Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Thomas Rowley (not verified) on Sun, 01/20/2008 - 12:11.
Fair question. For the sake of brevity, if you go to my very first post I lay out the reason for the blog and my position at that time. My blog gives the Vermont community information previously not known or even hidden by the Second Vermont Republic leadership and thus its name, Vermont Secession. I do include information from and about Vermont pro-secessionists who are also appalled by the SVR racist ties and its boss, Thomas H. Naylor, that I don't think can be characterized as anything other than a fair representation of the facts. The facts are what they are and I leave it to the reader to decide for themself about secesssion.
Having found the character of the leadership of SVR's associates and advisors to include criminals and white supremacist activists, and Vermont being the small state that it is, and knowing that racists in the secession movement have personnally attacked and threatened others that they perceive as critics, I began the blog anonymously. Turns out to have been a wise choice. The leader of SVR, Thomas H. Naylor, launched an attack on one critic in the form of threatening his employment, resulting in a short-term setback for the Vermont blogging community.
Many in the white separatist activist community have acquired doctorates to polish their credentials, like David Duke, J. Michael Hill, Donald Livingston, Clyde Wilson, etc., but that doesn't change one whit the fact their ideas are flawed.
Here's what "Dr." Naylor, an academic and educator, wrote in his book "Downsizing the U.S.A; The Crisis In Higher Education: Metaphor for America"
“Must every undergraduate have his or her own personal computer for typing papers, playing computers games, and surfing the Internet? (I) think not”
As for my views on secession for Vermont today, I believe that the situation is such that secessionist here have only themselves to blame for the poor public perception that now exists for the subject. The damage they have done is enormous. On racism within their ranks their leaders have espoused a "Don't ask, don't care" policy; they utilize the language of intolerance when they recycled the "Take back" language of the Vermont homophobe community in a legislative move of theirs; they've personally attacked beloved local community leaders who have not responded to them as they first wished; they jointly sponsored conferences with the racist League of the South and invited their leaders into our community; they have purged local Vermont community activists like Dan DeWalt from their leadership when they won't support their ties to racists; they've represented themselves as being from the Vermont leftist community when nothing could be farther from the truth. I could go on but I think you see what I mean.
Do I support secession for Vermont? I'd like to remain open minded on te topic, although the hardcore pro-secessionists call you anti-secession if you don't gulp down their KoolAid without question, Jim Jones style. And certainly not if it means driving off a cliff in the clown car that is the Second Vermont Republic.
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Fair question. For the sake of brevity, if you go to my very first post I lay out the reason for the blog and my position at that time. My blog gives the Vermont community information previously not known or even hidden by the Second Vermont Republic leadership and thus its name, Vermont Secession. I do include information from and about Vermont pro-secessionists who are also appalled by the SVR racist ties and its boss, Thomas H. Naylor, that I don't think can be characterized as anything other than a fair representation of the facts. The facts are what they are and I leave it to the reader to decide for themself about secesssion.
Having found the character of the leadership of SVR's associates and advisors to include criminals and white supremacist activists, and Vermont being the small state that it is, and knowing that racists in the secession movement have personnally attacked and threatened others that they perceive as critics, I began the blog anonymously. Turns out to have been a wise choice. The leader of SVR, Thomas H. Naylor, launched an attack on one critic in the form of threatening his employment, resulting in a short-term setback for the Vermont blogging community.
Many in the white separatist activist community have acquired doctorates to polish their credentials, like David Duke, J. Michael Hill, Donald Livingston, Clyde Wilson, etc., but that doesn't change one whit the fact their ideas are flawed.
Here's what "Dr." Naylor, an academic and educator, wrote in his book "Downsizing the U.S.A; The Crisis In Higher Education: Metaphor for America"
As for my views on secession for Vermont today, I believe that the situation is such that secessionist here have only themselves to blame for the poor public perception that now exists for the subject. The damage they have done is enormous. On racism within their ranks their leaders have espoused a "Don't ask, don't care" policy; they utilize the language of intolerance when they recycled the "Take back" language of the Vermont homophobe community in a legislative move of theirs; they've personally attacked beloved local community leaders who have not responded to them as they first wished; they jointly sponsored conferences with the racist League of the South and invited their leaders into our community; they have purged local Vermont community activists like Dan DeWalt from their leadership when they won't support their ties to racists; they've represented themselves as being from the Vermont leftist community when nothing could be farther from the truth. I could go on but I think you see what I mean.
Do I support secession for Vermont? I'd like to remain open minded on te topic, although the hardcore pro-secessionists call you anti-secession if you don't gulp down their KoolAid without question, Jim Jones style. And certainly not if it means driving off a cliff in the clown car that is the Second Vermont Republic.