Civil War II

[queerbychoice]

Why is hardly anyone talking about the utter lunacy that the Georgia state senate voted 43 to 1 to support? Why do people go around accusing Democrats of being "anti-American" for any un-Republican statements they ever make, yet when the Georgia state senate votes overwhelmingly to secede from the United States and declare the United States "disbanded" as a nation, nobody seems to get particularly upset about how anti-American that is? And since this thing the Georgia state senate voted for states in part that the federal government has no authority to prosecute any crimes other than "treason, piracy and slavery," why do none of these same Georgia state senators seem to have considered the idea that declaring the United States to have been "disbanded" as a nation sounds an awful lot like an incitement to begin committing treason?

Meanwhile, the governor of Texas has apparently declared an interest in seceding from the United States too! legolastn commented, "Is it really coincidence that the Georgia Senate and the Texas Governor have started touting secessionist rhetoric while the nation is being [led] by its first black President? Somehow I think not." Unfortunately, I have to agree.

Comments

[liquidjewel.livejournal.com]

Well, it passed like that because of a little slight of hand of the authors - the Georgia Senate is busy rushing through bills since they're adjourning soon, and this was presented as a bill "affirming States' rights" by its authors. The thing was considered a symbolic gesture and was voted on with most people not having read it.

More worrisome, this has been going on for a while. South Dakota had a similar bill in the House, and Oklahoma actually passed legislation like this in both Senate and House.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Not having read it is a terrible excuse, arguably even worse than if they had read it. I find it a huge problem that it is considered in any way acceptable, normal, or unworthy of horror and outrage for senators and representatives to vote for things they haven't actually read. I'm sure it would be very time-consuming to have to read all the laws that they vote for, but come on - that's what they're paid for. How can they possibly claim to be doing their jobs when they don't even know what the laws they pass actually say?