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Texas Secession Petition Ignored by White House
ABC News ^ | 12/10/2012 | Sarah Parnass

Posted on 12/10/2012 7:09:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

As it should be.

The secession hissy-fit is just that. Be an American. Be a Conservative. Let’s start a Conservative party but it requires not throwing a tantrum. Did all those people take their balls and go home as kids?


21 posted on 12/10/2012 8:54:44 PM PST by RIghtwardHo
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To: RIghtwardHo

Tell that to the Founding Fathers, thank you very much.


22 posted on 12/10/2012 9:08:06 PM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.")
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To: basil
Same here, Wilshire elementary, San Antonio, but Bruce Campbell Pictures, Images and Photos "That was just pillow talk, baby."
23 posted on 12/10/2012 9:21:40 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Obama will not ignore these petitioners.

Obama is adding their names to his mailing list. Those who signed the petition will be asked to contribute to his presidential library fund.

24 posted on 12/10/2012 9:31:05 PM PST by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: terycarl
Texas did in fact seceed by the vote of the people and the legislature..... and has not since ask to rejoin the union. Was forced back to the Union and filled with carpet baggers in official positions. Anyone who fought or gave aid to the war effort was unable to hold public office for years... That included all of our leaders of the time. It is time to reclaim our Nation.
25 posted on 12/10/2012 9:39:25 PM PST by Patriotoftexas (Ready for real change we can believe in ..... not the socialist change happening now!)
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To: Tau Food

Those who signed the petition will be asked to contribute to his presidential library fund.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Very true....and those that DON’T contribute will contribute more than they ever dreamed.


26 posted on 12/10/2012 9:41:36 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")
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To: RIghtwardHo
"As it should be. The secession hissy-fit is just that. Be an American. Be a Conservative. Let’s start a Conservative party but it requires not throwing a tantrum. Did all those people take their balls and go home as kids?"

Conservative party? And do what exactly? Win the next one? right.

Those that are for secession would be much better off supporting a Constitutional Convention. Same for those wanting to form conservative parties, tea parties, etc.

Anyone that thinks we are going to regain our liberty by winning national elections and reversing socialism is wasting valuable time and effort. Most of this country is controlled by the red states. We only need a few more to call a convention and take our country back. The founders gave us the option for the states to call a convention for the EXACT situation which we now find ourselves.

Like it or not, the time to correct the course of our country through elections has past. We are on step two and that's the states calling a Constitutional Convention. Step three is brute force.

27 posted on 12/10/2012 10:24:47 PM PST by precisionshootist
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To: SeekAndFind

You mean to tell me the administration lied! Why, I never....


28 posted on 12/10/2012 11:10:54 PM PST by vpintheak (Occupy your Brain!)
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To: terycarl
I have always been taught that Texas, because it was a free republic when it willingly joined the union, could leave whenever it decided to do so.

You have been taught incorrectly. Read the Constitution of Texas of 1876 which was the Constitution adopted after the War Between the States and approved by the Federal Legislature. No right to secede!

29 posted on 12/11/2012 12:08:29 AM PST by TexasRedeye
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To: SeekAndFind

Why ask permission? Have we accepted that obama is a dictator? Even the white house says it’s not their jurisdiction. So, what’s the next step? I’ll answer that. It would be to elect a governor who can remember a list with only three items on it.


30 posted on 12/11/2012 12:28:41 AM PST by Terry Mross (I don't watch the "news". Someone ping me if something big happens.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why ask permission? Have we accepted that obama is a dictator? Even the white house says it’s not their jurisdiction. So, what’s the next step? I’ll answer that. It would be to elect a governor who can remember a list with only three items on it.


31 posted on 12/11/2012 12:28:56 AM PST by Terry Mross (I don't watch the "news". Someone ping me if something big happens.)
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To: norton

Actually, Texas was allowed in by a treaty that was never ratified. I’d think that would outweigh any old civil war no matter who won.


32 posted on 12/11/2012 12:31:35 AM PST by Terry Mross (I don't watch the "news". Someone ping me if something big happens.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Direct quote from a post yesterday:

“Holder, however, rejected this argument. “Essentially, the 10th Amendment is a dead letter,” Holder said. “As the Civil War demonstrated no power asserted by any state can stand against the might of the federal government.”

So let me paraphrase:

“Those pussies! Those wuss states! They actually believe their people and legislatures have anything REAL to do with government? What a bunch of tools....
They’ll do what we SAY, not what we do!!!”


33 posted on 12/11/2012 12:39:30 AM PST by djf (Conservative values help the poor. Liberal values help them STAY poor!!!)
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To: precisionshootist
We are on step two and that's the states calling a Constitutional Convention.

We should all be writing our congressmen, writing our state government, and protesting in the streets calling for this and for calling the democrat party , the media, and Obama which all equals the democrat party for what they are election stealing villains , takers of our freedom and birthright.

We should at least name the threat = the democrat party.

34 posted on 12/11/2012 12:50:05 AM PST by Democrat_media (limit government to 5000 words of laws. how to limit gov Quantify limited government ...)
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To: KarlInOhio
You got to shoot at a federal fort to get the Union to pay attention to your articles of secession.

What if, come 1 January, Texas workers suddenly found the federal boxes on their pay check stubs zeroed out? That is, more or less, what secession would entail, is it not (physical security of Pantex not considered)? Imagine: a country sustained by sales taxes!

35 posted on 12/11/2012 12:51:07 AM PST by cynwoody
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To: SeekAndFind

I make it a point to ignore the White House. The man who lives there is not my president.


36 posted on 12/11/2012 12:57:10 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: terycarl

That may have been the case the first time, but I’d bet more than one beer that it wasn’t the case the second time.


37 posted on 12/11/2012 2:36:38 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Artcore

>>>Reality check here folks. Do you seriously think the Federal government would ever allow this to happen. Sorry, but it’s time to wake up from this little dream.

Hmmm. I don’t know. Spread the military thin enough in lots of foreign wars and there’s not much left at home to prevent a state from seceding.

I hope Texas keeps this dream alive. As far as I’m concerned, the more the federal government has to worry about regarding the possibility — or even a hint of a threat — of internal revolt, the better.


38 posted on 12/11/2012 2:56:06 AM PST by GoodDay
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To: SeekAndFind

Start ignoring federal regulatory edicts and chase the EPA out of the state when they arrive under 10th Amendment rights...that’ll get their attention.


39 posted on 12/11/2012 4:12:13 AM PST by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: terycarl

“I have always been taught that Texas, because it was a free republic when it willingly joined the union, could leave whenever it decided to do so”

Tell that to the Southern States that WILLINGLY JOINED the Union. When they tried to leave Lincoln sent his murdering hoardes South and 4 years later almost a million Americans were dead. All the Founding Fathers believed in secession. Every last one of them. The murdering madman Lincoln said to hell with Jefferson, Madison and Washington. They were all wrong. He was right. We have all been slaves to the Federal government since April 1865, when Lee surrendered to Grant.


40 posted on 12/11/2012 6:18:48 AM PST by NKP_Vet
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