Posted on 04/16/2009 3:03:22 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
AUSTIN, Texas – Republican Gov. Rick Perry insisted Thursday that his remarks about secession were not intended as an argument that Texas should leave the union, but Democrats still called his comments reckless and anti-American.
Perry's comments following an anti-tax "tea party" Wednesday never did advocate Texas breaking away from the United States but did suggest Texans might at some point get so fed up they would want to secede. ..
At the Texas Capitol on Thursday, Rep. Jim Dunnam of Waco, joined by several fellow Texas House Democrats, said some people associate talk of secession with racial division ..
"Talk of secession is an attack on our country. It can be nothing else. It is the ultimate anti-American statement," ..
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
There are a whole long list of things the Dems need to disavow
Demonstrators against US President Barack Obama, stage a protest in Staten Island, New York. Critics of President Barack Obama marked national tax day Wednesday with "tea party" protests that Republicans called the birth of a grassroots opposition, but Democrats dismissed as a fraud. (AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)
What's reckless and anti-American is a federal government that does not respect the concept of federalism. Indeed, it tramples on it.
At the Texas Capitol on Thursday, Rep. Jim Dunnam of Waco, joined by several fellow Texas House Democrats, said some people associate talk of secession with racial division ..
“Talk of secession is an attack on our country. It can be nothing else. It is the ultimate anti-American statement,” ..
Or maybe it’s nothing more than ‘ Texas going back to its roots’.
That said Perry will tone it down once the primary is over.
As soon as Lord Zero proves he’s eligible to hold office.
The only down side to succession talk will be the resulting population explosion in the Republic.
Perry is making an ass of himself.
It's also pretty reckless for the federal government to fail or refuse to protect and secure it's own borders. Just as reckless is the failure of the federal government to balance simple, common sense budgets, while endangering our entire economy.
Let’s all go back and reread the Constitution. Let’s indeed figure out which side is anti-American, which side is breaking the contract.
If Perry was being “anti-American”, he would have gotten hugs from the left. Ergo . . .
“Reckless and anti-American”????
Let me explain to the Democrats what’s “reckless and anti-American”:
-Obama, who STILL has not proven his citizenship, being fraudulently elected POTUS by the likes of ACORN
-Obama, going overseas and calling us all “arrogant”
-Obama bowing before the King of Saudi Arabia
-The DOHS issuing reports saying that conservatives are “potential terrorists”
-The federal government spending like there’s no tomorrow
-The federal government seizing control of private companies and firing their CEOs (ex: GM)
-The federal government showing a complete disregard for the U.S. Constitution
-The Democrats leading us on the road to socialism, using Stalinist scare tactics
...and I could go on, and on, and on....
Texans: Democrats can GTH! LOL
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, and Benjamin Franklin were all anti-American according to this moron? Apparently, socialist liberals would never have written something like:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Personally, I consider talk of secession to be profoundly American, especially when the long train of abuses and usurpations justifies such a discussion. I guess that's just because I'm NRA, prior-military, and a conservative Christian, which makes me a potential "terrorist" to the morons in the Democrat Party who can't tell the difference between bin Laden and Washington (except that to them Washington is worse because he owned slaves).
Sure, if the Democrats disavow Communism and return to American values of freedom and liberty. They won’t so it is a moot point.
Actually, I think equating paying taxes with patriotism is the ultimate anti-American statement. Doesn't this clown know how this nation was founded? It wasn't for pro-tax reasons.
Idle threat or not, Perry is getting noticed and not for rolling over. There need to be lots more people making not so subtle remarks about what this government is doing with our money and our freedom. I really don’t care if it makes people uncomfortable. Our fear to offend is exactly what got this motley crew of radicals into office.
Exactly. We’re heading there in a few mos, DH is job hunting.
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t’s a big state, we will fit in.
All the more reason to embrace and encourage steps toward eventually declaring secession. If the Democrats hate it so much, they are free to vote with their feet.
Illinois beckons.
>”Talk of secession is an attack on our country. It can be nothing else. It is the ultimate anti-American statement,”
And the retroactive, punitive, onerous taxation (that breaks Constitutionality at least four ways) of the AIG bonuses IS?
What about the DHS’s document claiming that certain political opinions indicate you are a terrorist, like being against abortion. (And here I thought that if you viewed the ending of a life for no crime it committed as morally wrong, that meant that you had some sense of Justice! Silly me, that’s obviously the rational behind terrorists!! [/sarc])
That our government, which is supposedly by the people, for the people, and of the people should refuse to look into the most basic parts of the contract between people and the government, that is the Constitution, by denying anyone who questions the eligibility of the President standing? That’s American?
That we have Congressmen who don’t pay the taxes they impose on others; that ignore and break with near impunity the laws that bind the mere citizen; THAT is American?
If THAT is what American is, then F-— America!
However, I don’t believe that is what “American” really is... I think American would be taking these evil people to Justice.
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