Brown’s Empire: Calexit
By de Andréa,
Opinion Editorialist for
‘THE
BOTTOM LINE’
Posted January 30, 2017
As a follow-up to yesterday’s article titled “California Communist Governor Jerry Brown
Declares War On Trump,” is California’s Communist Governor Brown now supporting
or even advocating secession of the state of California so he can turn it into
a Despotic Independent Empire?
A fringe political group in
California supported by its communist governor wants to opt out of a Donald
Trump presidency by leaving America. I would say that is a fair example of anti-Americanism
wouldn’t you?
The Yes
California Independence Campaign aims
to hold a ballot referendum in 2018 which would take 585,407 signatures, that, if passed, would bring California one step closer
to becoming an independent country. If
it does I am moving to Sparks Nevada, maybe even Tonopah.
Now, if this were eight
years ago I might have been in favor of secession because America was defiantly
headed toward a Communist tyranny. But now that the Communists have been
defeated at the poles, the California Governor Jerry Red/Brown and the
Communist majority of the state legislature and their Communist thug supporters
instead of leaving the country like they promised us they would, now want to
drag the entire state and every one in it, away from the promise of restoring a
‘Free Republic’ and instead into isolated tyranny.
Far-fetched as it may sound,
the plan started gathering steam the presidential vote. Moreover, the anti-American
movement has an impressive backer called Shervin Pishevar, a well-known Iranian entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and
super angel investor who offered to bankroll
the entire campaign to secede California and eventually the entire west coast,
turning California Oregon and the state of Washington into its own country denying
the US Government any access to the Pacific Ocean. Could this be an effort by the Nation of
Islam to cause a Syrian style civil war and breakup America, making it easier
to turn it into an Islamic State? The rest of the secessionists could just
be a bunch of ignorant useful idiots. I’m just saying…
Since the
time of the American Revolution, two camps have emerged: those arguing for
greater states rights and those arguing that the federal government needed to
have more power and control. The first organized government in the US after the American
Revolution was under the Articles of Confederation. The thirteen states formed a loose
confederation with a very weak federal government. However, when problems
arose, the weaknesses of the Articles caused the leaders of the time to come together at the Constitutional Convention and create the US Constitution that we have today. Many felt that the new constitution ignored the rights of
states to continue to act independently. They felt that the states should still
have the right to decide if they were willing to accept certain federal acts.
This resulted in the idea of nullification, whereby the states would have the right
to rule federal acts unconstitutional. The federal government denied states
this right. However, proponents such as John C. Calhoun fought vehemently for nullification. When nullification would
not work and states felt that they were no longer respected, they moved towards
secession. This is what caused the beginning of the Civil
War. South Carolina was the
first state to secede from the Union in December of 1860, a short time later
six more followed suite. We now face a very similar issue. The question
is -will it cause The Second American Civil
War.
"As the sixth-largest economy in the world,
California is more economically powerful than France and has a population
larger than Poland. Point by point, California compares and competes with
countries, not just the 49 other states," Yes California wrote in a statement. “California is a nation, not a state. This is the campaign to secede and
make California an independent country.” Look for yourself: http://YesCalifornia.org.
Louis Marinelli, an
outspoken political activist and president of Yes California, envisions
California as a sovereign entity within the US, much like Scotland in the
United Kingdom: .
There is no clear path for
how California might appeal to the federal government so that it may leave. The
US Constitution lays out procedures for how a new state may enter the union,
but there are no specific protocols for a nation to exit.
Marinelli, however, sees a
workaround — with a ballot measure passed by California voters.
In 2015, Marinelli paid $200 each to get nine initiatives related to secession on a
statewide ballot, according to The Los Angeles Times. None garnered the nearly
400,000 signatures necessary to appear on the ballot. So Marinelli and his
followers are forced to start over.
Yes California now aims to
gather enough signatures to put an initiative on the ballot in 2018, when
Californians will choose their next governor, for a referendum in 2019.
Californians across the
state marched in protest of President-elect Donald Trump. Should
a clear majority declare their support for a Brexit-style departure, the group
may follow one of two paths. Both lean on a significant case argued before the
US Supreme Court in 1869 — Texas v. White — which touched on a state's ability to secede.
"A
member of the California federal delegation to Washington would propose an
Amendment to the US Constitution allowing the State of California to withdraw
from the Union. The Amendment would have to be approved by 2/3 of the
House of Representatives and 2/3 of the Senate. If the Amendment passed it
would be sent to the fifty state legislatures to be considered (to satisfy the
'consent of the states' requirement in Texas
v. White). It would need to be accepted by at least 38 of the 50
state legislatures to be adopted."
Alternatively:
"California
could call for a convention of the states (which is currently being organized to tackle other constitutional
amendments as we speak) and
the Amendment granting California its independence would have to be approved by
2/3 of the delegates to this convention. If it passed, the
Amendment would be sent to the fifty state legislatures to be considered and 38
of the 50 states would have to approve the measure in order for it to be
adopted."
No state has ever seceded
from the union since the Civil War, despite Texas' best efforts earlier last year.
"The
legality of seceding is problematic," Eric McDaniel, associate professor of government at the
University of Texas at Austin, told The Texas Tribune in June, at the height of Brexit hysteria. "The
Civil War played a very big role in establishing the power of the federal
government and cementing that the federal government has the final say in these
issues."
Marinelli acknowledges the
road ahead is long.
"What's
going on in the US politically and culturally is so different from what's
happening here," Marinelli told The LA Times in 2015. "I want California to be all it can,
and our group feels the political and cultural connection to the US is holding
us back from our potential."
SEE ALSO: People
in California take to social media to call for a 'Calexit' from the US in the
wake of Trump's win
The so-called Calexit backers have about 7,000 supporters
mobilized to gather signatures statewide for the new California nationhood
initiative. The California Secretary of State's office said Thursday the
backers of the measure must collect the signatures of 585,407 registered voters
to qualify for the ballot. Organizers have until July 25, 2017, to meet the
requirement.
"We think it's going to be quite easy for us to make
the sell," said Marinelli. "California is a different place and
has its own culture, its own history, its own identity, its own world view, and
its own ideology in a large respect. So we would feel better off if we can set
our own destiny, set our own path forward and not be connected to a lot of
these obsolete policies of the American system."
Added Marinelli, "There's a lot of this dysfunction
going on in the American system, the corruption in Washington, the animosity
within the United States as a whole. So we want to break away from all that and
set a new path forward. To establish for ourselves some kind of progressive
republic on the western shores of North America."
The referendum aims to repeal a provision in the state's
constitution that reads "California is an inseparable part of
the United States of America, and the United States Constitution is the supreme
law of the land."
"What we want to do is give the people of California
the chance to vote yes or no on independence," said Marinelli. "If
the people want to stay in the country and they want to remain a state they can
vote no. We're certainly going to be focusing on the argument about convincing
people why it's better for us to become our own country."
Calexit backers see divorce from the union as a two-step
process — first the vote in 2018 to repeal the "inseparable"
provision from the state constitution and then a special election in 2019 for
the independence vote itself.
THE BOTTOM LINE: Has the
whole country gone bonkers? When Obama
was president there were protests because he wasn’t protecting this country
from terrorists, now that we have a president that is doing what he is supposed
to do and that is to protect this country from enemy’s both foreign and
domestic, there are protest against that.
What do these people want anyway????
I can only think they want war…and if they continue down this road that
is exactly what they will get, a country that looks like Mosul Iraq. Read related article. Protesters are paid...
Thanks
for listening my friend! Now go do the
right thing and fight for freedom.
-
de Andréa
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