Third Palmetto Republic

On the other side of the planet, ‘Shootings of Afghan civilians by American and NATO convoys and at military checkpoints have spiked sharply this year, becoming the leading cause of combined civilian deaths and injuries at the hands of Western forces, American officials say.’ Meanwhile, ‘The Taliban announced a new campaign of attacks on “foreigners and their surrogates” in Afghanistan, just a day before President Hamid Karzai left for a crucial visit to Washington.’ At home, leading voices in the mainstream media continue to call for a more powerful police state and fewer liberties for US citizens. And ‘Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the U.S. military on Saturday that it must reign in spending that he called out of sync with today’s tough economic times….’ At the risk of sounding patronising, does anyone see the writing on the wall here?

South Carolinians, as well as the people of the other States, have the ability to say “adios” to the Federal “War on Terrorism”. The spending, the wars over-seas, the blow-back that these foreign wars cause, the loss of life and destruction of wealth… all of these things can be eliminated if the people of the Palmetto State take the bold step of declaring their independence from a rotten and thoroughly unsustainable and destructive Empire. None of us signed up for this kind of regime and none of us owe it our allegiance. It’s time to say goodbye to the U.S. Federal Government and its “War on Terrorism”; we don’t need either to be safe, prosperous and free.