It’s beginning to feel a lot like the 1860s — and not just because Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln opened wide this weekend. There is a secessionist movement afoot, and hundreds of thousands of Americans from all 50 states have signed petitions to secede. Texas is in the lead — no great surprise, perhaps — with ABC reporting last week that the Lone Star State’s petition was the first to get more than 25,000 signatures. It now has more than 100,000.
That 25,000 mark — which at least seven states have hit — is significant. The petitions were shrewdly placed on a White House website called “We the People,” which invites members of the public to appeal directly to the federal government. The website promises that petitions that get more than 25,000 signatures within 30 days — subject to some exceptions — will get a response from the White House.
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3 comments:
Good. That will mean more for the rest of us.
Someone here has not read the Declaration of Independence, nor have they read the Tenth Amendment.
Good. That will mean more for the rest of us.
November 19, 2012 7:34 PM
More what? Poverty? Federal money? If a state secedes, they won't be paying big brother any longer.
I suspect that is the biggest reason uncle sam doesn't want that to happen.
Texas SHOULD secede. Then the rest of us that are tired of all the corruption and bs in D.C. can move there.
Pretty soon it would be the United States of Texas.
I'm all for it. If there was any place to go I would leave. But this country USED to be the best place to live as far as freedom.
Sadly, that is no longer the case.
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