Posted on 11/13/2012 1:28:45 PM PST by walford
Obama secession petitions: 34 of 50 states petitioning the president to secede
It's unclear whether these petitions are a nod to dissatisfaction that some conservatives think may soon match Civil War proportion,or not. However, the utter contempt for the Obama administration indicated by this petition drive, which appears to be on its way to all fifty states, is very clear.
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Commentary by walford
Greetings from Virginia.
These petitions at the very least make an explicit statement that, in the aftermath of the most recent election, many of us are finding ourselves in a country that is no longer a nation.
In its bid for power-by-any-means, the Party of Jim Crow has successfully played upon fear, envy and other base emotions selling the bill of goods that dependency and hedonism are to be exalted, while the values of freedom, self-reliance and equality under the law -- upon which the Party of Abraham Lincoln were founded -- are out-dated at best and evil at worst. People who stand for limited government and individual rights are smeared as by definition stupid, ill-informed and/or evil.
We have a smirking, disdainful elite that is increasingly unable to conceal its contempt for the general population for whom it purports to advocate. Much of their energies are spent thwarting popular will if it cannot be manipulated via carefully managed information from the classroom, Movie Theater, T.V. screen and press. They are building a medievalist society in which the vast majority is deliberately kept poor, ignorant and disenfranchised.
And yet they are lionized as champions of the masses.
They consider themselves entitled to have political influence grossly disproportionate to their numbers. Much like the Machiavellian princes of pre-democratic Europe, they regard themselves superior [without having to be bothered to offer proof as to why] and therefore tasked with Divine Right the responsibility to lord over us as paternalistic tyrants -- because we cannot be trusted to see to our own economic needs and personal security. Hence, they are against anything that empowers the citizenry and for anything that fosters dependency.
Rather than being born into this class, one gains exalted status via the political arena wherein the rules depend upon with whom you are connected. They make it clear that there is no legitimate means to garner personal economic success other than in the media, politics or the entertainment industry. They have many convinced that it is not possible to gain wealth while creating jobs in the private sector except through treachery that must be roundly punished. If people lose jobs as a result, this is blamed upon capitalist greed, not their policies.
And there is no such thing, of course, as greed for the ability to use the coercive power of government to hold sway over others.
It is not too hard to predict the results of the medieval barbers currently in charge prescribing more blood-letting as a cure for economic anemia. Most people don't care about politics, but they do care if they can provide for their most basic of needs as wages remain flat and the cost of living soars. There simply are not enough of “the rich” to provide for the rest of us and most still have enough pride and integrity to want to pay their own way.
What will come of this, it is hard to say. But those of us who truly love America are not going to stand idly by and watch our country lain waste by those who demonstrably fear and loathe the Land of the Free.
Sic Semper Tyrannis.
Yeah, Texas is different from Afghanistan. One big difference is that secessionists like you are vastly outnumbered by Americans. They’d take care of business without Fed intervention.
You wanna go for it? You’ll be spending the rest of your life in jail - in Texas - and deservedly so.
Texas should reassert the 10th Amendment as every state should. That’s where the battle lines should be drawn with the growing Federal bureaucracy.
Secession is to the statist thug as the cross is to the vampire. You are showing your fangs. You had better stay out of the light.
Americans are outnumbered by Marxists apparently.
Go be a Quisling...
“You had better stay out of the light.”
But I’d be perfectly safe anywhere near you, because you certainly aren’t very bright.
“Americans are outnumbered by Marxists apparently.”
Yes, reasserting the 10th Amendment is a sure sign of Marxist leanings.
You nailed it. It will be the War of Northern Aggression, Part II.
Liberos vivere, aut mori.
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