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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIdiocracy is here: Secession petitions filed in 20 states
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/secission-petitions-filed-20-states-190210006.htmlIn the wake of last week's presidential election, thousands of Americans have signed petitions seeking permission for their states to peacefully secede from the United States. The petitions were filed on We the People, a government website.
States with citizens filing include Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. Oddly, folks from Georgia have filed twice. Even stranger, several of the petitions come from states that went for President Barack Obama.
The petitions are short and to the point. For example, a petition from the Volunteer State reads: "Peacefully grant the State of Tennessee to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government." Of all the petitions, Texas has the most signatures so far, with more than 23,000.
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)BYE!!
Take care! Oh, and when you start falling apart don't come crying to us!
kentauros
(29,414 posts)Tough shit! We're staying!
Now, doesn't that chap your hide?
MineralMan
(146,116 posts)There will be no secessions.
geardaddy
(24,923 posts)It's total idiocy to think they'll actually get their way.
KatyaR
(3,439 posts)My fellow Oklahomans are late getting into the game.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Can I vote Texas or Mississippi out?
LeftinOH
(5,339 posts)secede. South Carolina, maybe. Of course, they would have to form their own government, international trade partners, etc. No work permits for cross-border workers, either. Then sit back and watch this thing play out: Lord of the Flies/Handmaid's Tale/Escape from New York.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,053 posts)They can all have fun being chased by the smoke monster and polar bears.
Keep South Carolina, just banish the crazies. They have good barbeque there.
KatyMan
(4,118 posts)I say, let them leave. Let's be rid of the deadweight. My family will be the first to move out of Texas to the US. (Just please, not Oklahoma--couldn't take Oklahoma
bongbong
(5,436 posts)Get their names & addresses and send them a free offer to help them complete their GED.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)by Chuck Thompson
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Lets talk about secession.
Not exactly the most suitable cocktail party conversation starter anywhere in the country, but take that notion deep into the heart of Dixie and you might find yourself running from the possum-hunting conservatives, trailer-park lifers, and prayer warriors Chuck Thompson encountered during the two years he spent traveling the American South asking the question: Would we be better off without em?
The result is a heavily researched, serious inquiry into national divides which is unabashedly controversial, often uproarious, and always thought-provoking. From a church service in Mobile, Alabama, where the gospel entertainer announces "Islam is upon us!" to a store selling Ku Klux Klan memorabilia on a quaint little street in South CarolinaThompson lifts the green velvet drapes on a South that would seem to belong more to the time of Rhett and Scarlett than the dawn of the twenty-first century.
y crunching numbers, interviewing experts, and roaming the not-so-former Confederacy, Thompsonan openly disgruntled liberal from the Northwestmakes a compelling case for southern secession. What would the new nations look like if Virginia governor Bob McDonnell was elected as the first President of the Confederate States of America? If a southern electorate was left to fend for itself while the North did damage control on an economy decimated by cut-rate southern workers who operate as a rival nation within its own borders? If the BCS championship football game were replaced by a North vs. South Coca Cola/ Starbucks Blood Bowl? If Florida went to the South and Texas to the North in the most complex land-and-population grab in American history?
Better Off Without Em is a deliberately provocative book whose insight, humor, fierce and fearless politics, and sheer nerve will spark a national debate that is perhaps long overdue.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/better-off-without-em-chuck-thompson/1111396353
Angleae
(4,468 posts)LA, TX (45000+ signatures), NC, AL, KY, FL, MS, GA (x2), MT, IN, NJ, ND, CO, OR, NY (x2), SC, MI, MO (x2), TN, AK, OK, AZ, PN, NV, DE
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitions
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)on a site, hoping to get enough signatures.
geardaddy
(24,923 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)I have a feeling they are not and are probably some of the biggest "moochers" in the nation.
geardaddy
(24,923 posts)"Deport Everyone That Signed A Petition To Withdraw Their State From The United States Of America."
"Strip the Citizenship from Everyone who Signed a Petition to Secede and Exile Them"
cordelia
(2,174 posts)geardaddy
(24,923 posts)krispos42
(49,445 posts)...to reject this unanimously. Right?