Posted on 11/14/2012 8:33:52 AM PST by rightistight
Every single state in the union has created a petition to secede from the United States in the aftermath of President Obama's reelection.
Already, in a mere week, seven states have exceeded 25,000 each, which triggers an automatic review from the White House (or so they've promised). Those states are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.
At the time of writing, Texas has already garnered an incredible 97,083 signatures. In fact, over a thousand had signed the petition in the time it took to write this article.
Texas's petition reads:
The US continues to suffer economic difficulties stemming from the federal government's neglect to reform domestic and foreign spending. The citizens of the US suffer from blatant abuses of their rights such as the NDAA, the TSA, etc. Given that the state of Texas maintains a balanced budget and is the 15th largest economy in the world, it is practically feasible for Texas to withdraw from the union, and to do so would protect it's citizens' standard of living and re-secure their rights and liberties in accordance with the original ideas and beliefs of our founding fathers which are no longer being reflected by the federal government.Combined, across the nation the number of signatures has exceeded 675,000 and it rapidly growing.
When it reaches 10 million let me know.
Let’s get real. No one is seceding. These petitions are just a way for people to vent and fed gov to get lists of potential trouble makers. There is no way you will get 2/3rds of the people in 2/3rds of the people in 2/3rds of the States to agree to this.
This is just a post-election temper tantrum with people threatening to take their toys out of the sandbox. We won’t change a thing until we start dealing with the individual attitudes of dependency that got us in this mess in the first place.
+1
He had them already...
"...So that the King may read it unaided." - John Hancock.
04 ought to tell you what the future holds, like it or not.
As has been stated, if you won’t sign your name to a simple protest petition... We can’t count on you for ANYTHING else.
This is an attempt to re-fire the Soap box rather than having to open the Cartridge box.
Of course, if you are against a simple petition, I can only imagine the words you may have in store for those who might advocate taking their Country back by force of arms...
At this rate? Come back next week.
Choose a side.
“Duty is ours, consequences are God’s.” Stonewall Jackson
It just irritates me that these clowns get a stiffy over the idea of secession but didn’t even bother to vote in downticket races for things like college administrators where the creation of marxism in America begins.
Its not that liberals are good at what they do so much as conservatives are pathetic and can’t see past the brass ring.
> > The Lone Star state was once once an independent republic before. It could do it again.
Uh, no, they can’t. They tried it in 1861. After the war (in 1869), in a dispute over Texas’s prewar ownership of US Treasury bonds, the US Supreme Court held that Texas’s secession was null and void from the git-go (and thus the sale of the bonds by the Confederate government was illegal). The case was White v. Texas.
Don’t they teach that case in 4th Grade Texas History class?
Joining the Union voluntarily would predicate the idea that you were free to leave said Union as well.
Or is becoming a State signing on for a suicide pact?
> > Or is becoming a State signing on for a suicide pact?
More like marriage, without divorce. “For better or for worse, in sickness or in health.”
It’s an 1869 case. Good luck getting the current Court to overrule it.
Who said anything about ASKING the Court anything?
You brought them up, I pointed out where they are no longer legitimate since they are bent on exceeding their rightful authority at every turn...
Choose a side.
If it can’t be done constitutionally, then the alternative is civil war, and how many B1 bombers does Texas have?
More Constitution fail.
I take it that means you are on THEIR side. Good to know.
Some freepers were chiming that this would create an Obama target list. I wonder if Obama wants to target one million possibly after all the petititions are completed.
Accounting for over-lap, I don't think this will bother the petty Tyrant wanna-be much.
I agree these freepers who won’t sign due to being worried about being on a list as cowards. Good thing these wusses weren’t around in 1775.
> There is no Constitution clause saying that the Union must be preserved no matter the cost...
You’re correct, there isn’t.
However, the question of the secession of Texas was put to the Supreme Court in 1869, and the Court already ruled.
The Court is not last because they’re right, they’re right because they’re last.
“It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.” —Marbury v. Madison (1803).
Again, how many B1 bombers does Texas have? I understand your emotion, but secession is a fool’s errand.
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