I noticed it took the Lew Rockwell site quite a while to pick up on the “Vermont Secessionist” movement, something these maddeningly contrarian (to wit I refer to the Christmas-time defenses of Scrooge) fringe-libertarian (and defenders of the Old Confederacy, no less) would consider their stock in trade. It took a few days longer for the site connected with conspiracy-nut Alex Jones to pick up on it. I guess it would be easy enough to uncover how the meme worked here. I had it a few days before I posted this, on the sidebar. cursor.org had it shortly after that (though I’m not crediting myself with passing the meme), on its sidebar with its famous little graphics.
A running joke at a forum I … deal with:
5) Howie joins the `Cascadia Now’ group, rapidly rises to a leadership position.
The logistics therein are impossible, as I pointed out if you look at the Cascadia map the would-be secessionists have drawn up: um… there’s a culture class between Eastern (and Southern) Oregon with Eastern Washington versus metro Washington and Oregon. Example: When Lon Mabon’s anti-gay initiatives rolled through the election, I don’t think the would-be secessionists noticed that Eastern Oregon passed it whole-heartedly, and Portland stomped them out, creating the 51-49 split.
Perhaps my cause would be to sell a libertarian-spin on the newest front of said battle — gay marriage (or civil unions). But… The secessionist movement is mostly just graffiti that abounds on signposts anyway, so it’s all academic.