{"id":381,"date":"2006-01-14T13:23:36","date_gmt":"2006-01-14T20:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=381"},"modified":"2006-01-14T13:23:36","modified_gmt":"2006-01-14T20:23:36","slug":"381","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/01\/14\/381\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"003994\"><\/a>I noticed it took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\">the Lew Rockwell site<\/a> quite a while to pick up on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amconmag.com\/2005\/2005_12_19\/article.html\">&#8220;Vermont Secessionist&#8221; movement<\/a>, 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matrixmasters.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/vermont-considers-succeeding-from-usa.html\">pick up on it<\/a>.  I guess it would be easy enough to uncover how the meme worked here.  I had it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005_12.html#003916\">a few days before I posted this<\/a>, on the sidebar.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cursor.org\">cursor.org<\/a> had it shortly after that (though I&#8217;m not crediting myself with passing the meme), on its sidebar with its famous little graphics.<\/p>\n<p>A running joke at a forum I &#8230; deal with:<\/p>\n<p><i>5) Howie joins the `Cascadia Now&#8217; group, rapidly rises to a leadership position.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The logistics therein are impossible, as I pointed out if you look at the Cascadia map the would-be secessionists have drawn up: um&#8230; there&#8217;s a culture class between Eastern (and Southern) Oregon with Eastern Washington versus metro Washington and Oregon.  Example: When Lon Mabon&#8217;s anti-gay initiatives rolled through the election, I don&#8217;t think the would-be secessionists noticed that Eastern Oregon passed it whole-heartedly, and Portland stomped them out, creating the 51-49 split.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps my cause would be to sell a libertarian-spin on the newest front of said battle &#8212; gay marriage (or civil unions).  But&#8230; The secessionist movement is mostly just graffiti that abounds on signposts anyway, so it&#8217;s all academic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed it took the Lew Rockwell site quite a while to pick up on the &#8220;Vermont Secessionist&#8221; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}