Supporting full statehood for DC, and all current and future DC citizens, means opposing S.132 and its poison pill components, such as S.132 not preventing future land transfers of current day DC territory to other states again. HISTORY OF TRANSFERS OF DC LAND TO OTHER STATES In 1945 the US Congress handed DC land and river, most prominently the landfill land under DCA National Airport, to Virginia, without any approval of Washington DC citizens. The S.132 partition plan creates a new full state with a new (and mind bogglingly expensive) name (New Columbia) from most of DC, yet retains the core downtown of disenfranchised DC as the disenfranchised play thing of the US Congress, which can be transferred completely or entirely to another state (e.g. to Virginia in 1945) or similarly misused. ONE DC STATE WITH FEDERAL BORROWING OF KEY LAND DC need not be ever partitioned or have land transferred, ever again. Every other state in the Union has Federally controlled land inside their state, borrowed from the state, so everyone can vote in that state, be they in the Federally borrowed lands, or simply in the state, and that if the Federal Government ever leaves, the land is still in a full US State. S.132 could use the partition language as defining full voting rights DC land to be borrowed by US Congress from the full state of DC, protecting DC citizens rights and territory, and full cooperation with the Federal Government. MISUSE OF DC LAND BY CONGRESS Between 1955 and 1962, the US Congress removed the absolutely essential DC infrastructure of the DC Streetcar system, triggering a population decline from the World War II peak of 900,000+ DC citizens, in the following 55 years down to 572,059 by the 2000 US Census. The S.132 proposed new partitioned disenfranchised zone includes the National Mall, the location of where three streetcar lines crossed the National Mall, before they were unilaterally removed by the US Congress. Essential current or future DC infrastructure required by the current and/or future people of DC, should never be threatened by malicious removal by the US Congress ever again. If the S.132 were modified to support a one state for all of DC with full voting rights, with Federal land borrowing instead, permits DC to specify the location of all current and future infrastructure corridors through the Federally Borrowed zone, without the Federal government having to specify where current or future Federal infrastructure, such as secret bunkers, secret lines of communications, or anything else, precisely is inside my proposed Federally borrowed zone. The S.132 partition plan (a new full state and continued disenfranchised territory) makes it impossible for DC to build and maintain essential infrastructure through the disenfranchised zone without considerable cooperation of US Congress. DC LAND GRAB 1945 LAW TRANSFERRING DC LAND TO VIRGINIA The US Congress law from 1945 linked here, transfers DC river and land to Virginia, but manipulatively does not explain that the river and land were from DC, nor that a significantly new boundary was drawn, by using the term the then current tidal water line of 1945. The DC owned river was filled with soil by human actions, in increments since that boundary was defined in 1632, but especially in the 1930s and early 1940s during World War II, with DC land filled to build DCA National Airport creating significant land with a new tidal water line. The law simply states that the land at the then current tidal line boundary of 1945 is the DC and Virginia boundary, skipping the details of then recent substantial land filling and airport building, constituted in fact a major redrawing of the DC and Virginia boundary, without the consent of any DC citizen, nor from any directly elected leader of DC citizens, because such elections were and and at the Federal and State level still are banned by US Congress. (DC local government level was restored in 1973, after a 172 year gap created by the disenfranchising US Congress. DC US Presidential elections were restored in time for the 1964 elections, restoring these elections to DC citizens after a 164 year gap, between Jeffersons election of 1800 and LBJs election in 1964.) Pub. Law 79-208 59 Stat. 552 (1945) legisworks.org/sal/59/stats/STATUTE-59-Pg552.pdf
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