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07-05-2013, 09:44 AM
Adios, Colorado! (http://www.texnat.org/political-publisher/1937-adios-colorado)http://www.texnat.org/images/grunge-style-colorado-flag-david-g-paul1.jpgBattle lines are again being drawn between North and South — but this time, it's the North that's wanting to secede ... from Colorado.The Daily Caller and Huffington Post reported Friday that as many as eight counties composing the rural, oil and gas-rich northeast corner of the state are pursuing a plan to cut ties with a capital city they no longer feel represents their interests and come together as the 51st state in the country: North Colorado."We're actually going to pursue it," Weld County Commissioner Douglas Rademacher, a farmer whose jurisdiction is spearheading the effort, told the Daily Caller. "Frankly, we've been ignored in northeastern Colorado now for the last, going on eight years with the current administration in Denver."The HuffPost reports the secession plan is driven by a number of new laws passed in the Democrat-controlled legislature this year, including gun control, the curbing of perceived cruel treatment of livestock to expanded regulation of oil and gas production but the final straw was the signing of Senate Bill 252 by Gov. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday which requires an increase in renewable energy standards in rural areas.KDVR reports that opponents of that bill have called it a "war on rural Colorado.""Frankly, we see no option," Rademacher said. "We are going to move forward."Rademacher cited numerous examples of how Denver politicians are out of touch with rural Colorado, from passing tough new gun laws — "that gun legislation really pissed a lot of people off in Weld County," he said — to trying to clamp down on companies that extract natural gas through fracking.Colorado is not the first state to begin fracturing along political lines. In the summer of 2011, a supervisor in Riverside County, Calif., called for 13 southern counties in that state to withdraw from too-liberal central and northern California.In a number of other states — Texas, Vermont, Georgia and Alaska being the most prominent — secessionist movements are continuing to gain strength as more and more revelations about the abuse of federal power by both elected politicians and un-elected bureaucrats in Washington come to light. The latest revelation, that the National Security Agency has apparently tapped phones and electronic communications of millions of Americans, through a number of different platforms, has spurred new calls for either immediate, radical reform of the federal government — or secession from it."We've reached the saturation point with Big Brother, Nanny-State government," said Texas Nationalist Movement president Daniel Miller. "People, and especially Texans, are starting to realize that this government no longer considers the Constitution to be a definition of limits on its power. They are realizing that the contract Texas had with the other states upon entering this Union has been declared null and void."http://www.texnat.org/political-publisher/1937-adios-colorado