In 1982, the mayor of Key West was fed up. The U.S. government had set up a roadblock on the only highway leading into the city. It caused huge traffic jams. Tourists couldn't get in. Local businesses were losing money.
So the mayor decided to do something dramatic. He stood in front of the cameras and declared Key West an independent nation. He called it the Conch Republic. Then he declared war on the United States.
But this was no real war. He walked over to a man in a U.S. Navy uniform and tapped him on the head with a piece of Cuban bread. That was the "attack." One minute later, he surrendered.
Then he asked the U.S. government for $1 billion in foreign aid to help his "war-torn" nation rebuild.
It was a joke. But it made the news. The roadblock was removed soon after. And Key West still celebrates its "independence" every year.
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All 350,000,000 of us should declare independence from the tyrannical federal government (regardless of which horrible party is in power).
ReplyDeleteWe can't get a few hundred to protest the crooked L.A. election.
DeleteFrom here outside the USA, we all look upon you all with wonder.
ReplyDeleteNot a good wonder.
More like WTF wonder.
You voted that bloke in twice, he will probably go for kingship
You, with him steering, attack other countries with the most feeble of reasons
You, with him driving, force our costs up to crippling levels
You, being influenced by him, may think we 'others' as scum
But we are not, we are human, White where I live, English speaking
And my aunties live in the USA, my brother was BORN in the fucking USA
But I wonder if the politicians I voted for say the wrong thing ...
YOU, with that idiot holding the trigger, will come and bomb us out of existence
We are not Iran, not any South American country, not in Europe or Asia
But still, we feel threatened by the school yard bully boy
The bloke with the mind of a spoilt 8 year old
And the largest fucking military in the world under his idiotic and mental so called brain