FOLKS - LET’S GET BEHIND THIS PETITION AND SHOW UP AT THE CAPITOL IN AUSTIN ON SATURDAY AUGUST 29 AT HIGH NOON TO “ENTICE” GOV. PERRY TO CALL A SPECIAL SESSION FOR NEW BINDING LEGISLATION ON TEXAS STATE SOVEREIGNTY.
Secede
Gonna be interesting to see if Governor Ricky is a stand alone or just another dancer in the chorus line.
Secessionists vs. .... uniates? unionists? Again?! It’s only been about 150 years since the last time and the neighbors still complain about the noise!
Texas was already an independent country before joining the Union.
I don’t want to see states secede.
But I also don’t want the federal government to give them reasons to.
Do you actually think Gov. Good Hair truly supports state sovereignty or succession?
All this tough talk from Perry is nothing more than a ploy to garner support for reelection.
Perry is no friend of Texas y'all.
It would seem that Gov. Perry is too busy building Toll Roads.
$100 to anyone delivering the petition if they can get a picture proving that Gov. Ricky’s hair can, in fact, still move.
I like the idea of facing down the tyrannical central government, and forcing them to adhere to the clear mandates of our Constitution, but I do not support secession.
We can “get ‘er dun” without leaving the union. I think that just the threat of secession would cause Washington to squirt their trousers, but I don’t think we need to actually go through with it.
The way I see it, is this country belongs to The People. It’s our Union. Not Washington’s.
If there’s going to be a separation, I vote to separate DC from the rest of us.
You guys secede and we may just move down there.
I want to live in Texas! Again!
Sandy Cheeks Texas song
Wish I was back in Texas,
The ocean’s no place for a squirrel,
Wish I was in Texas,
Prettiest place in the world, oh no.
I guess deep in my heart I’ll always be a Texas girl
I wanna go hommmme hooommmmmme hommme oh oh
Yoldle ay e oh, yodle ay e oh, yodle ay e oh, a lay-ee, a lay-ee.
I wanna wake up in Texas
I miss those wide open skies.
I miss my 20 acres, bar-b-ques,
And peacan pies, oh why?
When I’m so far from you, Texas, all I can do-o is cry.
I wanna go ho-oome,
Ho-oome, (a guy)I wanna go ho-ome!
FYI :)
From the Article: “Violence is not condoned by anyone involved.”
I disagree, the 2nd Amendment says “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state; the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
This means that the existence of the free state is defend-able with force
(ie violence). Furthermore, the military oath is not one of loyalty to the government, not the president, not the congress, not the USSC, but it is to the Constitution. This suggests that violence is indeed an answer to a corrupt state, which is itself oppressive to the people and does not recognize the restraints set upon it by the Constitution:
— Why was the AIG bonus passed? It is Ex Post Facto AND a Bill of Attainder?
— Why was the Executive allowed to void the legally binding contracts of the GM bondholders?
— Why are the bondholders denied the rights to a) seek redress, b) jury trial for criminal act perpetuated against them, c) civil suit against the government?
— Why hasn’t John Murtha been tried for treason?
— How can a legislature even pretend to have legitimacy when they have PASSED LAWS THEY HAVE NOT READ!?
Please secede Texas, I love the Texan people and I need to move to a place where I can be free of the G— D-— liberals who are destroying America!
I’d be all for it, except if Texas secedes then the US will truly go down the toilet for sure. At least with Texas this nation still has a fighting chance.
If Texas would stop taking all federal grants, transfer payments, welfare/Medicaid/social security monies, and determine to collect all fed income taxes directly from citizens (in a hugely reduced amount since we would not be partaking of the federal pie anymore), and send the pro-rated amount via the state to DC, I think we’d enjoy a period of freedom and prosperity that most of us haven’t seen in a long, long time. We as people and as states have sold ourselves into slavery, now we need to stop taking the bait so we can get free.
Ultimate goal would be that Texas doesn’t participate in Fed income tax at all, that we just calculate some flat or fair sales tax amount (or tariffs or other fund-raising means) for the services we do decide to participate in (national defense, interstate roads, etc.) We only pay for those services that are outlined in the constitution. If Washington illegally decides to go beyond its constitutional limits of authority, we just blow them off! We say, sorry, that’s illegal, you can try to impose this federal law, agency, legislation, etc, but it’s illegal and we aren’t going to play your game.
We basically ignore all the rest of the stupid federal environmental regulations, education funding and regulations,etc. Ultimate goal, NO welfare, NO social security, no centralized statism, return power to local levels.
That sounds pretty radical, but if we could do it I think the problem of liberals in the state would correct itself.
Also, if federal grants to public ISDs and universities were eliminated it might solve the problem of all the liberal Marxist professors and teachers. They would all leave if they couldn’t get their piece of the pie for teaching all their Marxist and politically correct revisionist history drivel. Go back to completely free market college education and some form of free market/free choice plan for K-12 education. Let the state and only the state of Texas decide if they want to use any taxpayer funds for state colleges and universities.
The federal government only exists as a service to the states, and if states would start remembering that and enacting their own legislation accordingly, I think maybe some of these problems could be solved.