Texas Declares State Sovereignty

Goodbye! Texas had no problems with every American losing their civil rights under the Patriot act. Talk about "intrusion into the lives of Americans". Texas is more than welcome to leave, we'll leave the light off for you in 12 years when you have a hurricane in Galveston and want aid from the US. I can't name a single thing positive to ever come out of Texas. Bye!

If they go, hopefully Mexico will retake it in a bloody battle and all those fat ignorant Texan's will have to spend 3 days in the desert trying to get into the US only to be captured and shipped back. Honestly, who will miss em?

i'm from texas moved to chicago 4 years ago than upstate new york 3 years ago.. theres way more hickish people here in upstate new york than texas so shush

I don't know if any of you non-Texans are aware if this, but all the major metropolitan areas in the state voted for Barack Obama. Young people also voted overwhelmingly for him. It is the rural areas that you guys are probably thinking of for all your hateful ideas about Texas. Things are changing there too though. I think its interesting how supposedly open-minded people are so ready to believe that everone in a certain states all believe the same way. Some of y'all are really being close-minded jerks to the people of Texas. Do you agree with everything that elected officials in your state say? No, because you are individual people with you own ideas. It is the same here in Texas. There are plenty of liberals in Texas, its just that our lines are drawn to secure Republican power, which makes getting them our of office a sometimes overwhelming task. But I think that one day our numbers will be too large for them to hold on so securely to power. Why don't you look in your own backyard for crazies before you start bashing Texas.

This just in ... Austin planning to secede from Texas.

I hope they secede, too. Good riddance to ungrateful rubbish.

Treason! My ass!

If you think Texas is the only one then you've got another thing coming

http://current.com/items/89972631/eleven_states_declare_sovereignty_from_tyranni...

This is all political rhetoric from the Gov.

I do agree that the overbearing federal gov't. takes our tax money, uses our future earnings as loan collateral. Then threatens to withold the taxes that have been paid by residents of the various states, if we do not implement federal laws. This is clearly a form of blackmail and should be resented by all tax paying Americans.

Wow... I've been educated because I didn't know a state could do this.

Pretty sure the Gov. of TX has just committed treason or came really damn close.

@neocongo I've got to agree.

lol texas...relgious freaks...

Texas reaffirms that which has already been affirmed. You see, if you do too much tea bagging, you end up doing silly, sackless stunts like this.

Russia downsized by getting rid of Muslim/Taliban rich provinces of Kazhastan, Ubekistan, Turkministan...Russians are better off for it. The USA would be better off without Texas and its right wing extremist GOP evangelical christotaliban base....(but keep Austin, its a small node of sanity in the lone star state and they can join OPEC)

'Merica I'd just like to say a few words at'cha... Uh, Gilt... Hooey. Uh... Hokem. And, oh yeah... Texas.

Wow. This is awesome. It reminds me of the first time I travelled outside of TX by myself as an adult. I didn't realize that I was some freak of nature for thinking like and being from Texas. Fortunately I've had enough experience outside of TX to see it's finer points and to reject it's lesser ones.

Politics is like the Weather in TX. If you don't like it, wait 5 minutes, it'll change. Oh wait, they rigged the district lines a few years back so that's not true anymore.

It's too bad Molly Ivans has passed. She could use her pen very effectively in this situation

“Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.”

Pashtunwali concept of living

THIS IS THE SAME THING THAT HAPPENED IN THE CIVIL WAR!

The tyrannical Federal Government put tariffs on the southern states and tried to take the rights of the state away.

If you think that the civil war was fought about slavery and racism then you couldn't be more far from the point. Abolishing slavery was something that ol' Abe Lincoln tacked on to satisfy the people when they asked why they were fighting this war (shortly after the bloody battle of Gettysburg).

Abraham Lincoln wasn't as good of a person as so many think he was. He was actually very tyrannical, many in the south believed so. He was infringing on the rights of the states. The issue of slavery should have been an issue left up to the states.

Our federal government does not control the states and it certainly doesn't control the people. WE CONTROL IT!

A people that is afraid of the government is tyranny, but a government that is afraid of the people is Liberty.

DON"T TREAD ON ME!

It would be impossible for Texas to fully secede. Trade arrangements and routes with Mexico would prohibit it alone, not to mention several other factors.

It's nice that the politicians are finding a way to state their distaste, but this isn't the way to pull the country and their own state out of this sorry economic state.

Why do people think that a state would just "fall Apart" if it ever left the US. They would make drastic cuts, but trust me in saying that other countries would jump at the opportunity to have a safe haven so close to the US. Things would be rough for the first 6 months but then everything would smooth out.

Without Aid? What do you think the fed just sends big convoys of food into the cities or something it doesn't work like that. Texas would increase their taxes and get rid of income tax. Thus they would have plenty of money to pay for all the shit they would need. Then tons of people would flock to Texas seeing that many people identify with a libertarian style government. Texas would probably lock down on their borders. Many volunteers would join to secure the border (as they do now). In the end I think many in the US would be happy. The liberals would be happy now that they will have a 1 party system, the libertarians will have a place to go live their lives as they wish. Then as you struggle with Medical Marijuana laws, Texans can smoke anything they want. Now that the DEA can't enter.

I think it's a win win situation. The US can have back it's military hardware if they want, as Texas can just buy the same tech from the Chinese for a lot less.

This would never happen. America would gladly kill it's own citizens to keep a piece of land. They will lock up the dissenters and charge the officials with treason. They will punish the economy and use Texas as an example for the rest of the states that aren't going with the "program" in the end you have a bunch of dead people and even more people with less hope in this little world.

I think its terrible how cavalier southerners are about the loss of life in the Civil War. All of that blood was American blood. The blood of brothers and when all was said and done the blood was the blood of freedmen. Free from the tyrany of a document that encapsulated all the hope and irony of the worlds democracies. That all men are created equal but not all men were created free.

Today isn't just the day we declare our taxes as Americans. Today is the day that our democracy failed. Today is the day that John Wilkes Boothe shouting the motto of the Virginians decided to be a Virginian first before an American and redressed his greivances with a bullet rather than a petition. Today is the day that Abraham Lincoln was cast into the ages.

Somehow we honor his unwitting sacrifice with an ignoble mark of taxation. Perhaps it is fitting. Where we chose to tax our souls as a nation with the blood of our leaders and brothers we too should abide the tyrany of other mens hearts if only to quiet the hot blood that has been spilled in our recent memory.

What happened to the spirit of shared sacrifice as a nation? What happened to the sacred ground of Gettysburg. Was it somehow desecrated to the point of irelevance? So that people can spit on the dead with talk of another rift. Another day when Americans cease to be Americans because they can not abide our democracy. These creatures who call themselves Americans and patriots but spit in the face of liberty when it takes any course but thiers do not know the justice of history. These are not the Americans I know. This is not the America my ancestors bled for.

Sic Semper Tyranus indeed. Thus always to Tyrants. Even tyrants with tea bags.

BS, a state can't just secede from the Union, it's hyperbole and political positioning on Mr. Perry's part. The United States military would have already sent troops to Texas and arrested Perry for treason.Texas would fall apart in a matter of days without aid, and what nation in it's right mind would recognize Texas?

I guess the US government should stop all aid programs, stop social security, pull all defenses out, remove the FBI, stop repairing federal roads, and burn the national parks. Without the Feds the state is nothing.

Sorry to shatter the delusion bubble some of you folks live in, but no state has truly seceded from the Union of the United States of America, except for during the civil war, and we all know the North won.

We sink or swim together folks, deal with it.

Good job Texas, now lets get all 49 other states to do the same!

The Federal Government has been controlling the states for far too long. The states are sovereign and are only loosely connected by our federal government.

LIVE FREE OR DIE TRYING!

If I close my eyes it sounds just like GWB

The whole sovereignty issue is BS.

It means nothing except that some ignorant politicians posturing for the cameras. Imagine that posturing politicians from Texas.

I got an idea if Texas really want's to show it has balls why not declare war on the US and see how that works out.

An exclusively republican state bitching because they don't like the fact that the Democratic congress is in the majority and democratic President is in the White House.

It may not be treason but it sure as hell is not how people that believe in a democratic republic are suppose to behave.

I won't say good riddance to Texas because there are a lot of good people there but I will say grow up and act like an American for god sake. I am from Michigan but if the people of my state would have wanted to secede during the Bush years I would have said the same thing to them; grow up.

Texas can split up into five separate states, but we can't secede. obviously we did that in 1861 and that turned out so well for us. He's just trying to get attention because his hair is actually a sentient alien that has taken over his brain and it feeds on conservative attention and liberal outrage. that explains alot if you think about it. i would look into Mitt Romney too, as well as the Blago.

i don't see what the big deal is, they should do whatever they please down there. seeing as their only contribution to the union was a series of terrible presidents( LBJ, Bush S, Bush) we will surely relish in their absences.

F Texass, I have hated that state since they killed my president. Not to mention the asshole that just left the Whitehouse. Oh but it's my birthday and what a great gift if Texass were to leave the union. Don't forget we get all of our military equipment back from those bases those are owned by the federal government. To bad the Mexican mafia will overrun your funky state without federal help in stopping them.

I did'nt see anything referring to Seceding from the union. Only that the constitution guarantees that the states all have rights. And the federal Governmentr over the years have removed those rights just as they have taken away the individual rights. Texas is excercising their right and as for seceding , I think that Texas is big enough and intelligent enough to dump religion and act like civilized human beings and prosper alone just as well.

Something's fishy...I can smell it. Do you really want to trust another Texan?

No problem. Cut off all federal aid whatsoever to Texas. Pull out all Federal agents, troops or agencies supported by the Fed's. Then declare a tariff on all oil produced in Texas exported to the United States and close the borders.

united we stand; divided we fall.

LOL im from texas but im moving to new mexico..thank god but what a great way to drop the border issue off on some one else obama should just let texas deal with its part and secede.
I just hope El Paso becomes part of New Mexico, too nice a place to end up belonging to Texas. :)

The only problem is if Texas Secedes it will start drilling for oil everywhere anyone notice that their is not one dark face in that crowd in Austin. Sounds like perry is up to something shady.

Catchy Headline. Maybe something for "24"

So when they send the f-15s to bomb the hell out of Texas, will Gov. Perry be so proud?

If this passes, I'll seriously consider moving to Texas...

Of course, I'll have to learn the language, first!

As always we focus on the troublemaker instead of the trouble. The point is you/we/all/future are being dragged down by an unapologetic federal government and every state is a victim of it. And does anyone have anything concrete about Texas failing on its own? We have oil, more corporate headquarters than any other state, even our moderate annual temperatures makes us economically superior. The way I see it Texas is the nicest house on the block and Rick Perry has a set of balls, what does your governor have?

The next time a hurricane rolls through, or Mexican drug gangs take over Texas, I am sure they will be looking for a federal handout /assistance. So much for patriotism,...why wasn't this said during the last 8 years when the largest borrowing in history took place(Cheney even said deficits mean nothing,..right?),...without all his borrowing, we would not need a tax increase,...didn't Milton Friedman say once that borrowing today is a tax increase tomorrow,..or something similar....

So far the Obama Administration hasnt broken an Constitutional boundaries, if they think so then they can take the US to the supreme court.

And without the federal government, Texas would be squandering in poverty. The Fed governemnt gives so much to Texas in the form of tech business, military bases, hurricane relief, stimulus money, etc... If Governor Perry (who was elected with 38%) wants to declare "sovereignty" which is essentially independence if they decide to disobey the Constitutional laws of the Federal government, then he can do so and Texas will see what its like without the US.

I think people are confusing sovereignty with Independence.

Okay, so umm... What does this actually mean? forgive my impudence, I'm Canadian, our politics are never as interesting as you Americans.

The USA to the north MEXICO to the south?They even have beaches, a big river and six flags.

Today I'm proud to call Texas my home

I agree that the federal government has overstepped its bounds. Hell, I even agree with a lot of what is written in H.C.R.No.50. What strikes me as funny is that it comes out now. Gov. Perry was sworn in on December 21, 2000. He waited through eight years of GOP leadership and now that they have lost power it is time to bring it up. It is nothing more than party bullshit and if those of you that live in Texas can take pride in that then more power to you. Personally I want government leadership (both state and federal) that looks out for its people not party line.

Does this mean we will need a passport to visit Texas? LOL

OMG LETS JUST STEREOTYPE ALL THE TEXANS INSTEAD OF HAVING A REAL DISCUSSION GUYS!!

That's much easier than having to think!

Most people I know would say "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out." if Texas were to secede.

Save the federal government BILLIONs in tax dollars spent there wouldn't it?

Would also make the drug war with Mexican cartels their problem to deal with.

Oh well.

Personally, I love the San Padre area, Austin is fun but dry counties are just stupid.

now i'm not a fan of texas usually but i have to say hats off texas fuck the fed

hmmm. I don't really know what to say about this one. For once I'll just shut up. You're welcome. heh.

Texas has less Union jobs and more small businesses per capita than most any state in the Union. Could it be we are smarter, work harder, or just have better folks here?

Makes you wonder!! Some of the fastest growing areas of the country are here!! Wonder if it really stinks that bad up North?

Interesting timing, given it was recently discovered there is a floating pile of crap in the Pacific Ocean approximately the same size as Texas...

What he should have mentioned is that he won the last election with 38% of the vote. No, there is no run off in our governors race. Now, if we could only get 25 more candidates to run, maybe we could get Governor Good Hair to retire to big "D" with the Decider.

To put this in context, if California proposed this during when Bush was in office . . . . the Republicans would have used one word, TREASON.

Anybody that thinks that seceding would be a good idea is an idiot in my book, and very much possibly a traitor for proposing sedition in the first place.

Think about that for a second, all of you so-called "patriots".

Time to bring back the original framework of the United States, a voluntary union of states coming together to form a common federal government, not a federal government barking down orders to puppet states.

Could we see a breakdown of exactly how much federal money Texas gets? Not just in direct money, lets look at military bases, military pay, research grants, funding due to various other activities, etc.

Just curious....

Yes! :)

I love Texas for this. Let's take it to the next step and secede.

“I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state."

They forgot to add.

"becase we don't believen evolution and the world is 10000 years old."

This is getting out of control . . .

except for austin. it's cool.

shucks howdy, thats great. heres' a clue texas, AMERICA DOESN'T WANT YOU. please take all your gun toting, jesus lovin brethren in other states with you when you leave.

I do find it hilarious that republicans are now complaining about the laws that THEY implemented under a completely republican administration. oh well, idiots never learn.

Yes its in the Texas state Constitution that we can choose to secede.

Can Texas just secede again?

What an eloquent way of say "#$%^ You" to the Federal Government.

I think Davie Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William Travis said something similar before Santa Anna stormed the Alamo, and I'm paraphrasing here: "%&*% You, we ain't coming out"

- oh, wait that was David Coresh in Waco.

Oh Texas, how I miss thee. I could wax poetic about your blunt, arrogant, and proud ways for hours...

Don't mess with Texas.