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...answer may lie in the case of a Boston University student who had the misfortune of getting into a fight with the now-infamous John R. Silber. In 1986, Yusef Abramowitz lived in one of B.U.'s many student dormitories. Concerned about the university's South African holdings, he put a poster advocating divestment in his window...
Never one to beat around the bush, Silber sent some goons over to take the sign down. Easy enough. It is a B.U. building, after all. But Abramowitz wasn't willing to take "no" for an answer. He proved that as fast as the functionaries could take the placards down, he could put another...
...answer for the Minutewomen was not to be found in the elements yesterday. The answer was right there, on a cold and wet Ohiri field. The rain probably seemed light in comparison...
...usual answer -- the Lithuanian answer -- is an appeal to history. The American South voluntarily joined the American Union. Lithuania was conquered and involuntarily absorbed into the Soviet Union. Its original incorporation being illegitimate, it is not really seceding, it is merely reasserting a pre- existing independence of which it was robbed 50 years ago when jointly raped by Hitler and Stalin...
...answer is, first, that South Carolina, unlike Lithuania, was not fully democratic. In 1860, 58% of its population was enslaved, denied, among other human rights, the vote. It was a white minority government, we would say today, that voted for secession...