Thoughts on Texas

It is an option at a later date, that I would choose over living under anyone neo-con.

As to not enough oil, Texas has plenty of Oil, and Likely far more If we were to use the Russians new deep rock drilling methods which resurrected their economy.

Alaska is another Option, It would take far fewer to take control of that local government and it has the largest existing oil supply in the world bar none. It has so much oil in fact that if we were to tap it we could stop using other nations oil entirely and lower fuel prices to 1$ a gallon within a year.

Controlling our own Government has other pros.

For example, secured alternative energy research facilities which could not be influenced buy the likes of big oil. The ICE has been Obsolete since the 1950s after all.

Free power which we could do on our own would effectively make us self sufficient.

I'm in Houston and I admit that there have been talks about doing this for some time. I think the word you're looking for is "secede" from the Union, which we do have the right to do and break up into five states. And we do have manufacturing, ports and fertile farmland as well as a vast oil supply. If this were to be done, I would be on board. But I don't know that I'm ready to give up on Dr. Paul quite yet and start calling for secession. But it would be a great plan "b"

First, we already have the Mexican army crossing the borders (invading) into Texas. Even with all of the federal military bases in the state, not one federal troop is being used to secure our borders. Besides, what makes you think that the federal troops wouldn't be recalled to the United States if succession was to happen?

Second, although we do have huge refining capacity, we don't have the oil production to fuel the needs of the entire state. A more likely scenario is that the federal government would use the troops stationed in Texas to secure the refineries.

Finally, you are forgetting the huge population of neocons in this state that are benefitting from the undeclared perpetual war. I don't know if they make up a majority of our population, but they are the people in charge who are going to fight you at every turn.

Perhaps in a time when the federal government wasn't so dependent on us, Texas could have seceded from the Union; but I can only imagine the horror that the United States government would bring down on our heads if we were to try to do so today.

Focus your efforts on the campaign. Get in contact with your precinct captain. If you don't have one, become one. Donate all you can to the campaign and get the word out. These are the things that are useful.

All states retain the right to succeed. The only difference is if whether or not they are able to sustain themselves, defend themselves from the US, and/or do so peacefully.

Thomas Jefferson recognized this early on when a few New England states threatened to succeed. He said "If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left to combat it."

That view was retained until Mr. Lincoln quite literally forced the issue. The only reason the Southern succession didn't work is because Abraham Lincoln decide that he didn't want his empire to break apart, and decide to fight for the land back. That was no "Civil War". That was a war fought by one country against another country.

That's the issue we face with succession. We need to find a way to succeed without a war. You also need to look at the rights of the individual to succeed, and for the abolishment of one form of government for another.

You think that's crazy? Well we are in a 3rd form of government here in the US; forth if you consider Lincoln's abuses and disregard for the Constitution, basically voiding our Constitution altogether. The British Colonial system, an American State Confederation system, and the current American Republic system. As well our Declaration of Independence declares that,

"We hold these truths to be self-evident ... 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."

I'm not calling for succession myself right now. I have hope in Ron Paul and the revolution that we have moving. But should you choose that route, I wanted to clarify the talking points for you.

and I'll be moving

As for those who say the desire for liberty and the truth is dying in Texas, it isn't. You have no idea how many thousands are fighting to shut down the construction of the trans-continental hwy over there and are bound to suceed.

New Hampshire's state motto is "Live Free or Die" and they soundly rejected RP......idiots. Unless the Texas agreement (does
not) require a majority of the vote to seceed, how could it do so?

About thirty years ago I used to advocate that Texas secede, join OPEC, to hell with the rest of ya'll, and let the tanks roll. But, my opinion has mellowed a good bit on this subject. I'm older and hopefully a little wiser now. Of the 50 states, it was believed at one time that probably only Texas and California could survive as independents. These two could come closest to being able to feed themselves and be semi-self sustaining. With communication and transportation what it is, we are more integrated with the rest of the U.S., as far as attitudes about social and political stuff. It ain't the Texas it used to be. Government schools and liberal/socialist propaganda have done their jobs well. The independent-minded Texan of lore is a dwindling dying breed and almost non-existant anymore.