In spite of the fact that a UVM Center for Rural Studies survey found that over seventy-five percent of the eligible voters in Vermont believe the U.S. government has lost its moral authority and that nearly fifty percent think the U.S. has become unsustainable (politically, economically, militarily, and environmentally), none of the 180 members of the Vermont Legislature have ever been willing to introduce a resolution calling for Vermont independence. This is even more amazing when you consider the fact that not only is the U.S. government teetering on the brink of financial collapse, but it condones illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, record-high military budgets, over one thousand military bases worldwide, unconditional military support for Israel, multitrillion dollar budget deficits, endless Wall Street bailouts, corporate greed and fraud, and a culture of deceit.
Undaunted, Governor Jim Douglas, the entire Council of State, and all of the members of the Legislature remain loyal to the American Empire, which is arguably the largest, wealthiest, most powerful, most militaristic empire of all time. Vermont state government officials are to the Vermont independence movement what the Tories were to the American Revolution.
So steeped in the culture of the Empire is the Vermont State House Crowd, that they will never change. They must be replaced by younger, more open-minded Vermont patriots who believe that it’s high time to tell the Vermont Democratic, Progressive, and Republican parties that enough is enough.
This is a call for bright, young, energetic Vermont Patriots to run for the state legislature in 2010 as unabashed advocates of Vermont independence.
Long live the Second Vermont Republic.
Rebél
Thomas H. Naylor
May 20, 2009
