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    On another note, with all the people who end up on no-fly lists for no particular reason, it would be interesting to see how these on-line partition signers fair the next time they want to travel.

    I think I heard that it is up to 40 States now. If it continues the country will consist of Washington DC and P-R when they are admitted…


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    Interesting reactions to the same situation from Democrat and Republican nut jobs.

    When the evil Republican president is elected, the Democrats want to flee the country. When the evil Democrat president is elected, the Republicans want to carve out their own separate country.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gregoshi View Post
    Interesting reactions to the same situation from Democrat and Republican nut jobs.

    When the evil Republican president is elected, the Democrats want to flee the country. When the evil Democrat president is elected, the Republicans want to carve out their own separate country.
    Nah, you had that United States of Canada (I think) and Jesusland maps when the separation jokes were high last time. The Republicans also have the problem of fleeing to what country? The Democrats fits in better in say Canada and most of Europe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ironside View Post
    Nah, you had that United States of Canada (I think) and Jesusland maps when the separation jokes were high last time. The Republicans also have the problem of fleeing to what country? The Democrats fits in better in say Canada and most of Europe.
    Actually, the real fringers are talking secession to "carve out? a country of their own liking or a civil war to take control of the country and establish a different government under a new (actually older and less "interpreted") version of the Constitution.

    For those thinking along these lines, I do hope that they recall that, howevermuch the founders may have believed that it was the right of the people to "institute a new government," none of the founders thought that the people could do so without the old government fighting back. The right of the people to "keep and bear arms" was affirmed so as to permit them the possibility of so altering the government -- not to prevent them having to pay the price to effect such a change.
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