Scotland Was Allowed To Vote On Secession. Why Can't The American States?

[ShootSpeeders]

America tried it 150 years ago and super-rich corporate lawyer abraham lincoln said. "Screw the will of the public. If states secede there will be less money for me and my cronies to fleece out of the citizenry. Better to have a war that kills 600,000 people."

 

[TheOldSchool]

I'd be pretty okay with some of our red states seceding. But then the problem is we'd have to send them tons of foreign aid, our illegal immigration problem would get much worse, and when the shtf because they put crazy people in charge we'd end up sending in our military and reincorporating them anyways. So it would be pretty futile actually

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Seems like a legal nightmare to me. As to Scotland, are they going to form their own military? If so, since it's not likely to measure up to England's, what was the point of breaking away?

This whole issue seems like a petulant child's tantrum more than anything necessary.

 

[Dot Com]

I'd be pretty okay with some of our red states seceding. But then the problem is we'd have to send them tons of foreign aid, our illegal immigration problem would get much worse, and when the shtf because they put crazy people in charge we'd end up sending in our military and reincorporating them anyways. So it would be pretty futile actually

^ that

 

[Moonglow]

America tried it 150 years ago and super-rich corporate lawyer abraham lincoln said. "Screw the will of the public. If states secede there will be less money for me and my cronies to fleece out of the citizenry. Better to have a war that kills 600,000 people."

That's right, old Abe was so rich he could afford plaster to put between the logs of the house...and a bucket for cold days and the ominous out house....

 

[ShootSpeeders]

That's right, old Abe was so rich he could afford plaster to put between the logs of the house...and a bucket for cold days and the ominous out house....

Hey einstein. Everybody had outhouses back then.

 

[Marianne]

Why can't we do that? Because we aren't the UK. That issue was settled 150 years ago.

 

[I.P.Freely]

That's right, old Abe was so rich he could afford plaster to put between the logs of the house...and a bucket for cold days and the ominous out house....

Hey einstein. Everybody had outhouses back then.

eeeeeeeee luxury, we had to shit in the goldfish bowl.

 

[Katzndogz]

Scottish independence was settled 300 years ago. It just wasn't settled forever. Scottish independence was settled by a war in which William Wallace was defeated. It just wasn't settled forever.

Of course American secession hasn't been settled forever.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Why can't we do that? Because we aren't the UK. That issue was settled 150 years ago.

Settled at the point of a gun. THINK

 

[Camp]

That's right, old Abe was so rich he could afford plaster to put between the logs of the house...and a bucket for cold days and the ominous out house....

Hey einstein. Everybody had outhouses back then.

Hey Einstein, Lincoln was one of the least wealthy Presidents ever elected. Your OP begins with a big fat lie.

 

[Marianne]

Why can't we do that? Because we aren't the UK. That issue was settled 150 years ago.

Settled at the point of a gun. THINK

Yes,and who fired the first shot genius. The South started it and the North finished it. Sorry for ya.

 

[Camp]

Why can't we do that? Because we aren't the UK. That issue was settled 150 years ago.

Settled at the point of a gun. THINK

Well your side shouldn't have brought guns into the argument.

 

[konradv]

Why can't we do that? Because we aren't the UK. That issue was settled 150 years ago.

Settled at the point of a gun. THINK

Scotland used to be a separate country. They're more like Hawaii, a real country and not just an extension of American manifest destiny. Texas and the Mexican Cession were done at the point of a gun, too.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

"Scotland Was Allowed To Vote On Secession. Why Can't The American States?"

Because we're a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy – thankfully.

Otherwise your question is further confirmation of your ignorance and stupidity, not that any was needed, of course.

 

[gipper]

Why can't we do that? Because we aren't the UK. That issue was settled 150 years ago.

Settled at the point of a gun. THINK

Well your side shouldn't have brought guns into the argument.

There you go again with your revisionist history.

In your mind, any American who wishes to secede from this terribly corrupt and lawless government, should be shot.

 

[bodecea]

America tried it 150 years ago and super-rich corporate lawyer abraham lincoln said. "Screw the will of the public. If states secede there will be less money for me and my cronies to fleece out of the citizenry. Better to have a war that kills 600,000 people."

It wasn't the secessions that started the Civil War....it was stupid South Carolina firing on a federal fort.

 

[konradv]

Why can't we do that? Because we aren't the UK. That issue was settled 150 years ago.

Settled at the point of a gun. THINK

Well your side shouldn't have brought guns into the argument.

There you go again with your revisionist history.

In your mind, any American who wishes to secede from this terribly corrupt and lawless government, should be shot.

Look who's talking! You want the same for anyone YOU say is a socialist.

 

[bodecea]

Scottish independence was settled 300 years ago. It just wasn't settled forever. Scottish independence was settled by a war in which William Wallace was defeated. It just wasn't settled forever.

Of course American secession hasn't been settled forever.

Actually, William Wallace was way more than 300 years ago. You are thinking of the Act of Union because Scotland was dead broke after the failed Darian adventure. William Wallace lived 700+ years ago.

 

[bodecea]

Why can't we do that? Because we aren't the UK. That issue was settled 150 years ago.

Settled at the point of a gun. THINK

Well your side shouldn't have brought guns into the argument.

There you go again with your revisionist history.

In your mind, any American who wishes to secede from this terribly corrupt and lawless government, should be shot.

That's not what was said at all...why do you have to lie?