<p style="MARGIN-TOP: -1px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: -1px" align="left"><strong>By Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D., J.D.</strong><br />May 26, 2010</p>
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<p align="left">Pastor Chuck Baldwin’s recent commentary, “<a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin590.htm" target="_blank">Breakup of U.S. Is Inevitable</a>”, sets out a provocative thesis in support of “secession”. Essentially, his argument is that:</p>
<p align="left">(i) The United States is about to break up into small fragments.<br />(ii) This disintegration fits into the plan of the global elitists to construct a “New World Order” and a “world government”.<br />(iii) American patriots should welcome, participate in, assist, and even accelerate this breakup through “secession” of one or more States. And,<br />(iv) “Secession” will defeat the New World Order, at least with respect to the “seceding” States.</p>
<p align="left">It may simply be that my mind is not sufficiently plastic to wrap itself around this argument—but I sense that something is missing here.</p>
<p align="left">Now, I agree with Pastor Baldwin that “freedom-loving people are reaching a point of frustration—and even fury”. But I fear that he makes rather a large leap of logic to conclude that “State secession is, very properly, the last best option for freedomists to maintain fidelity to the principles of liberty”.</p>
