[OrangeHoof]

But this is NOT about slavery and I resent you trying to imply it is. That's the scare tactic of liberals that all secessionists want to reinstitute slavery or are the fantasy of gun nuts or tax evaders. That's the stereotype the liberals will use to try to defeat this.

No political movement is going to be entirely pure and without personal motives but my attraction this has nothing to do with the 1860s. I don't own a slave and I never intend to. I don't own a gun and I see no reason to unless forced into it. I've never made more than $40k a year so there's nothing financial in it for me.

I want a Texas that believes in freedom, capitalism and the fruits of a hard days' work, the way America used to be before an all-powerful and all-intrusive federal government decided to interfere.

I want a Texas where brown, black, yellow or white can achieve whatever they have the ability and the aptitude to do and to make a decent wage for a hard day's work. I am not for slavery and never will be.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I should have left off the part of the quote about slavery, the part about the motives of the politicians who would exploit discontent and disorder is what I was meaning to present.