Workin real well for Syria, Iraq, Pakistan/India border, etc. etc. (Reply #15)

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Sun Jun 9, 2013, 09:58 AM

n2doc (46,182 posts)

15. Workin real well for Syria, Iraq, Pakistan/India border, etc. etc.

We aren't talking about a colony here. When a group of people decide that they don't like the political system they are in and want to leave, it generally doesn't go well. Or succeed.

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60 replies	Author	Time	Post
Can a county secede from a state? [View all]	liberal N proud	Jun 2013	OP
This message was self-deleted by its author	Nimajneb Nilknarf	Jun 2013	#1
Federal law is sorta vocal actually on that	Caretha	Jun 2013	#6
+1. Awesome, 'tree.	Buzz Clik	Jun 2013	#9
Yuppers some wanted to do that in Vermont...too	Historic NY	Jun 2013	#36
And here	pipi_k	Jun 2013	#47
"If I can't have it MY way, I'll be rebellious" The politics of the new American century	HereSince1628	Jun 2013	#2
Continuing the Great American Tradition	telclaven	Jun 2013	#60
The Constitution guarantees that a state's boundaries are secure	Kolesar	Jun 2013	#3
yes	Rise Rebel Resist	Jun 2013	#4
Uh....no	Caretha	Jun 2013	#7
Uh .... yes.	former9thward	Jun 2013	#31
uh yes	Rise Rebel Resist	Jun 2013	#41
Weld County and the far northeastern plains counties...	hlthe2b	Jun 2013	#5
Maybe those counties should have been part of Nebraska	liberal N proud	Jun 2013	#8
But Greeley is the home of the University of Northern Colorado.	alp227	Jun 2013	#30
Not so much... UNC is pretty small	hlthe2b	Jun 2013	#32
Relocate it.	JHB	Jun 2013	#43
Go take a look at what it took for West Virginia to pull off this stunt	1-Old-Man	Jun 2013	#10
The rest of the world is laughing in their faces. n/t	backscatter712	Jun 2013	#11
why? i would say the rest of the world understands self determination, as there are movements	loli phabay	Jun 2013	#13
Workin real well for Syria, Iraq, Pakistan/India border, etc. etc.	n2doc	Jun 2013	#15
and yet we lie and say we support the right of self determination, i get that there are laws against	loli phabay	Jun 2013	#18
Sometimes the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few	n2doc	Jun 2013	#21
The citizens in northeastern Colorado had the chance to vote	truebluegreen	Jun 2013	#22
Self determination	MichaelMcGuire	Jun 2013	#23
yup, all peoples should have the right to decide what entity tbey belong to	loli phabay	Jun 2013	#24
Separate discussion on merits of independence as self determination means simply self determination	MichaelMcGuire	Jun 2013	#34
If they don't like that they have the right to vote on representatives,	kestrel91316	Jun 2013	#53
How does any of what you've said negate a basic human right of self determination.	MichaelMcGuire	Jun 2013	#57
It doesn't. But YOU don't get to impose your desired form of fascism on a majority	kestrel91316	Jun 2013	#58
"It doesn't" we're in agreement then.	MichaelMcGuire	Jun 2013	#59
They want to keep all the Wattenberg oil money. Pretty plain to see. eom	TransitJohn	Jun 2013	#12
I wouldn't mind giving northern Colorado back to Spain, provided	struggle4progress	Jun 2013	#14
stop it with the "Northern Colorado" crap... this is NOT Northern Colorado. It is very rural	hlthe2b	Jun 2013	#16
OK. Apologies. Mebbe we could just offer to give the morons back to Spain then?	struggle4progress	Jun 2013	#20
Who used to own your state?	former9thward	Jun 2013	#33
You mean, before England?	struggle4progress	Jun 2013	#38
Go back as far as you want.	former9thward	Jun 2013	#40
dinosaurs.	loli phabay	Jun 2013	#48
The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History now has a state!	former9thward	Jun 2013	#50
!	struggle4progress	Jun 2013	#56
It would lead to some interesting situations...maybe worth pursuing	Glorfindel	Jun 2013	#17
this shit always amounts to nothing. About 10 years ago the resort town of Killington, VT	cali	Jun 2013	#19
I live in a city that seceded rom the State.	Baitball Blogger	Jun 2013	#25
Where is that? Nt	marlakay	Jun 2013	#44
Red county in suburban Central Florida.	Baitball Blogger	Jun 2013	#49
NO they cant.	darkangel218	Jun 2013	#26
The Conch Republic has been trying that for years.	lpbk2713	Jun 2013	#27
Yep, it's never boring here!	madamesilverspurs	Jun 2013	#28
Under International law	MichaelMcGuire	Jun 2013	#29
This happens in California periodically. The northern half tries to secede from	Cleita	Jun 2013	#35
"I would be really surprised if they succeed in doing it."	Ter	Jun 2013	#37
What does Weld County have going on. Open, flat land, some oil drilling, fracking..what else?	Tikki	Jun 2013	#39
I live in the beginning of east side of WA state in mountains	marlakay	Jun 2013	#42
Counties are created by the states	dragonlady	Jun 2013	#45
I see fracking interests are supporting the loonies.	politicat	Jun 2013	#46
The Constitution allows them to form a new state or join another state with the permission...	Recursion	Jun 2013	#51
Sometimes a two-state solution	tblue	Jun 2013	#52
We could give them to Kansas. They'd fit right in.	kestrel91316	Jun 2013	#54
Unless you think Maine is still part of Massachusetts, it is possible.	dimbear	Jun 2013	#55

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