Cory Burnell has a dream. He wants to save us from ourselves. In fact, he wants to make a new America within America. To this end, he founded the group, Christian Exodus. He wants to take over South Carolina, make it a religion based state. He threatens to secede if the group can’t have their way through normal channels.
Wow, this could be serious. :eek: …Except
A slow start, so he held a conference:
Ok, I’m not so worried after all.
Its a pity he hasn’t been successful. It would probably be better for normal everyday people if all the extremists and other assorted nutters were to segregate themselves into a small state and become independant. Or maybe setup a colony on the moon…
Ah, yes, South Carolina. What’s that old quote? “Too small to be a nation too large to be a lunatic asylum.”
I can’t say they don’t have the right to try it. A certain segment of the libertarians have been advocating something similar for years.
Good luck to them.
With apologies to all the good people in South Carolina, my MIL lives in SC. You know, the one that got on the phone with my daughter when she was 12 and accused her mom and I of stealing the $5 out of the birthday cards she sent. The cards that never came? yeah that assface, bitch from hell.
Cory can have her.
Hm. When one bunch of Christian extremists attempts this, it’s mildly amusing. When another bunch actually does it, it’s Sand Point, Idaho.
Or Jonestown, Guyana, if you buy the claim that they were actually Christian.
The world has always scared me to some extent, and this is one of the reasons why.
Where’s this guy when we need him?
Sailboat
Perhaps tellingly, Cory himself lives in California.
These guys got busted on the Daily Show a few weeks ago.
Anyone remember Antelope/Rajneeshpuram Oregon:
I wonder if the stole the idea from the Libertarian Free State Project.
I remember those people hanging around Corvallis in the 80s when I was a kid. That whole thing was creepy. A family friend was in charge of the local Young Life chapter that the ranch was donated to (it is now a Christian summer camp). He said that when they dredged the lake to make it safe for the kiddies, they found more ammunition and explosives stockpiled than the Oregon National Guard had. :eek: :eek: :eek:
They also found that the quarters where the Rajneeshpuram slept were set up to have nitrous oxide pumped into them (to make the young virgins more pious, one assumes).
Very, very freaky.
First they wanted to take “under God” out of the Pledge - now “indivisible” as well.
Darn Commies.
Regards,
Shodan
I agree with seperating the nuts from the rest of us, but why give them such good coastline? Let’s just fence off North and South Dakota, no one’s using them anyhow.
Yes, I’ve been studying them in my Chemical/Biological weapons class.
They were responsible for the most successful modern biowarfare attack.
At the salad bar in the local Skippy’s, right? I was 8 (I think) when it happened, but it was a Big Deal around here.
Can’t we just give them South Dakota instead? Or maybe the UP. Heck, I’d even let them have Delaware. Just build a fifty foot containment wall…
I just want to play the Lee Van Cleef character in the film.
Stranger
What an original idea! South Carolina would never have come up with an idea like that.
Oh, wait. . . . Hmmmn. Didn’t seem to work out too well for them that time, did it?
South Carolina… I once went to a conference at USC. On the quadrangle I saw a historical plaque stating that as soon as the Civil War began in 1861, the entire student body immediately volunteered to fight for the Confederacy. (All men, of course; women weren’t allowed into universities in those days.) All those young lives, full of promise, just thrown away in the wrong cause.
Naw, he was the first to move to SC from California back in 2004.
Or Waco or Ruby Ridge or Oklahoma City, or WTC. 
I recently read a biography of L. Ron Hubbard that was not filtered through the glass eye of Scientology. This guy sounds a lot like Ronny, just not as charismatic.
** buttonjockey308**, and ** Stranger On A Train**, his long term plan is to “Redeem” all of the states, one at a time, so he’d get to the Dakotas soon enough. Let’s see, he’s 29, and he figures SC will take until 2016. 50 states at 11 years a state… He needs to live to be 579 years old to complete his mission. :dubious: Or does he have children to take up the torch when he is called home… Oh my.