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There are still options for the Occupy protesters at that postage-stamp piece of private property on Wall Street known as Zuccotti Park. They could form their own free state right there in Lower Manhattan. Zuccotti Park could secede. Possibly the U.N. would grant it independent-statehood status. Probably so. The first “After America” state.

“Vermont independence supporters have played an active role in the Occupy Vermont movement,” the Second Vermont Republic, which advocates Vermont secession, reports on its website. “Indeed, Matt Cropp, co-founder of the Vermont Independence Alliance, is one of the principal organizers of Occupy Vermont.”

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