Governor Rick Perry Says Texas Could Secede from the U.S.
At one of three anti-tax "tea parties" that he attended Wednesday, Texas Governor Rick Perry reiterated his stance against the government and for states' right as those in the audience shouted "Secede!" Perry said that the government has abanoned the country's founding principles of limited government, stating that the federal government is strangling citizens with taxation, spending and debt. He even said that one day, Texans might get so fed up with the way things are going that they may wish to secede from the union.
Perry also said that Texas' economy is in relatively good shape compared to the other states, and with the "federal budget mess."
Answering questions from reporters, Perry suggested that Texans might get so fed up they would want to secede, but said that he sees no reason why they should do that:
"There's a lot of different scenarios. 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."
Perry also gave those reporters a quick history lesson, pointing out that when Texas entered the union in 1845, it was with the understanding that it could pull out. And they did. In 1861, Texas seceded, but victory by the North in the Civil War quickly put an end to that.
Perry is up for re-election against U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, a fellow Republican. Over the past few weeks the 2010 race has been heating up, and Perry is making a name for himself by being very anti-government. He rejected $550 million in federal economic stimulus money which was slated to help Texas' unemployment trust fund, and last week he joined state lawmakers at the Texas Capitol in pushing a resolution supporting state's rights protected in the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The Texas governor has also said that the federal government has become oppressive in its size and interference with states. Perry believes he could be at the center of a new national movement whichi s coordinated and focused in its opposition to the actions of a federal government:
"It's a very organic thing. It is a very powerful moment, I think, in American history," he said.
Could this be the beginnings of the fragmentation of American society and government, as predicted by a Russian professor just ten years ago? It's highly unlikely, but the timing of the growing anti-government movement is pretty on target.
Comments
God bless Texas. It's like awhole nother NATION over there. States rights, I demand states rights for my state Vermont to. Liberal or Conservative our states should have state rights, a right to leave a Union is need be.
Dear Governor Rick Perry,
I want too applaud you for standing for the people of the "Great State Of Texas",
because as you well know the "Federal Government" is not listening to the
American people. In all my life I have never seen such arrogance in the
"White House". I live in the beatiful state of Oregon , but the Government is
strongly Democrats. I myself am a strong Republican and find it very frustrating
too live in my beatiful state with all the corruption and high taxes that are killing
many small businesses. I told my wife that we need to move to your great state
as soon as possible. I have always been very patriotic for our country and am
a veteran of the Viet Nam era.
I hate to say it but I do not feel safe and am afraid for our country and our
Constitution. The people in the"White House", or should I say the "New Admin-
astration have turned a"Deaf Ear"on the people who hold to the Constitution and
the"Bill of Rights". For the first time in my life I went too a "Tea Party", with my
oldest daughter of five. We were very dissappointed because the government
bused in Mexican people 80 miles away from where we live and the locals
had too stand outside and wait. Three hours later a detective came out and told
us that our "State Representative David Wu", exited out the back because he was
afraid of the locals. I could not believe my ears at what I just heard. Mr. Wu should
be ashamed but I know he's just another liberal not willing to listen to the people
of Oregon.
Well Mr. Perry, I wish you were our Govenor then I could be proud to be living in my
state,but I very proud of your stand. My friends and I what to wish you well for your
"Patriotism", too God and the Constitution.
With Best Regards,
Roy and Michelle Moore
he should read TEXAS VS WHITE 1845 , TEXAS tried that once!!!!
Rick George Bush Perry is nothing but a messed up turn coat. He can't even spell his name and is always drunk. What does he know about anything?. As a texan, I know him very well. He will lose the governor's race you mark my word!!!.
What is Perry going to make since he is a Cook?
T hat guy is a little hot about what god only.So texas can take carry all on its self?Maybe he should pull his collar up some we can see what realy showing?
Where was Governor Perry when George W. Bush, ex-Governor of Texas was running us trillions of dollars into the red with his policies?
Please Texas, sucede. Nobody else likes you and we have all been sick of you for over 100 years. Do us all a favor and go. Who knows, some day we can have a war and eradicate you lot for the rest of time. Oh, and why dont you take the rest of the south with you. Our nations IQ would skyrocket.
Don't talk trash about I.Q. when you cannot properly spell or punctuate. I wish you would S-E-C-E-D-E.
Steve is a disgruntled, non-educated worm who can't punctuate and who can't form a complete sentence. And he needs a good old fashioned Texas beat down. Come on down Steve. Where are you, New York maybe?
New York City? We'll that's just all kinds o' wrong.
For someone who obviously has a low IQ, I find your comments about Texas and Texans pathetic and sad. First off, the word is secede--not sucede. Your inability to spell or use spell check shows me that you as an individual are probably about two degrees above savage--your cranial and intellectual development dates back to Cro-magnon Man or Java Man. Therefore, the great state of Texas can count its blessings that someone of retarded intellectual development, such as yourself, does not live within its confines and is a drain on state resources. Perhaps you should channel some of our limited intellectual capacity into learning to write at the 5th grade level at least. Also, I fear that you go to family reunions to meet women and the DNA in your family is all the same.
O no whats that I smell, its another jealous yankee. Put your white supremist nazi lovin hat on straight and welcome yourself to the year 2009...... Zieghile moron.
Jeez, the foolishness of your statement is astounding. Would you really want to exterminate all Texans? You are no better than Adolf Hitler. How can you sleep at night with God awful thoughts like that running through your sick little mind?
This "threat" would have more impact with longterm Constitutional Independents and American revolutionaries had the Texas leadership rebelled under the BUSH ADMINISTRATION! (or 30 years ago, against both parties,as I did)
as it is, the Republicans are just sorry losers and Texas doesn't have the balls to secede.
put up or shut up, Perry. No more political opportunism and rule by fear and threats.
LOVE,
A True Independent
TEXAS CANNOT SECEDE FROM THE UNION FAST ENOUGH AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED. LET THEM KEEP THEIR BIG HATS AND PUFFED UP HAIR AND STINKY CATTLE AND LEAVE US ALONE. WE WILL NOT TRADE WITH THEM NOR OFFER ANY ASSISTANCE FOR THE MANY IGNORANT, GUN TOTING, BEER SWIGGING FOLKS.
NO LOSS TO THE UNION.
Just like all states, Texas has its inner city and its country areas. Not all Texans are ranchers, and not all wear hats. Being from Chicago myself, I can tell you that there are farmers in the suburbs of Illinois also. Unless you are a vegan, you eat meat that was grown in any state in the union--maybe even Texas. It is the closed-minded hatred and of people like you that will end up dividing this country.
its about time that our people take back the country from our excessively large fed gov.
What a populist idiot.
Gov. Cook, pls separate Texas, at least we won't have another W as our president. And Republicans are sore loosers....First they mess up the country royaly and then blame current president for doing something about it.....
Yes, secede now and give the Democrats a filibuster proof majority! Sounds great to me. Can I suggest you take Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Alaska, Idaho, Oklahoma, Wyoming and Utah with you....
Good luck.
We Oklahomans would be proud to form a new union with Texas and the other states you listed. It would be a pleasure to have a country with common sense and morals again!
Spoken like a true Patriot. Come on down!
TEXAS
The United States has done pretty well holding the union together. Even the US Civil War was much less about slavery than about protecting and enforcing the omnipotent will of the federal government.
One one side of the coin, secession looks like an unavoidable event. States fed up with the bureaucratic morass that is Washington have a duty to their citizens to do just that.
On the other side, secession is almost a prescription for political and economic suicide unless proximate states do likewise and at the same time. But even then, it is a crap shoot that could lead to Civil War 2 and untold suffering.
One thing does seem for sure, though, and that is that the current status quo of the government/corporate hegemony (military/industrial complex) is eventually going to lead to some major problems for our nation.
Seriously, Texas is a wart on the corpus of the United States. The state is a net-drain on our economy and we don't need it. Let em go, we'll all feel a lot better and Texans can finally be forced to take actually responsibility for their poor decisions.
Net-drain on the economy?
Perhaps you are unaware that Texas and California are financially CARRYING the United States right now. New York would be as well, but their gain is from the stock market, and we all know how well that's going right now...
The United States needs Texas.
Texas does NOT need the United States.
Tell the United States you don't need them when a hurricane or other natural disaster pours in and your in need of disaster relief. You people need to use your head.
After the Civil War, Texas retained the right to seceed. The Texas flag can fly at the same height as the US flag, a privilege NO OTHER state has. Texas is not cattle or stetsons anymore. To say that is to proclaim your igornance. I'm all for secession. Texas has it all and if we decide, we can support ourselves...OIL, and all!
You can't support yourselves in Texas. You simply do not have enough fresh water.
You can't support yourselves in Texas. You simply do not have enough fresh water.
But I live in the Panhandle, and we have plenty of water thank you....Don't comment on subjects you do not know about...and if the rest of the state did run out of water, we have enough here to suffice the COUNTRY OF TEXAS!!
You people are dillusional!
You've been watching to many old westerns. While its true that Texas is pretty dry west of the Balcones Scarp, the eastern portion of the state is a sub-tropical wetland. At times we have far too much fresh water.
Alabama has plenty of water resources and we want to secede with Texas. We are tired of being "legally" robbed by the federal government!!
Count Mississippi in too!!! At least we'll have our morality and values back!!!
Proud to say we in Alabama and Mississippi proudly support the new Republic of Texas Independence!
AMEN!
I hope Texas does leave the union. Better yet why don't Midwestern states succeed. We have been screwed so long by the rest of this country it's crazy. When its all said and done we can sell fresh water back to Texas,... at $80.00 a barrel.
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."-Declaration of Independence
By the time we all get through seceding D.C.'ll be the United Socialist State of The Country Formerly Known As America!
This is ridiculous. We've managed to survive the last 8 years of hell and now you want to secede from the United States? Then do what??
You want to waste billions reinventing the wheel with your own everything? Great plan.
You want to guard the border with your own money? Go ahead.
You want to to watch the Mavs, Spurs and Rockets play only each other over and over again? Sounds fun.
In the meanwhile, the rest of the United States is gonna man up to the painful task of repairing itself. Why? Because we love our country and have more constructive things to do aside from throwing a hissy fit as if you're Naomi Campbell.
Please do grow the F up.
With all due respect, we're the ones with a solvent economy, and you're the ones with the multi-trillion dollar debt ans still spending money like a drunken sailor in a whorehouse. May politely suggest that it may be you who needs to grow the F up?
Well Said!!! Semper Fi which by the way means "always faithful" for all the Marines coming out of Texas!
It's the next 8, 20, 50, 100 years we're worried about. It's our kids and grandkids.
We saw no need to steal trillions laying waste to our own everything as is the Great Plan in operation currently.
The Fed's don't seem to care about the borders, or haven't you noticed?
If we got bored watching the Mavs, Spurs and Rockets we could watch you non-seceder's reap the "benefits" of the Nanny State. When the Feds the Meds and the Reds get together you really don't want to be there.
Please do wake up and use grown up language while you're at it.
It is such a hoot to read these "Texas go away you won't be missed" comments.
Where do you folks think you get your oil, gasoline and natural gas from?
You know those pipelines leaving Houston, the energy capital of the USA? Well, if we turned off the tap you folks would fold like a cheap suite.
Remember when those storms blew through and your gasoline went to $5 a gallon?
We are a lot more than steers and queers here in Texas - we are a powerful manufacturing, technical, scientific and agricultural center and we are 100% self sufficient. The other lower 47 need the 28th state more than the 28th state needs the other 47. In fact, without our federal tax contributions you clowns would be in an even bigger world of hurt. Seems like we are only "wanted" for tax collection reasons.
It would seem the "peace loving liberals" would rather murder every Texan, than let us secede peacefully.
Isn't that a little ironic, considering the left always accuses any constitutionalist of being a violent right wing radical?
All of you supporting the outrageous idea of secession are ignorant fucks. Stop inbreeding, turn your hunting rifles around, suck on the barrels, and pull the triggers. Do the world a favor and stop breathing. If Texas wants their guns and their ability to throw any non-white into the electric chair on a whim, then let them secede. All of you, including them, are uneducated, poor, white trash pieces of scum who need to choke on the dust your incestuous trailer parks kick up.
Well Oklahoma provides a large quantity of that as well. Would Texas really be able to keep its Millions fed by what it alone grows?
Don't forget the fact that we have our own totally independent electrical grid on our 268,601 square miles.
We should pay them to leave. Then we could have a decent country.
Texas does not have the economy or the military to secede.
1) It would be a 3rd world country in no time flat, bearing a greater resemblance to Mexico than the US.
2) The US Federal Government would never allow it, and would stomp Texas in a very brief civil war.
Give it a shot. Should be quite amusing.
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