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Video: Derrick Belcher Starts Alabama’s Online Secession Movement, After Losing Topless Car Wash in 2001
Derrick Belcher, who started Alabama’s online secession movement, is angry because his topless car wash, Euro Details, was taken away by government regulations.
Belcher told AL.com: "The government ripped my business away, and now they’re choking America to death with rules and regulations."
However, it was not federal government regulations but rather local obscenity laws in Mobile, Alabama that closed his car wash in 2001, when President Bush was in office.
Oddly, Belcher did not call for secession when President Bush was in the White House. Rather, he waited 11 years later until President Obama was re-elected.
Belcher's secession petition has received more than 18,000 signatures. It is hosted on the ‘We the People’ page the White House website, along with about 30 other states' similar petitions.
Belcher, who works as a trucking manager in Chunchula, Alabama, told AL.com that the "government is taxing us to death," but failed to mention one tax that had been raised.
He said: "I don't want to live in Russia. I don't believe in socialism. America is supposed to be free."
Comments
Alabama didn't want their
Alabama didn't want their citizens watching naked tits bouncing while their cars were getting washed and this is Obama's fault how? If that's the only business Belcher wanted to own, he should have moved to Vegas. Belcher is typical of those leading the Tea Party. He's a whining loser with a lot if excuses. The idiots who followed this man's lead to sign one of those anti-American petitions probably don't even realize they just put themselves on a Homeland Security watchlist, thanks to George W Bush's patriot act. I appears every problem Belcher has with government is due to Republican policies and religious involvement in local law statutes, but like most Right-wing fanatics, he would never be convinced by the truth.
Derrick Belcher is a
Derrick Belcher is a worthless racist piece of dog feces. His own incompetence at business is probably why he is lousy at running his business, not government taxation or regulations. He just wants to have his cake and eat it too. Well, sorry, Alabama cannot even take care of providing proper education for its citizens. If the State allocated its Federal dollars more competently, they wouldn't rank on the bottom of the nation with such poor schools, poor health care, poor business opportunities, poor people and racist clowns like this guy.
I find it more amusing that
I find it more amusing that he pisses and moans about "massive regulations" when his business closed under REPUBLICAN leadership and Congress during a time of massive DEREGULATION. Using his logic, under THOSE conditions, he should have succeeded, but he didn't, so it has nothing to do with regulations, it has to do with having no business sense whatsoever.
His is the mentality of the ignorant, irresponsible taker and incompetent businessman.
There are plenty of businesses that succeeded during times of regulation and plenty that failed during massive deregulation.
His efforts would be better served if he applied them to some business courses and not his crazy secessionist ideas.
The insanity principle is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. The far right, the far left, vegans, creationists and other extremists believe in the insanity principle, religiously.
It's funny how he says: "I
It's funny how he says: "I don't want to live in Russia. I don't believe in socialism. America is supposed to be free." At this time the guy could go to Russia and have the less regulated market he claims to want.
All he needs to do is
All he needs to do is renounce his citizenship. Go see what the world is like outside of the US. Head to Somalia where there is effectively no government. Enjoy your freedom.
Everything I do, I do it for you.
Idiot doesn't even know who
Idiot doesn't even know who he should protest. It was state/local government that screwed him over.
Alabama is a taker state - they take in more in federal aid than they provide in taxes... D'oh! The US would save money if they left, but it is irrelevant.