10th Amendment: Texas Rick Perry Endorses Secession

Salon:

Texas Gov. Rick Perry isn't immune from your typical American's fear over their job security in this economy. Right now, in fact, it seems as if he might be out of a job pretty soon, as Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison looks set to mount a primary challenge against him next year, and early polls show her in the lead. So he's been working hard on his appeal to the right lately, rejecting some stimulus money (and fighting with Hutchison over it), talking with Glenn Beck and, now, appealing directly to the fringe.

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Comments

[Doofus]

Some are pushing a meme that Texas has some special right to secede
from US. There seems to be no basis for this in law, though there were
some unusual, if irrelevant, clauses in the treaty which preceded Texas
statehood. The Supreme Court said 'no way' on this matter, awhile back.

(Wiki) - ' Texas v. White, 74 U.S. 700 (1869) was argued before the United States Supreme Court in 1869. The Court held in a 5–3 decision that the Constitution did not permit states to secede from the United States, and that the ordinances of secession, and all the acts of the legislatures within seceding states intended to give effect to such ordinances, were "absolutely null".

The court's opinion was authored by Chief Justice Salmon Chase, himself a former cabinet member under Abraham Lincoln and leading figure in the Union government during the American Civil War. Based on his previous position, many southerners questioned Chase's impartiality and believed he should have recused himself from the decision. While legally binding, the court's decision was extremely controversial and remains so to this day. Many former Confederate officials such as Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens as well as legal theorists such as Lysander Spooner rejected the court's reasoning and defended the right of states to secede. '

[sfdennis1]

All my sympathies to progressiv­e/independ­ent/libera­l Texans... I don't know how you do it...I had a friend of mine from Chicago say that he couldn't stand the winters any longer and he wound up moving to Austin a few years back....I know Austin is an eclectic, progressive town, but Jeez, I would be waaay too scared to live in a "little bubble of sanity" surrounded by all that "redness".

A few years back, Bill Maher (in his New Rules segment) said something like we should reconsider the Civil War and let the southern states retroactively secede...I always agreed with him, as long as we allowed "refugees" (gays, minorities, liberals, etc.) to become "Union" citizens...Go ahead and let the south create the "United States of Jesusland" or the "Fundamentalist Federation" or whatever garbage they are always trying to force on the rest of the country, and let the rest of us create public policy based on rational thinking and equal protection under the law....

Of course, we'd need a thousand foot high fence on the border (and probably a missile defense shield as well) to protect us from the end-days Jesus freaks, NRA wingnuts and the like...oh well, wishful thinking.

[TheRichArtist]

Holy Cow...is this in America?

[McFlipFlop]

7th generation Texan here. Please don't start with the comments against all of us good people in Texas -- that's a right-wing, tribalistic, us-vs-them mentality.

We will get rid of this idiot, and we will go blue statewide eventually. All of the big cities voted for Obama.

[laluzlaluz]

Don't abandon the many (clearly not all of them are) good people of Texas to the clutches of idiots like this! We don't need to dismissed, we need your moral support to help us throw these emperor-wannabes out of office.

[jimburn]

Please leave asap. It will free up so much money that the 49 other states could use. And I'm sure it would end the no income tax in texas law.