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| States highlighted in red mark where petitions for secession from the U.S. have been filed/ GossipOnThis.com |
Following last week’s re-election of President Barack Obama,
residents in more than forty U.S. states have filed petitions to secede
from the country via the government’s “We the People” program on the
White House’s official website.
The states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
As I reported over the weekend, Texas and Louisiana citizens began petitions to the White House to peacefully withdraw from the United States and then yesterday that number had grown to nearly forty states. As this happened, the Texas petition topped it’s goal of 20,000 signatures.
As of the writing of this article, the Texas petition has 70,278 signatures, nearly three times the amount required to be reviewed by the White House.According to the White House petition site, once the petition reaches 25,000 signatures within 30 days “White House staff will review it, ensure it’s sent to the appropriate policy experts, and issue an official response.”
Below is a video that explains how the process is supposed to work:
I admit, I am wary of petitioning the federal government over any of
this. However, I think the number of petitions and the people signing
is only an indication that the “union” is no longer united. This, along
with the recent election, demonstrate that we are a nation divided.
It
was at another period in our history where states sought to peacefully
withdraw from the Union, only to be invaded by that very Union. With
stakes as high as they are now, I am not very optimistic that the
current state of things in America will lead to a peaceful agreement
between the federal government and the states.
Let me be clear,
these petitions are not put forth by the states officially, but they are
put forth by residents of those states. After all, the people are the
ones who select their representatives and if the people voice their
disapproval of what is taking place at the federal level enough in their
own state, this may gain traction. I suggest not only signing the
petition for your state, but letting your state legislature know and
possibly garnering signatures to provide your state legislature and
governor with.
Texas Governor Rick Perry says he will not give
credibility to the online movement. His spokesperson Catherine Frazier
said that while Perry “shares the frustrations many Americans have with
our federal government,” the governor “believes in the greatness of our
Union and nothing should be done to change it.”
I’m guessing the
governor has not heard directly from the 70,000 plus people who have
signed the petition. Perhaps phone calls and such might just let him
know how serious the people of his state actually are.
I leave you with the words of the Founders in the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Clearly they believed in the right of peaceful secession of the states from the Union.
UPDATE: Louisiana has also met their goal.
UPDATE: Louisiana has also met their goal.
UPDATE 2: Two petitions have been filed at the White House Petitions site against those petitioning for withdraw. “Deport Everyone That Signed A Petition To Withdraw Their State From The United States Of America” and “Strip the Citizenship from Everyone who Signed a Petition to Secede and Exile Them.”
Sorry to say, there may be a Union, but there is definitely not unity.
UPDATE: Florida has also met their petition goal.
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