I was made aware several months back when I spoke with Maryland Delegate Mike Smigiel, the man who was instrumental in exposing the tyranny in the Maryland House of Delegates, that there were several countries that were looking to secede from the not so “Free State” and merge with Virginia. At that time, a letter was being crafted to that effect. However, since that time Smigiel has been actively involved in pushing back against the gun control tyranny imposed by the Maryland legislature and Governor Martin O’Malley. However, several groups in western Maryland have had it with the liberal state government and are joining a growing movement to secede.
Fox News reports:
Western Maryland is made up of five counties whose residents largely vote Republican and feel under-represented at the state capitol, run by Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley and a Democrat-controlled legislature.
take our poll - story continues belowCompleting this poll grants you access to DC Clothesline updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to this site's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.The movement began in July as a social-media effort, with activist Scott Strzelczyk starting a Facebook page titled the Western Maryland Initiative.
The movement, however, has since garnered significant media attention, with Strzelczyk talking to everybody from National Public Radio to The Washington Post.
“We are tired of this,” he said during an interview Thursday with Washington-area NPR affiliate WAMU. “We have had enough.”
Strzelczyk says that among his concerns are increased taxes and the Democrat-controlled legislature gerrymander of voting district in which the state’s big metropolitan areas have a higher percentage of representation which enacted tougher gun laws this year.
He’s said those gun control laws were “the last straw.”
While people in Maryland are frustrated, as are citizens across the nation, including Colorado, Delegate Mike Smigiel says there is a Constitutional means of secession. Smigiel told Freedom Outpost that he often quotes Maryland’s Declaration, in which Article 6 clearly states:
That all persons invested with the Legislative or Executive powers of Government are the Trustees of the Public, and, as such, accountable for their conduct: Wherefore, whenever the ends of Government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the People may, and of right ought, to reform the old, or establish a new Government; the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
Smigiel says he is often labeled an “insurrectionist,” which he claims is ridiculous because he is merely echoing the words of Maryland’s Declaration.
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Delegate Smigiel told Freedom Outpost that the counties would first need to seek a reception from a nearby state, such as Delaware or Virginia. If that was approved, they would then approach the Maryland legislature and request secession just as stated in Article 6 above.
As with anything dealing with a tyrannical government, I’m guessing Maryland would not be willing to let those counties and their money go to another state. In the end, it would probably result in the government attempting to use force in a manner similar to that of the War of Northern Aggression.
Rural Coloradans have also started an initiative to become the 51st state and have expressed similar concerns to those of the residents of Maryland. Colorado recently recalled two senators over their tyrannical anti-gun positions, which resulted in sweeping gun control legislation.
Tim Brown is the Editor of Freedom Outpost and a regular contributor to The D.C. Clothesline.
