Not the whole state, but a lot of the state is separate.
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.
“if tshtf, the whole east coast will become annexed into dc proper. they can’t fuction w/out uncle sugar.”
Look on the bright side, Texas will win the Hunger Games every year.
Not the whole state, but a lot of the state is separate.
Don't worry. If Texas is forced to go it alone, the borders will be sealed (for real) and most hardened libs will self-deport. The rest we can deal with.
Not even close to likely. This isn't 1861. Americans no longer have the stomach to engage in mass blood letting over a purely political question of union.
Should Texas (and any other red states) decide to secede, there would be a ton of words thrown, but no bombs or bullets. The political will and backbone to compel a wayward state into remaining in the union through military force does not exist.
The union will shatter before the people accept the full and complete surrender of every liberty to a tyrannical dictatorship.
What we have now, is a soft tyranny which is flaunting our laws and traditions, while undermining the foundations of the republic. There's a lot of outrage in the public over it, but you'll know when it's gone too far, because that outrage will suddenly be replaced with a quiet, unshakable resolve to end it.
We don't. Governor Perry rejected it.
Stop Amnesty . Tell the Congress not to bring up any immigration related bill as it will be merged with the Senate Amnesty bill in conference.
The last Amnesty is what turned California from a a red state to a blue( democrat/socialist) state.
In other words, Texas doesn’t want to face OU in the Red River Shootout anymore.
"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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."
So how will the tyranny be reversed?
Cut off the welfare, government grants, and government jobs and they will leave on their own.
That’s where I see it heading, the U.S. will simply dissolve, perhaps states will form their own unions, maybe Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas a Southern-Central union, each union forming based on common values of the populace.
There won’t be enough money to fund the military, so it won’t come to armed revolt, the government’s money won’t be worth anything anymore.
If the Northeastern states love massive debt enabled by government handouts, more power to them, I suppose they can fund themselves with Monopoly money.
Sure they do. So long as it's on tee vee. And that's how most will experience it. Drones, cruise missiles and JDAMs dropped from several thousand feet makes it pretty easy.
-— If the Northeastern states love massive debt enabled by government handouts, more power to them, I suppose they can fund themselves with Monopoly money. -—
Believe it or not, Massachusetts has a balanced budget amendment, with a bloated welfare budget. High tech keeps the state afloat. When the businesses finally flee, the state will shrivel up like a NY mayoral candidate.
You obviously don't know Texans very well. There's a will amongst most Texans that's akin to something like a distilled and concentrated originalist American mindset.
I say that as someone who's a Texan by choice.
May the yoke of California be light upon your shoulders...
Texas is getting tired of proping up the revenue sucking states from those of us who provide more to Uncle Sucky (D.C.) for distribution to those states that cannot sustain their own nonsense...
And that’s just the feduciary issues...
If you desire more, please feel free to engage...I have plenty of ammo...
The traitors are not the providers, the ones requesting that we return and restore fiscal and social responsibilities across the country, it is the people constantly whining about, “whats in it for us???”
You might just consider coming home to Texas. I'm sure a lot of things have changed since you left, but one thing that remains is the spirit of these people. Texas will not fall.
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