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Humor rights activist

	Subset of "human rights activists." Someone willing to take a slap in the face or worse for a joke or funny remark with minimal to zero regard to the political correctness and or offensive strength of said humor, as defined in "Declarations of the Overseers of Humor Rights," (DOH, Right), caretakers: the OneCent.US Group of Companies. Note: "Humor Rights Activists" make up less than 1% of adult humans, not to be confused with "humor rights advocate" which is just someone who will laugh at anything over the top but deny it later, basically the other 99%, friggin' hypocrites. DOH Right! is the self appointed and undisputed (actually, no one cares) worldwide standard setting body for humor advocacy on six of the seven world continents, its only area of non-jurisdiction on Earth is Antarctica, where it's so friggin' cold that it's damn near impossible to laugh at anything except what a twit you are for signing up to do ANYTHING there. Otherwise? the following is an excerpt from the DOH Right! "F.E.I.T.C.T.A.J," (you figure out that acronym yourself, hint, the "J" stands for JOKE. If you can't figure it out? Read on not. You are not ready.) Safe Humor International Techniques (S.H.I.... oops..) chapter on evaluating a situation wherever you are on the globe based on your GPS coordinates as to whether or not telling a particular joke to a given audience demographic is likely to get you: a) a free beer b) slapped c) killed d) vilified in public, adored behind closed doors. Source here

The history of the Conch Republic

 

In 1982, the United States Border Patrol set up a roadblock and inspection point on US 1 just north of the merger of Monroe County Road 905A/Miami-Dade County Road 905A onto US 1 (they are the only two roads connecting the Florida Keys with the mainland), in front of the Last Chance Saloon just south of Florida City. Vehicles were stopped and searched for narcotics and illegal immigrants. The Key West City Council complained repeatedly about the inconvenience for travelers to and from Key West, claiming that it hurt the Keys' important tourism industry. Eastern Air Lines, which had a hub at Miami International Airport, saw a window of opportunity when the roadblocks were established; Eastern became the only airline to establish jet service to Key West International Airport, counting on travelers from Key West to Miami preferring to fly rather than to wait for police to search their vehicles. When the City Council's complaints went unanswered by the federal government and attempts to get an injunction against the roadblock failed in court, as a form of protest Mayor Dennis Wardlow and the Council declared Key West's independence on April 23, 1982. In the eyes of the Council, since the federal government had set up the equivalent of a border station as if they were a foreign nation, they might as well become one. As many of the local citizens were referred to as Conchs, the nation took the name of the Conch Republic.
As part of the protest, Mayor Wardlow was proclaimed Prime Minister of the Republic, which immediately declared war against the U.S. (symbolically breaking a loaf of stale Cuban bread over the head of a man dressed in a naval uniform), quickly surrendered after one minute (to the man in the uniform), and applied for one billion dollars in foreign aid.
Conch Republic officials were invited to the Summit of the Americas in Miami in 1994, and Conch representatives were officially invited to 1995's Florida Jubilee. ^[5]
The mock secession and the events surrounding it generated great publicity for the Keys' plight — the roadblock and inspection station were removed soon afterward. It also resulted in the creation of a new avenue of tourism for the Keys.
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The lights tell the difference

Western Australia secession 1933

Now & then the big, boisterous States of the Australian Commonwealth think for themselves. Two years ago New South Wales tried to repudiate the interest on its State debt (TIME, April 6, 1931 et seq.). The Crown-appointed Governor finally forced the Premier, tall, square-jawed John Thomas Lang, out of office (TIME, May 23). Last week the Commonwealth's biggest and rawest state, Western Australia, voted to secede from the Commonwealth.
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Town, pop. 598, wants to secede from ailing Italy

 

Filettino's mayor says new state would be a monarchy, adding 'it's everyone's dream to be a prince' 

By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO

updated 8/29/2011 11:19:28 AM ET

FILETTINO, Italy  — When the Italian government announced in mid-August that it would force towns with fewer than 1,000 residents to merge with their neighbors as part of an emergency cost-cutting budget, there were strident protests across the country.

Evoking the history of Italy, a nation forged from countless city-states protective of their local traditions, dialects and diversity, some of the mayors of the 1,963 towns affected by the measure turned in the keys to their cities.
Others said they would welcome immigrants escaping war-torn Libya to push their populations over the 1,000-person threshold.
The mayor of Filettino has loftier aspirations: he wants his town in the hills east of Rome — population 598 — to become an independent state under a monarch.
“If that’s what it takes to keep the town autonomous and protect its natural resources,” said the mayor, Luca Sellari, who was elected in May. Besides, he added, “it’s everyone’s dream to be a prince.”
As befits a monarch, Mr. Sellari has lost little time in pursuing his dream. 
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You're a banker - Yes, Minister - BBC

Bloated bureaucracy has hindered recovery

KIRK HARGREAVES

BLOATED PRICES: Hugh Pavletich says the Christchurch City Council has artifically pumped up the price of housing.

 

HUGH PAVLETICH believes that failures at the Christchurch City Council have artificially pumped up the price of housing, adding to the woes of residents in the residential red zone.
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Restoration As One feat. John Key (Christchurch Earthquake Tribute)

Bye-Bye Wellington?

Tempers flare but no tanks across the Nullarbor -- yet

WEST Australians had better "hope like hell" they don't see tanks crossing the Nullarbor if they try to leave the federation, the nation's foremost expert on secession, Greg Craven, has warned. Perhaps tongue in cheek, perhaps not.

"Well, you have to remember that when Quebec has tried . . . there have been occasions where there have been tanks in the streets of Montreal," Craven tells Inquirer.

One thing is certain as Craven and other constitutional law experts ponder Western Australia's growing isolationist stance: secession would not be easy.

"A state can't unilaterally secede. The only way out would be to amend the Constitution, which means you would have to have a referendum and of course that would fail because the rest of the country . . . would not let you out," he says. "There is another way if you're prepared to say, 'We don't care if we're acting illegally; we're just going to illegally secede. But if you do that, what history shows is that you have to be prepared to fight your way out. You'd have to hope like hell you didn't see Australian tanks coming across the Nullarbor."

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Individual Declaration of Independence

IN CONSCIENCE, July 4, 1996
A DECLARATION
By MYSELF, a SOVEREIGN INDIVIDUAL,
In assembly with no one, but standing firm on my own judgment:

When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for Individuals to dissolve the Political Bonds which have connected them to others, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.

As one such Individual:

I hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all People are created equal, that they are endowed by their Nature with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property and Happiness. That to secure these Rights, Governments have been instituted among People, deriving their allegedly just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is My Right—the Right of any Person—to alter or to abolish it, and to institute No Government.

Instead, as is right, proper, and beneficial to a Free Person, to create and cooperate with only voluntary organizations which serve my needs, laying their Foundations on such Principles and organizing their Powers in such Form as to me shall seem most likely to effect my Safety and Happiness.

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President Obama Begs Texas Governor to Secede from the Union

Sunday, 6 March 2011

Texas Republic's New High-Speed Transportation System

Unable to come up with sufficient funds to fight the drug war that is spilling over the Mexican border into Texas, Obama says he is finally willing to take Texas Governor Rick Perry up on his threat to secede from the union.

Said Obama, "We've contacted Governor Rick Perry today and advised we are ok with his going ahead with secession proceedings. We've assured him we'll put his request on a fast track and if all goes well, Texas will be a sovereign republic by noon on Monday."

Perry is said to be mulling the idea over but has asked Obama if it's too late to get some of that stimulus money he refused back in 2009 to help fund the new republic's start-up costs.

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