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geardaddy

(24,923 posts)
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 05:35 PM Nov 2012

Idiocracy is here: Secession petitions filed in 20 states

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/secission-petitions-filed-20-states-190210006.html

In 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.
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Idiocracy is here: Secession petitions filed in 20 states (Original Post) geardaddy Nov 2012 OP
And to those states I say LeftofObama Nov 2012 #1
And from a Liberal in one of those states I say kentauros Nov 2012 #19
What a waste of time for people who are signing those. MineralMan Nov 2012 #2
I know. geardaddy Nov 2012 #3
What, no Oklahoma? KatyaR Nov 2012 #4
Interesting. Many if not most of the people who signed Oregon's petition don't live in Oregon. Shrike47 Nov 2012 #5
They should be given one state to which they can all move, then LeftinOH Nov 2012 #6
Guam..! thecrow Nov 2012 #7
Move them to the island from Lost. Tommy_Carcetti Nov 2012 #16
Even though we're in Texas KatyMan Nov 2012 #8
Help those poor people out bongbong Nov 2012 #9
not that I seriously endorse these sentiments andI do realize that it is not fair or realistic Douglas Carpenter Nov 2012 #10
It's up to 25 now (with 3 represented twice). Angleae Nov 2012 #11
It sounds like it wasn't the STATES that drafted those docs., but someone who did them & put them Honeycombe8 Nov 2012 #12
You are correct. This is the case. n/t geardaddy Nov 2012 #14
IRS should really be on top of these folks to make sure they are paing their taxes. kelliekat44 Nov 2012 #13
Here's are a couple of counter petitions someone put up. geardaddy Nov 2012 #15
Hasn't this been posted about 12,000 times already? cordelia Nov 2012 #17
Well, mine makes 12,001 then. geardaddy Nov 2012 #18
I expect the flag-waving, overly-patriotic real Americans in red states... krispos42 Nov 2012 #20

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
19. And from a Liberal in one of those states I say
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 12:33 PM
Nov 2012

Tough shit! We're staying!

Now, doesn't that chap your hide?

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
5. Interesting. Many if not most of the people who signed Oregon's petition don't live in Oregon.
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 05:53 PM
Nov 2012

Can I vote Texas or Mississippi out?

LeftinOH

(5,339 posts)
6. They should be given one state to which they can all move, then
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 06:09 PM
Nov 2012

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)
16. Move them to the island from Lost.
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 11:44 AM
Nov 2012

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)
8. Even though we're in Texas
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 06:23 PM
Nov 2012

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)
9. Help those poor people out
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 07:31 PM
Nov 2012

Get their names & addresses and send them a free offer to help them complete their GED.

Douglas Carpenter

(20,226 posts)
10. not that I seriously endorse these sentiments andI do realize that it is not fair or realistic
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 07:45 PM
Nov 2012
Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession



by Chuck Thompson

Release Date: August 14, 2012
Let’s 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 Carolina—Thompson 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, Thompson—an openly disgruntled liberal from the Northwest—makes 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)
11. It's up to 25 now (with 3 represented twice).
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 10:39 PM
Nov 2012

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)
12. It sounds like it wasn't the STATES that drafted those docs., but someone who did them & put them
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 10:43 PM
Nov 2012

on a site, hoping to get enough signatures.

 

kelliekat44

(7,759 posts)
13. IRS should really be on top of these folks to make sure they are paing their taxes.
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 10:46 PM
Nov 2012

I have a feeling they are not and are probably some of the biggest "moochers" in the nation.

geardaddy

(24,923 posts)
15. Here's are a couple of counter petitions someone put up.
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 11:43 AM
Nov 2012

"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"


krispos42

(49,445 posts)
20. I expect the flag-waving, overly-patriotic real Americans in red states...
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 12:35 PM
Nov 2012

...to reject this unanimously. Right?

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