15 states with petitions to secede

[Kracka]

http://www.examiner.com/article/15-states-including-texas-have-filed-a-petition-to-secede-from-the-united-states-1

Texas is only a few thousand signatures away from being put in front of the Obama administration for consideration (to which they'll obviously deny).

[A//// Guy]

Hahahaha

[Alpha D]

I am very politically neutral....but wow this sounds pretty intense....LOL! Despite the fact they have many more signatures to go...my question is...what is if their is enough, radical people vs the ones that do not want to secede from the Nation....would they have to move out of the state? Seems like a bad joke, with some serious fire power hahaha...

[Trogdor]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/Tin_foil_hat_2.jpg

[Goat Blower]

Yeah, just because a few people file a petition, doesn't make it a real movement. Texas on the other hand has been at this a while, and probably has the resources to do it. Just think, a total free enterprise system. A ton of businesses and entrepreneurs would probably move there and it would probably be pretty successful, until the fed stuck their hand out because so much tax revenue would go away.

[polishmafia]

So if I want to drive across the country, I will pass in and out of the USA and the "yet to be named" USA about 18 times.

That makes for an interesting map!

[Alpha D]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/Tin_foil_hat_2.jpg

Ha . . . . . . . . . !

[Kracka]

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/national_world&id=8883599

Can't wait to see the White House's response to Texas since the required 25k signatures have been collected :)

Obviously it's not going to happen, but it does send a message.

[rose0529]

Not trying to get involved. but i just wanted to comment, that I'm suprised it only took 25k votes to get it to the president, that is only .1% of the population of Texas. (per wikipedia's 2011 est of 25,674,681 people)

*edit
per the link below there are 68,000 votes currently . .27% of the population.

[Kracka]

Here is a more level-headed article: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/13/rick-perry-doesnt-support-secession-petition-on-white-house-website/