Here’s the man who started Alabama’s Secessionist petition:
“Derrick B.,” the man who started a petition seeking Alabama’s withdrawal from the U.S., is a truck driving, knife collecting former owner of a topless car wash who describes himself as “an absolute Libertarian.”
He feels secession is the only way to “save working Americans from crushing debt, burdensome federal regulations and rising taxes.”
“I don’t want to live in Russia. I don’t believe in socialism,” said Belcher, an operations manager for a Mobile trucking company. “America is supposed to be free.”
Belcher, a former business owner, blames the government for shutting down his previous business.
Belcher said his Euro Details car wash, which featured topless women, was successful for a decade on Halls Mill Road in Mobile. But he said he was arrested and charged with obscenity by city officials in 2001.
“The government ripped my business away, and now they’re choking America to death with rules and regulations,” he said.
He was inspired to start the petition while attending a gun and knife show.
