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Immigration See other Immigration Articles Title: Alabama Dem Candidate Larry Darby: Would Treat Illegal Immigrants As POWs Darby Would Treat Illegal Immigrants As POWs Tuesday, May 30, 2006 LIZ ELLABY News staff writer In all but one respect, Evergreen native Larry Darby is the prototype Southern politician. He was reared a Southern Baptist, the son of a row-crop farmer, and grew up in the backwoods learning early lessons about independence, he says. Darby, 49, acknowledges he broke the mold when as a teenager he rejected the concept of God. The Montgomery lawyer, founder of the Atheist Law Center to promote separation of church and state, faces Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson in the Democratic primary for state attorney general. Darby is running on a nine-point platform to restore state sovereignty. Under his plan, the state would gradually divest itself of the federal government, beginning with the National Guard, and strengthen the state militia. He advocates declaring marshal law, then "ferreting out" illegal immigrants and treating them as prisoners of war. Darby would elevate county sheriffs to what he believes to be their full constitutional power, deputizing an armed civilian police force to balance the state's power, he said. He also would prosecute the Montgomery-based civil rights organization Southern Poverty Law Center for treason for advocating open borders. "We are being invaded by a foreign nation," he said. "Our social fabric is based on Western European values. It was a European Enlightenment that led to the Constitution, and we need to hold onto those great ideals." That same message, delivered earlier this month at a Newark, N.J., meeting of the National Vanguard, a pro-white group, brought condemnation from state and national party leaders. The state Democratic party challenged Darby's candidacy for expressing doubt during a television interview that the Holocaust occurred and for voicing racial and social supremacist views. "Since then, we've heard from ordinary Democrats who want to make sure the party repudiates his message, and we do repudiate it," said state party Communications Director Zac McCrary. Darby, who calls himself a Thomas Jefferson Democrat, said Alabamians he talks to like his message. "The biggest problem facing our state is our loss of independence," he said. "Everyone understands it. The nation is being invaded and the U.S. government has indicated it's not going to do anything." As attorney general, Darby said, he would work to decriminalize "victimless crimes," such as drug offenses, to ease prison crowding. He said he would outlaw gambling because of its corrupting effect. He would also fight any attempt in the Legislature to designate as hate crimes offenses against certain classes of victims, such as homosexuals, he said. "Hate crimes are really thought crimes, just a way to add another layer to the intent that a prosecutor can find against someone," he said. "I'm opposed to having special protections for people because of things like their skin color or national origin." In 2002, Darby announced his candidacy for AG as a Libertarian but dropped out after three weeks, saying his views were more in line with those of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. He has little money to spread his message. At the last financial reporting period, Darby's campaign had raised less than the $25,000 minimum that triggers disclosure requirements. He is not likely to reach that threshold by the next deadline, June 1, he said. The advocate of state's rights, a former small business owner who earned business and law degrees in the 1990s, filed Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy in 1996 and 2003, according to court records. In the latest filing, Darby asked the court to discharge $102,606 in debt, including $70,831 in student loans. A divorced father of two, Darby has custody of his two teenage daughters, who attend public schools in Montgomery. Three years ago, he began regularly attending Alabama House and Senate committee meetings and debates. He said his interest was fueled by a fight over the mandatory Pledge of Allegiance at his daughter's school. "The state Legislature has no authority to mandate that children pledge allegiance to another government," he said. "That's why state sovereignty is a plank in my platform." In his platform, a pledge of allegiance would be instituted to the government of Alabama. E-mail: eellaby@bhamnews.com
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I'm starting to see more and more efforts by states to regain their sovereignty. Some state out west just segrated their schools. Maybe states rights will return when the bankrupt feds run out of answers and money. We can only hope. I read that King George at the end of the Revolutionary war signed thirteen seperate documents of surrender so apparently, he thought that there were thirteen seperate and sovereign states.
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