Posted on 11/28/2012 2:23:59 PM PST by Kaslin
Well written...and well-taken....
It is disturbing that the topic of secession has become mainstream. The liberal sites are talking about it, too. One site has people saying they’d approve letting states go except for Texas because they want the money from Texas.
Little bit of trivia...Sickles killed the son of Francis Scott Key, when he found him having an affair with his wife. Sickles then became the first person in the United States to succesfully employ a defense of temporary insanity.
The Northern Democratic and Republican parties favored allowing the South to secede in peace...
Absolute nonsense. Mr. Williams needs to read some American history. Even Robert E. Lee saw secession as revolution, not as constitutional.
Good one.
Opus tease!
Is not state sovereignty guaranteed under the Tenth Amendment?
If a state freely joins the union, then cannot a state freely leave?
The Heritage Foundation: “Can individual states secede from the United States?”
Yes - to address an ambiguity in the Constitution.
Starve them of revenue and make politicians lives as miserable as possible. States need to start banding together and tell the Feds to shove it. No one needs to support the BS from the kooks on thr left. The time honored method of shunning needs to re-emerge.
States created the federal government in 1789, and states can abolish the federal government now if it choses to do so.
When I made a 600-mile, cross-state trip two months ago, here in my state of Texas, I was making a point to count how many Romney bumper-stickers I saw, in order to gauge how much enthusiasm there was for him. I counted seven Romney bumper-stickers in all. I also counted three “SECEDE” bumper-stickers. They’ve been around for a while, as a somewhat tongue-in-cheek message.
This was obviously before the election and the publicity of the petitions drive. I’m glad the whole topic has finally broken through. If blue-state America is bound and determined to follow Obama down his commie-statist rabbithole, and with the takers vs. makers threshold portending the country’s ignoble demise, the secession question is looking like a viable option. As it is, there is really becoming less and less of an America even worth preserving anymore.
And give Obama his fantasy come true of being Just-Like-Lincoln? No thanks. The Kenyan would make even Old Abe look merciful.
I intend to keep my head down, cultivate my garden, pray for the best, and prepare for the worst. If enough of us Go Gault, it may not be too long before this mess collapses and we can pick up the pieces and get on with our lives.
That said, my last shred of loyalty to the Yankee government is gone forever.
Bad news - Texas can't be "let" to do anything. If Texas decides to go, there is nothing anybody can do about it and I'm moving to Texas.
bttt
More trivia: Sickles received a General’s commission in the Union army because of his political connections, and commanded Third Corps at Gettysburg. Sickles disobeyed his orders to defend Little Round Top and projected his troops out into the Wheat Field, where they suffered serious casualties. Sickles was one of them, losing a leg. During Grant’s reorganization of the Army of the Potomac, Third Corps was eliminated, it’s components being distributed among other units.
Well, since there aren’t many elk in Oklahoma, and if we don’t hear “We did it a different way back home” whining out of you,, we may let you stay!
It would make much more sense to repeal the 17Th Amendment.
Easier, no bloodshed, no US troops...
It would put health care, control of the National Guard, local schools, local highway laws and gas tax, etc., all back under the control of the states, where it should have been all along.
Just look at what federal mandates have done to state fiscal problems.
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