.: Selfdetermination Nation

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Selfdetermination Nation

Second Vermont Republic (SVR) is a secessionist movement within the U.S. state of Vermont to return the independent status of the Vermont Republic from 1777–91. The organization was founded by Thomas Naylor, a former Duke University economics professor who began the secession movement when he published the book The Vermont Manifesto.

As of January 2005, the movement had 125 card-carrying members^[1]. SVR's web site says "Our primary objective is to extricate Vermont peacefully from the United States as soon as possible." Supporters of the Second Vermont Republic endorse Vermont's current commitment to small and sustainable towns, farms and businesses, and encourage residents of the state to buy products made locally and sold in small locally owned stores. They also believe in direct democracy at the local level and desire to turn back as much power as possible to local communities.

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Racism controversy

The Second Vermont Republic came under increased scrutiny and controversy after an anonymous blogger accused some of their advisory board members of having affiliations with Neo-Confederate groups, such as the League of the South. In reaction to criticism, Naylor posted a response at the SVR website that says the organization has loose connections to other secessionist groups with varying political and social positions and refers to the Southern Poverty Law Center as "…a well known McCarthy-like group of mercenaries… who routinely engage in ideologically driven witch hunts and smear campaigns on behalf of their wealthy, techno-fascist clients."

Flag use

The Second Vermont Republic website designates the historic flag of the Vermont Republic as its "official flag." This dismayed some Vermonters who display that flag as a sign of Vermont history and identity but do not support Vermont's secession from the Union. Another group, the Project for a New Vermont State Flag, opposes SVR's use as they fear it decreases their chances of persuading the Vermont General Assembly to adopt the Vermont Republic's flag as Vermont's state flag.

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Everybody needs a Nation. Nobody needs an Empire.

When a federated government indulges the temptation to overreach its rightful powers in order to expand its influence, even to ignore the wishes of entire states or regions, when it seeks and acquires the means to enact, with impunity, laws obnoxious to the people, when it routinely practices deception in order to wage foreign wars for private gain, when it routinely fails to protect its borders from invasion, when it steals the rights of the states and of the people by ignoring the firm restraints placed upon it by the original and highest law of the land by and through which it was originally established by the several sovereign states, when it ignores the traditions, customs and religion of its citizens, diminishing the freedoms, the establishment and security of which, was the very purpose of its founding, then it has usurped the God-given rights of its citizens, and by that transgression forced them to choose between acquiescence to a permanent state of servitude, or by right and by duty, to council, promote and achieve by every honorable means, withdrawal from that federation and, through this resolute action, to assert their natural and lawful right to govern themselves.

We, the South Carolina League of the South, firmly resolve that South Carolina is destined to join the family of nations, that no other course of action can restore to her citizens the free exercise of their inalienable rights, their wealth, their self determination, and their self esteem, as men and women imbued with individual dignity, answerable in the first place to God, men and women who unconditionally own their own persons as well as their justly acquired property, who are entitled to government respectful of its lawful limits, rather than continually seeking to expand. In so far as others have reached a similar firm resolve that their own state should assert its autonomy, peacefully, democratically, with the full participation of its rightful citizens and according to the popular will thereof, we applaud and support their efforts. It is significant that large numbers of citizens in various regions of the Union are claiming their God-given right to self determination as against an overreaching leviathan state. Therefore South Carolina's League of the South is respectful of Vermont's accomplishments on the road to full sovereignty and we wish Vermont secessionists Godspeed.

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007