I see the irony right off the bat. But they will somehow declare this situation is different through the strategic use of doublespeak.
ps If they're autonomous, then all water, sewer, electricity and gas should be shut off and border fences should be installed. We wouldn't want food smuggling.
While I agree with the CONCEPT, I ALSO don't want to set the precedent that seceding from the Union will ever be met with anything other than Military Action.
As a Texan, I have a different perspective of History about secession. I believe it was wrongly held that joining the Union was irrevocable rather than Voluntary. Thus, following the concept of the Declaration of Independence which states:
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.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, 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 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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Since I can't highlight, this is what I would highlight:
-That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,-
This is why I am no fan of Lincoln. He turned a noble desire into a despotic and tyrannical obsession.
I see the irony right off the bat. But they will somehow declare this situation is different through the strategic use of doublespeak.
ps If they're autonomous, then all water, sewer, electricity and gas should be shut off and border fences should be installed. We wouldn't want food smuggling.
While I agree with the CONCEPT, I ALSO don't want to set the precedent that seceding from the Union will ever be met with anything other than Military Action.
As a Texan, I have a different perspective of History about secession. I believe it was wrongly held that joining the Union was irrevocable rather than Voluntary. Thus, following the concept of the Declaration of Independence which states:
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.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, 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 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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Since I can't highlight, this is what I would highlight:
-That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,-
This is why I am no fan of Lincoln. He turned a noble desire into a despotic and tyrannical obsession.
Well said fellow Texan