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Friday, May 29th, 2015

Texas Secession Petition Racks Up More Than 80,000 Signatures, Qualifies For White House Response

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Source:     The Huffington Post
Publication Date:     05/24/2015 10:59 pm EDT
 Link: Texas Secession Petition Racks Up More Than 80,000 Signatures, Qualifies For White House Response
Stephan:   Although this story is about Texas, a state with a very strange culture, the reason I am running it is because it is the latest in the growing Great Schism Trend. Forty states now have secession movements. Corporate media can't seem to see this except as isolated anomalies on the political fringe. But I think there are several deeper message: there is a significant and  growing portion of the population who think seriously about secession. And deeper still: In its own way the Secession Trend is a subset of the Localization Trend. It is one particular expression of the growing desire people have to control their lives locally because they no longer have any faith in the state or federal level of government which they see as fundamentally corrupt.

A petition for Texas secession has qualified to receive a White House response.

As of Tuesday evening, the petition — which asks for the peaceful withdrawal of the state of Texas from the union — had racked up more than 81,000 signatures. (Only 25,000 are needed to elicit an official response from the Obama administration.)

According to Politico, the leader of the Texas secession movement said the president’s reelection last week was a “catalyzing moment for his organization’s efforts to quit the United States.”

“I am completely aware that Election Day was a catalyzing moment, but I do not believe that the underpinnings of this are solely about Barack Obama,” Daniel Miller, president of the Texas Nationalist Movement told the political news website. “This cake has been baking for a long time — it’s the Obama administration that put the candles on the cake and lit it for us.”

The Texas petition reads:

Given that the state of Texas maintains a balanced budget and is the 15th largest economy in the world, it is practically feasible for Texas to withdraw from the union, and to do so would protect it’s (sic) citizens’ standard of living and re-secure […]

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