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Meldread Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 10:15 PM
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Crazy idea: Let's invade a State
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Yeah, I know it's crazy but hear me out. My idea comes from the formation of Israel. In a nut shell they began to migrate to Palestine, buy and control land, and eventually formed their own State.

I wonder what would happen if we tried to operate under a similar idea. Form a large corporation with subsidiary businesses - for buying land and providing services and such. We begin our work by collecting donations and then buying housing in a low populated State. We then begin to help people migrate from their current states to the state we selected, help them find a job (or provide them with a job upon arrival), provide them with housing on arrival, provide betterment education, etc. As we begin to out number the straights in the state we'll be able to vote as a block, controlling the state legislature and governorship. We could then pass laws that give us full equality, and begin to use the position to put pressure on the federal government to provide the same laws for the entire country.

In essence, we'd at least gain a strong community where we could live openly and without fear of oppression. (And straights would get a chance to see what it's like to walk a mile in our shoes.) We'd also get the ability to find out just how far "states rights" really go.

To help boost our numbers, we could even think of ways to aid in the immigration of gays from other countries that have even more oppressive laws than the United States.

A crazy but an amusing idea.
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