1. I am opposed to allowing non-citizens to vote in any election – local, state, or national – until they have done what is necessary to become a U.S. Citizen.

   If this Advisory Measure passes, this is opening the door to a “slippery slope” where people from any where in the world can come to the United States, simply get registered to vote, whether they are a citizen or not, then cast a vote at any election.

   If we want the United States to become a 3rd world “banana republic,” then a good start would be to support this kind of measure. I’d like to think at least the Libertarians, the Constitution(al)ists, and populist Independents like myself see the danger in this.

   Yes, allow citizenship to anyone who comes to the country and desires to become an American and is willing to assimilate into the American culture. But don’t let people vote in any election until they are a citizen first.

   This is just plain common sense and should have nothing to do with any political, social, or economic ideology.

2. I strongly agree. Perhaps Burlington, Vermont should secede from both the United States and Vermont and become a city-state ala Singapore.

3. Bob:

   While I agree in philosophy with the right of a state to secede, and under an ideal world circumstance I might even advocate more for it, but when the world starts going to “hell in a handbasket,” it is always the United States which has to come in to bring about some degree of international peace – so called.

   If the United States were weakened by a number seceding states, it obviously would not be as strong as a world power. This is why I am a strong supporter of the 10th Amendment, but I think a state still has the right to secede, and if our Courts would acknowledge such, the prospect of such might put the breaks on Congress and the Courts when they definitely overstep their powers – and common sense.

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