Russian Analyst Claims Breakup of the US is likely.

[civil42806]

"The Mexican possibility may seem less likely, but the government, its politicians, police and judicial infrastructure are all under sustained assault and press by criminal gangs and drug cartels. How that internal conflict turns out over the next several years will have a major impact on the stability of the Mexican state. Any descent by Mexico into chaos would demand an American response based on the serious implications for homeland security alone."

So how about we just legalize drugs here?  Then their biggest customer base is eliminated.  Then, we commute every drug conviction to time served.  Thereby we remove billions in penitentiary funding, and only imprison real criminals who harm other people.  We also tax the hell out of drugs, and bring to an end our “war on drugs.”  Savings from prisons and the cessation of our "war on drugs" plus additional cash flow aids in economic recovery to the tune of tens of billions of dollars.  No more (piss poor depiction of) USA breaking up, and no fears of Mexico doing the same in the immediate future.

I agree with the legalization of marijauana then tax the hell out of it, restrict the amount that can be grown at home, similar to the homebrewing legislation.  Other drugs, would have to think about it.


Not that I have ever smoked any of it!!!!

[CMG22]

Not that I have ever smoked any of it!!!!

Honestly, I have never smoked anything aside from a hookah a few times (after being dragged to Casbah or Laylas).  I just don't see anything wrong with people choosing to cause themselves injury...

[Ocklawaha]

The Monroe Doctrine is an American Doctrine which, on December 2, 1823, stated that European powers were no longer allowed to colonize in the Americas, or interfere with the affairs of the newly independent states of the Americas. The United States would not interfere with existing colonies or their dependencies in the Western Hemisphere. However, any attempt by a European nation to oppress or control any nation in the western hemisphere would be seen as an act of aggression and the United States would intervene. Thus all peoples of the America's shall have the eternal right of self determination of their political future. The USA will back this up with guns, bombs, ships, planes and whatever it takes to keep others from dictating doctrine to ANY American state or bodies of states. Cuba is free to self government and the USA stood down from the home grown revolution. Ditto in Chile, Bolivia, Mexico etc...

THE MONROE DOCTRINE was a masterpiece freedom. No where else has such a large group of people, spread over so many thousands of miles, been held together by the right to walk away.

FREEDOM! IT'S THE BIRTHRIGHT OF EVERY CITIZEN OF THE AMERICA'S

except:

South Carolina
Mississippi
Florida
Alabama
Georgia
Texas
Tennessee
Arkansas
North Carolina
Virginia
Missouri
Arizona
Maryland...

It's obvious that the Russian dude isn't up on Lincoln Double Speak!



OCKLAWAHA
DEO VINDICE!

[Ocklawaha]

BUT OF COURSE - We Don't have any REAL independence movements in our country... That only happens in 3Rd World Countries like "Colombia"... oops, this list no longer includes ANY of the Colombian groups of the past. Just so we don't feel left out, here are OUR OWN pet groups.

United States (Caribbean)
Puerto Rico
Political party: Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP)
Pressure group: Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, Pro-Independence Universitarian Federation (FUPI), Union of Socialist Youth (UJS), Movimiento Independentista Nacional Hostosiano (MINH), Socialist Front (FS), National Congress for the Descolonizations (CONADE)
Rebel organization: Boricua Popular Army (Macheteros), Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN)

U.S. Virgin Islands and British Virgin Islands
Political party: Caribbean Virgin Islands Independence Party and the Union of Virgin Islands Party

United States (North America)

Alaska
Political party: Alaskan Independence Party


Black Belt (U.S. region)
Pressure group: RNA, New Black Panther Party


Proposed state: Republic of New Afrika
California


Proposed state: California Republic
Pressure group: Californians for Independence  (now defunct)


Lakota Sioux
Pressure group: Lakotah Oyate
Proposed state: Republic of Lakotah


Maine
Proposed state: Republic of Maine
Pressure group: Free Maine


Minnesota
Proposed state: People's Republic of the North Star
Pressure group: North Star Republic


New England
Pressure group: New England Confederation Alliance


New Hampshire
Pressure group: republicofnh.org


New York City
Pressure groups: Peter Vallone, Free City of Tri-Insula


New York State
Pressure groups: Joseph Sawiki (Western Long Island), Randy Kuhl (Upstate)


Proposed state: Independent Long Island


Newfoundland, Northern New England, Atlantic Northeast, Middle Atlantic States, Ontario, Canadian prairies, Midwest, Northern Western United States, and Pacific Northwest (Areas of North America [excluding The South ] primarily inhabited by whites)--Vinland
Pressure group: Various white nationalist, white separatist, and Neo-Nazi groups
Proposed state: Vinland


Oklahoma
Pressure group: Indian Nations Republic of Oklahoma represented by the five largest Native American tribes in that state.


Pacific Northwest + British Columbia, Canada
Proposed state: Cascadia (usually associated with political protest, not actual independence)
Pressure group: Republic of Cascadia, Cascadian Independence Project


The South
Pressure group: League of the South


Political party: Southern Party
Proposed state: Confederate States of America

See also: Neo-confederate movement


South Carolina
Proposed state: Republic of South Carolina
Pressure group: SC League of the South 


Texas
Proposed state: Republic of Texas
Pressure group: Texas Secession


Vermont
Proposed state: Green Mountain Republic of Vermont
Pressure group: Second Vermont Republic 

Aztlan/Southwestern United States
Proposed state: Aztlan, dependent on Mexico
Pressure groups: Chicano nationalism, La Voz de Aztlan, the Mexica Movement and the MeCha and La Raza activist groups.

OCKLAWAHA
Your UNRECONSTRUCTED Southron