Walter Williams is one of my favorites. He is an economics professor at George Mason University who manages to cut through the BS on many topics. One issue, in particular, catches my eye. That is the Free State Project.
Their plan, as stated on their website is: “20,000 or more liberty-oriented people will move to New Hampshire, where they may work within the political system to reduce the size and scope of government. The success of the Free State Project would likely entail reductions in burdensome taxation and regulation, reforms in state and local law, an end to federal mandates and a restoration of constitutional federalism.”
The concept is sound, but I’m sure there would be many lawsuits before any of this got implemented. This concept is already in place, however, and shows some signs of success. It is happening in France and England, and the free-staters aren’t American Constitutionalists, they are Muslim.
Both France and England have growing Muslim populations, and the governments have shown little desire to restrain “bad” behavior. The fundamentalists in Islam have show they can be patient. They’ve learned the major lesson of the Vietnam war, among other low-intensity conflicts, that the West has a very short attention span. Small setbacks are simply that–an inconvenience. As long as they can grow their following in the UK, they will eventually be able to elect Imams to Parliament. Once it is no longer a novelty, more and more can be elected until there is a majority, or a coalition can be built. With that, their man becomes PM.
In France, they can elect a President with support of various extremist from both left and right. They simply need to build a majority.
Russia has a problem with separatists, but doesn’t see a huge influx of radical muslims who have the potential for takeover of the government through the ballot box.
Why are these three countries an issue? The nations of Europe which have nuclear capability are France, England, and Russia.
The rift between the US and France is an issue in more ways than simply diplomacy. France, since the days of DeGaulle, has had an inferiority complex regarding the US. They have not been a major world power since Napoleon, yet still view themselves as “big time.” And they are, if only in the nuclear armament realm.
To maintain their status, they have played the US against the USSR during the Cold War, the US versus Vietnam in that war, various countries in Africa against US interests, and relations with Iraq in the recent past. They have been consistent in their animosity toward the US. I think part of it stems from the adoption of English as the language of diplomacy to replace French!
As their population continues to grow due to the influx of Muslim immigrants, and these new immigrants gain more and more power through numbers, the danger becomes much greater. France, with nuclear weapons, is a prime target for the free-state concept. They don’t realize it, which makes the issue even more important.