Hello,
I am sending you all this email in response to the email about the Secession convention. I believe in this secession movement but I believe in working as a group for common goals too. Many groups can work with us for common goals, groups such as the New England Confederation Alliance

http://www.newenglandconfederationalliance.org

and the free newhampshire movement. Once one group successfully secedes the others can follow. I like how the New Hampshire project has a thing for people to move there and I think Vermont should follow suit, but I think New Hampshire should have a petition online that everyone can sign. Like I was saying before, all these groups should sign each others documents to promote these secessions. The Vermont petition is at:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/166703669
and the new hampshire one is at:
http://freestateproject.org
With our current indecision with presidents, situations with war, and the falling of the stock market now is the time for smaller areas to become free and more directly govern the areas that will be effected. Below are reasons for sucession and movements to do so and some important links.

secession:
In November 2006 the same group sponsored the First North American Secessionist Convention which attracted 40 participants from 16 secessionist organizations and was (erroneously) described as the first gathering of secessionists since the Civil War. Delegates included a broad spectrum from libertarians to socialists to greens to Christian conservatives to indigenous peoples activists. Groups represented included Alaskan Independence Party, Cascadia Independence Project, Hawai?i Nation, The Second Maine Militia, The Free State Project, the Republic of New Hampshire, the League of the South, Christian Exodus, the Second Vermont Republic and the United Republic of Texas. Delegates created a statement of principles of secession which they presented as the Burlington Declaration. The Second North American Secessionist Convention in October, 2007, in Chattanooga, Tennessee received local and national media attention.
Several towns in Vermont including Killington recently explored a secession request to allow them to join New Hampshire over claims that they are not getting adequate return of state resources from their state tax contributions.

Links about Vermont's independence:
http://sacredlands.org/
http://www.vtcommons.org/
http://www.vermontrepublic.org/
http://www.newenglandconfederationalliance.org/
http://freevermont.net/
http://www.sec.state.vt.us/secdesk/Opinions/2007/May_07.html#Voice%20fro...
http://novacadia.org/
http://www.middleburyinstitute.org/
http://www.nhfree.com/
http://www.republicofnh.org/
http://newenglandsecession.blogspot.com/
http://www.secession.net/

-Andrew Edwards