Colorado wingnuts want to secede? Here's a flag

[angka]

Last edited Sat Jun 8, 2013, 04:41 PM - Edit history (2)

Spread the word: http://northcolorado.us

The story, in case you haven't heard:

Rural county commissioners discuss seceding from Colorado

http://kdvr.com/2013/06/06/rural-county-commissioners-discuss-seceding-from-colorado/

A group of county commissioners say they are pursuing a plan to secede from Colorado and create a new state because they feel the Democrat-controlled state legislature is not representing their way of life.

Sean Conway, a commissioner in Weld County, is leading a charge to ask voters in November whether to form a new state.

“I know you think, wow, this is crazy when you first hear about it, but then you realize that five of our states — Vermont, Maine, Tennessee, Wyoming and Kentucky — came about in this fashion, and the circumstances were very similar to what we’re going through now,” Conway told FOX31 Denver Thursday afternoon.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. ...

[ZombieHorde]

2. That is a pretty funny flag. nt

[busterbrown]

3. Looks like the Flag of....

Mental illness.....

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. I can't wait till my little brother posts something about this on facebook.

I'm so stealing that gif! it's the perfect reply, no words needed

[wandy]

5. Never. They are too close to the Republic of Boulder......

The Republic of Boulder is a little bit like the Hotel California.

You can check out any time you want, but you can never leave.

[Scuba]

8. Or as this Cheesehead calls it "Mini Madison".

See ya on Pearl Street.

[CrazyJudy]

6. It could happen..

It's been a while, but that is how many states were created. The Virginia/West Virginia split was done for similar (political differences) reasons..

[Wounded Bear]

7. Actually, no...

The VA/WVA split is pretty much unique in US history, and it took the Civil War to make that happen.

Sure, many states were created out of larger territories, but there haven't been many states broken up to make smaller ones.

[Scuba]

9. Didn't Maine used to be part of Massachusettes?

[Wounded Bear]

16. It was a part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony....

According to http://www.50states.com/statehood.htm#.UbPGLPnCam4

Maine
March 15, 1820
23rd
What is now the state of Maine was, before statehood, called the District of Maine and belonged to Massachusetts.

The thing is, it is unconstitutional to break up states without congressional approval.

[otohara]

10. This Is About Guns

and only guns.

[hlthe2b]

12. Pretty much... but really, they just can not STAND the fact that CO is now DEM-controlled.

TEABAGGERS, through and through (allied with an all too sizable white supremacist segment).

Remember the racist, birther military physician who was court-martialed for refusing to follow orders from one he claimed was not a "legitimate" CIC? From Greeley....

[awoke_in_2003]

14. and fetuses umbilically tied to guns. nt

[angka]

22. The fetus is there for a reason:

http://www.greeleytribune.com/news/5414092-113/commissioners-plan-county-resendiz

Weld County commissioners asked to reconsider Plan B ban

Dozens of Weld County residents presented commissioners with a letter Wednesday morning, asking them to reconsider the decision they made more than two years ago to ban emergency contraceptives like Plan B in county clinics.

[hlthe2b]

11. THose loons over in Greeley have been inhaling the cattle feedlots and ingesting too much fracking

solution...(along with those joining their idiocy from the CO plains counties)

We have a few DUers from Weld County, CO--my dearest sympathy).... the only hope is growth that brings in a critical mass from elsewhere to dilute the crazies.

[Paladin]

17. Weld Co. is awash in oceans of oil and oil revenue.

I know that from personal, on-the-ground experience. And the Weld Co. political establishment is comprised of a bunch of money-addled fools. Guns and agriculture play a part in all this, but it's hydrocarbon-driven, at its center. I hope measures are in place to crush this movement, and sooner rather than later.

[truebluegreen]

13. Boo Effing Hoo

Poor widdle things. They lost an election so they just wanna take their ball and Go Home.

Conservatives are such respecters of the democratic process and majority rule, aren't they?

[craigmatic]

15. The republicans are that kid who takes his ball and goes home when he loses the game.

[jmowreader]

23. Not quite...

They're more like the kid who goes home with your ball when he loses the game.

[blondie58]

18. there is a saying up.here thst goes along the line "Greeley. Where the streets are wide

And the minds are narrow"

[Rosa Luxemburg]

19. Do they have oil?

[Paladin]

21. Plenty of oil, due to horizontal drilling and fracking. (nt)

[blkmusclmachine]

20. Hasta la vista, babee.

[jimmy the one]

24. Franklin, before Florida

Sean Conway is leading a charge to form a new state. “I know you think, wow, this is crazy when you first hear about it,"

I didn't think it was a crazy idea at all, sean, I just thought youanother crazy rightwing nutjob.

wounded bear: The VA/WVA split is pretty much unique in US history, and it took the Civil War to make that happen.
Sure, many states were created out of larger territories, but there haven't been many states broken up to make smaller ones.

Not disagreeing with you, just remembering the state of Franklin (in now tennessee)

The State of Franklin was an unrecognized, autonomous "territory" located in what is today eastern Tennessee. Franklin was created in 1784 .. It was founded with the intent of becoming the 14th state of the new United States.
Aug 23, 1784, delegates from the North Carolina counties of (xxx) — convened in Jonesborough and declared the lands independent of North Carolina
May 16, 1785, a delegation submitted a petition for statehood to Congress. Seven states voted to admit what would have been the 14th federal state under the proposed name of "Frankland". This was less than the two-thirds majority required under the Articles of Confederation.
After the failed statehood attempt, Franklin operated as a de facto independent republic
Franklin was never admitted into the union. The extra-legal state existed for only about 4 and a half years, ostensibly as a republic .. 1786 was the beginning of the end of the small state, with several key residents and supporters of the state withdrawing their support in favor of a newly interested North Carolina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Franklin

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

25. When teabaggers start losing, they want to quit playing, take their ball and go home

effing crybabies

[JNelson6563]

26. Why don't they just move to Utah?

[world wide wally]

27. I definitely think they should leave and take most of Colorado Springs with them. While they're at

it, maybe they can secede from the United States as well since they are such great patriots

Why does the word "duuuuh" keep echoing in here?

[BlueDemKev]

28. LOL...Beautiful!