“Texas may end up more oppressive than the US or we may be a bastion of freedom. SECEDE promises neither.”
One couldn’t come up with a parody who was so incompetent in arguing for Texas’s secession. I guess that SECEDE forgot to add:
“My independent Texas might be a color-blind society with respect for individual liberties, or we just may bring back slavery and impose it on Vietnamese-Americans; SECEDE promises neither.”
Wow, this SECEDE guy sounds even nuttier than his fellow secessionist gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, Ray McBerry (who thinks the most important issue on the planet is that the stars-and-bars is no longer on the Georgia flag, and apparently gets frisky with 16 year old girls when he’s not drawing up plans to reform the CSA: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/em-two-em-georgia-gov-candidates-were-accused-of-inappropriate-behavior-with-female-students )
Anyway, if Kilgore just legally changed his middle name, Texas officials should have refused to let him draw attention to himself, and just listed him on the ballot as “Larry S. Kilgore”, rather than “SECEDE Kilgore”
At least Jerry Patterson gets it right. If you want to fantasize about cutting up the United States, we’d be much better off if we could sell most of New England to Canada, and downgrade California to territorial status again:
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/10/texas-candidate-jerry-patterson-says-dont-secede-from-the-union-just-throw-liberal-states-out.html/
;-)