Thanks to reader Mark for sending me this picture from the Houston Chronicle detailing one of the many pro-secessionists who’ve sprung up in Texas (well, become more outspoken) in the months since the election. The woman’s sign is a threat, a reference to Thomas Jefferson’s quote, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.” Manure is about right when it comes to the people who are not-subtly using this occasion—-which is pretty much a reunion opportunity for the morons that started to make McCain campaign rallies so scary—-as a way to question the legitimacy of Obama, with the hopes that someone else will kickstart this revolution. Timothy McVeigh, who also looked up to John Wilkes Booth, wore a T-shirt with this slogan.
New York’s rallies might have been about coloring within the lines on the podium, but in Texas, there was no such restraint. Our own governor played footsie with the people who mistakenly think that Texas has a right to secede, and that we should do that as a pouty-bear response to the rest of the country indecorously electing a black/Democrat/funky-named/popular President to office.
“There’s a lot of different scenarios,” Perry said. “We’ve got a great union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that. But Texas is a very unique place, and we’re a pretty independent lot to boot.”
He said when Texas entered the union in 1845 it was with the understanding it could pull out. However, according to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Texas negotiated the power to divide into four additional states at some point if it wanted to but not the right to secede.
My fellow Texans with less than ideal understanding of law and history, I’ve created a primer for you on the subject of Texas secession.