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Started by garbon, November 12, 2012, 02:49:32 PM

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garbon

November 12, 2012, 02:49:32 PM
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.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
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11B4V

#1
November 12, 2012, 02:51:36 PM
Easy, they dont like black people.

"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

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"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Razgovory

#2
November 12, 2012, 02:54:12 PM
We need to round them up on counts of Treason.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Viking

#3
November 12, 2012, 02:55:41 PM


Apparently Zombies are in this electoral Cycle.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Valmy

#4
November 12, 2012, 02:56:12 PM
This will make it easier for Obama's Drones to identify his domestic enemies.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Razgovory

#5
November 12, 2012, 02:57:52 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.

Hey, I resent being called a drone!
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Viking

#6
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.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

FunkMonk

#7
November 12, 2012, 03:01:03 PM
Spielberg's 'Lincoln' is brilliantly timed.
Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

garbon

#8
November 12, 2012, 03:01:06 PM
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.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Eddie Teach

#9
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."
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Viking

#10
November 12, 2012, 03:06:51 PM
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."
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Ed Anger

#11
November 12, 2012, 04:28:08 PM
Internet petitions.  :rolleyes:
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

DGuller

#12
November 12, 2012, 04:45:53 PM
Do you have to be a resident of the state you want to petition to secede? :unsure:

Josephus

#13
November 12, 2012, 04:56:33 PM
Probably get a lot more signatures if they put the petition up on Facebook.
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garbon

#14
November 12, 2012, 07:04:45 PM
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]
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
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