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I'll scout out locations while on my recon trip. Full report later Boss,
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Texas was the only state that had a treaty right to secede during the ACW.
The TX secession ordinances are a dead letter since the treaty that enables them was completely abrogated.
Texas was conquered and annexed at the close of the ACW ... so that treaty was abrogated in the traditional manner ... by conquest.
Not saying whether or not it was right ... but it did happen. Conquered republics don't get to enforce treaties.
I enjoyed my time in Texas while in the military.
I'd pack my shit and go there in a heartbeat if this took off.
Like Daniel Boone said - "You gentlemen can go to hell. I'm going to Texas."
Amen to Daniel Boone.
I miss Texas
Over two hundred years since the creation of the United States Constitution and less than 100 days to destroy it.
c.umulus n.imbusi
Don't get exited, completely symbolic gesture. Oklahoma passed this last year and I don't see a lot of seceeding going on. When I see the state police shut down an IRS office then I'll pay some attention. BTW, Texas is just barely a red state anymore. All of California moved there so it's destined to become dry-Portland.
Plowboy
IIRC, the Texas Constitution does have the provision for Texas splitting into five separate States... think on how THAT would change the balance of power in the Senate!
Texas has another advantage. Not only does it have the death penalty but it actually uses it.
http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/deathrow.htm
I :
was born there
live less than 3 hours from the border
always cheer for the Longhorns over the Gooners
intend to use my gun if necessary and
have family to live with there.
Let's roll!
~merrily
Not sure it was great Uncle Daniel that said that, maybe Tennesseean David Crockett. But going to Texas sounds good to me. - Vice Sgt Boone.
Cowboy Blob: It may be in the TX constitution, but it ain't in the US Constitution.
Congress has the power to elevate territories to Statehood, or split states ( cf West Virginia ). Not the TX legislature.
You are correct VSB. Crockett had just lost his seat in Congress, and his reply as he rode off to the Alamo was, "The people of Tennesee may go to hell. I am going to Texas."
My apologies for getting the 2 mixed up. I'm getting old. Have pity.
Texas was not the only state that was once a country. Hawaii was a sovereign nation. The US even sent an ambassador there before they said, 'Screw it, just annex the bastids.' They had a king and queen and you can still visit the royal palace. The original Hawaiians seem to be the only ones who remember this fact so Texas remains the logical place from which to bitch-slap all those morons in DC. If only...
GrinfilledCelt
But there is that 10th Amendment thing. If enough states have enough of the bullsh*t, and declare sovereignty under the Constitution, the fed.gov can be disbanded and reformed. By the Constitution. Tx is only ten minutes east of me.
I'm in Virginia where increasingly people are getting infuriated by the incursions on our rights and liberties perpetrated by the Big Goof up north in The District - which is fancying itself as a state. Secession sounds like a good idea to us here. We have Quantico and all those lovely Marines - oooRAH!
We have Quantico and all those lovely Marines - oooRAH!
Yes, and they obey the C-I-C.
cmblake6: Lincoln too the 10th amendment out and shot it dead.
Since then, Statehood is like the Hotel California. And the federal gov just won't die, no mater how much we stab it with our steely knives ...
Uhm, y'all? The Constitution is what the military is sworn to protect. NOT the ruling junta. It can be done. Legally. Sounds to me like there are some dedicated to being bummed out people here just about now.
All that needs to happen is enough people get sufficiently irritated to take the peaceful legal actions.
There are a whole bunch of people that are getting fed up enough to not want to wait for that. I say, let us do everything in our power to do this nicely. Do not rush into 1776 v2.0. Time enough for that if the gentle way doesn't work. Am I advocating violent overthrow of the communist infiltrators to our government? No. Not unless the law is so blatantly violated, and the legal system is so hamstrung as to not do their duty to this nation and its founding concept.
Additionally, this is a sovereign nation. The UN is not our ruler, not our lawgiver. Our laws are what keeps this a sovereign nation, not anywhere else's. This NWO crap has got to stop. A revolution would weaken us against invasion until we recovered from it.
We have the intel, the tactics, and the equipment to have it done in 30 minutes or less, if the .mil wakes up to their sworn duty.
Davy Crockett said..."you can all go to hell, I am going to Texas". I doubt that Daniel Boone ever went to Texas.
If a succession movement ever starts, I would not be surprised that it would start with us.
God Bless Texas!