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US bracing for secessionist sentiments
 [Iran Press TV Latest] After one-and-a-half-century, Washington has come across a new phenomenon surfacing in its political arena as secessionist advocates in the state of Vermont seek a divorce from the United States of America. Last week, a group of Vermont State secessionists declared their intention to seek political power in a quest to quit the Union altogether. "For the first time in over 150 years, secession and political independence from the US will be front and center in a statewide New England political campaign," said Thomas Naylor, 73, one of the leaders of the campaign, Time reported on Sunday Naylor, a former Duke University economics professor, is in charge of the Second Vermont Republic, which he describes as "left-libertarian, anti-big government, anti-empire, antiwar, with small is beautiful as our guiding philosophy." A 2007 poll suggested that the group has the backing of at least 13 percent of state voters. Naylor said, Vermonters would not be "forced to participate in killing women and children in the Middle East." The secessionists say the US government is an immoral enterprise, which is engaged in imperial wars, propping up corrupt bankers and snooping on the private lives of the US citizens. President Barack Obama in his State of the Union Address on Wednesday tried to reassure Americans the union of the US states is still "strong." Posted by: Fred 2010-02-02 |
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