The zombies who laugh and ridicule the petitioners of secession seem to be suffering short memories, and we doubt there would be a whole lotta laughing if a secession movement with real teeth (and guns) rose up in their own backyards.
by Frank Roman
I believe the online secessionist movement is a reaction by a significant group of people over the (presidential election seasons’) $2 billion dollars worth of media blitz that was shoved down their collective throats from the neocons and the leftists; both sides telling us Armageddon is imminent if the other side wins. While that can be considered a viable reaction these petitions do not reflect the will of the state governments in which the petitioners reside.
Anyone can start a petition. You only need one person to start a petition and thus “represent” a state. If a petition receives 25,000 signatures, all that means is the president is legally obligated to respond in words to the petition.
To no one’s surprise Governor Perry of Texas, the state with the most signatures, emphatically does not support the Texas secessionist movement, even though in the past he has hinted at his sympathy with the movement in an effort to pimp more votes. Typical.But I digress. A good portion of the American public today doesn’t have the stomach for a re-enactment of the War Between the States; its carnage and bloodletting still echo down the corridors of time. If this were intended to be a serious secessionist movement drafted by armed and angry rebels, the petitions would be unambiguously filed with the state governments, not on a federal website.
Whether or not secession is possible, it must be taken up at the state government level.
The state’s assembly and senate must then come together along with the governor — who just happens to have veto power. In order to actually represent the incarnate will of the state, and not just of individuals within the state, after the governmental bodies had agreed to it there would then be an official statewide vote on the issue.
Then and only then could the petition of secession be presented to, not the president (who cannot act unilaterally) but to the House and Senate, who must then vote on it, after which the President (if it passed) would also have the power of veto.
In short, the federal government will not allow itself to be deprived of state sized taxes, and the state government does not want to lose its “share” of those taxes sent back to them in the shape of federal funding.
If you’re serious about secession, you don’t ask the federal government’s permission.
To no one’s surprise there’s an awful lot of scoffing going on at the expense of the secessionists, who are often portrayed as sore losers (the election); uneducated spiteful denizens who merely want to dull the sheen of president Obama’s election victory. There are even unambiguous calls from Obama’s voter base for the deportation of those who signed the petitions. (I can hear it now: “Hey Hey! Good bye!" 
Nevertheless, the idea of secession will always be appealing. To secede from something, anything, is not only a form of protest but of self improvement; the withdrawal from a negative situation that is economically, emotionally, or spiritually damaging. It’s perceived as a remedy for people who consider themselves “done.”
While the act of filing an online petition for a state to secede from ‘the union’ is harmlessly cathartic, and though it lends itself to a slew of ridicule from the rest of the politically correct herd, at its core it IS a serious matter. The zombies who laugh and ridicule the petitioners of secession seem to be suffering short memories, and we doubt there would be a whole lotta laughing if a secession movement with real teeth (and guns) rose up in their own backyards.
For example, who among them has not ‘seceded’ from a bank that was giving them the run around with their own money?
Who among them has not ‘seceded’ from an employer who didn’t appreciate their work ethic?
Who among them has not ‘seceded’ from a restaurant with bad service?
Who among them has not ‘seceded’ from a bad relationship or a dysfunctional family?
Who among them has not ‘seceded’ from a church whose dogma did not fit their spiritual needs?
Who among them has not ‘seceded’ from a school or university that was to expensive, or to liberal / conservative?
Who among them has not ‘seceded’ from a legally binding contract no matter how high the penalties because in retrospect they signed the document without reading the fine print?
Who among them has not ‘seceded’ from a political party or membership organization that did not consult them before going off in a direction opposed to their own ideology?
Indeed, who among them, if they are white, has not ‘seceded’ from a neighborhood or a city that was getting a little “too dark” for their own well being and sense of safety?
Damn near All of them, we’re sure.