Carbondale City Council member calls for Illinois to secede from United States

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-20 14:13:32 | Updated at 2024-12-28 11:45:16 1 week ago

Carbondale City Council member calls for Illinois to secede from United States
KFVS-12 ^ | 12/18/2024 | Devin Kidd

Posted on 12/20/2024 5:17:30 AM PST by Paul R.

CARBONDALE, Ill. (KFVS) - Carbondale City Council Member Clare Killman posted a video on Facebook calling for the state of Illinois to secede from the rest of the nation.

It’s a move that local experts say is next to impossible.

Kenneth Mulligan is a Political Science Professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

He says political moves like this are why President Elect-Donald Trump won the election in November.

(Excerpt) Read more at kfvs12.com ...

TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: batshit; councilwoman; illinois; secede

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I'm not sure which is more stunning:

A) Carbondale has an elected councilwoman THIS batshit crazy.

B) SIU has a poly-sci professor who is not!

1 posted on 12/20/2024 5:17:30 AM PST by Paul R.

To: Paul R.

How can a liberal town continue with a name that honors King Coal ?

With all the name changing lunacy the past ten years (Squaw, Black, Columbus, anybody remotely associated with slaves, Confederate generals, etc), you’d think they would hate anything named after that nasty carbon.

2 posted on 12/20/2024 5:22:01 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (There are two ways to live your life: nothing is a miracle or everything is a miracle - A. Einstein)

To: Paul R.

Back in the Middle Ages there were “free cities”, cities that were at least theoretically independent.🏰

Keep Illinois in the Union. But make Chicago a free city, to sink or swim on its own.

(Just kidding…maybe.)

3 posted on 12/20/2024 5:23:19 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)

To: Paul R.

I might point out BTW, that while Carbondale is a college town and liberal, IL below I-80, with the exception of Springfield and some other larger cities like East St. Louis is moderate to conservative. Certainly deep southern IL is quite conservative overall, and there has, ironically, been some talk of downstate IL seceding from IL to get away from the domination of Chicago.

4 posted on 12/20/2024 5:23:36 AM PST by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)

To: Paul R.

“I’m not sure which is more stunning:
A) Carbondale has an elected councilwoman THIS batshit crazy”

Not surprising, she is a batshit crazy tranny therfore a “he”

5 posted on 12/20/2024 5:26:22 AM PST by DAC21

To: ProtectOurFreedom

6 posted on 12/20/2024 5:29:08 AM PST by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)

To: Paul R.

Article says Council woman is Carbondale`s first trans official .

7 posted on 12/20/2024 5:29:56 AM PST by Lawgvr1955 ( Sic Semper Tyrannis )

To: DAC21

so then...does “He said, She said” apply? gets confusing sometimes.

8 posted on 12/20/2024 5:31:32 AM PST by Qwapisking (Q: know the difference between a petulant 6 y.o. and a liberal? A:age. L.Star )

To: Paul R.

I should have made that word “woman”.

9 posted on 12/20/2024 5:32:11 AM PST by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)

To: ProtectOurFreedom

10 posted on 12/20/2024 5:33:58 AM PST by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)

To: Leaning Right

Divide Illinois into two states—Chicago and area around it—and the rest of the state. As for breaking away, some southern states tried that a while back and it didn’t work out so well.

To: Paul R.

Didn’t Lincoln have his law practice and residence in Illinois? Pure irony. And if they secede successfully, will they be wanting “foreign aid” from Washington?

12 posted on 12/20/2024 5:37:58 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )

To: Paul R.

I could see everything 50 miles south of Chicago merging with Indiana or Missouri.

To: Paul R.

We can meet halfway. Illinois stays a state, but is cut off from all federal spending subsidies to the state/counties/etc.

That should make them happy, no?

14 posted on 12/20/2024 5:39:00 AM PST by MortMan (Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Against Alliteration Abuse)

To: Paul R.

Enough with moonbat crazy women!

15 posted on 12/20/2024 5:40:34 AM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)

To: Vision

Or men that want to act like women in this case.

16 posted on 12/20/2024 5:49:00 AM PST by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happy)

To: Paul R.

I might point out BTW, that while Carbondale is a college town and liberal, IL
—

Wonder if it (or any college town) would be “liberal” if the voting age was returned to 21?

17 posted on 12/20/2024 5:49:34 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (My opinions are the result of 80 years of life, you may not like them but who cares.)

To: Paul R.

Ok, they can become part of Canada, then Canada can become the 50th state instead of 51st.

18 posted on 12/20/2024 5:50:38 AM PST by Omnivore-Dan (Shut)

To: Paul R.

Years ago Quebec held an independence referendum...that failed. IIRC there was no talk in Canada about troops moving into the Provence if they voted "yes".

Same happened in Scotland just a few years ago. No talk of troops being sent there after a "yes" vote.

Seems to me that if such an official referendum was held in any state a "yes" vote would be respected by Washington.

19 posted on 12/20/2024 5:54:19 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)

To: Paul R.

The President of SIU after the Civil War was the former Confederate General, Bushrod Johnson. Southern Illinois sympathized with the South as many of them originated from that area.

20 posted on 12/20/2024 6:00:45 AM PST by vetvetdoug

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