The Pentagon is supposed to be under civilian control and it ought to be up to the people of the United States, not the profiteers.
David SwansonThe United States is a rogue state violating international law in many, many ways that California wouldn't have to if it seceded and became a nation.
David SwansonI'm not convinced that the people of Arizona as a nation couldn't do better to protect equal rights for all than the people of Arizona as part of the United States, which is actually not helping them much.
David SwansonI think the election of Donald Trump, if you want to call it an election, was unimaginable to most people, which is part of how it happened.
David SwansonBreaking the United States up into a number of pieces could be very good for the integration of those new nations with the rest of the world and the international law whose primary enemy is now the United States government. I think that it would be very good for democracy, for people to be within some hundreds of miles of their nation's capital, as they are in many other countries, so that they didn't have to travel thousands of miles to protest, to exercise their First Amendment rights, but that is the current state of affairs in this overly large, imperial nation.
David Swanson