One half smarter than the other

Well, this is interesting.

You can hear the talk of revolution at lunch counters and grocery lines, where people grumble that politicians to the north and south don’t care.

…”We have nothing in common with you people down south. Nothing,” said Randy Bashaw, manager of the Jefferson State Forest Products lumber mill in the Trinity County hamlet of Hayfork. “The sooner we’re done with all you people, the better.”

That bolded quote is fantastic. Can’t you hear the (rather justifiable) animus? Yes, one half of California wants to secede from the other half…North and South. Now this is a “civil war” the rest of America might find rather amusing and a decent distraction from the economic debacle.

Will the South lob breast implants and Maybach wheels at the North? Will the North take hostages of little productive value, with names like “Sarandon”, “Damon”, and “Baldwin” and make them do actual work during their captivity, which will probably include horrifying things like being given nothing but steak and potatoes to eat, with nary a molecule of tofu in sight? The horror! The horror!

It’s an old movement, one which began in 1941, swiftly coming to an end when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Still, it seems that the idea never did die, and interest in secession has exploded in recent months. In fact, the leading website for the movement has gone from roughly 100 members to over 900.

Supporters are hoping for a 2009 ballot initiative. The Governator’s office claims not to have heard of this and is declining comment, but if Arnold were really the Reagan fan he claims to be, he himself might be happy to evacuate to the North. We bitterly clinging-type Americans generally love a little liberty-defending ruckus-raising.

Besides, we can’t complain much this movement, including as it does quotes such as these timely bits, from the namesake of their hoped-for state, on their homepages:

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

~ Thomas Jefferson

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

~Thomas Jefferson

You’ll also find nuggets from Tom Paine, and a link to Jefferson’s “A Little Rebellion Now And Then Is A Good Thing”.

Good luck, Jeffersonians!

Via Savage.