[PAA-Discuss] Antiwar League in Vermont advocates secession. Why not?

[Alyssa Burgin]

Yeah, the Republic of Texas people are scary. They're not antiwar, by any 
means. They're the people in a crowd most likely to own a personal arsenal 
too, and they think armed conflict with their neighbors is inevitable.

Actually, the Texas annexation documents allowed for Texas to be split up 
into a total of five states, but that's now considered a curiousity and not 
much more. The  U.S. constitution (Article 4, Section 3) makes it clear that 
states cannot be subdivided. I'm sure any effort to split up the state would 
face a court showdown, and Texas would lose.

My boss wrote a story on our website when that news about the bomb-making 
materials in East Texas got out. It was something like "We found the 
WMD's--they're in East Texas."

Alyssa Burgin

----Original Message Follows----
From: RandyS <rscott77092 at earthlink.net>
Reply-To: RandyS <rscott77092 at earthlink.net>
To: ChasMauch at aol.com, Discuss at paa-tx.org
Subject: Re: [PAA-Discuss] Antiwar League in Vermont advocates secession. 
Why	not?
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:53:30 -0500 (EST)




While it sounds tempting at this point in history, it would be a dangerous 
mistake to make.
There is already an organization of separatists who call themselves "The 
Republic of Texas" who have been advocating for secession for many years.
Trouble is, they're just as much criminals as the criminals we're trying to 
overthrow.

R.o.T. consists of white supremacists, extreme religious fanatics, soldier 
of fortune style militiamen, the same Libertarians who hate the federal govt 
for just HAVING laws, and the same kind of people who have been voting for 
Bush since 2000.
A few years ago there was a news story that was totally ignored by the 
corporate broadcasters about a gang of R.o.T. folk who were arrested for 
having some MAJOR bomb-making materials and plans to use it. These guys are 
an all-white, all-christian domestic terrorist cell of the same mold as Tim 
McVeigh and absolutely not to be trusted with political control of the State 
of Texas.

If I don't trust the creeps in Washington, then I won't trust the creeps in 
the R.o.T. any better.

Randy




-----Original Message-----
From: ChasMauch at aol.com
Sent: Jan 15, 2007 11:03 PM
To: Discuss at paa-tx.org
Subject: [PAA-Discuss] Antiwar League in Vermont advocates secession. Why 
not?


Much like the US Declaration of Independence, the Antiwar League sets out 
some fantastic reasons why secession is justified. Maybe we should do the 
same thing. I think when Texas joined the union it reserved the right to 
split up into six states, each of which would have two senators. But this 
seems like an even better idea. In any case, I hope the Vermonters can pull 
it off, or at least publicize the possibility. That would send a fantastic 
message. What a concept! Check it out at this link:

http://antiwarleague.net/blog/index.php?itemid=19


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