I've always believed the 10th Amendment pushed to the extreme is the answer, crush the Federal Govt. by a complete secession from the Union. We could all start over , and as for Civil War? yeah....it's possible it could get started easy that way. I wish the masses would wake up out of the Left/Right paradigm , both parties are fucked up and corrupted by payoffs from different special interest groups on both sides.
All it would take is for just ONE state to sever all ties from the Fed Govt by claiming their 10th Amendment right, and all Federal judges, Federal prosecutors , Federal Marshals , DEA , Federal ANYTHING ...within the state that claims a 10th Amendment secession would be stripped of any and all power. They would instantly in that state be made regular joe and jane 6 packs over night if a state seceded from the Union.
Then other states would fall in line, but knowing how aggressive and power hungry the politicians in Washington D.C. are, they would probably scream HELL NO and try to send Military troops ASAP into the state that seceded if they had to pull soldiers out of Iraq by fleets of C-130 planes heading straight for the seceded state, and most likely declaring nationwide Martial Law at the same time.
The seceded state would then have a showdown and a violent fight for freedom, U.S. Military troops would be divided over orders to shoot fellow American citizens causing division and in-fighting within the U.S. Military. Once it got out that U.S. troops were occupying and killing U.S. citizens in the seceded state, other states would join in the fight against the Feds and the U.S. troops. A chaotic nationwide Civil War could happen.
If the U.S. Military troops refused and had a mass stand-down, it's possible that the Fed's could by-pass them and ask the U.N. for E.U. soldiers to put down the secession, then mass Civil War would STILL end up happening.
I believe a total economic collapse is eminent now and that another American Revolution is going to happen soon eventually anyway be it over a secession or over a total collapse like October 1929 , like within this decade.That's why I'm for secession , and I mean a total secession , forget about Democrats or Republicans or some single political savior saving the country...it ain't gonna happen.
No state would pull a 10th Amendment secession over just marijuana legalization though, there would have to be other factors involved. The Federal Govt. wouldn't send Military troops into a state either if the only sole reason was to stop marijuana legalization in that state.We will most likely have an internal war within the U.S. when the stock markets finally collapse when other countries stop taking the worthless U.S. dollar and the dollar totally collapses. Then the 18 wheelers stop rolling delivering food, the trains stop rolling, the cargo ships and cargo planes stop coming into the U.S.....then, all hell breaks loose. Nationwide riots break out because no one has food.
This is what I see coming most likely , and that's why I'm for a 10th Amendment movement NOW before things get to that point. It's kinda of like a catch 22 situation , it would be worth the risk to chance a 10th Amendment secession NOW before a nationwide economic collapse happens. I could see California pulling a secession just over their economy being the worst out of all states.
California and other states as well could pull a 10th Amendment secession and use HEMP production to survive, but take California as an example first....number 1...they are on the coast and have many major port cities.They could export and trade/barter with other nations by ship using HEMP production. If California seceded , they could build mass numbers of Hemp production plants, and we all know how many products can be made from Hemp... fabrics,linen sheets,rope,oil,paints,resins,boards for construction building,paper products,insulation,cardboard boxes, Henry Ford 100 years ago had car bodies made from it, Rudolph Diesel had a diesel engine run off Hemp oil,ect.
This chart shows what can be made >
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Anyway , Hemp production could save the nation after a mass secession from the Federal Govt. because they sure as hell won't ever legalize marijuana/hemp use and production.They'll collapse the nation's economy to the point that Wall Street will have zero's all the way across the board. I don't know what type of new currency could be used with a seceded state, but the people could come up with some workable solution, even if only temporary.
A state that plans to secede would be best served by resisting the temptation to enact legal tender laws. That should be one of the bellwethers of how honest your new government is. If the new nation enacts legal tender laws, you know up front that they intend to issue counterfeit currencies, inflate the currencies and facilitate fractional reserve banking. That would end up like what we have now with the Federal Reserve Dollar.
Enough people uniting to secede now looks a lot better than where the nation is going to end up 5-to-10 years from now.
A 10th Amendment secession ,then using major marijuana/hemp products to start a new economy for trade and export could actually steer the nation off the dead end road of horror we are heading to. I don't see a peaceable secession happening but remember what Thomas Jefferson said>
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."