Obama secession petitions: 34 of 50 states petitioning the president to secede
As of Tuesday morning, 34 of 50 states are petitioning President Obama for peaceful secession from the United States of America. That number was only 23 yesterday. That is more than half of the states in America.
It's unclear whether these petitions are a nod to dissatisfaction that some conservatives think may soon match Civil War proportion,or not. However, the utter contempt for the Obama administration indicated by this petition drive, which appears to be on its way to all fifty states, is very clear.
Monday, the petitions had garnered 93,166 collective total signatures. Since then, Texas alone, has over 63,745 signatures. Some famous Texans including Governor Rick Perry and Chuck Norris have made thundering noises about secession. Norris' column reads like a "Call to Action" for all Texas Patriots. He quotes founding fathers, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, imploring , "How much more will Americans take? When will enough be enough?" ending with the ominous warning "And when that time comes, ...will history need to record a second American Revolution?"
If the goal is to amass a total of 58,783,137 signatures, one for each citizen who voted for Mitt Romney, obviously, the petitions need to circulate a little longer. Most agree these petitions are a dramatic effort to influence Obama's agenda, and reinforce the conservative mantra that Obama has "no mandate."
Five states, New York, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Oklahoma are collecting signatures on two petitions. At one time, then Senator Obama claimed he had campaigned in all "57 states." Perhaps these states have doubled up to memorialize the president's gaffe.
Citizen petitions for any issue may be added to the site and signatures may be added with links to each state here. Each petition requires 25,000 signatures in order to be reviewed by the administrator. Texas was first to meet that requirement. The states participating in the petition drive to secede, at this time, are:
West Virginia 282
Nebraska 933
Pennsylvania 1,449; Pennsylvania 6,881
Alaska 1,963 Kansas 1,928
South Dakota 755
Oklahoma 2,721; Oklahoma 10,135
Utah 3,358
Wyoming 3.345
California 4,666
Ohio 4,471, Ohio 770
New York 3,497; New York 10,672
Delaware 4,034
Nevada 5,372
Arizona 10,449
Arkansas 13,329
South Carolina 14,001
Georgia 18,008
Missouri 11,347 Missouri 9,604
Tennessee 17,522
Michigan 12,119
South Carolina 10,433
Colorado 13,248
Oregon 9,741
New Jersey 9,157
North Dakota 8,309
Montana 9,253
Indiana 12,051
Mississippi 11,597
Georgia 9,019
Kentucky 11,589
Florida 19,183
North Carolina 16,845
Texas 63,745
Louisiana 27,067
The Texas petition, which suggests to the Obama administration, "Texans neither want nor need you," reads as follows:
"We petition the Obama Administration to peacefully grant the State of Texas to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government.The US continues to suffer economic difficulties stemming from the federal government’s neglect to reform domestic and foreign spending. The citizens of the US suffer from blatant abuses of their rights such as the NDAA, the TSA, etc. Given that the state of Texas maintains a balanced budget and is the 15th largest economy in the world, it is practically feasible for Texas to withdraw from the union, and to do so would protect it’s citizens’ standard of living and re-secure their rights and liberties in accordance with the original ideas and beliefs of our founding fathers which are no longer being reflected by the federal government."
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