American Secessionist Convention
MARCH 31—The Middlebury Institute has announced that the Third North American Secessionist Convention will be held in Manchester, New Hampshire, on November 14-16, 2008.
Delegates are expected from a majority of the three-dozen current secessionist organizations in the United States and Canada. As in the two previous conventions - in Burlington, Vermont, in 2006, and Chattanooga, Tennesssee, in 2007 - delegations will give reports on the activities in their areas in the previous year and trade information on strategizing, organizing, and politicking.
The Middlebury Institute
for the study of separatism, secession, and self-determination
127 East Mountain Road Cold Spring, N.Y. 10516
Registry of North American Separatist Organizations
THIRD NORTH AMERICAN SECESSIONIST CONVENTION
NOV. 14-16, 2008
MARCH 31—The Middlebury Institute has announced that the Third North American Secessionist Convention will be held in Manchester, New Hampshire, on November 14-16, 2008.
Delegates are expected from a majority of the three-dozen current secessionist organizations in the United States and Canada. As in the two previous conventions - in Burlington, Vermont, in 2006, and Chattanooga, Tennesssee, in 2007 - delegations will give reports on the activities in their areas in the previous year and trade information on strategizing, organizing, and politicking.
In previous years, participants have uniformly expressed enthusiasm for the conventions as showcases for the secessionist movement and workshops for the down-home business of spreading the secessionist message. Both meetings issued declarations of purpose and policy, available on the website, MiddleburyInstitute.org.
One highlight of the meeting will be a presentation of the idea of an independent Atlantic federation of Canadian maritime provinces and northern New England states. The proposal has been around for a number of years, but recently there has been renewed interest, especially in Canada, and this venue will provide a way to introduce it in this country in an impactful way.
In addition to delegates mandated by individual secessionist groups, individuals with a general interest in secession and separatism, or who might be considering organizing such a group, are invited to attend. All who intend to attend must contact the ., and of course the sooner the better.
As in the past, the Middlebury Institute is willing to underwrite the travel costs for some of the mandated representatives, especially from the West, who are genuinely unable to pay their own way.
Radisson Hotel Manchester
700 Elm St.
Manchester, NH 03101
603-625-1000
Reservations: 603-206-4109, or 1-800-333-333. A block of rooms at a special rate of $119 a night (single, double, or triple) is being held by the hotel, and individuals should indicate they are with the Third North American Secessionist Convention. Online reservations should use the following PAC CODE: SEC08 at http://www.radisson.com/manchesternh. Reservations must be made by October 24 at 12 p.m. to get this rate.
Friday, November 14 - Registration 3 p.m. on, in Lobbby. Cash bar 5-9 p.m.
Saturday, November 15—9-5 p.m., Convention, in Theater
News conference 5-5:30 p.m. Banquet 6:30-9:30 p.m. Frost/Hawthorne.
Manchester has a major airport. The hotel provides transport from it and back.
Kirkpatrick Sale
Director, Middlebury Institute
http://middleburyinstitute.org/ - (lots of links to separatist documents and movements)
JW
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They’re blowing it at a founding principles level. By making their “minimal” rights a laundry list, they are asking for trouble from an activist judiciary and verbal sophists.
There should be only one right, from which all others are derived by the mutual consent of parties forming microstates:
The right to join together with others of like mind for jurisdiction over territory with carrying capacity sufficient for their numbers.
If there are problems with this right, then there are problems with all the others because no other rights are meaningful without the right to independent living space—and with independent living space all other rights are tenable.
From their Minimal Rights and Freedoms of Individuals in a Sovereign State, here is their laundry list that is just begging for abuse from the kinds of folks who have now destroyed the United States:
Rights to
Life, liberty, security
Equality before the law
Trial before competent tribunal, due process, counsel, appeal
Possess property and not be arbitrarily deprived thereof
Periodic elections with universal adult suffrage
Secession by any coherent unitFreedoms of
Speech, opinion, expression in any media
Peaceable assembly, association
Belief, thought, religion, worship
Movement within any state, and to leave and returnFreedoms from
Slavery or servitude
Discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion,
political belief, nationality, property, or birth
Torture or degrading treatment
Arbitrary arrest or detention
Invasion of privacy
Arbitrary deprivation of citizenship
Any action by the state to destroy or deny any of these rights and freedoms
By making their “minimal” rights a laundry list, they are asking for trouble from an activist judiciary and verbal sophists.
What can be expected from libertoon dogmatists whose primary concerns are recreational drugs and sex?
At least they are trying. Got to give them credit for that.
The right to join together with others of like mind for jurisdiction over territory with carrying capacity sufficient for their numbers.
Dogma prevents libertoons from understanding that exclusion is implicit with free association. Thus they’re unable to reason that far.
Posted by GT on Friday, April 4, 2008 at 02:55 PM | #
What sheer idiocy!
What good is secession of states going to do?
You would simply be ‘seceding’ to the UN “bioregionial” government, run by the wacko environmentalists..
From the big government frying pan into the bigger government (world) FIRE.
NO THANKS, dummies. I’m not playing into the hands of the UN’s world government.
SMARTEN UP!
Posted by NH on Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 10:36 PM | #
The 3rd Secessionist Conference was scheduled to take place this past weekend in Manchester, NH. I went to the hotel for the “3 p.m. and on” registration, but there wasn’t a soul in sight, except for three desk clerks who exchanged perplexid expressions over what “secessionist” meant, but who said the conference and the registration were listed there in their books---there was also a nicely printed sign in front of the reserved room, which was empty. I left after a few minutes, and by the next morning I had decided not to bother attending because when I got home, I opened the most recent email I’d gotten from the Middlebury Institute and I noted that a Burton Cohen, New Hampshire coordinator (self-appointed?), was giving the Welcome speech and doing a panel and workshop, and I had no interest in supporting, no less following, a person named Cohen.
I’ve tried to find mention of the conference at several websites/blogs, including NH papers, but failed. When I added League of the South (past conference attendees) to the Search, I still found nothing about the conference, but I did find two recent SPLC reports:
http://www.alternet.org/story/87075/ - “Vermont Secessionists Meet with Racist League of the South” By Heidi Beirich, (SPLC) Intelligence Report June 5, 2008
and
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=961 - “Secessionist Movements: Vermont Separatist Criticizes Racist Allies” - Intelligence Report Fall 2008, which states “Reversing a longstanding refusal to criticize his Southern secessionist allies, Thomas Naylor, leader of the “progressive” separatists of the Second Vermont Republic (SVR), called on the League of the South this July to denounce racism.”
Jean
Posted by Jean West on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 11:04 PM | #
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