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#1372972 - 11/11/12 07:29 PM
Meanwhile, in Texas...
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twocats
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Registered: 02/09/10
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Loc: NYS
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BY BUD KENNEDY
bud@star-telegram.com
Texas Republicans are already using the s-word.
One party official from Southeast Texas calls for -- not secession -- separation.
"Why should Vermont and Texas live under the same government?" writes Hardin County Republican treasurer Peter Morrison, a Ron Paul supporter and author of a race-heavy Tea Party newsletter.
"Let each go her own way," he writes, demanding an "amicable divorce" from the U.S. and from the "maggots" who re-elected President Obama.
Evoking the history of Confederate soldiers who refused to surrender after Gettysburg, Morrison, 33, calls for Texans to fight "in hopes that Providence might shine upon our cause."
Morrison is particularly angry at Asian-Americans and Hispanics who backed Obama, accusing them of voting on an "ethnic basis."
"'They' re-elected Obama," Morrison wrote. "He is their president."
Oh, did I mention that Morrison was chosen by former State Board of Education Chairman Don McLeroy to help screen Texas public school textbooks?
Morrison's nasty newsletter has several hundred readers. It's republished on Tea Party websites and redistributed by evangelical Republicans.
He has donated up to $40,000 per candidate and used his Morrison Report to oppose business conservatives allied with Texas House Speaker Joe Straus. In 2010, he used his newsletter to criticize Straus' rabbi and wrote that Straus "lacks the moral compass" to lead.
I called Kent Batman of Kountze, chairman of the Hardin County Republican Party, to ask if the rest of his county party backs secession.
Batman's response: "Wow."
He sighed and said, "OK, well -- I guess I need to start taking a look at his newsletters."
Morrison is a home- schooler and one of Hardin County's more libertarian Republicans, Batman said.
"People around here are asking why Texas is so different from the rest of the country, why we see things so differently," Batman said.
"But I don't think a lot of people here are saying we ought to leave the Union."
Another Republican, former U.S. Senate candidate Larry Kilgore of Arlington, writes on his website he will run for governor in 2014 under the name "SECEDE Kilgore."
It didn't work so well last time.
http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/11/08/4399621/hardin-county-gop-official-wants.html
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How come we play War, not Peace?
Too few role models.
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#1373040 - 11/12/12 02:53 PM
Re: Meanwhile, in Texas...
[Re: Josephus]
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Teonan
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Registered: 05/30/12
Posts: 1592
Loc: Gaia
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More on that...
Red Staters (and More) Already Talking Secession After Obama Victory
Petitions for secession popping up on White House site, while Texas Tea Partier talks withdrawal from union.
AlterNet / By Sarah Seltzer
November 12, 2012
It was only a matter of time before the bursting of the bubble for hard-core conservatives led to cries of secession. To be fair, blue-staters were saying similar things back in 2004 after Bush's re-election, but the geographical ironies were perhaps less rich then, since this year the electoral map looks suspiciously like slave states and free states lining up in opposition.
On the WhiteHouse.gov petition-writing tool, a large number of people have put forward petitions "peacefully demanding" that their states, including Texas and Louisiana, be removed from the Union. These two have garnered tens of thousands of signatures already, while others--which aren't all predictable, and include states like New York and Michigan-- have only a few thousand signees each.
Meanwhile, the Texas Observer's Forrest Wilder reports on a Tea Party newsletter that uses language even more historically problematic than these petitions: They re-elected Obama last night. He is their President. And we must admit to ourselves at some point, it is now their country."
This leads to the writer's "inevitable" conclusion:
In this respect, Texas can lead the way. Texas was once its own country, and many Texans already think in nationalist terms about their state. We need to do everything possible to encourage a long-term shift in thinking on this issue. Why should Vermont and Texas live under the same government? Let each go her own way in peace, sign a free trade agreement among the states and we can avoid this gut-wrenching spectacle every four years.
Again, to be fair, conservatives are far from the only ones who have talked secession when politics don't go their way. Ultra-progressive Vermont has a left-libertarian secessionist party, in fact. But the combination of all this secessionist talk with the demographic defeat for white voters and electoral defeat for former slave states, the anger over the re-election of a black president supported by "them", and the generalized nativist rhetoric coming out of the right wing all campaign season long, and you have a more frightening example of secessionist talk than usual.
Sarah Seltzer is an associate editor at AlterNet and a freelance writer based in New York City. Her work has been published at the Nation, the Christian Science Monitor, Jezebel and the Washington Post. Follow her on Twitter at @sarahmseltzer and find her work at sarahmseltzer.com.
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"If you know what life is worth, you would look for yours on earth."
- Saint Bob
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#1373109 - 11/12/12 10:47 PM
Re: Meanwhile, in Texas...
[Re: sands]
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Cuzi Sedso
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Registered: 11/06/11
Posts: 1428
Loc: NY
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Oh yeah... grab a quote from Jefferson (regardless of context) to support insurrection and it's all good....
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#1373136 - 11/13/12 10:41 AM
Re: Meanwhile, in Texas...
[Re: sands]
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Cuzi Sedso
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Registered: 11/06/11
Posts: 1428
Loc: NY
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Like the rest, without context it's just babble. In that same rant about rebellion and revolution and refreshing the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants, Jefferson also said "It is its own manure."
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#1373138 - 11/13/12 11:36 AM
Re: Meanwhile, in Texas...
[Re: Cuzi Sedso]
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Chicago Jesus
Senior Member
Registered: 01/16/12
Posts: 6075
Loc: Cocktails with Regie and Tiger
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WASHINGTON: At least 20 US states have filed petitions to secede following the re-election of Barack Obama.
Following the re-election, several petitions surfaced requesting the Obama administration to peacefully grant the applied state to withdraw from the United States of America in order to create their own government.
Louisiana was the first state to file a petition followed by Texas.
States with secession-related petitions on the White House website no include Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina and Tennessee.
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Liberty anywhere is a threat to Collectivism everywhere.
Remember.... Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl
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#1373141 - 11/13/12 12:17 PM
Re: Meanwhile, in Texas...
[Re: Chicago Jesus]
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Cuzi Sedso
Senior Member
Registered: 11/06/11
Posts: 1428
Loc: NY
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If any are granted what are they going to call it -- the Republic of Redneckia?
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#1373147 - 11/13/12 12:55 PM
Re: Meanwhile, in Texas...
[Re: Cuzi Sedso]
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Ohithere
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Registered: 09/27/12
Posts: 963
Loc: New York/PA
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If any are granted what are they going to call it -- the Republic of Redneckia?
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/national/p...rnor-rick-perry
Here are the numbers of petition signers for each of the 20 states (each petition needs 25,000 signatures within 30 days to be considered by the government):
Alabama 3,975
Arkansas 350
Colorado 3,055
Florida 4,033
Georgia 1,629
Indiana 3,194
Kentucky 3,229
Louisiana 12,192
Michigan 2,482
Mississippi 3,171
Missouri 2,196
Montana 2,867
New Jersey 2,485
New York 2,847
North Carolina 3,823
North Dakota 2,508
Oregon 2,678
South Carolina 2,632
Tennessee 2,659
Texas 14,883
Edited by Ohithere (11/13/12 01:06 PM)
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