WH Petition: To Allow Certain States Wishing to Withdraw from the Union to do so immediately

[Omaha Steve]

Sign here: http://wh.gov/XbGM

Just got this in an e-mail. Please sign.

OS

See below -- I have a petition in response to all of those right-wing nut jobs who have apparently been petitioning the White House in just this same manner to allow their states to secede from the union as a result of the 2012 election. Attached is a form sent to me by the White House which allows you to sign MY petition which would conditionally allow this. Please sign up!! 150 signatures are necessary for the petition to become publicly viewable on the White House site! Send to your like-minded friends!


You have to read the forwarded message to the end to see what I have proposed.


The gist is, okay, secede, so long as it is by majority vote under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (which assures no racial discrimination) and if they pay back the HUGE excess of federal money transferred to those states by the US Government since 1864.

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To Allow Certain States Wishing to Withdraw from the Union to do

so immediately.


We hereby demand that the administration introduce and Congress adopt laws

and constitutional amendments necessary to allow any State that was in

rebellion against the United States as of January 1, 1864 to secede from the

United States upon the following conditions:



(1) Such state shall, by a majority vote of its citizens held in accordance

with the provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, elect to secede from

the United States; and



(2) Such state shall, as a provision of such vote, obligate itself to refund

to the Treasury of the United States, all payments of any kind made to said

State by the United States which are in excess of the federal taxes collected

from such State for the period from 1864 until the date of such vote.

[jberryhill]

1. I love the idea of asking the president for "permission"

[Avalux]

2. Question for everyone championing this -

what about those of us who live in these states?

I live in Texas and my home, my job, my family is here. Will there be a mechanism in place to relocate those of us who get 'trapped' if secession becomes a reality???

I'm serious about this. Consideration needs to be given to people like me.

[Omaha Steve]

3. I doubt they can raise the cash

Let alone get the votes to do so.

[Avalux]

4. So do I, but when people propose this sort of thing, it needs to be thought through.

If this happened, millions of people would be displaced victims.

[Scuba]

7. Recommend you invest in an extension ladder.

[cherokeeprogressive]

5. I wouldn't sign it if my fucking life depended on it.

Anyone who does makes the statement that they don't give a fuck about Dems/Liberals/Progressives in those states and are simply stirring shit for shit's sake.

[Nye Bevan]

6. So you want the DUers in red states to be thrown out of the USA?

Nice.

[SDjack]

9. It's time for the crybabies to grow up. No State is getting a walk-away deal. But, I

would like to see a petition to require: 1) mooching States to repay the excess Fed money pumped into them since 1864, and 2) a "no mooching" Constitutional Amendment (no net positive money transfers from Fed to any State). These RW crybabies have no shame. Complaining about the Fed teats that they suck -- what a total lack of class.

[Omaha Steve]

11. Is there a State redder than Nebraska?

That is where I am. And there is a petition for Ne. to leave the union with 6,863 signed so far.


https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/peacefully-grant-state-nebraska-withdraw-united-states-and-create-its-own-new-government/Jf5xVXrS

Peacefully grant the State of Nebraska to withdraw from the United States and create its own NEW government

As the founding fathers of the United States of America made clear in the Declaration of Independence in 1776:

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

"...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and institute new Government..."
Created: Nov 12, 2012

[former9thward]

8. This petition could not be more idiotic.

[quaker bill]

10. Not good enough

They also must take their share of the current federal account deficit and pay it off.

[RomneyLies]

12. Do NOT sign if you have security clearance or are in rhe military

From what I've rad, supporting secession in any form is a violation of enlistment contracts and violates the terms of security clearances.