The New Confederacy: wait, this is a joke, right?

[latteromden]

I honestly don't know.

http://www.newconfederacy.com/

If it IS a joke, quite an elaborate Constitution they've got there.

If not, "The right of the individual to keep and bear arms, ammunition, transportation, and weapons of war, for the purposes of defense of self, household, community, enterprise, State, Nation, or Republic, shall be sacrosanct, as shall the right to such defense, and no Government, corporation, artificial entity, or private individual shall infringe upon these rights, nor shall any Government regulate, tax, impede, prohibit, survey, or in any other manner interfere in the free possession, transport, import, export, sale, or keeping of arms, ammunition, transportation or devices or publications involved in maintaining these rights." And Canada, as part of the Confederacy.

*confused*

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. no it ain't a joke

[GetTheRightVote]

2. No, not a joke, you hear people down here in NC talk about it

They hate the North yet today. they wear the confederate flag as a symbol of their country.

:kick:

[AntiCoup2K4]

5. Then I hope they don't vote

If they think they're still citizens of the "CSA" (that died in 1865) then they shouldn't be voting in American elections.

Hey... there's one way of picking off a few "red states".

These fuckwads are so fond of loyalty oaths? Make them take one before they can vote. If they believe in some fucking "confederacy", then they don't. Simple as that.

[Charon]

11. Don't Vote

They do vote, that is why all of the old Confederate States are currently "Red" states.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Not only ain't it no joke...

there are plenty of other groups out there with plans at least as "interesting."

[Maple]

4. Well there won't be

any Canada as part of their 'confederacy'

12 Alberta crazies do not a nation make. Most Albertans wouldn't dream of leaving Canada, and preferred Kerry to Bush. And BC isn't called Lotusland for nothing.

We'll kick their ass back to Dixie.

[Liberty Belle]

6. Let the idiots secede. Fewer red states, we can win!

[Guaranteed]

7. That's sad.

I'm a 2nd Amendment supporter, but that's ridiculous.

[eriffle]

8. read the site

they aren't completely crazy. their constitution forbids slavery and also forbids the formation of a state religion as well as any discrimination against anyone on the ground of religion. Also, No law shall be used to indict a defendant on the basis of his thoughts or his political or religious beliefs. it also requires all elections to use paper ballots to be kept.

[latteromden]

9. True. I thought that the rights cannot be denied based on religion was a

good thought.

But it seems like they're drawing random lines through the US and Canada to make the "New Confederate States!!". It's a bit odd.

[theHandpuppet]

10. Nope, unfortunately not a joke

There appear to be many sites such as this.

http://www.dixienet.org/
http://www.pointsouth.com/index.html
http://www.slrc-csa.org/

[DemGirl7]

12. According to the site, I live in another country(New York)...

LMAO!!!!!! this is too funny...the sad thing is that it isn't a joke...

[quaoar]

13. Interesting

I like this provision of their Constitution:

"All elections under the Confederate States shall require a paper ballot, said ballots to be preserved for the entirety of the longest term of office voted upon."

They also have a clause that says "Government shall not invade the privacy of any individual, nor survey him, without due process of law to which he is entitled to be informed."

And then there is this: "Every individual's body, life, labor, ideas, thoughts, and possessions that the individual has lawfully created or acquired are that individual's property. Every individual has the inherent right of the ownership, non-coercive acquisition, and use of property."

Don't those permit abortion?

And wouldn't this allow people to use marijuana and to take heroin for pain: "The right of the individual to medicate themself for illness, malady or health, as well as the right to refuse medication, shall not be infringed."

[Maine-ah]

14. I don't think I'd be too worried about this

there are only 227 signatures on their constitution. http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?doicsa03