Stirrings of Secession

Townhall.com ^ | November 30, 2012 | Pat Buchanan

[Zippo44]

Actually, many of us in Texas have long wanted to build a wall around Austin and impose passport control on I-35 and 290.

[meadsjn]

I would advise you to look to the ghettos, barrios, and/or unions where there is no shortage of thugs, venom, OR weapons.

Thanks for the reminder. There are also liberals and union thugs dispersed throughout the red state regions who are not friendly to conservatives. These will be as snakes in the grass.

However the coming months or years play out, it will not be pleasant or easy for anyone. Living, or dying, in a war-torn $hithole is just that.

[catfish1957]

"then it is they who should be doing the leaving"

How do you propose doing that?

[TADSLOS]

Thanks, and I agree. The EBT failure will be a major trigger.

[Jim Robinson]

I don’t care how they go, but it’s up to us to defend OUR constitution. And defend it we will. I’m not seceding. If the liberals insist on living under communist rule, they should move to Cuba. This is America and we believe in and defend Liberty!!

[MrB]

But... but... all we have to do is work harder and win the next election! Right? Is this thing on?

[Himyar]

My liberal sister is terrified of my purse. It contains a S&W .357 Magnum. I don't see her marching on us “right-wing nut jobs”, rifle in hand. I however, fat old grandmother that I am, am ready to man the barricades.

[Figment]

Going over the Cliff is probably the best option. The defense cuts are the hardest to stomach though

[calex59]

For all those that think secession is illegal, think again. There is nothing in the constitution that disallows secession, in fact to claim it is illegal it to fly in the face of everything the constitution stands for. Freedom, freedom to leave the Union as well as to join it, once the feds start taking our freedoms we can leave the Union. Lincoln was wrong and started(yes, the North started the war)the civil war illegally. Losing that war cost us our 10th amendment rights.

We are at a point where we may never get back all of our freedoms if we stay in the Union, secession may be the only way out.

[Arm_Bears]

. . . the issue of a state's right to secede was settled at Appomattox. If that right had existed, it no longer did.

Disagree. The Confederacy was bludgeoned back into the Union. Adding insult to injury, the Southern states have been supporting the rest of the country economically for at least the last 50-years.

[MestaMachine]

I should have included the muslims and the nation of islam. If anyone thinks they won’t fight, they are delusional. And if anyone thinks they are not armed to the teeth, they are beyond delusional.

[x]

Why would anybody possibly think that things would work out as easily as that? Why would anybody think that tearing up a great nation would result in such benefits? Why would anybody trust any politicians enough to think that they would “protect individual rights at every level of government” and run campaigns “based on which one of them would protect individual freedom”? How could anybody be so deluded about what politicians and people are really like?

[Travis McGee]

From time to time, fire has proven to be an agent of urban change. Once, Chicago burned down.

[central_va]

People forget this political battle field has two equal hills, Federal and state. Well the socialists took the Federal hill, the state hill is overgrown and dormant and ripe for the taking.

[Travis McGee]

It’s an osmotic stratification process, so moving “redder” is always good, but the first and best results will be from turning red deeper red, and making these states bastions of freedom and examples of success.

[Travis McGee]

I submit the "fun" part of socialism is over. The run on the Treasury was easy as taking candy from a baby. Spending $6 Trillion over 4 years was the "fun" part, now the so called greedy producers will pay the bill or else. We are are entering the "not fun" phase. Where we will start to actually feel the pain...

I hope a few of their decision makers are aware of ballistic reality.

[grumpa]

A proposal: www.freetexasconstitution.wordpress.com

[Travis McGee]

Nobody knows what will happen when magical thinking crashes into cruel reality. (And that unhappy event is baked in the cake.)

Or who, if anybody, will crawl from the flaming wreckage alive to write the next chapter of history.

[Travis McGee]

People forget this political battle field has two equal hills, Federal and state. Well the socialists took the Federal hill, the state hill is overgrown and dormant and ripe for the taking.

Yes, I agree strongly. And that's why I included federal in this little meme.

[Chuckster]

You mean like the “Free State Project” that was all the buzz around here a couple of years ago? They picked New Hampshire. How is that working out?