan that has, unlike South Sudan, been unsuccessful in its secession. The attempt to leave began violently in when two separate groups joined together in order to leave Arab-governed Sudan. The origin of the war is contested, with water access, Arab racism toward blacks, colonial boundaries, and conflicts between semi-nomadic herders and sedentary agriculturalists all making a good case.
This secession has been particularly nasty, with chemical weapons, militias, and ethnic cleansing all making appearances in the decades-long war. Estimates on the number of deaths vary widely, from 10, people to hundreds of thousands. RealClearWorld again has some of the best coverage on this very unsuccessful secession.
Biafra was a state in southeastern Nigeria that tried to secede from Nigeria in and fought a war against the post-coup military government until , when the resistance completely and utterly collapsed. Biafra is home to a large number of Igbo people, so much so that the Igbo consider Biafra to be the spiritual, political, economic, and cultural home of Igbos worldwide. Biafra is useful for highlighting the geopolitical context of the time period.
The mids was when many colonies in Africa declared their independence from the European countries that had created them. An agreement between these new countries was in the works to make sure that separatist declarations were ignored or even punished collectively by other African states.
In , this agreement had yet to be fully enshrined, and several countries - including France, Israel, the Vatican, Rhodesia, South Africa, Ivory Coast, and Haiti - recognized, in some form or another, the independence of Biafra. Israel recognized Biafra because of its ongoing feuds with Muslim-ruled states in the Middle East.
Oh, and Biafra has lots and lots of oil. Azawad declared its independence from the huge Saharan country of Mali in after many years of simmering resentment towards the central government there. Like most other countries in Africa today, Mali is home to many different ethnic groups that have come to be dominated by one group over the wishes of the others.
This is a result of the maps drawn by Europeans, but also by the African nationalists who got together to agree that decentralization and secession would be bad for the post-colonial moment in Africa.
Azawad is home to many different ethnic groups, but it was Tuareg nationalists that created Azawad in order to accomplish what other ethnic groups had done to them in Mali: oppress and remove. France helped Mali regain the territory it lost to Azawad in , under the guise of fighting Islamist terrorism, and Paris continues to maintain a small, elite force in the area.
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