Daily Topics - Wednesday December 5th, 2012
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Hour One: Should Texas be forced to secede? Mike Papantonio, Attorney/Co-Host, Ring Of Fire Radio
Hour Two: Is the secessionist movement inevitable? Vox Day, Blogger/Author, Throne of Bones
Hour Three: Everybody's right to vote...from welfare to Trump
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As a native Texan, I find talk about Texas secession stupid. First of all, any petition submitted to the White House is NOT an official application to secede. Second, MOST Texans consider themselves good Americans - some put the USA ahead of their Texan status, some put their Texan status ahead of the USA. But there will be no vote to pass the Texas legislature and be signed by the Governor to secede. We have NO intention of seceding. Typical for libertarians, one of your commentors completely ignored the rights of OTHERS in Texas who don't want to secede. He claimed that they should just be "free" to secede. My feeling is that any of these idiots wanting to secede should simply be deported to the country of their choosing. They cannot have the power to take the rest of us and our land out of the USA without our sayso.
Also, rest assured that if Texas did leave the Union it would very quickly become a 3rd world country.
Finally, yes, I do believe that any Texas legislator who voted to take Texas out of the Union should be tried for treason and the penalty would be deportation. But the current wording of treason in the Constitution would make it difficult to sustain such a case. Unfortunately, we'd just have to continue to put up with those idiots. But keep in mind we're putting up with a bunch of crazy tea partiers right now. BTW, keep an eye on Tea Party Ted Cruz who just got elected US Senator from Texas (sic). He was big on defending Texas sovereignty. It will be interesting to see how he can be a US Senator. He's worse than a total zero!
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I just heard that on Nov 6th 61% of Puerto Ricans voted to become a state. I checked Google, and that appears to be true.
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Instability. Unlike your guest I think our interest as a country is to maintain some stability. What would happen to our credit rating? What would happen to our influence in the world? Of course we should care. Republicans continue to see in black and white with no shades of grey. Simplistic, with no understanding of consequences. Easy, just secede.