Posted on 04/16/2009 7:52:34 PM PDT by DCBurgess58
Texas Governor Rick Perry used the big "S" word at a TEA party in Austin on the 15th of April. Secession, the act of a state withdrawing from the United States. His comment was not a serious suggestion, but rather an implied threat. A little red meat for an audience who are sick and tired of seeing a bloated Federal Government wringing tax dollars out of citizens and mortgaging our children's future. Not to mention destroying the promise of America.
He is talking to an audience of the disenfrachised. Common citizens who believe that if we are to continue on this road, the United States of America WILL FAIL. The greatest and noblest attempt at creating a government of the people, by the people and for the people, will be relegated to the trash heap of history as an unworkable concept. In truth our failure will be due to leftist policies, which altered our system of government and then killed it off under the ensuing mountain of debt caused by those policies.
Of course the Republicans don't get off scott free on this issue either. The Republican party has become a lost cause as an antidote to the leftward push of this country. The GOP may grumble their dissent from the left's policies but there seem to be no leftist policies which the Republican party will not eventually adapt to and accept. There is no line in the sand which the left is forbidden to cross. There are however, many lines in the sand drawn by the left which the Republicans are unable to cross once the territory has been ceded. These policy shifts are strictly a one-way street (to be fair to the Republicans, however, the left has masterfully manipulated the Judiciary, declaring their policies "legal" and positions contrary to their policies "illegal").
Quite frankly, our country is like a car heading down a freeway, headed for a brick wall somewhere off in the distance. The driver has no intention of slowing down or turning off the road. In the back seat, a skinny passenger on the left keeps commenting on how much he hates this old car and how much nicer it would be to have a new car. A fat guy in the middle of the back seat seems oblivious to what is going on as he listens to his MP3 player and stares at the scenery flying by. A skinny guy on the right side of the back seat tries to tell the driver to slow down and take an exit from the freeway. Each time the skinny guy in the rear right side tries to talk though, the guy in the front passenger seat (The Press), talks loudly over him, disagreeing, criticizing, asking the skinny guy on the left for his opinion and ultimately mocking the skinny guy on the right, so that no one will hear what he is actually saying (The press wants to have a shiny new car too).
As far as analogies go, the car heading for the brick wall pretty well sums up the path our country is taking for me. I feel like that skinny guy in the right rear seat. I am totally disenfranchised in the United States. My vote means nothing. I can't elect anyone who can stop the destruction of America. Those in power are either driving our country to ruin or doing nothing to stop it. Aside from Fox news, AM radio, and some of the internet, the press has been taken over by the political left, to the point where it is virtually impossible to get any news which is not tainted by the editorialists of the left.
Rick Perry's talk of secession got me to thinking that breaking apart the United States is probably the only way of saving it. Imagine if all the "red states" seceeded from the United States. We would finally be able to fix the problems in our home states by starting over. Go back to the original concept that the founding fathers intended. Modify the areas which have been exploted to our country's detriment.
We could clarify that in the freedom of religion, that we are a Judeo Christian nation and that other religion's are allowed only on a basis of our toleration and subject to banning (hey, if the Muslims can ban us, what the heck, plus we could shut down those cults like Scientology). We could enshrine that there is no seperation of chuch and state, only a ban on the government having an official state religon (like the Anglican church in England). We could limit the press, just a bit, with reasonable constrants on them being politicized, publishing classified information and eliminate their ability to use "unnamed" sources. We could fix the judicial system by limiting their function to being an advisor to the legislative and executive branches, not their overlord, with their primary function being reverted to criminal and civil trials. We could restore the concept of State's Rights and limit the Federal Government to enumerated functions only. We could secure our borders, to include keeping undesirable elements from our former union OUT. We could restore the promise and freedom that has been taken from us. Most of all, we could leave the States that chose not to seceed with their DEBT!
Aside from Rick Perry’s comment being the start of my talking about secession. I believe I was quite clear that I think ALL the red states should seceed. I never once mentioned Texas going it alone.
Yes, did you see how little change took place in Texas?
Define Red State? Texas is in reality divided. If we really did secede I am positive that we would have an internal Civil War. Plus even if the other “Red” States came along, what I wrote on the previous post still stands. The smaller weaker states are screwed. It happened in the War of Northern Aggression and it will happen in any other war. Somebody has to be Belgium.
I don’t mean to piss on your parade and having a discussion is very important. I just hope the keyboard warriors will step outside their first world ivory towers and understand that such an action will not be like standing around eating fried Oreo ice cream while pretty young girls in white dresses sing The Yellow Rose of Texas and farting blue bonnets.
We have a lot to lose. Are you willing to lose it? Are you willing to cast vote that determines the lives of millions? If you are please do so by dispensing of hotheadedness and do so with a clear sober mind.
In my mind we are losing "it" anyway. Might as well try to go it alone, peacefully. These Yankees want us to go, by the way. These are not your Great-Great Grandfather's Yankee's. They are totally wussified.
I would suggest Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin for portraits on two of the bills. And the Alamo and USS Texas would have to be there too.
But I reccomend using the GOLD standard unlike the USA.
secession is the nonsense the enemies of america are rejoicing about.
The foreign media is already discussing hwo the USA will be a divided up nation in less than 20 years. (ala weather underground)
If anything texas should TAKE OVER the USA.
(just don’t move the capitol to houston)
I have already contacted Perry, state Senator and State representative to get the ball rolling.
People need to get theuir voices heard on this.
No use in getting ahold of our US Senators Cornyn or Hutchison.
Both have drunk the DC tea and have been polluted.
great find.
Dramatically captures why the feds and the littel NE states will fight us.
Want to see the economic impact of Texas. Look at this Job Loss Map.
http://www.slate.com/id/2216238/
That map displays graphically why the “blue” states (who are really red as in Commie) are so behind marxism. Without it they loose the game.
It also displays how much more stable the heartland is than the rest of the nation. Look at the Blue in Texas.
Population centers on the East and West Coast are the Big Losers.
You've got it half right. What you're failing to recognize is that Texas was admitted to the Union not once, but twice. When Texas was readmitted to the union during reconstruction, the old terms became null and void.
Well said. If Texas were to take up arms against my country, I would take up arms against Texas. I’m an American first, period.
More recent, but in the same vein.
Can you quote the document that gives Texas that right?
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