{"id":32831,"date":"2012-11-13T17:10:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T21:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32831"},"modified":"2012-11-13T17:10:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T21:10:13","slug":"secession-the-issue-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32831","title":{"rendered":"Secession; the issue of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nik sends us a link to a petitioning group of Texans who are peacefully requesting that Texas secede from the United States<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The US continues to suffer economic difficulties stemming from the federal government’s neglect to reform domestic and foreign spending. The citizens of the US suffer from blatant abuses of their rights such as the NDAA, the TSA, etc. Given that the state of Texas maintains a balanced budget and is the 15th largest economy in the world, it is practically feasible for Texas to withdraw from the union, and to do so would protect it’s citizens’ standard of living and re-secure their rights and liberties in accordance with the original ideas and beliefs of our founding fathers which are no longer being reflected by the federal government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It had 79,000 signatories when I looked at it. I understand the frustration brought on by the last election, really, I do. But this isn’t helpful. I mean I know that whoever signed it doesn’t really expect that Texas will secede, or maybe they do. But it certainly doesn’t help our side look sane. Besides, it has caused a bunch of leftists to start a petition asking the White House to strip anyone who signed any of the petitions of their citizenship according to The Weekly Standard<\/a>; <\/p>\n

Mr. President, please sign an executive order such that each American citizen who signed a petition from any state to secede from the USA shall have their citizenship stripped and be peacefully deported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thankfully that makes their side look sillier than our side, since most of them would have happily surrendered their own citizenship at any point in the Bush era. If only they had the means to move the hell out. So suddenly, because their side won the election, citizenship has value.<\/p>\n

The Weekly Standard says that they’re about 18,000 signatures short of being considered by the White House. I wouldn’t worry about it too much, though. I don’t see this White House doing anything that looks like action on much of anything. Thanks to H1 for the link to the story of the Leftists’ petition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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