Posted on 11/15/2012 9:42:16 AM PST by Pfesser
Texas Gov. Rick Perry does not support a petition for the Lone Star State to secede from the union.
But a lot of people do.
The online petition asking the federal government to allow Texas to withdraw from the U.S. following President Barack Obama's reelection has nearly 100,000 signatures. It appears on a section of a White House website called “We The People" and cites economic difficulties due to the federal government's inability to cut spending.
Supporters suggest that secession would protect Texans' standard of living and "re-secure their rights and liberties."
(Excerpt) Read more at caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com ...
You must not know Texans very well if you think that's a problem.
Amen!!!
Ah, but Texans love Texas even more.
True that.
Seconded.
I can’t see any governor, Republican or Democrat, going along with secession of their state. They don’t want to lose those federal funds that they get. I wouldn’t sign a petition, but I would love to see it happen.
I don't know how it would work, either. Guess we wouldn't know until we tried. If we did, though, I'd be right there on the line with a bunch of other Texans, many of them Hispanic.
If Texas secedes, who gets to keep any nuclear weapons that may be stored in Texas?
” - - - Supporters suggest that secession would protect Texans’ standard of living and “re-secure their rights and liberties.” - - - “
DUH! OF COURSE! And your point is?
BTW, there are only two Economies in the Western World that are now improving: 1.) Ireland and 2.) TEXAS!
Don't get me started....
FMCDH(BITS)
The constitution had been breached by Obama Care mandating individuals and businesses to pay a tax. What more permission do we need?
If multiple States secede from the U.S. and form a new association, they will not collectively constitute a new Nation. Each of the States is already a sovereign Nation unto itself.
The word State is synonymous with Nation. There is a reason they are not called something like "provinces".
The Pledge of Allegiance reference to "one nation [under God] indivisible" was put there as propaganda. It was a post-Lincoln concept.
Hell yeah! Especially if they let me immigrate and they deport the liberals!
Obama's "Emancipation Proclamation" can be an executive order giving citizenship to illegals. He likes to compare himself to Lincoln, remember.
You’re correct, thanks for highlighting that.
“Allowed”? It is their choice, not ours. The question whomever posted the original question is actually asking is: “Should we force Texas to stay in the union?”
They love America, which is a people and an ideal expressed in our founding principles. That will not change. Texans do not love the Nation-State-like government entity that many people mistake for America.
Texans will be more American after secession than they are now. Remember, the Founding Fathers did not see America or the union as a single State. The Declaration says, for example, "these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States." Plural.
Yeah, that's what the Declaration said in 1776. However, they then formed a confederation (Articles of Confederation). Then, in 1789, the people of the United States formed a new national government and a "more perfect Union" with a new Constitution.
Secession will end up being the ONLY answer if anyone wishes to keep what is left of their liberty and their lives from the tyranny of the Obama regime.
It will either be that - or submission to this regime being the god of their lives in order to live and survive. Recall that in all Marxist governments, those who do not serve the ideology and regime they are slaves to - live on borrowed time.
As to the ideology of Conservatism being sold to a II Timothy 3 Generation - some of the numbers of this past election bear that the ideals of conservatism are rejected by this people.
Should be no surprise considering this people in the majority have rejected God and have been busy removing him from their lives and this nation while those who claim to follow Him have become lukewarm, having only the form of religion and having no power thereof.
As Adams noted, our form of government under the Constitution “was made only for a moral and religious people, it is wholly inadequate for the governance of any other”.
We are no longer a moral or religious people, and that is the foundation liberty itself, and Conservatism was built on. Today the Ruling Class has redefined Conservatism to be a political loyalty without the need for the moral (or Social) planks.
As Franklin noted “As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters” - and that is what we are now: a vicious and corrupt nation who has empowered the State to be it’s master, and the State imposing it’s authority as Master to maintain order and control of the people.
A nation no longer under God, is a nation that is gone under.
And that is where we sadly are. A people of faith have no power or ability to reform this tyranny in D.C. Not by any means available to us except one - and there are not enough of us willing to risk that.
Therefore, we can only withdraw from supporting it and secede, or bow down and worship it.
It will be one or the other. Make no mistake.
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