50 States File Petitions to Secede

(Info Wars) – A lot of attention is being given to the fact that residents in all 50 states have filed petitions to secede from the United States. November 15, 2012,

Daily Caller reports: By 6:00 a.m. EST Wednesday, more than 675,000 digital signatures appeared on 69 separate secession petitions covering all 50 states, according to a Daily Caller analysis of requests lodged with the White House’s “We the People” online petition system.

Petitions from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas residents have accrued at least 25,000 signatures, the number the Obama administration says it will reward with a staff review of online proposals.

The Texas petition leads all others by a wide margin.

States whose active petitions have not yet reached the 25,000 signature threshold include Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

Fourteen states are represented by at least two competing petitions. The extra efforts from two states — Missouri and South Carolina — would add enough petitions to warrant reviews by the Obama administration if they were combined into petitions launched earlier.

Other states with multiple efforts include Alaska, California, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin

As Google notes, web searches for the term “secession” are being run in a number of states:

Map What Does It Mean that Residents in All 50 States Have Filed Petitions to Secede?

Conservatives – such as Judge Napolitano and Ron Paul -  say that the states have the right to secede.  And Texas governor Rick Perry said that Texas has a right to secede (although he counsels against it at the current time).

On the other hand, most liberals say that the Civil War ended the state’s right to secede.    Huffington Post is covering the wave of secession petitions … to ridicule them.

Daily Kos suggests that “secessionists can secede by renouncing their citizenship“.

The Declaration makes a simple argument:

Humans have rights from the Creator.
Governments exist to secure those rights (a debatable assertion but we’ll roll with it).
When the government fails to secure those rights, we can ditch it and start our own government.

That’s pretty much all it says. If you thought that was true in 1776, when tax rates were 1% and there was no such thing as a the EPA or the FBI or the IRS, why is it not true now? Because we’re so much more free now? And, no, the Declaration did not say that the government is free to violate rights as long as people get to vote on it.

The Declaration establishes that there’s no such thing as treason, and a free government requires the assumption of just secession. Lysander Spooner explains[:]

Thus the whole Revolution [of 1775–1783] turned upon, asserted, and, in theory, established, the right of each and every man, at his discretion, to release himself from the support of the government under which he had lived. And this principle was asserted, not as a right peculiar to themselves, or to that time, or as applicable only to the government then existing; but as a universal right of all men, at all times, and under all circumstances.

Ron Paul says that states have the right to secede … and predicts they will do so when the dollar collapses:

Source:  Info Wars,  http://www.infowars.com/what-does-it-mean-that-residents-in-all-50-states-have-filed-petitions-to-secede/  (Info Wars) – A lot of attention is being given to the fact that residents in all 50 states have filed petitions to secede from the United States. November 15, 2012,  Daily Caller reports:

Comments:

For all States who deliver 25,000 signatures on these Petitions, the Whitehouse is expected to make some response.  The only way to really secede from the U.S. is to have State Legislators vote on it and have their Governors sign it.  That is the prescribed, required process.  If citizens of each State start the process with a Petition.  It needs to be in the prescribed format   For this route, each State should have the requirements citizens of that State would need to satisfy (i.e. number of signatures required)  and proper delivery of Petitions.   This exercise indicates that there is enough interest in this to pursue through the States. 

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader