In the wake of last week's presidential election, thousands of Americans have signed petition seeking permission for their states to peacefully secede from the United States. The petitions were filed on We the People, a government website.
Luisiana was the first state stating:
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..."
Petitions have been filed for Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.
Texas currently has 74,284 signatures going way over the 25,000 needed for the White House to respond.
While these petitions serve more to point out to the Obama Administration the deep resentment for the direction in which the United States is moving under this administration we will have to see how the administration responds to the 74,284 signatures on the Texas petition alone.
Not sure if to secede is a great idea. We are the United States of America. We should fight for our country and not divide it.
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