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To: RED SOUTH
It seems to me the more prudent question is not if a state can secede, but should a state secede?

Any thoughtful person is going to realize they have a better chance of reforming our government than trying to establish a new nation. Any state that successfully seceded would immediately become a haven for every enemy of the U.S.

51 posted on 04/17/2009 10:40:38 AM PDT by armymarinedad (Support, v., To take the side of; to uphold or help.)
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To: armymarinedad
It seems to me the more prudent question is not if a state can secede, but should a state secede?

That is the right question. As others have suggested, "can they" is a question to be decided by the leadership, or perhaps by force of arms if the socialist in our White House opposes the decisions of free men. "Should they" is a question that has to be answered first.

I do not think that time has come, yet, but I would still cheer if a conservative state left in response to the excesses and usurpations of the thugs who have taken power in our country. I would pray for the success of any state or states that left. I might even move there if they wrote a good constitution ... something like ours but with the line "and we really mean it" after each of the first ten amendments, or whatever it takes to convince lawyers and totalitarians that written laws have meaning.

76 posted on 04/17/2009 10:52:25 AM PDT by TurtleUp (Turtle up: cancel optional spending until 2012, and boycott TARP/stimulus companies forever!)
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To: armymarinedad
Any state that successfully seceded would immediately become a haven for every enemy of the U.S.

How do you figure that? Texas is to the right of the U.S., what enemies do you think that they would become a haven for, Californians, New Yorkers, the Democrat party, Now, ACLU, NEA, Acorn?

78 posted on 04/17/2009 10:53:25 AM PDT by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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