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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

American Secessionist Groups Go Mainstream

Approximate map of Ten North American Nations
Based on Cultural Demographics
THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT: Three years ago I warned on this blog that this would happen. In the wake of the 2008 real estate bubble burst, and the subsequent economic crisis, I warned that if Americans didn't take that as a wake up call, and move toward radical deconstruction of the massive federal bureaucracy, the inevitable result will be the complete and total breakup of the United States of America into multiple smaller nation states.

For a while, it looked as if Americans were starting to wake up, with the TEA Parties and Town Halls, it appeared as if Americans were finally "getting it." Indeed many Americans were, but I'm afraid it was not enough. It's starting to look like it was too little too late. What started out as a grassroots movement in the TEA Party was quickly hijacked by establishment Republicans seeking an opportunity to get back into office. In 2010 the TEA Parties and Town Halls began to focus exclusively on national elections, and left state and local elections neglected. The quality of the Republicans that were put into office was less than desired. By July of 2011 that poor quality was demonstrated by a weak compromise on legislation that raised the national debt ceiling, and simultaneously failed to significantly reduce government spending. In essence, a good number of the supposedly "TEA Party Republicans" handed the Democrats and establishment Republicans a blank check. The end result of that was a national credit rating downgrade with more on the way.

As I warned in 2008, the nation is starting to fall apart. Morale is at an all time low. The federal government is loosing credibility by the second. The TEA Partiers feel betrayed by the Republican Party, but they're left with nowhere to turn in the Democratic Party. Third parties have not been a viable option in American politics in 150 years. Now TEA Partiers are being told to accept the Republican status quo or else be faced with more Obamanomics and Democrat Left-wing lunacy. The national debt, already at $14.5 trillion, is now set to balloon to about $20 trillion (or more) before the end of the decade. Monetizing this debt, through a Federal Reserve scheme called "quantitative easing" or "QE," is now a reality as this has been done twice already (QE1 and QE2), and everyone knows that QE3 is just around the corner. It is inevitable that there will be a QE4 and a QE5 until they eventually just stop numbering them. The value of the dollar will tumble with this, and that hurts everyone. I don't have a crystal ball. I cannot tell you how long this will take. I can say however, that my warnings were proved right (sadly), and I am now prepared to say the American Empire is effectively over. The USA is done, finished, kaput. We, as a nation, will not be buried overnight. Rather, like most massive empires, like ancient Rome, we will likely deconstruct slowly.

As I predicted in 2008, peaceful secessionist movements have arisen around the nation, and they are now gaining considerable traction. From liberal secessionist movements in Vermont, the West Coast, Puerto Rico and Hawaii, to Libertarian secessionist movements in Texas, Alaska and the Northern Midwest, to the paleo-conservative secessionist movement in the Old South, the nation is starting to break apart.

There is no question now. This nation will fall. It's just a matter of "when." I'm afraid that postponing this event to the next generation is no longer an option for us. We missed that window of opportunity in 2008-2009. The TEA Parties and Town Halls did not go far enough. We didn't focus on Subsidiarity enough. We didn't focus on states rights enough. We didn't focus on local and state elections enough. Now it's too late. So the only thing left for us to do is prepare, and having lived through the L.A. riots in California, I am here to tell you that anarchy is NOT an option. The time is coming, probably over the next five to ten years, when Americans are going to have to start making backup plans. What will we do when the federal government collapses? Is your state government prepared to stand on it's own? If not, can it ally with other state governments to rally enough strength to stand on their own as a group? What about you and your community?  Can you and yours stand on your own?  Are you growing your own vegetables yet?  Are you canning?  Are you cutting out luxuries in your home and trying to save money?  Are you putting your saved money into things you can barter?  Are you part of a neighborhood watch?  Do you even know your neighbors?  Yes, these decisions are really coming! Yes, this is what it really comes down to! These topics will be hitting the evening news before the decade is over. I am sure of it.

I for one know where my backup plan lies when the federal government finally goes belly up. I am a Catholic and I am a Southerner. I'll stand with Rome and with Dixie. It's the best shot on this continent until the Great Monarch and Angelic Pope finally come. Ironically, I'm not alone. It would appear that a fairly large number of people who are contributing to the new Southern Independence Movement happen to be Catholics, as this video below points out. I haven't joined the League of the South yet, but I will be watching it closely in the coming years...




VIABLE SECESSION MOVEMENTS IN THE U.S.A....

23 comments:

Catawissa Gazetteer said...

We tried, really tried, through the T.E.A. party movement to make a difference and I'm sure that there'll be some sort of effort again in the coming months. But none of it matters.

You're right about subsidiarity. We need to focus on our families, communities, counties and states now, in that order. The problem is that most have been so conditioned to an all powerful federal government that they can't even begin to understand the whole concept of power coming from the bottom.

Those of us that do have our hands full. Especially because, whether we want it to be this way or not, just the fact that we have prepared will put us into positions of leadership in our communities as things start to come apart. People will look to us for answers.

And I don't have that many.

Personally, I've given up on government, especially at the federal level. I look to the day that our great state of Missouri disconnects from the system but I don't see it happening anytime soon. There are a few leaders in Jeff City that have the courage to do it but they're fighting an uphill battle. And even they, at least for the most part, don't really get it and haven't accepted the fact that our country is dissolving. And until mainstream leaders understand what we're facing and have the courage to say it out loud most people will never see it coming much less be able to act to protect themselves against the coming storm.

I think that you're probably right about the slow pace of collapse but I wouldn't be surprised at all if something triggers an extreme emergency that causes it to happen overnight. In fact, due to the connectedness of the global economy I think that may be likely. It took Rome a long time to collapse but then they didn't live at the speed of light as we do today with computers running everything.

None of us can tell the future but we can look around and see which way things are going and look back to see how similar scenarios played out in the past.

Buckle up.

Anonymous said...

I resent your map on this post...not that I disagree with what you say, but that you divided Texas, my home state, into three parts. I'll have you know that though industries vary depending on what part of the state you're in, Texas is Deep South, Bible Belt Dixie through and through.

The Catholic Knight said...

In my defense I didn't create the map. It was featured in an online article around the same time I wrote my original warning three years ago. I suspect Texas, and some connecting states may try to stand alone when the inevitable happens, and they're probably strong enough to do so if Texas can secure it's southern border with Mexico. Honestly, Texas would be welcome into a new Dixie nation, but let's face it. Texas doesn't need Dixie. She can stand alone if she wants to. But she would be welcome if she doesn't want to.

The Catholic Knight said...

This post has been up for less than twelve hours and I'm already getting the anti-Southern racist commets. None of them will be posted here, so don't bother trying unless you like wasting energy tapping on a keyboard. Ad Hominems will not go far here on this blog. I have nothing against Northerners or West Coasters. I've been to both regions, and met wonderful people there. I have no bitterness toward people of the North and West. My only argument is with the tyranny of relativism, which affects us all, and the federal government that coddled it, encourages it, and uses it to its own gain.

I find it interesting that when secessionists in Vermont or California are discussed, folks up North really don't seem to care. But when secessionists in the Old South are discussed, it immediately turns to charges of racism, stupidity, lying and hatred. Comments such as "bubba" and "redneck" are thrown around like confetti. It truly is amazing, and a perfect example of federally inspired propaganda. In order to keep a people down, you've got to keep degrading and humiliating them. That's how it works. The fact is, the federal government fears the South, it always has, and that's because the Feds supporters know if Southerners ever wake up and smell the coffee, it's over for their little imperial empire.

In the end, God will vindicate. This current imperial regime in Washington DC will collapse, and when it does, multiple nations will arise across North America in it's place, of which Dixie will be just one of them.

Siobhan said...

Sir Knight,

Sad and unfortunate, but I believe you’re right. What was the USA will fall into separate nation-states just like the Roman Empire eventually fell into different European nations. But the USA was a Protestant and Masonic creation – what will be Catholic America? Personally, I think, that during the Era of Peace, we will somehow come together in the same way that the Great Monarch will unite Europe into the “Holy Roman Empire”. My feeling is that we will parallel this in some way. Will our King, with the assistance of the Great Monarch and the Angelic Pope, bring together the “American Catholic Kingdom”? And why does my gut tell me he will be a southerner and a catholic.

Anonymous said...

Our marching orders are embedded in these words....

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."

Hank

Anonymous said...

This is actually good news. The US has long stood for materialism, gender neutrality, secularism, and shallow mindless entertainment. These changes since the 60's have been forced upon us by undemocratic forces.

Perhaps as divided regions, people can get a government that actually represents what they want rather than what the PC ideologues want.

No one I know asked for the destruction of the family tradition and Western culture. All that has been forced upon us by elites and also exacerbated by our passivity.

My only worry is whether the US government will use the same violence, or worse, as Lincoln used to force the union to stay together.

The Catholic Knight said...

Anonymous, I would put nothing past our wicked Federal government and the big-money power brokers that control it on Wall Street. It was these very same powers that spurred Lincoln on during the Civil War. If they believe they can profit from another war against the South, they will most certainly try again. The biggest mistake of our Confederate ancestors was thinking they could actually win against the industrial-military complex in the North.

Should the South ever rise again it will have to follow a completely different strategy. We must never fight the federal government again on their own terms. They like to get our people to rise up in arms, so they can crush us with their superpower might. Big mistake. May it never be repeated.

If the South should rise again, it must do so on the South's terms, not the federal government's terms. First, the South should WAIT until the federal government collapses under its own weight before trying again. If that collapse is complete, than the South may be able to gain her independence once again without having to fight at all. If however, the collapse is almost complete, and the feds are still able to send in troops without money to pay them, than the South should resort to the strategy of Blessed John Paul II and the Solidarity Movement in Poland. Instead of fighting with arms, we fight with protest and passiveness. If we're not out in the streets marching peacefully, than we're at home doing literally NOTHING at all. No work, no business, no commerce. (We barter with each other for necessities of course.) I'm talking about a general strike, across the board, and leaving nothing for the government to tax, and nothing for the banks to foreclose, since nobody is working. Such a general strike would bring the entire USA to its knees economically, causing more secession movements to come to the forefront in other areas of the country. That's not to mention the bad press the feds would receive on the world scene, as images of armed soldiers facing down peaceful protesters would be broadcast to every country on international media. The general strike would not end until federal troops leave, and the federal government acknowledges the South's right to exist as a free and independent nation.

Yes, there is more than one way to skin a cat, and Blessed John Paul II showed us how.

Anonymous said...

Excellent points Sir Knight. I hope some great Southern thinkers rise to the occasion to inspire people to such strategy. However, in response to a previous anonymous, states like Texas should be wary of carpet bagger families like the Bushes that made the South their adopted home while acting against local Southern interests in favor of the New World Order banking elites

Mark Thomey said...

Dear Catholic Knight:
I'm in general agreement with your supposed scenario of the inevitable collapse of the yankee empire vis-a-vis the South regaining her independence.

I've said for years that my HOPE is that enough Southrons would wake up, demand secession and independence, and achieve some level of stability and prosperity BEFORE the empire falls. However, my FEAR is that the government schools and media have done their jobs so well that it will take having the whole thing come crashing down around our ears to make most Southrons 'wake up and smell the coffee'. That will leave those of us in the independence movement to help pick-up the pieces and build something better.

Having the u. s. wage war against us is certainly a possibility, but I am convinced that the u. s. empire will collapse in the same way as the old soviet union, i.e. several States will secede, and the empire will lack the economic, military, and/or political will to do anything about it. When the Baltic States withdrew from the soviet union, nary a shot was fired, and now they are free countries. Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, etc. could, and SHOULD, do the same.

Our allegiance, temporally speaking, should be to our People (family, community, State) and the liberty thereof, and NOT in a particular style of government or the striped rag that represents it. As a friend of mine likes to say, and for we Catholics this should ring especially true, 'Liberty is the altar upon which ANY form of government must be sacrificed in order to maintain that liberty.' This is the original Southern/American understanding of things. We must return to it or perish.

May God grant the South a name and place among the nations of the earth!

The Catholic Knight said...

Mark, yes I believe nothing will wake Southerners up other than two things.

1. The total financial and political collapse of the United States (which is inevitable).

2. Outright (in your face) tyranny by the federal government against the states on issues such as gay-marriage (forcing recognition) and religious rights.

Alas I think the first one is much more likely now, and probably for the best, as the South would be the most vindicated in this scenario, and would gain independence with the least bloodshed.

c matt said...

But when secessionists in the Old South are discussed, it immediately turns to charges of racism, stupidity, lying and hatred.

That's because they know the North could not survive without the South, but the South can easily survive without the North.

And that really ticks them off.

Mary said...

There is a great video on the National Inflation website called, "The Day The Dollar Died." It explains what will happen when they try to push through QE4. I recommend checking it out. The sad thing is, that there are many who are jobless and won't be able to hoard food and other supplies when everything hits the fan. I pity the poor people who are taking care of the food kitchens for those that are currently suffering. But don't worry, there are plenty of FEMA camps that have been built for the coming uprisings.
Take care and God bless-
Mary

Mary said...

American military personnel being sent after their fellow Americans would be truly devastating. These men and women took an oath to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. I doubt there would be many of them who would wish to raise arms against us. How could they take arms against their families and friends? According to the Department of Homeland Stupidity, these very same soldiers are a terrorist threat against our government.
-Mary

Anonymous said...

The yankee government represents two groups only; large corrupt conglomerates and radical anti-Western tradition interest groups. May freedom from such corruption and oppression come soon...

Rollory said...

Regarding your map:
1) cut Maryland out of Dixie. It's BRA through and through - well except maybe for parts of the panhandle. But the rest is poisoned.

2) Utah would be its own nation.

3) Texas also. Besides which Texas is already white-minority in children under 2, and the adult whites there are determinedly blind on the topic. Don't saddle the rest of Dixie with that situation.

4) The Great Plains states have nothing in common with the Northeast.

In general "Nine Nations of North America" (actually 10, he ignores Mormon Utah) is a much better guide for the social fault lines underlying a potential breakup.

The Catholic Knight said...

I've revised the above map, yet again, to reflect the "nine nations" theory based on cultural demographics. I've added a tenth nation with the Mormon Republic, and divided some states up into smaller portions due to cultural demographics and the likelihood people in these areas would prefer to ally with kindred spirits. In spite of this, I chose to keep Texas united, because I theorize that Texans would likely be willing to fight (if necessary) to maintain their current borders. Because of such a likely strong show of force, Texas may very well become the unifying force that pulls most of the Midwestern states together into a loose confederation of free states. Of course there is always the chance that Texas could align with Dixie again, as it once did 150 years ago, bringing all of Oklahoma into Dixie with her. This however, would leave many Midwestern states unorganized.

HaroldC said...

Knight, I'm Catholic and have been in the League of the South for quite a few years and have always felt welcomed. Come on in. As they say 'the water is fine'.

Harold Crews

Steve C said...

Sent your piece to www.mikechurch.com & he's put it in his 'pile of prep' since he's a fellow Catholic & has been preaching this too. Has a shirt 'if at first you don't secede' ;)
Awesome post by the way!

Harold Thomas said...

You said in a recent comment that the Ten Nations leaves the Midwest unorganized. I am an Ohioan, and I agree we have been slow to come to the secessionist table -- but even here there are faint stirrings...

I would revise the map for "Foundry" to include New York and Pennsylvania west of the Appalachians, the state of West Virginia, and a piece of Northern Kentucky near Cincinnati and call it the "Great Lakes Confederation." That concept exists only in my head, but I think it brings together like-minded people.

Confederate Papist said...

Just found this website from the Southern Nationalist website as they featured this article!!

Fellow Orthodox Catholic, Southerner and secessionist...although I believe our secession is still intact and that we are a nation under occupation. I agree we need to have patience while the empire crumbles.
Deo Vindice!

Svar said...

Could you explain why the Texas Conferation and Dixie will be two separate entities?

The Catholic Knight said...

Svar, you will notice I have multiple variations of maps on this blog, and the reason why I do this is because there is no way any of us can know how things will turn out in the end. Each map is just one possibility. This particular map is based on the "nine-nations" theory put forward back during the 1980's.

I think Texas can go in four passible directions. (1) total independence, (2) alignment with a Midwest confederation, (3) realignment with Dixie, (4) carved up and divided between Hispanic and Anglo-American interests. Personally I like option #3.