The Breakup of New York City continues
As the Big Apple deteriorates domestically thanks to self-destructive policies, secession pressure on its flanks is growing
In February 2023 a proposal was put forward for serious debate in the New York state legislature that Long Island should break away from the mainland and become its own state or join one of the neighboring states like Connecticut or Rhode Island. While the proposal did not get past discussion stage for that New York legislative session, it did lead to robust discussions on this prospect and what it might entail. The conversation was started and it has only grown over the past several months as the deterioration process of New York City has accelerated in almost real time.
This was followed in September by full-throated secession calls coming from the other flank of New York City in Staten Island thanks to the worsening illegal immigration crisis. Many prominent figures in the Staten Island area, such as Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis, have endorsed the secession calls, pointing out that the area was in self-preservation mode because of the serious problems caused by the illegal immigration and sanctuary city policies of New York City mayor Eric Adams. These calls ignited yet another conversation on secession in the New York City area, turning the secession conversations into a geographic pincer movement bringing counter-pressure on a government in Manhattan more interested in pursuing vague criminal charges against a political opponent than actually addressing the needs of their civilians.
Now more developments have transpired which are undoubtedly going to play a role in this ongoing secessionist pressure on New York City from it’s flanks. With the crime situation in New York City and its surrounding environs getting out of hand thanks both to the illegal immigration crisis and the woke law enforcement policies, Nassau County on Long Island has taken steps to empower their citizens to defend themselves if the need should arise. This has led to quite a firestorm in the political realm as reported by the New York Post and Fox News:
The Republican leader of a suburb bordering New York City has Democrats up in arms over a plan to deputize private citizens for emergency situations.
County Executive Bruce Blakeman has continued to irk opponents on the issues of crime and women’s rights as he seeks to wrestle control of the state capital and give his constituents a greater say in local policy.
Lawmakers opposing the plan are calling it a “militia,” drawing comparisons to Nazi “brownshirts” and held a rally outside the executive’s office calling on him to halt the proposal.
“I think it’s completely disgraceful, first of all as a Jewish elected official, to insinuate that I would be associated with anything that represented the Nazi regime, especially stormtroopers,” Blakeman told Fox News Digital. “It is absolutely reprehensible.”
While Democratic critics of the plan are alleging the provisional deputies could be used to quell Black Lives Matter or pro-Palestinian protests, Blakeman said all he’s done is create a database of potential volunteers to assist when county police are overwhelmed.
“Its just left-wing, woke, progressive stuff,” Blakeman said. “They claim now that they like the police, but these are the same people who wanted to defund the police.”
Source: GOP-led Nassau County to deputize private citizens, Dems blast ‘militia initiative’ - By Michael Ruiz
Blakeman later clarified under what circumstances and for what purposes these provisional deputies drawn from the common citizenry would be called up. On first glance these qualifications do not appear to make this a law which will be invoked frequently. However, the fact that Blakeman felt it necessary to officially put this down as county policy speaks to the threats he must sense not only from the local issues referenced earlier, but also from the ruling classes watching this situation from their high towers in Albany.
The provisional deputies would only be called in for devastating emergencies, (Blakeman) said, like Superstorm Sandy, which wiped out coastal sections of the county in 2012, a blizzard in Western New York two years ago that froze the city of Buffalo in place for weeks, a power outage that lasted days or an outburst of violent rioting.
Even then, he said, the provisional deputies would not be on patrol but would be stationed to protect infrastructure, including hospitals, government buildings, churches, mosques, and synagogues.
And they would only be used if there wasn’t enough manpower after activating active-duty officers and deputies.
“I would not activate anybody unless we had already declared all hands on deck, and we found we had deficiencies,” he said. “This would only be in a dire circumstance, No. 1, and, No. 2, to disparage people who served with distinction in our police department, in the NYPD, and in the military, I think, is just a disgrace.”
During a news briefing Monday, a reporter asked Blakeman if he thought the state’s National Guard, which came to the rescue of Long Island residents after the destructive Superstorm Sandy amid power and fuel shortages in 2012, was “insufficient.”
“The National Guard is a function of the state government that would be under the purview of the governor,” Blakeman said. “As we’ve seen, obviously, the governor said there’s no crime problem in New York, yet we have National Guard in our subways.”
To qualify for the program, applicants must already hold a pistol license, a steep hurdle in New York, consent to a background check, and submit a mental health history.
Provisional deputies would be subject to random drug testing, cannot have any alcohol or drug issues, and must be medically cleared as “fit for duty.”
Blakeman, commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey during 9/11, said most of the deputized individuals would be retired members of law enforcement or military veterans.
“This would be a very extreme circumstance, but what I’m doing is creating this database. (<Expletive deleted>) it should ever be necessary,” he told Fox News Digital. “Because I don’t want to be in a situation in an emergency where I’m scrambling.”
Local leaders have had the authority to deputize citizens for emergencies for more than a century, he said, but the new process allows candidates to be vetted beforehand and activated immediately.
Source: GOP-led Nassau County to deputize private citizens, Dems blast ‘militia initiative’ - By Michael Ruiz
Of course the totalitarian left went bonkers because of this proposal. Its clear some of the more far-seeing among them fear this expression of self-governance and the ability to defend themselves which is being presented. The vitriolic (and very sloppy) imagery they invoked to try and push back against this idea spoke to their panic:
Critics, however, have likened the provisional roster to a paramilitary organization. County Legislature Minority Leader Delia DeRiggi-Whitton likened them to Nazi “Brownshirts” in an interview with the local Patch.
“I’ve had some people tell me it’s actually causing them a lot of anxiety,” she told the outlet. “It reminds them not only of the Wild West but of times in Europe with uncertainty. There was something called the Brownshirts, which was basically having civilians all of a sudden become part of law enforcement without the training.”
Kim Keiserman, a state Senate candidate, described the provisional deputies as a “dangerous armed militia of vigilantes” in a post on X after attending a protest with Democratic lawmakers.
Source: GOP-led Nassau County to deputize private citizens, Dems blast ‘militia initiative’ - By Michael Ruiz
The irony of these objections should be obvious. The totalitarian left already boasts paramilitary organizations like Antifa and certain factions of Black Lives Matter as well as the cartel members who are being flooded in through the unguarded sections of the northern and southern borders. The fact that the power of these paramilitary organizations could be challenged by an armed and organized populace in a local militia (or ‘provisional deputies’ to use Blakeman’s term) is undoubtedly what is really driving their vitriolic responses to this proposal.
No one involved will have any police powers unless the county executive’s office declares an emergency and activates the volunteers.
Source: GOP-led Nassau County to deputize private citizens, Dems blast ‘militia initiative’ - By Michael Ruiz
How soon will we potentially see such an emergency? With the volatile state of the nation, and New York City already in a freefall, it may be sooner than many think. In any case, Nassau County on Long Island is preparing to defend itself. A self-defense force is a key element for any secession movement and Long Island, whether its leaders realize it or not, has put another piece in place for separation both from New York City and the state of New York should the current trends of the world continue.
Sources:
https://nypost.com/2024/04/10/us-news/nassau-county-exec-bruce-blakeman-plans-to-deputize-private-citizens-during-emergencies/
https://keepgovlocal.locals.com/post/3665272/secession-speakeasy-16-will-long-island-secede
https://keepgovlocal.locals.com/post/4580788/secession-speakeasy-33-welsh-exit-staten-island-secession-talk-explodes
https://13wham.com/news/local/lawmaker-calling-for-long-island-to-become-the-51st-state-republican-assemblyman-keith-brown
https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/09/02/could-staten-island-secede-from-nyc-to-escape-mayors-migrant-crisis/
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/calls-grow-for-staten-island-to-secede-from-nyc-as-illegal-immigrant-crisis-escalates-5484414
https://rumble.com/v3mrfr1-is-manhattan-driving-the-breakup-of-new-york-city-snsy.html