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Venice, Italy Votes To Secede From Italy Today
via SOTT
Voting will begin on Sunday in a referendum on whether Venice and its surrounding region should secede from the rest of Italy, in a bid to restore its 1,000-year history as a sovereign republic.
“La Serenissima” – or the Most Serene Republic of Venice – was an independent trading power for a millennium before the last doge, or leader, was deposed by Napoleon in 1797.
The republic encompassed not just Venice but what is now the surrounding region of Veneto and it is there that the vote will take place from Sunday until Friday.
Campaigners have been inspired by the example of Scotland, which will hold its referendum on independence from the rest of the UK in September, and Catalonia, where around half the population say they want to break away from Spain.
Activists say that the latest polling shows that 65 per cent of voters in the Veneto region, which includes historic cities such as Treviso, Vicenza and Verona, are in favour of cutting ties with Rome.
You know me, I’m all for this to happen. In many ways this is direct democracy. It is a freedom many of us don’t realize we have or should have. The ability to break ties with a government you no longer see as legitimate. Lord knows Venice has the moral high ground with Rome. Rome has long been the seat for corruption, greed and lies. Venice has a wonderful, long and independent history as it’s own nation. Back in the day they were thee naval power of the Mediterranean sea. VOTE YES! Make Venice the newest European state!!
rome is this, rome is that,
rome is what their democratically elected representants make out of it.
and the representants do not come from mars, but from ALL regions and departments of italy, venice inclusive.
so ?
It doesn’t matter as long as they stay in the Empire (the EU) and use the banksters’ fiat currency. But any real independence and the Empire will strike back.
maybe the article is a joke, meant to ridicule the Crimea referendum… I am German and I never heard in our TV news, or in WWW, of any of the three secessionist referendums mentioned.
And Texas is ready to secede from corperate U.S. tyranny too! Manipulated MSM polls are completely fabricated.