Floridians are next in line...
Godspeed, my Lone Star FRiends - if your state makes it to the point that they go down this road, you will have many challenges ahead of you ... wish I could move down there ;-)
If this does happen, We’ll move there! I really liked the San Anglo area when I was there in ‘96 for Crash Fire Rescue School.
BS I am the only one who actually flew to D.C. went to my Representatives office and said that I will not participate in the healthcare mandate. Don Young’s staff sounded like they were on board but unfortunately it is, and was, up to the Senate. Lisa Murkowski has been doing some good things, I think it is because she has political cover, but if she can stop Obama care and Cape and Trade then I am willing to give her the benefit of the doubt.
Floridians are next in line...
Here is the deal with secession; if you want it, it is an individual task. I do not suggest it because I believe it is a last resort that requires a willingness to die. America is not at that point yet; keep your powder dry.
You have a right to secede, but it's not a CONSTITUTIONAL right. It's a right that predates the Constitution, and does not derive from the Constitution. The Constitution is a supreme national government that lays claim to all its subjects, and acts not just on the states, but on the people directly. The only way out is the way you came in--by convention of the whole. Or by force. Either way is by definition EXTRA-constitutional.
For the first time in my life, I truly believe that there could be armed insurrection or even a military coup to oust our current President and Congress. If marshal law were to be declared in any state and federal troops were ordered in to enforce Obama’s dictats, I could see mass mutiny in our armed services. If we fail to start a clean out of Congress with the 2010 elections or if those elections are in some way thwarted by Obama declaring some trumped up “national emergency” I could see outright civil war.