Regime Change Guide
Dori had a link to the Regime Change Guide that had a section that I found troubling.
Do you have a residency in any of these states? Parents? Grandparents? Cousins? Aunts? Uncles? Friends? Just one friend? An acquaintance? Someone you had coffee with at some point in the last few years of your life? What we’re looking for here is an address you can move to temporarily. If you establish temporary residence, you can always vote absentee, if it’s hard to be in the state on Election Day. But hey, don’t do anything illegal. It is legal to move to another state for a while, establish residence so you can work on a campaign or organize some rallies/concerts/pizza parties — and then vote there. Just don’t vote twice. There are, you know, “laws” about that.
Now, I’ve got no problem with people working hard to remove a politician from office. I’ve really no problem with little tricks and strategies used to acheive those goals. Moving one’s residence to another state, a state that one has no intention of really living in and contributing to the community crosses the boundry of what I find being acceptable.
This isn’t just with the current presidential campaign. There is a group of Libertarians that want to get 20,000 like minded individuals to move to New Hampshire to create a Libertarian state. There’s people who have roots going back generations in New Hampshire that are suddenly going to find their lives changed by outsiders attempting to make a point.
There’s also the group, ChristianExodus.org, that wants to move thousands of “thousands of Christians to South Carolina for the express purpose of re-establishing Godly, constitutional government.” These folks want to secede from the Union once they have their people in place. Forget the will of the people currently living in South Carolina, just move in people with a like mind and take not just their state, but their entire nation away from them.
Well, at least those Libertarians are looking at this move as being permanent and they are planning to contribute things back to the community. Even the Christian Exodus folk are going to find a lot of like-minded individuals already living in South Carolina. This Regime Change suggestion is just attempting to dilute the political voice of those people living in the battleground states and it just seems wrong.
US | Larry D. Burton | 04 July 2004 |
