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The
Chattanooga Declaration
We,
the delegates of the secession movements represented at the Second
North American Secessionist Convention, acknowledging our differences,
yet agree on the following truths:Adopted at the Second North American Secessionist Convention, October 4, 2007, Chattanooga, Tennessee 1. The deepest questions of human liberty and government facing our time go beyond right and left, and in fact have made the old left-right split meaningless and dead. 2. The privileges, monopolies, and powers that private corporations have won from government threaten everyone’s health, prosperity, and liberty, and have already killed American self-government by the people. 3. The power of corporations endangers liberty as much as government power, especially when they are combined as in the American Empire. 4. Liberty can only survive if political power is returned from faraway and self-interested centers to local communities and states. 5. The American Empire is no longer a nation or a republic, but has become a tyrant aggressive abroad and despotic at home. 6. The states of the American union are and of right ought to be, free and self-governing. 7. Without secession, liberty and self-government can never be sustained, and diversity among human societies can never survive. Signed: Mark A. Thomey Franklin Sanders Thomas R. McBerry, Jr. Thomas Moore Eugene C. Case Larry S. Kilgore Lynette Clark Dexter O. Clark David Towery Michael C. Tuggle Walter D. Kennedy Robert Pritchett Cory Burnell Thomas N. Naylor Kirkpatrick Sale Michael Hill |