Third Palmetto Republic

[I]n order to strip government of its powers and repair it to the status of a voluntary membership organization (as before 1861), it is not necessary to take it over, to engage in violent battle against it, or even to lay hands on one’s rulers. In fact, to do so would only reaffirm the principle of compulsion and aggressive violence underlying the current system and inevitably lead to the replacement of one government or tyrant with another. To the contrary, it is only necessary that one decide to withdraw from the compulsory union and reassume one’s right to self protection. Indeed, it is essential that one proceed in no other way than by peaceful secession and noncooperation.

…The decision to secede involves that one regard the central government as illegitimate, and that one accordingly treat it and its agents as an outlaw agency and “foreign” occupying forces. That is, if compelled by them, one complies, out of prudence and for no other reason than self-preservation, but one does nothing to support or facilitate their operations. One tries to keep as much of one’s property and surrender as little tax money as possible. One considers all federal law, legislation and regulation null and void and ignores it whenever possible. One does not work or volunteer for the central government, whether its executive, legislative or judicial branch, and one does not associate with anyone who does (and in particular not with those high up in the hierarchy of caretakers). One does not participate in central government politics and contributes nothing to the operation of the federal political machinery. One does not contribute to any national political party or political campaign, nor to any organization, agency, foundation, institute, or think-tank cooperating with or funded by any branch of the federal Leviathan or anyone living or working in or near Washington, DC.

…Not everyone must follow one’s example, of course. Indeed, it is not even necessary that a majority of the entire population do so. It is necessary, however, that at least a majority of the population of many separate localities do so, and to reach this critical level of mass withdrawal it is essential to complement one’s defensive measures with an offensive strategy: to invest in an ideological campaign of delegitimizing the idea and institution of democratic government among the public.

-Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe from “Democracy – The God that Failed” pages 91-92

Third Palmetto Republic is one of the ideological campaigns delegitimizing the Federal Government today that Dr Hoppe here insists is necessary for liberty to be achieved and for peaceful secession to be successful. We are new and have just started this campaign but already we have built a professional-quality interactive website, we host a weekly call-in internet radio show (every Sunday night at 8 PM) which we later edit and post as a downloadable podcast, we have scheduled our first public secession rally and are working on several other exciting projects to further the cause. The US government can and must be delegitimized. Its continued rule over and exploitation of the people of South Carolina is just insufferable. As a proud, liberty-loving people with a history of throwing off tyrannical regimes, we can not stand by as the Feds continue to loot us, deny us our property rights, inflict crippling regulation and legislation upon us, use our tax money to enrich bankers and Federally-connected corporations or wage aggressive war around the world.

We urge you to seriously consider the contribution you can make to the pro-liberty secessionist cause. Can you cooperate less with the Feds? Can you help us delegitimize a government which is utterly out of control? Can you spread the word to others who are potentially sympathetic? Can you come out to our rally in Mt Pleasant on 3 July 2010? Can you donate to the organization so that we can mount a more professional campaign against our rulers? What can you do to help the cause of liberty and independence? Now is the time to consider this question. Let’s move things forward together and achieve the peaceful independence of the Palmetto State.