http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/secission-petitions-filed-20-states-190210006.html
QuoteIn the week 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 Louisiana, Texas, Oregon, Alabama, Tennessee, Montana, North Dakota, Missouri, South Carolina, Arkansas, New Jersey, Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina, Mississippi, Michigan, New York, Florida, Indiana and Kentucky. Oddly, folks from Georgia have filed twice. Even stranger, several of the petitions come from states that went for 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 20,000.
Of course, this is mostly a symbolic gesture. The odds of the American government granting any state permission to go its own way are on par with winning the lotto while getting hit by a meteor while seeing Bigfoot while finding gluten-free pizza that tastes like the real thing.
An article WKRC quotes a University of Louisville political science professor who explained that these petitions aren't terribly uncommon. Similar petitions existed following the 2004 and 2008 elections. Still, should the petitions garner 25,000 signatures in a month, they will require an official response from the Obama administration.
Easy, they dont like black people.
We need to round them up on counts of Treason.
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Apparently Zombies are in this electoral Cycle.
This will make it easier for Obama's Drones to identify his domestic enemies.
Quote from: Valmy on November 12, 2012, 02:56:12 PM
This will make it easier for Obama's Drones to identify his domestic enemies.
Hey, I resent being called a drone!
Quote from: Valmy on November 12, 2012, 02:56:12 PM
This will make it easier for Obama's Drones to identify his domestic enemies.
I'm pretty sure the drones have sufficiently good image recongnition software to drop hellfire missiles on every stars and bars it sees south of the mason dixon.
Spielberg's 'Lincoln' is brilliantly timed.
Quote from: Viking on November 12, 2012, 02:59:41 PM
Quote from: Valmy on November 12, 2012, 02:56:12 PM
This will make it easier for Obama's Drones to identify his domestic enemies.
I'm pretty sure the drones have sufficiently good image recongnition software to drop hellfire missiles on every stars and bars it sees south of the mason dixon.
Which would then miss many of the individuals as there are several states mentioned in article that are in other places.
Quote from: garbon on November 12, 2012, 02:49:32 PM
Still, should the petitions garner 25,000 signatures in a month, they will require an official response from the Obama administration.
The perfect response: "Nuts."
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on November 12, 2012, 03:02:31 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 12, 2012, 02:49:32 PM
Still, should the petitions garner 25,000 signatures in a month, they will require an official response from the Obama administration.
The perfect response: "Nuts."
My preferred option is "Federal Necromancer's have entered Grant's Tomb and are re-animating the corpse."
Internet petitions. :rolleyes:
Do you have to be a resident of the state you want to petition to secede? :unsure:
Probably get a lot more signatures if they put the petition up on Facebook.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/white-house-may-respond-texas-secession-petition-212328772--election.html
QuoteLooks like the Obama administration may have to respond to a petition seeking the green light for Texas to secede from the United States—one of 20 such requests filed on the official White House website since Election Day.
At the time of the writing of this post, the Texas secession petition had garnered 25,318 signatures—above the White House's self-imposed rules for requiring a reply.
(A "Recount the election!" petition filed Nov. 10 had 16,238 signatures. "Regulate Internet Pornography"? Not a big winner. It was filed Nov. 4 and had only 501 signatures.)
The White House may opt out of replying. Under its own rules, "To avoid the appearance of improper influence, the White House may decline to address certain procurement, law enforcement, adjudicatory, or similar matters properly within the jurisdiction of federal departments or agencies, federal courts, or state and local government in its response to a petition."[/qupte]
The title is only true for a given value of the words "petition," "secession," and "filed."
But carry on driving traffic, Yahoo!, shitbird of the internet. Crap on, you crazy diamond.
Quote from: Scipio on November 12, 2012, 07:19:46 PM
The title is only true for a given value of the words "petition," "secession," and "filed."
But carry on driving traffic, Yahoo!, shitbird of the internet. Crap on, you crazy diamond.
:mellow:
25,000 seems really low for a response from the White House.
This shit will be food for Martim style douchebaggery. BTW, I'm still waiting for Oklahoma's independence and forcible Cajun resturant closings.
I found this today, http://patriotpost.us/perspective/15428
QuoteAnd speaking of election maps, nice lines for secession (Colorado, New Mexico and Virginia, you can join us). In 1860 our nation was divided much along the lines of division we see today. The irony is that then, the conflict was, ostensibly, over those enslaved on rural agricultural plantations. Now the assault on Liberty is led by those enslaved on urban government plantations. I recall these words from fellow Tennessean Nathan Bedford Forrest on the Second War for Independence (as it was known in the South): "I loved the old government. I loved the old Constitution. I do not hate it; I am opposing now only the radical revolutionists who are trying to destroy it."
Squee!
I was genuinely tempted to respond to this bullshit, but as a jobless lunatic I thought it was beneath me.
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Is that post one of yours?
I would have preferred a more CdMesque response.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/our-states-remain-united?utm_source=wethepeople&utm_medium=response&utm_campaign=secession
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 15, 2013, 08:54:55 AM
I would have preferred a more CdMesque response.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/our-states-remain-united?utm_source=wethepeople&utm_medium=response&utm_campaign=secession
Gah, it's so anodyne -- like Obama wrote it himself. Agreed that we need more red state-baiting.
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on January 17, 2013, 01:56:40 PMAgreed that we need more red state-baiting.
The SEC sucks.
How's that?