Posted on 09/10/2013 11:07:21 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
Barry Smitherman, head of the powerful Texas Railroad Commission and is seeking to be the state's next Attorney General, made waves last week with comments about economic collapse, energy policy and the future. However, those things only led up to a much bigger statement: "We have made great progress in becoming an independent nation, an 'island nation' if you will, and I think we want to continue down that path so that if the rest of the country falls apart, Texas can operate as a stand-alone entity with energy, food, water and roads as if we were a closed-loop system."
In an interview with WND, Smitherman added that Texas is "uniquely situated because we have energy resources, fossil and otherwise, and our own independent electrical grid."
"This was one of my goals at the Utility Commission, and it is one my goals currently as chairman of the Railroad Commission," Smitherman said. "That's why I stress so vehemently oil and gas production, permitting turnaround times, and everything that enables the industry to produce as much as it can, as quickly as it can."
Smitherman also said that Texas has "been very strong leading in the charge against the Obama administration."
Though Smitherman did not use the term "secession," it seems clear that Texas is at least making preparations so that it can stand, should other states around it fall. I think this is a wise thing. They see the real problems coming and are seeking to deal with them at the state level rather than allow the problems to overtake them.
I have at least one question regarding Texas. How is Texas dealing with their southern border and the influx of illegals pouring into the state? That seems to be just as much a threat as the other things Mr. Smitherman mentions in the interview.
I also have a question as to what other states are doing, if anything, to prepare for what is obviously on the horizon.
Following the re-election (which I believe was filled with fraud) of Barack Obama in 2012, people from all 50 states signed petitions to secede from the Union. The petitions garnered enough signatures, that shortly after, the White House raised the minimum signatures for response to petitions from 25,000 to 100,000. The Obama administration took its time in responding to those petitions and essentially sidestepped the issue, having Jon Carson respond with "But as much as we value a healthy debate, we don't let that debate tear us apart."
I don't think it's debate that is tearing this country apart. It's policies that are doing that. While Carson attempted to wax eloquently about secession and the Union, I think the Obama administration fails to realize that those petitions were merely a "shot across the bow." Smitherman is indicating that preparation is being made for the real deal by at least one state. My guess is that if Texas is doing this, there are other states quietly doing it as well.
God Bless Texas!
Dunno where this will go, but it’s honestly preferable to going blue and cooperating with demise, for whatever the down side presents.
Great minds....... :)
Sure would like to see a few more Northern Gun Manufactures move to Texas before we talk much more about this.
if tshtf, the whole east coast will become annexed into dc proper. they can’t fuction w/out uncle sugar.
i clarify, whole northeast.
Maybe I’d better move there so I don’t have to apply to immigrate later!
Ping for later
I’m ready...
Just make Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Ft Worth and Houston libs move to the east or left coast, and I am all of this idea.
Texas may as well have to. Unfotrunately, the fedgov monster will more than likely come down on Texas like a ton of bricks, with total carpet bombing and no prisoners. Kinda like the soviets did when they dropped the iron cutrain. Oh, and did I forget that the country just south of you, and their sovereigns (illegals) will side with the obama regime in taking you out. Texas is in the middle of a shit sandwich, and the feds know it.
Screw You We’re From Texas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-cFtSPIF4Q
TX is preparing.
So is the Department of Homeland Security.
Is that to be our fate? When the economy and society implode in quick time, we are to accept hard tyranny?
If we do nothing, a nationwide police state is a near certainty.
There is little time.
If Texas has a federal Obamacare exchange, then they might need to provision for a transfer of that responsibility to the state level, or a transition plan back to pre-Obamacare health care.
Make sure you have a cool passport ready with a gun on the cover too.
Cut and run. That is all it is. It is NOT a Conservative principle. It is a cowardly principle. It is traitorous to these United States, pure and simple.
That's it in a nutshell.
Texas is the only state that is not interconnected, electrical wise, to every other state.
And for that reason, is the only state that can "go-it-alone", when the Odumbo administration destroys the rest of the country.
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