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Secede from the United States?
WTVA-TV ^ | November 13, 2012 | Robert Byers

Posted on 11/13/2012 4:23:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

FULTON, Miss. - The talk these days on many social media web sites like Facebook is a petition to secede from the United States and for states to peacefully create their own government.

We found many people who had signed the Mississippi petition like Brandy T from Saltillo, Irv C from Philadelphia and Michael A from Southaven.

Itawamba Community College Chairman of the Social Science Division Dean Burchfield said, "I think it's a movement of people who want to say they're not happy with the government."

The instructor of history doesn't put much stock in the online effort.

Burchfield said, "If a state wanted to secede, it would be more than just signature petitions. It would have to come from state leaders and people who would organize like conventions or whatever. But I don't see any state seceding."

The movement has gained the attention of some in the national media, enough for stories to be done.

(Excerpt) Read more at wtva.com ...


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1 posted on 11/13/2012 4:23:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ve got it!

All 50 states can secede from Washington DC.


2 posted on 11/13/2012 4:27:23 PM PST by Marie ("The last time Democrats gloated this hard after a health care victory, they lost 60 House seats.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The movement has gained the attention of some in the national media, enough for stories to be done.

The media is scoffing at these petitions. One ABC report mentioned a counter petition that demands signers of the succession petitions be deported.

3 posted on 11/13/2012 4:27:35 PM PST by skeeter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The movement has gained the attention of some in the national media, enough for stories to be done.

to have been written ...

4 posted on 11/13/2012 4:28:43 PM PST by plain talk
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I've got a better idea.

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5 posted on 11/13/2012 4:28:54 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Marie

What about the other 7 states?


6 posted on 11/13/2012 4:29:09 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I didn't like the election results either. But, there is no way I could possibly support a State leaving the Union.
7 posted on 11/13/2012 4:29:25 PM PST by Volunteer (Though I know that the hypnotized never lie, do ya? - The Who)
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To: dfwgator
What about the other 7 states?

Well, seven out of Obama's 57 states have apparently already seceded because I can't find them anywhere.

8 posted on 11/13/2012 4:30:42 PM PST by softwarecreator
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To: Volunteer
there is no way I could possibly support a State leaving the Union So ... don't.
9 posted on 11/13/2012 4:32:01 PM PST by softwarecreator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Personally, I’ve always been pretty irritated that NY, CA, MA, and VT have a say in our national government.


10 posted on 11/13/2012 4:33:21 PM PST by EricT. (The GOP's sole purpose is to serve as an ineffective alternative to the Democrat Party.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why should we leave they’re the ones who need to get the hell out!


11 posted on 11/13/2012 4:35:02 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Apparently that History teacher doesn’t know his subject all that well. It wasn’t secession that caused all the pain that resulted from the Civil War. It was Lincoln’s unconstitutional response, attacking those southern states that expressed a desire to be free of that national government whose constitutional responsibility was to ensure they had that right.


12 posted on 11/13/2012 4:36:59 PM PST by RavenATB
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To: RavenATB

The other three candidates were more of the “erring sisters, depart in peace” attitude, IIRC.


13 posted on 11/13/2012 4:39:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: RavenATB

Well said and true.


14 posted on 11/13/2012 4:40:12 PM PST by varina davis (A real American patriot -- Gov. Rick Perry)
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To: EricT.

You should rub some preparation-H on that.


15 posted on 11/13/2012 4:40:31 PM PST by APatientMan (Pick a side)
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To: dfwgator

I think that the point is being made that there are a lot of folks that are rather unhappy with the direction that things are going.


16 posted on 11/13/2012 4:40:48 PM PST by Captain7seas (Fire Jane Lubchenco)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If secession will not work, how about expulsion? Let’s expel California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington, DC, Hawaii, Delaware, Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont. If we got rid of the extreme left fringe of our country, we could follow the Constitution and restore the rule of law. I don’t see a down side - they would have the socialism they want, and we would have the freedom that we want.


17 posted on 11/13/2012 4:45:34 PM PST by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

History repeats itself. Look what Reagan did to the USSR, after the collapse they fragmented. That will happen in the USA when we too collapse. The red will seperate and become oil exporters like in the USSR.


18 posted on 11/13/2012 4:46:44 PM PST by Undecided 2012
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To: skeeter

Let those states that wish to leave secede from the United States
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/228/644/059/let-those-states-that-wish-to-leave-seceed-from-the-united-states/


19 posted on 11/13/2012 4:47:34 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Pollster1

Let’s expel California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington, DC, Hawaii, Delaware, Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Sorry, they’ve got the freebee D vote. Let’s just wait til it collapses, then we seperate


20 posted on 11/13/2012 4:49:56 PM PST by Undecided 2012
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