There are two different paths separatists can take. The conventional path is the legal route and the one usually taken. This path has been mapped out by the state. The legal route requires convincing a sizable percentage of the population to support separation. Then comes negotiating the terms of separation. A process in which the state has the advantage. The legal route to separation is time consuming, expensive and fraught with legal and organizational difficulties as it was designed to be. The other option is founded on security and property rights.