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GA - Georgia Senate threatens dismantling of USA

View the article here This is not SO related, but shows the pure stupidity of the legislature(s). 04/16/2009 It wasn?t quite the firing on Fort Sumter that launched the Civil War. But on April 1, your Georgia Senate did threaten by a vote of 43-1 to secede from and even disband the United States. It was not an April Fool?s joke. In fact, Senate Resolution 632 did a lot more than merely threaten to end this country. It stated that under the Constitution, the only crimes the federal government could prosecute were treason, piracy and slavery. ?Therefore, all acts of Congress which assume to create, define or punish [other] crimes ? are altogether void, and of no force,? the Georgia Senate declared. In other words, in the infinite, almost unanimous wisdom of the Georgia Senate, Michael Vick is being imprisoned illegally, Bernie Madoff should serve no time for stealing $60 billion and the Unabomber must go free...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on April 17, 2009 (boomark / email).