Georgia: Don't Make Us Secede. We Are Not Bluffing.

Last month, Georgia legislators in the state senate got tired of how the federal government of the United States of America keeps going around thinking it has the right to tell serial killers they have to go to jail or tell honest folks they can’t own assault rifles.  They got tired, and they decided to do something about it.  By a vote of 43-1, the Georgia Senate passed Resolution 632, in which Georgia threatens to secede from the Union if things aren’t done a certain way around here.

In fact, Senate Resolution 632 did a lot more than merely threaten to end this country. It stated that under the Constitution, the only crimes the federal government could prosecute were treason, piracy and slavery.

“Therefore, all acts of Congress which assume to create, define or punish [other] crimes … are altogether void, and of no force,” the Georgia Senate declared.

Treason, piracy, and slavery.  It is basically 1792 down there.  Here’s what they’re threatening:

If the federal government decides it gets to have a say in legal matters beyond those three, it ain’t gonna be purty.

Finally, the resolution states that if Congress, the president or federal courts take any action that exceeds their constitutional powers, the Constitution is rendered null and void and the United States of America is officially disbanded.

Yikes!  Just give them the f*cking money, man, don’t be a hero!  Do you want America to be over??

Now, to be fair, the resolution was passed on the very busy second-to-last day Congress was in session, and most of the legislators did not read the resolution before passing it (like that’s their job or something).  But the bill was sponsored by a number of major figures in the Georgia Senate.

The resolution they sponsored is part of a radical right-wing national movement — a similar resolution was introduced in the Georgia House but not voted on. It has been introduced in legislatures all over the nation, and has passed in both chambers in Oklahoma and one in South Dakota.

Oh no!  Not Georgia, Oklahoma, and South Dakota!  Next you’ll tell me that we risk losing West Virginia too!

Source: AJC.  The bill in its entirety is here.