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My name is Julia and I'm writing a sci-fi/fantasy novel about bloggers and wanted a place to work on the fictional blogs of my characters. This is just for fun and to get into character. Which means it's not going to be 'canon' - I don't want to worry about sticking to what is written here. This is an exercise to get me in the writing mood each day without commitment or thinking or worrying about grammar or flow. Sort of 'free style' whatever is in my heart kind of writing. The actual novel takes place roughly 20 years into the future from this point in time, so my characters are much younger than they will be in the novel. At some point I may start my own 'author blog'.

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Thursday, November 23, 2006

Nations within Nations... Communes, and the ISofA

Whoa! I knew this was something that many in Quebec wanted, but I never expected it would happen - and yet I've predicted it will happen in my novel.


PM to recognize francophone Quebec as 'a nation'


Nov 22 4:10 PM US/Eastern

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in Parliament he would recognize the country's francophone Quebec province as a "nation" within Canada.

In an unprecedented move to woo Quebec separatists, he said he would present a motion later in the day asking the House of Commons to "recognize that Quebecers constitute a nation within a united Canada."

Quebec has held and lost two referendums on separation from the rest of Canada, in 1980 and 1995. Federalists won the second vote by a narrow margin.

Harper's surprise move, he said, was aimed at blocking "an unusual request" by the separatist Bloc Quebecois to define Quebecois as a nation.

Quebecers typically understand the term to mean "a people," while Anglophone Canadians consider it akin to nationhood, with all the international responsibilities and benefits that come with it.

Politicians have tried to avoid debating this sensitive issue over the past decade, fearing it would lead to a constitutional crisis, or a loss of support in the next election in Quebec province, which holds 25 percent of parliamentary seats.

"For (the Bloc), 'nation' means separation," Harper said.

"Quebecers have always played a historic role in advancing Canada with solidarity, courage, and vision, and to build a confident Quebec, an independent Quebec that's proud and has solidarity within a strong and united Canada, an independent and free Canada," he said.

"Do Quebecers form a nation within a united Canada? The answer is yes. Do Quebecers form an independent nation from Canada? The answer is no, and it will always be no."



In my novel there are many such 'nations within nations' - I call them colonies and communes and they are made up of like-minded people who want to live life their own way, make their own rules and elect their own officials, but still want the protection of a larger nation that they are in. Some entire states break off and build walls and such which is why I call it the "Independant States of America" And some 'cities' are independant and run by corporations or unions...

So- yet another step closer to the world as I imagine it could be... thought I'd post about it. :)

just thought about this - home owners associations and communities make up their own laws already... that are IN ADDITION to the laws of the city/state/country. So what if the country decided to only have the very basic of laws, but let the individual states come up with their own methods of governing. I think that's sort of how the founding father's imagined it - before our Federal government took over so much power to dictate what happens... Eventually (in my novel of course) states and cities will decide they don't like the way their neighbors do things and want their own laws - and FENCES to keep out the criminals and build safe places to raise their kids or to live their lives.

All land in between being no-mans land or where people who don't want laws - the anarchists would live there.. as would the gangs... with mafia lords taking over small communes that didn't have enough security of their own hired to keep them out - OR their own security system could work like the mafia.. hmmm... lots of possibilities.

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