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 Posted: 24-Dec-2004 20:36 Post subject: O.K. People how many of you are aware of our neghbour to the south |
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| Posted: 24-Dec-2004 21:57 Post subject: RE: O.K. People how many of you are aware of our neghbour to the south |
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Freakin hilarious.
Lincoln did the same thing. When he announced the blockade of southern ports, he legally acknowledged the soverignty of the Confederate States of America. A blockade is something you do to a foreign country.
I have heard of a town, here in Texas I think it is, that a year or three back seceeded from the Union over another dispute with the border patrol. I think it was over the failure of the govt to adequately defend the border and stop the illegals. Last I heard of it, Bush had done nothing about this town.
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| Posted: 27-Dec-2004 13:05 Post subject: RE: O.K. People how many of you are aware of our neghbour to the south |
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Funny. And yet these people still pay their federal income taxes, do they not?
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| Posted: 27-Dec-2004 13:19 Post subject: RE: O.K. People how many of you are aware of our neghbour to the south |
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On 2004-12-27 13:05, Bo wrote:
Funny. And yet these people still pay their federal income taxes, do they not?
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If they didn't their asses would be in jail. 
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| Posted: 28-Dec-2004 00:01 Post subject: RE: O.K. People how many of you are aware of our neghbour to the south |
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But speaking of which... Aren't some of the Indian Nations within the US technically independent?
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| Posted: 28-Dec-2004 07:56 Post subject: RE: O.K. People how many of you are aware of our neghbour to the south |
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Ok, since when has Havana been a nation??? Did I miss something in Geography class????
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| Posted: 30-Dec-2004 23:23 Post subject: RE: O.K. People how many of you are aware of our neghbour to the south |
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Three things:
1.) It isn't really worth the effort to chase down every petty criminal. Even the people who secede. If they want to act like a foreign nation, it's fine. As soon as they come in direct conflict with D.C. (By, say, firing on Fort Sumter, though the Civil War is obviously different from a few small cities) they will discover that, no, you can't secede where other's fail.
2.) Lincoln lived in the Pre-Bureuacrateze age. He didn't have "Naval Quarentine." Besides, the Emancipation proclaimation was also a War Powers Action, supposedly against a foreign power. Civil Wars are never neat.
3.) The Indian Nations were never part of the United State. The people themselves enjoy citizenship within the United States, but the Indian Nations are states subordinate to the Federal Government (With relationships regulated by treaties, acts of congress, and the Common Law), but generally superior to (or at least autonomous of) the states.
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