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Entry: Racism, Ron Paul & Porn Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/ron_paul_racism_porn#27215 Post contents: Your use of the word balkanize is the opposite from what it means. Yugoslavia, which is the former Balkan country referred to here, was one federal state that broke up into several sovereign states. Up until here there was no real problem with that happening. Yugoslavia was arranged in a similar way to Switzerland, the Soviet Union, and the USA. Soverign states would merge into a bigger, federal or confederal unit. Thus they'd reap all the advantages of being a bigger and more powerful political unit than compared to when each of those states act on their own. The reverse process was foreseen and built into the judicial frameworks of these federations from the very beginning of their formation. So there should be no surprise should one or all of the Swiss kantons decide to go solo. Or if Vermont should. It is written that they can. In the Yugoslav dissolution wars the process went a bit further though. The Serb minority in Croatia created a fragmented para-state named Krajina. In neighboring Bosnia, the Serb minority, again, created another para-state, the Serb Republic. The Croatians in Bosnia saw that Bosnia as a country had no future and in turn created their own para-state, Herzeg-Bosnia, tightly attached to Croatia. And finally, a muslim businessman in Bosnia created his own Bosnian muslim fiefdom which was supported by both Serbia and Croatia, and which fought against the central muslim government of Bosnia. In fact, this process went even further than described here. There were "pockets", villages and cities which formally belonged to an established state or para-state, but in practice aligned with the supposed enemy locally. There was a place somewhere in Bosnia that was a very small Croatian area completely surrounded by the territories of their enemies, the Serbs and the muslims. So when they were at one time attacked by the muslims, they *rented* tanks from the Serbs to fight off the attack. After the battle was over, the rented tanks were returned. To their formal enemies. Anyway, balkanization hasn't happened in the USA yet. When Vermont, Texas or California secede, that will be according to the judicial framework of the states themselves and of the USA. Still no balkanization. However, when cities or counties in those states start seceding, when local warlords, or emperors, like Norton I, start making proclamations and backing them up with enough firepower, then we'll have balkanization. Sent at: 2008 09 06