Posted on 04/15/2009 4:54:36 PM PDT by Dallas
It's one of those sad facts of history not taught in government schools, just as their were 700 free African Americans who were slave owners living in Charleston, also, according to the 1860 Census.
If such an undertaking as declaring Independence in Texas were to succeed, it would need to overcome reluctance to commit the same errors of the Confederacy at the outbreak of the War Between the States. After First Manassas, not moving directly into Washington was an error the Army of Northern Virginia lived to regret.
The logistics of a war with Mexico invading from the South and the Union invading from the North, both unnecessarily galvanized by the convenient distraction of "rebellion" is a nightmare I would rather not dwell on.
Peaceful Non-Cooperation is a better choice, it seems to me, to achieve the purposes of a Free People, bound to gain the support of those who love Liberty everywhere, though I can also think of few things less likely to happen if Texas' cooperation in the Union's agenda is coerced. Just such a horror might be precisely what the Statists would prefer, don't you imagine? What would serve their purposes better than the unifying spell of hatred that could be cast elsewhere in the Union?
Still, like Lee, if Texas were to decide to leave the Union, I would choose to fight or die in her defense. The Collective knows this better than we give them credit for, as they always use the conscience of those who have a conscience as a club to beat down the spirit of Independence and individual liberty.
She who bore me is worthy of more than life, as is liberty, though no such fight is necessary. There is more than one way to skin a cat.
Texas has the money to pay for these things you mention because unlike many other states, we are fiscally conservative, which has lead to a very large surplus.
That’s great news.
LOL — My thoughts as well! I’d gladly give up the snow for heat, if it means more FREEDOM! :)
Dude, this is just an academic exercise that Texans play often, kind of like a fantasy football league.. we aren’t really breaking away.. heck, most of the real Texas secessionist movements are freaks, either selling bogus land grants and fake money, to other nutty groups..
We like to know, and remind the rest of y’all how good we are and if we had to, we could go it alone..
We’ll just say the rest of the USA is succeeding from us.
Cannon fodder for their invading army.
“When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to dissolve the political bands which connect one people to another...”
When America is no longer the America we pledged allegiance to, when the Tree of Liberty withers from thirst, when the looters outnumber the producers, then it’s not treason: it’s reason.
I have a feeling a lot of states would join us. The United States of Texas would be a thing of beauty
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Get Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama Georgia, Fl, South Carolina. United States of Texas.
.......we aren’t really breaking away......
You should think absorb. That is what other states can be absorbed. Once absorbed and part of Texas, they can join the effort to leave
We'll manage somehow.
Tell them we slap our necks at least three times every morning just to make sure they’re Red.
Where the hell have you been?
This nation is already "broken up"
Well, so is my vitriol.
I don’t sweat this any more than I do the Code Pinks.
I don't believe this.
Ever heard of McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform?
I thought AMR American Airlines was based in Dallas?
Gee, thanks! ;) Why not just send them back SOUTH and back HOME??? March ‘em to the border and tell them to swim back, or you’ll have them dig a hole instead... LOL
And most importantly, we have the Cowboys
Bring it on, Yankee!
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