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 ...
That’s what I was going to say; secession is not something one gets permission for.
Absolutely and well said! Exactly! Well done.
To agree with your main point about our own Independence -
It was illegal and high treason to rebel against the lawful, legal authority of the Crown of England under King George III and to defy his edicts and ‘laws’.
It was an even greater act of sedition and treason to suggest that the Colonies were of right, ought to be free and independent states from the Crown. We would define that today as secession. The Founders seceded from the Union established with England for over 150 years before July 2nd 1776.
It was settled by our Founders who took a risk of death for treason to declare that the Crown no longer had any legal authority over them. Once the legal authority was imposing tyranny and usurping the rights of liberty granted by God, the prince no longer had authority under God to rule over a free people.
Once the State/Crown - made itself higher than God’s Laws, then the people are no longer obligated to submit to such authority - and have, by right the duty to throw off such government and secure new guards for their liberty.
Secession is what our Founders initiated. It was a risk with a low chance of success - but it was decided by enough Godly and principled men that liberty was more important than life in chains and risked death to secure God’s authority as sovereign over their lives.
So why should we be any different just because the federal tyranny says, like the King of England, that Independence from their rule and authority is treason and unlawful?
If we would die free men, then their courts, congress and His Heinous Obama - have no power over us that we who are under the Law of Nature’s God, are required to submit to.
All they have is the ability to impose their tyranny by brute force and punishment. If we submit to such authority then we have broken the First Commandment and the Lord of Hosts is no longer our Sovereign.
If the Creator is our Sovereign - then we have as a duty to refuse, resist and not comply with those acts of tyranny being imposed by the threat of force.
If the Chinese invaded and put a gun to your head and said “submit to us or else!” would you cower - or resist? There is NO DIFFERENCE between a foreign enemy that would put a gun to your head and that of your family while confiscating your property - and the Domestic federal enemy who is doing the same damn thing.
They have no power over a free people except that which the people willingly surrender to them. Their laws, orders, decrees and rules are no longer of any authority over a people they intend to subjugate.
Do not comply. Refuse. Resist. Die free.
And that is what it may come to.
I would sign a Petetion to have the bluist of Blue states to secede.
Quitters!
Would Sam have let Mexicans overrun his state? Texas will be lost forever in twenty years. It’s now or never.
Texas is a big State, but I doubt even Texas could hold all of the people who would be leaving the US for citizenship in Texas.
I agree about Alaska: it would be a natural fit for a new union. One thing to remember about poor states like Ole Miss: a lot of the poor are blacks who would be upset about secession because they want to live under a black Prez. Give them the option to load up their stuff and head on up north. They could repopulate Detroit, for example. Then whites in Mississippi would be left to join the new Union.
Can’t imagine revolutionairies petitioning to anyone for permission revolutionary.
Is that the way we did it in the American Revolution?
A fraction of the people were FOR the American revolution, a fraction against, and those in the middle talked it to death.
Seems the FOR’s didn’t care, didn’t ask, but did it anyway and won.
LONG OVERDUE.
Problem is - and Independent Texas will have enemies on two sides
Mexico on the South, and the Federales on the North.
No. Beginners.
Texans love the NFL and Texans love America. They're not going anywhere.
No.
That’s perhaps the biggest truth! Some other states need to come along so we have enough room for everyone!
That’s perhaps the biggest truth! Some other states need to come along so we have enough room for everyone!
Why does CNN have their collective panties in a bunch over this when the MSM in general has ignored the “reconquista” and Atzlan movements for years?
Leave, annex and reconquer. Sounds good to me.
It is not treasonous to be a patriot when one sees the constitution tread upon
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