Secession: Trust Texas To Reject Untrammeled Federal Tyranny
written by Ilana Mercer on 11.14.12
The pathology of an overreaching federal government is fueling the fever of freedom, and all hail to that. And to the Lone Star State.
Glenn Beck has been scathing about the fact that, as the Daily Caller has it, “By 6:00 a.m. EST Wednesday, more than 675,000 digital signatures appeared on 69 separate secession petitions covering all 50 states, according to [an] … analysis of requests lodged with the White House’s ‘We the People’ online petition system.”
Sean Hannity is more patient. He interviewed “the president of the Texas Nationalist Movement, Daniel Miller, who [brilliantly] explained their cause -- and just why they feel Texas needs [its] independence”:
- “The fact of the matter is, that there cannot be a union between
those that esteem the principles of Karl Marx over the principles of
Thomas Jefferson. Here in Texas, we esteem those principles of Thomas
Jefferson -- that all political power’s inherent in the people. What we
have seen given on Tuesday was that a majority of the people in the
United States, and the states in which they reside, esteem the principles
of Karl Marx over those principles.”
But no. The truth is that Republicans are vested in Abe Lincoln’s legacy of brute, centralized power. Falling back on the Party of Lincoln bona fides (and on the “glory” of Reconstruction) serves as a political buffer against the racism libel.
That’s the mundane, garden-variety argument advanced in Ann Coulter’s new book, to counter the perennial Democrat accusations of racism. After all, what other argument can one muster if you consider Barry Goldwater’s defense of private property an extreme libertarian aberration, as Ms. Coulter does?
http://barelyablog.com/secession-trust-texas-to-reject-untrammeled-federal-tyranny/ --
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