California should secede from George IV’s tyranny

Gov. Arnold’s regime is upset that Prez Bush’s regime won’t let California impose its own socialist environmental laws. The Sacramento Bee reports:

The U.S. Department of Transportation proposed rules Tuesday that would raise the combined fuel economy standard for automobiles and light trucks to 31.6 miles per gallon by 2015 but also block California and other states from imposing their own regulations for greenhouse gas emissions.

California Air Resources Board Chairwoman Mary Nichols called the specific restriction on states “a buried time bomb ticking away,” “a wolf in sheep’s clothing” and “a direct attack on the states.” The state intends to declare its opposition during a federal 60-day comment period, and Nichols vowed that California would sue if the Bush administration were to adopt the restriction on states.

Why sue when you can secede?

Personally, I don’t like the new California regulations, which as usual for this state overdue things. But it’s our state, and we can mess it up however we wish.

California’s Legislature should declare that the Golden State has seceded from Bush’s tyranny and now is the free and independent California Republic . I’ll write the words they can use, and won’t even charge a consulting fee:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Has a kind of ring to it, don’t you think?