Secede? Sure, Missouri might try that
Yael T. AbouhalkahUpset about the 2012 elections? Think Missouri should secede? Want to waste some time?
Several thousand Missourians in the last few days have signed on to efforts to get the state to peacefully withdraw from the United States of America.
Mayor Sly James alerted me and his other Twitter followers today of this site.
The budding effort is more fully explained in this new Washington Post piece.
(UPDATE) And the effort seemed to be gathering steam on Monday, per Politico.
“The two most popular petitions, Texas and Louisiana, have both drawn more than 10,000 signatures each as of Monday morning. The Texas petition needs only 7,000 more signatures to trigger an official White House response.”
You can go online and sign petitions at the White House website to get all kinds of things done, including asking that your state be allowed to get out of the whole federal government. Missouri is just one of the states on the list. It seems as if a number of Americans don’t want to be … well … Americans these days.
Of course, the signatures have no practical effect. It would take a whole lot more effort - by state legislatures, residents and Congress - for anything to happen like a state getting out of the United States.
But the site does give people somewhere to go to blow off steam.
Here’s the gentle wording of the petition:
We petition the Obama administration to: Peacefully grant the State of Missouri to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government.
As the founding fathers of the United States of America made clear in the Declaration of Independence in 1776:
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
“…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 abolish it, and institute new Government…”
John W Mack Jr.
6 months, 1 week agoI am heading over there right now to sign the petition to support removing Missouri from the union, much like they seceded from the Big 12.
John Conners
6 months, 1 week agoBrilliant move there John…come by my house and I will give you gas money. Consider moving to Kansas….sounds like they got a bunch of real goofs over there.
George Hunsucker
Northland
6 months, 1 week agoTexas has the 25K signatures… be interesting to see the response from the WH. Maybe they can bundle it with their response to Benghazi-gate….
Sure am glad we have such an open and transparent WH—NOT
Martin Walsh
6 months, 1 week agoMissouri secede? Right! How do they propose to support themselves? We have one of lowest incomes in the nation and have lowest support of education, infrastructure, employee pay, and social services. And remember - we cannot raise taxes!
Johnathon Busby
6 months, 1 week agoThe response from the white house will be none. That’s all this “effort” warrants.
George Hunsucker
Northland
6 months, 1 week agoWell Johnathon, you may be right, since this bunch of Chicago hoodlums has no qualms about ignoring laws or promises, but let’s hope the “hope and change” crowd follow their promises from the wh website…
http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/11/white-house-website-deluged-with-secession-petitions-from-19-states/
Phil Cardarella
6 months, 1 week agoI seem to recall reading that this issue was vigorously litigated and finally settled sometime in the 1860’s.
Perhaps these folks might like to check out a new biopic being released on a guy named Lincoln.
John Richards
6 months, 1 week agoPersonally I think we avoided major disaster by not electing Romney. I think he would have quit. Kind of like Sarah Palin did regarding her Alaska governorship. If the idiots in Missouri want to secede let them have it. Just like the poorest states of the South are also the most Republican. See how hard they cry “foul” when the federal funding for things they never thought of dry up. Yeah, bring it. Would be hilarious.
Mark Hastert
6 months, 1 week agoDana Millbank has a piece on this in the Washington Post today. It seems that the secessionists are mostly red state malcontents. Curiously nearly all of these red states ge more federal dollars than they put into the treasury. He refers to them as the Confederacy of Takers in that their sessions would leave them poorer and the rest richer. Nice ring to it, “Confederacy of Takers”