Texas wants to secede from the Union?

[SilentHunter7]

First you have Palin making comments that Alaska is a sovereign government*, and now a week later we get this.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/15/gov-rick-perry-texas-coul_n_187490.html

So good ol' Governor Perry and his infinite wisdom is starting up secessionist feelings in the Lone Star state.

I just have to ask (and no offense meant to any Texans here). Is he fucking retarded? Not only did secession not work the first time (because of a Republican, ironically), but Texas gets about 80% of the money its citizens pay in taxes back in pork and government projects, so his argument is invalid. Also, it was a Texan in the white house the last 8 years that blew up the deficit in the first place.

I don't know, someone, anyone, please, tell me this is all just a bad joke.

* Though the Palin comment was probably more her not knowing what the word sovereign meant than it was a call for rebellion

 

[Souplex]

Every place has its people who want to secede, heck I bet even Washington d.c. has some. I personally think the north east should secede as I am sick of us pulling the rest of Americas weight.

 

[Glerken]

So does Alaska.
Doesn't mean it's going to happen.

 

[Internet Kraken]

It's not a big deal. You think anything will actually happen?

Move along people.

 

[Flying-Emu]

If I'm not mistaken... I believe that Texas is the one state that has the legal right to secede, due to the fact that they actually rebelled against the old Mexican government to join the United States.

Of course, I may be hallucinating.

 

[MagicShroom]

hmmmmmmmm??????

Sounds interesting I'm listeneing go on

 

[Lisser]

I don't think he was being very rational when he opened his mouth to form words that day. First of all, why are so many people so against keeping taxes moderate instead of lowering them all the freaking time. Without taxes, there are no schools, there are no police, there are no firefighters. There is nothing.

He was probably just not thinking about what he was saying. And if he was, then he's probably just not a very good politician, is he? Besides, Texas is not going to secede. And if its politicians decide that they will secede, then they really can't read history books, can they?

 

[Singularly Datarific]

Oh darn.
Who needs Texas anyways?
*beep*

 

[Avatar Roku]

I don't think he was being very rational when he opened his mouth to form words that day. First of all, why are so many people so against keeping taxes moderate instead of lowering them all the freaking time. Without taxes, there are no schools, there are no police, there are no firefighters. There is nothing.

He was probably just not thinking about what he was saying. And if he was, then he's probably just not a very good politician, is he? Besides, Texas is not going to secede. And if its politicians decide that they will secede, then they really can't read history books, can they?

True. I've never understood why taxes need to constantly get lower and lower. I mean, that happens, and then people complain the government isn't doing anything.

 

[RustySpork]

Letum go. The less Christian conservatives in Congress, the better.

 

[Goldbling]

If I'm not mistaken... I believe that Texas is the one state that has the legal right to secede, due to the fact that they actually rebelled against the old Mexican government to join the United States.

Of course, I may be hallucinating.

That is correct. We fought for our right to join the united states, and against popular belief, we never actually gave that right up

We can succeed anytime we want. Although I don't think that its a good idea. Rick Perry is a dumb ass anyways

Edit: and if we do succeed were taking Louisiana and Mexico

 

[deranged_muppet]

I got an email similar to this a couple weeks ago from my cousin who lives in Texas, I couldn't stop laughing. . . now apparently is not a joke, I don't think its going to happen, he is just full of hot air. And Texas is the only state allowed to secede, at least that was what the email said

 

[SilentHunter7]

Every place has its people who want to secede, heck I bet even Washington d.c. has some. I personally think the north east should secede as I am sick of us pulling the rest of Americas weight.

Yeah, but how many Governors openly encourage such feelings? I agree that nothing will come of this, but you don't state publicly, as the Governor of a state, that they should break off from the United States.

 

[McClaud]

No worries.

First of all, Governor Perry's about to be impeached as governor since he passed a law that said that oil companies have the right to take your property as they see fit if there's oil on your property.

His rating went from 65 to less than 20 in the span of a week.

This guy is a nutcase who's just spitting out random nonsense. Texans are ready to throw him out on his ass (or set him adrift - "I'm not your friend, guy!")

 

[Cptn_Squishy]

Ive had enough of these whiney people who continue to confuse 'tyranny' with 'losing'. You guys want to secede? There's the door. All these teabaggers who are protesting today...ask any of them what constitutes fascism and they'll only be able to vomit out talking points they heard on the radio.

So what happened with the whole 'Going Gault' trend saying that rich people were going to abandon America and form their own nation? I guess they realized that if they left the only rich people left would be the people on their TVs a radios who told them to leave in the first place. Plus they forgot that poor does not equal stupid and that we'd get along just fine without them sooner or later (more likely sooner).

Either that or they played Bioshock, I dunno....

 

[Goldbling]

No worries.

First of all, Governor Perry's about to be impeached as governor since he passed a law that said that oil companies have the right to take your property as they see fit if there's oil on your property.

His rating went from 65 to less than 20 in the span of a week.

This guy is a nutcase who's just spitting out random nonsense. Texans are ready to throw him out on his ass (or set him adrift - "I'm not your friend, guy!")

Yeah, just another mirror image of Bush. Thats all they are, and why do the have to be from Texas, why?

Ive had enough of these whiney people who continue to confuse 'tyranny' with 'losing'. You guys want to secede? There's the door. All these teabaggers who are protesting today...ask any of them what constitutes fascism and they'll only be able to vomit out talking points they heard on the radio.

So what happened with the whole 'Going Gault' trend saying that rich people were going to abandon America and form their own nation? I guess they realized that if they left the only rich people left would be the people on their TVs a radios who told them to leave in the first place. Plus they forgot that poor does not equal stupid and that we'd get along just fine without them sooner or later (more likely sooner).

Either that or they played Bioshock, I dunno....

We, the people of Texas, hereby state out undying loyalties to the USA. We would be the last state to succeed, believe me

He was great at first.

The sad thing is that he actually was, then he started doing cocaine[/sarcasm]

 

[Lusperus]

He was great at first.

 

[Cptn_Squishy]

This is from the Republic of Texas entry in wikipedia

'The annexation resolution has been the topic of some historical myths—one that remains is that the resolution granted Texas the explicit right to secede from the Union. This was a right argued by some to be implicitly held by all states at the time, up until the conclusion of the Civil War. The resolution did include two unique provisions: first, it said that up to four additional states could be created from Texas' territory, with the consent of the State of Texas. The resolution did not include any special exceptions to the provisions of the US Constitution regarding statehood. The right to create these possible new states was not "reserved" for Texas, as is sometimes stated.'

 

[Aximus]

Actually Texas can't secede from the Union anymore, our first constitution let us, but when one of our governors tried to pull some shit they made a secound one that didn't let us.
Now of course if we did secede, there would be a distict lack of Chuck Norris and ass kicking in america, no one wants that.

 

[SilentHunter7]

If I'm not mistaken... I believe that Texas is the one state that has the legal right to secede, due to the fact that they actually rebelled against the old Mexican government to join the United States.

Of course, I may be hallucinating.

He said when Texas entered the union in 1845 it was with the understanding it could pull out. However, according to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Texas negotiated the power to divide into four additional states at some point if it wanted to but not the right to secede.

Taken from the article I linked in the OP. Then again, who really knows.