Things have gotten so bad in America that a lot of people wish to impeach the President. They are wasting their time in my view.

Since the U.S. Congress passed the "Buck Act" in 1940, which allowed any department of the federal government to create a "Federal Area" which now touches virtually anything, a U.S. citizen residing in any one of the states of the Union has become classified as property and franchise of the federal government as an "individual entity." No, I'm not talking about Negro slaves, mind you. I'm talking about those whose race or ethnicity didn't even need to be liberated! It wasn't your President, even the unimpressive current one, who started that unconstitutional act. It was Congress, which supposedly represents the People. Because of Congress, U.S. citizens today are very much cattle, legally speaking, not Children of God to the federal government. Even Moses in his day and age had more advanced anthropological conceptions than the folks in the D.C. today! So Americans shouldn't waste their time trying to impeach the President. They should impeach Congress, if you ask me!

They shouldn't stop there either. Since the Constitution was originally meant so that laws should rule the government, not the People; since the Constitution was also meant so that the government should be the servant of the People, not the other way around; since Article III of the Constitution created not a national judiciary, but a federal judiciary, which left most judicial power in the hands of state governments; the omnipotence of today's Supreme Court would have surprised, even horrified the Founding Fathers — the way they intended. The concept of state sovereignty so dear to the delegates at the Philadelphia Convention was effectively dismissed by judges only six years later, and it got worse in time, not better. In the 20th century, the Supreme Court found a way to justify the imposition of their preferences on Constitutional law, by giving trendy sociological studies equal or greater weight than the words of the Constitution! In the 21st century, the Supreme Court practically voted in a President as well. Americans shouldn't waste their time trying to impeach the President. They should impeach the Supreme Court, if you ask me, for Contempt of the rights of the People!

Independent Long Island, not only the time is ripe for secession, but secession from the Union would also be perfectly legal.

Thomas Jefferson in his first inaugural address said, "If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left to combat it."

At Virginia's convention on the ratification of the Constitution the delegates said, "The powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." In Federalist Paper 39, James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, essentially stated that states were sovereign; the federal government was a creation, an agent, a servant of the states.

In New York's ratification convention, John Lansing Jr. made a motion for a resolution to be adopted to give New York the right to secede from the Union if certain amendments were not adopted within a certain number of years. Alexander Hamilton, anticipating such a proposal, had written to James Madison several days earlier, and posed the question to him. Madison in his letter indicated that Congress would not consider a conditional ratification to be valid. Hamilton read the letter to the convention, and Lansing's motion was defeated by a vote of 31 to 28.

So the right of secession claimed by Virginia and New York cannot be seen as "conditions" or amendments to the Constitutional proposal. If they were, the ratifications by Virginia and New York would have been rejected, as per Madison's letter.

The Tenth Amendment of the Constitution implies the right of secession, since it reserves to the states and the People "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states." The Constitution doesn't in fact prohibit states from seceding, so that power still remains with them, and the People. The fact that the North won Lincoln's "Civil War" doesn't alter this basic principle unless might, all of a sudden, makes one right.

Simply put, if the right to secede were illegal, then the Constitution would be, and the Constitution is "the supreme Law of the land" (Article VI, Clause 2).

To quote the very Declaration of Independence, the history of the present United States "is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States." There is no doubt in my mind, that the object of the federal government through the years has been none other than the progressive expropriation of the rights of states, and of the People.

It is time for at least an Independent Long Island (ILI) to legally secede from the Union, to make its way to a far more glorious future than remaining in this obsolete and abusive Union would allow. If divorce is legal in the event of repetitive spousal abuse, then secession must be as well when a state, or a portion of a state, feels that it has been repeatedly abused, when the rights of its citizens have been confiscated by a tyrannical UberState.

Signs that America is in serious trouble, and that its days may be over Americans are being spied on, and everywhere. Their email transmissions and Web surfing habits are monitored. Surveillance cameras are omnipresent. They must increasingly submit to fingerprinting, iris scans, criminal background checks, credit checks, and other forms of personal probing. They have no privacy, and no expectation of any. 71% of Americans believe that business has gained too much power over too many aspects of American life. 72% believe business has benefited more than consumers from deregulation. The combined revenues of the 192 member corporations of the secretive Business Roundtable are about half of the total GNP of the US. According to the US government figures, as reported by the Office of Management and Budget, 21% of US income tax dollars goes to Social Security, 12% to Medicare, 10% to health expenses, 13% to welfare, 14% to other programs, 21% to the national defense, and 9% to interest payments. According to the War Resisters League, however, 32% of US income tax dollars actually goes to human resources, 12% to general government expenses, 5% to physical resources, 20% to past military operations, and 31% to current military operations. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has recently approved a set of rules to auction off a sizable chunk of the public airwaves. This is not the first time that the public airwaves have been auctioned off, or even given away entirely for free to corporations. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is riddled with corruption, drug companies perpetuate scientific fraud, and bribery of doctors and the rampant conflicts of interest are the main characteristics of medicine today. The FDA also seems more interested in their crusade against natural herbs and supplements than in regulating dangerous drugs. Modern medicine, drugs, and surgery in the mean time are killing over 800,000 people a year in the US alone. That is just about 1 million shy of the figure for the annual average of all man-made megadeaths worldwide during the 20th century, yet the FDA doesn't even notice this slaughter. US Federal revenue collections hit an all-time high in April 2007. All of this is occuring at the worst time since the Great Depression for the Dow Jones industrial average, and a time of massive layoffs, now up to 1.2 million for the year. For most observers, it's no longer a question of whether we are in a recession or not, but just how long it will last. Only 14% of Americans think Congress is doing a good job. More than 70% of both political parties' contributions now come from corporations. A recent poll shows that more than half of Americans say US news organizations are politically biased, inaccurate, and don't care about the people they report on.