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EXPLAINED: Why Texas will Secede from Union
YouTube ^ | 17 November 2013 | Christopher Greene

Posted on 12/11/2013 6:13:05 PM PST by Windflier

Longtime YouTube political poster, Christopher Greene, makes a strong case for why the state of Texas will secede from the union.


TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: cwii; cwiiping; secession; texas
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To: Windflier

That’s kind of a catchy line there, Windi.


61 posted on 12/11/2013 6:59:53 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, it's useless. huh?)
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To: cripplecreek

Sam Houston was a wise man, and that was a great quote from him. My apologies to today’s firebrands, but what Houston said then holds true today, with just one change.

Then: The North is determined to preserve this Union.
Now: The Federal Government is determined to preserve this Union.


62 posted on 12/11/2013 6:59:59 PM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: cripplecreek

Texans were always impressed with Granholm types anyway, hang on her every word today too don’tcha know.

kidding, never snark..


63 posted on 12/11/2013 7:01:48 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: nascarnation; JRandomFreeper
“They’re going to deport their 4.6 million Medicaid and 3.2 million Medicare recipients to New Mexico.”

Just a damn minute. When you are over 65, you must be on Medicare and we pay for that every month over $100 and the vast majority of us have a supplement policy that costs us over $200 a month and we pay it. Those over 65 would include vast numbers of ex-military men and would be on our Texas front lines.

Medicaid people get free medical care - we on Medicare do not and we are valuable contributing Texans. Take back what you said about shipping Medicare people out of Texas and I might not beat you silly. :o)

64 posted on 12/11/2013 7:02:39 PM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Slyfox
Texas has, in spirit, already seceded by refusing to play ball with Obama's plan to turn our country into a Marxist state.

Amen. The true spirit of America still resides here, and will not stand mute while the last vestiges of freedom are destroyed throughout the rest of the republic.

This state has been about as civil as it can be, faced with what's gone on in Washington these last several years. There's a limit, though, and Obama is pushing it. I honestly don't know whether the people here can take another three years of worsening tyranny.

Something's got to give.

65 posted on 12/11/2013 7:03:35 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Marcella

I agree with you 1000%.

I immigrated to Texas three years ago.

I would not go back to the state where I was born and raised for anything.

I feel more free here, more independent, more “git er done “ :D


66 posted on 12/11/2013 7:04:20 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: Windflier

And how many other states will go with TEXAS!


67 posted on 12/11/2013 7:04:50 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: donmeaker
Why don't you be the first anti-secessionist in the history of Free Republic to actually read Texas v. White instead just stupidly parroting a psuedo-fact originally started by a forum creep who was exiled years ago.
68 posted on 12/11/2013 7:05:22 PM PST by Brass Lamp
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To: Theoria

“Rumors say Perry is trying to expand medicaid though.”

No, I believe Texas was the first state to reject expansion of Medicaid. It happened so early, I recall thinking we were the first to reject it.


69 posted on 12/11/2013 7:06:50 PM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: RitaOK
I thought GFU meant you were saying “good for you”

Hard to say what I meant when I posted that ;-)

70 posted on 12/11/2013 7:07:01 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: RitaOK

Does Texas have the right to secede?

This heavily popularized bit of Texas folklore finds no corroboration where it counts: No such provision is found in the current Texas Constitution[1] (adopted in 1876) or the terms of annexation.[2] However, it does state (in Article 1, Section 1) that “Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...” (note that it does not state “...subject to the President of the United States...” or “...subject to the Congress of the United States...” or “...subject to the collective will of one or more of the other States...”)


71 posted on 12/11/2013 7:07:23 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (Take out the trash)
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To: WildHighlander57
To what country/location would they be deported?

LOL!

Now that's a very good question!

72 posted on 12/11/2013 7:07:57 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Marcella

And 0 and his minions have poked their finger into texas’ eye time and time again.... I have lost count....

0 has sowed the wind....

And will reap the whirlwind

:(


73 posted on 12/11/2013 7:08:07 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: bigbob
Texas isn’t going to secede.

No, we're going to organize a constitutional convention that will re-establish the United States of America as a 44-State federated Republic that doesn't include the six New England States or downstate New York east of the center-channel of the Hudson River downstream of the Croton Reservoir.

The alienated (by disinvitation) States would include Chappaqua, New York, Riker's Island, Chappaquiddick, Hyannis Port, Harvard Yard, and other immortal altars of Ruling Class glory.

The United States would retain Bedloe's Island and its green colossus, Ellis Island and its memories of humble beginnings, and West Point.

Sounds like a deal to me.

74 posted on 12/11/2013 7:10:29 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: bigbob

Deported? People may as well consider “elsewhere” before too long, if this country is going to become unrecognizable and disarmed to boot. Delayed action is getting riskier by the day.

No one anywhere is really doing a damn thing, yet.


75 posted on 12/11/2013 7:11:01 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: gitmo
That’s kind of a catchy line there, Windi.

Thanks, Gitmo, though it is rather long for a bumper sticker :-)

76 posted on 12/11/2013 7:11:02 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

I’ve always thought that Alaska would be the first state to secede. It’s cold, isolated, it’s people are well armed and independent. It has the potential to be energy dependent if it develops refineries, and oil exports could be used to support a currency. Alaska could also play off the US by making agreements with China or Russia. I wouldn’t be surprised if a few Alaskan oilmen have already met with Russian or Chinese arms dealers.
So if China moves into Taiwan and expands its sphere of influence deep into the Pacific, perhaps Russia would get a piece of the action by making Alaska into a satellite/ally.


77 posted on 12/11/2013 7:11:33 PM PST by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
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To: Marcella
....what Eric puissant Holder says ...

Good one. I'm sure Eric's puissance is celebrated by puissants the world over.

78 posted on 12/11/2013 7:11:54 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: Windflier

Thanks for the ping!


79 posted on 12/11/2013 7:12:04 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Windflier; bigbob

Bobbin,

Question needs answering.... to what country would people be deported?


80 posted on 12/11/2013 7:12:46 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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