Secession

Tea Partier Suggests Secession As Antidote to 'Tyranny Of National Government'

Zachary Roth | February 19, 2010, 3:00PM

Tea party in Hartford, Connecticut in 2009

A North Carolina Tea Party group is promoting the idea of secession as a solution to the "tyranny of national government."

The email newsletter of North Carolina Freedom Project contains an item entitled by "Solutions to the tyranny of national government." The item proposes two such solutions. The first, described as "incremental," involves embracing "tentherism" -- the bogus belief, espoused lately by some on the far right, that many of the powers of the federal government are unconstitutional.

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