December 4, 2012 by Tim Brown
The deadline for the White House to begin responding to secession petitions is drawing near. Immediately following the 2012 election, residents in Texas and Louisiana began petitioning the White House for peaceful secession from the Union.
This quickly spread across all fifty states within a matter of days and the White House petition site’s guidelines indicate that there should be a response within 30 days of initiation of the petition, provided it gets the number of signatures it needs. In this case it was 25,000.
Texas easily dwarfed the needed number of signatures. As of the writing of this article the Texas petition has 118,524 signatures and growing.
But Texas was just one among many that have more than reached their quota of signatures.
But just what sort of response should we expect from the White House? The truth is we shouldn’t expect very much. That doesn’t mean there is no real secession movement nor does it mean that those Americans who are sick and tired of the federal government and want them to either stop their intrusiveness into our lives or for their state to peacefully secede are unAmerican. It just means for those who signed the petitions that they should recognize that they are petitioning the one that they want to be rid of.
Not only were there petitions for secession, but sadly there were backlash petitions created in which some were calling for stripping those of their citizenship for wanting to secede. I even received emails from people all high and mighty claiming that it was unConstitutional for states to secede, to which I simply asked for Article and Section. Obviously I never heard back from these people because there is no such thing.
In fact, you might be interested to know that according to Texassecede.com, when asked “Didn’t the outcome of the “Civil War” prove that secession is not an option for any State?” the reply was:
The deadline for the White House to begin responding to secession petitions is drawing near. Immediately following the 2012 election, residents in Texas and Louisiana began petitioning the White House for peaceful secession from the Union.
This quickly spread across all fifty states within a matter of days and the White House petition site’s guidelines indicate that there should be a response within 30 days of initiation of the petition, provided it gets the number of signatures it needs. In this case it was 25,000.
Texas easily dwarfed the needed number of signatures. As of the writing of this article the Texas petition has 118,524 signatures and growing.
But Texas was just one among many that have more than reached their quota of signatures.
But just what sort of response should we expect from the White House? The truth is we shouldn’t expect very much. That doesn’t mean there is no real secession movement nor does it mean that those Americans who are sick and tired of the federal government and want them to either stop their intrusiveness into our lives or for their state to peacefully secede are unAmerican. It just means for those who signed the petitions that they should recognize that they are petitioning the one that they want to be rid of.
Not only were there petitions for secession, but sadly there were backlash petitions created in which some were calling for stripping those of their citizenship for wanting to secede. I even received emails from people all high and mighty claiming that it was unConstitutional for states to secede, to which I simply asked for Article and Section. Obviously I never heard back from these people because there is no such thing.
In fact, you might be interested to know that according to Texassecede.com, when asked “Didn’t the outcome of the “Civil War” prove that secession is not an option for any State?” the reply was:
No. It only proved that, when allowed to act outside his lawfully limited authority, a U.S. president is capable of unleashing horrendous violence against the lives, liberty, and property of those whom he pretends to serve. The Confederate States (including Texas) withdrew from the Union lawfully, civilly, and peacefully, after enduring several years of excessive and inequitable federal tariffs (taxes) heavily prejudiced against Southern commerce. Refusing to recognize the Confederate secession, Lincoln called it a “rebellion” and a “threat” to “the government” (without ever explaining exactly how “the government” was “threatened” by a lawful, civil, and peaceful secession) and acted outside the lawfully defined scope of either the office of president or the U.S. government in general, to coerce the South back into subjugation to Northern control. Continue reading>>
