Vermont Republic Second Vermont Republic
Lake Champlain The beautiful lake covers more than 8000 square miles, while the 587 miles of shore is filled with various wildlife. Tourists and natives alike love spending time on the shores, doing activities. There is a legend of a monster living in the lake, named Champy. Cruises, ferry rides, …
April, 2019
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5 April
Mission Statement
The Second Vermont Republic is a nonviolent citizens’ network and think tank committed to: (1) the peaceful breakup of meganations such as the United States, Russia, and China; (2) the self-determination of breakaway states such as Quebec, Scotland, and Vermont; and (3) a strategic alliance with other small, democratic, nonviolent, …
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5 April
The Middlebury Institute
In answer to a growing swell of interest in realistic responses to the excesses of the present American empire, The Middlebury Institute has been launched by a group of activists and professionals to promote the serious study of separatism, secession, self-determination, and similar devolutionary trends and developments, on both national …
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5 April
Thomas H. Naylor’s Biography
Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University, Thomas H. Naylor is a writer and a political activist who has taught at Middlebury College and the University of Vermont. For thirty years, he taught economics, management science, and computer science at Duke. As an international management consultant specializing in strategic management, …
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5 April
About Second Vermont Republic
The Second Vermont Republic is a nonviolent citizens’ network and think tank opposed to the tyranny of Corporate America and the U.S. government, and committed to the return of Vermont to its status as an independent republic and more broadly to the dissolution of the Union. Members of the Second Vermont Republic …
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5 April
The Constitutionality of Secession
Few words are perceived to be more politically incorrect in America than the s-word, secession. Thanks mostly to Abraham Lincoln, secession is considered to be a complete anathema by liberals and conservatives alike. Although most Americans believe the Civil War proved once and for all that secession is illegal and …
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4 April
The Montpelier Manifesto
Petition of Grievances We, citizens of this American land, haunted by the nihilism of separation, meaninglessness, and powerlessness, subsumed by political elites who use corporate, state, and military power to manipulate our lives, pawns of a global system of dominance and deceit in which transnational megacompanies and big government control …
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4 April
Hawaii Is Not Even a Legitimate State
In the brouhaha over whether President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii or not, few seem to realize, that in the eyes of many historians and legal scholars, Hawaii is not a legitimate state of the United States of America. If the government of Hawaii had not been illegally overthrown …
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4 April
Economic Policy Threatens the Dollar
Just as the Census Bureau’s August report of a small gain in July residential housing starts was due to a downward revision of the prior month’s report, the Federal Reserve Board’s September 15 report of a slight increase in industrial production was achieved by revising downward July’s initial reporting. The …
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4 April
The Vermont Military Mafia
Who could have ever imagined that tiny Vermont, the home of “socialist” Bernie Sanders and once considered to be the most left-leaning state in the United States, would now find itself under the political control of five hard-core military superhawks committed to transforming Vermont into the Pentagon’s flagship state for …