{"id":5227,"date":"2017-09-21T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T00:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=5227"},"modified":"2024-09-23T22:46:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T04:46:29","slug":"meet-proposed-51st-state-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/meet-proposed-51st-state-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet our proposed 51st state: Liberty, U.S.A. – It Can Happen!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington State’s firebrand state representative, District 4 Representative Matt Shea, presented the case for eastern Washington creating its own new state at a meeting of the Spokane Conservative Republicans on Sept. 18th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

The state would be named Liberty and would encompass the portion of Washington State east of the Cascades.<\/p>\n

Shea and two other Representatives, Bob McCaslin and David Taylor sponsored a bill last December named the House Joint Memorial 4000<\/a> which would create the “State of Liberty” which would become our 51st<\/sup> state.<\/p>\n

Matt Shea’s bill explains the motivation for the proposed separation: “Since statehood, the lifestyles, culture, and economies of eastern and western Washington have been very distinct and dramatically different, while the urbanization and rapid growth in the western portions of the state has progressively heightened this divergence of cultural and economic values between the western and eastern portions of the state.”<\/p>\n

“IS IT CONSTITUTIONAL?”<\/h3>\n

Creating the “State of Liberty” is clearly constitutional:<\/p>\n

S. Constitution, Art. 4, Sect. 3: “…no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0THE CASE FOR LIBERTY’S CREATION<\/h3>\n
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WA State Representative Matt Shea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right \u2014 a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit.<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Speech by Abraham Lincoln in the House of Representatives, January 12, 1848<\/p>\n

Matt Shea: “Why do I believe that this is a solution? Because we are already two states. We have two totally different worldviews.”<\/p>\n

He cited a poll of over 8,000 people that revealed there is 73% support in eastern Washington for creating the new state of Liberty.<\/p>\n

He pointed out that eastern and western parts of Washington are morally, politically and economically different. The bill actually says, “The urbanization and rapid growth in the western portions of the state has progressively heightened this divergence of cultural and economic values between the western and eastern portions of the state.”<\/p>\n

Shea told the meeting attendees, “Honestly the principle is very simple, a government should represent the general views of the folks, and the problem is right now, that’s not happening in Washington State. In fact, the other side of the state doesn’t feel like they are represented. They feel like we are stealing money from all their social programs. In a split state, we would more closely represent our own views.”<\/p>\n

He also said that the left still calls eastern Washington a welfare state. For instance, he said that they say that for every dollar raised in Okanogan from taxes Okanogan gets back a dollar eighty-four, therefore you guys are a bunch of welfare freeloaders in eastern Washington. To which Shea rebounded with, “I’m sorry, will you please forgive us. We are so sorry to become such a terrible burden on you people in downtown Seattle. Will you please let us go?”<\/p>\n