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.
bttt
There is a word for having a gun pointed at you and being told you can’t leave. It’s called a hostage situation.
I've said it before...I'll say it again. The wrong side won.
FMCDH(BITS)
Yes I’m stuck in the middle with you,
And I’m wondering what it is I should do,
It’s so hard to keep this smile from my face,
Losing control, yeah, I’m all over the place,
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
Well you started out with nothing,
And you’re proud that you’re a self made man,
And your friends, they all come crawlin,
Slap you on the back and say,
Please.... Please.....
Are we really free if we’re not free to leave?
Outstanding article.
The older I become, the less I can find justification for the slaughter of over 600,000 men, and the widows and orphans that produced, in order to keep a “Union” of people who no longer wished to be associated with each other. The economic and social ruin to the South took over a century to repair.
It seems like the case presented by Jefferson in the opening of the Declaration of Independence certainly applied to the South in 1861.
Wow..! This is a truly great column.