It reads:
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Peacefully grant the State of Wisconsin to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government.
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..."
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Sign it!!
UPDATE: USE THIS ONE
13 comments:
It's a nice thought, but I suggest you ask the Confederates how successful *asking* for secession is. The Decl. of Ind. was a document excusing the rebels' course of action. Consent of the governed has never been government policy since.
Petitions to the White House are a bit ludicrous. Now, OTH, having pro-lifers put pressure on the state legislatures to secede unless Roe is overturned is not. Pro-lifers don't have the votes to put hardcore pro-life candidates in office, but they have the signatures to force recall after recall after recall of anyone that is not. Pro-lifers have to stop playing nice and use they considerable grassroots base to stop politics as usual. Why shouldn't we be willing to sacrifice political stability to end genocide, when opting for get-a-long politics concedes the battle?
maybe its just me but these people that will recieve this petition dont forget their enemies
Like the Roman empires collapse, the recovery will happen with each locality taking up responsibility for itself.
They just get your email address, not your home address, LOL, but if I do have someone show up in black suits I will run for my bunker.
@Badger, This is on the whitehouse.gov site. They get your IP address and timestamp.
Anonymity on the web is a bit of a myth.
Like I said, BC, a tough nut indeed.
Considering how I'm getting my IP address right now, I'm still pretty safe. But point being, am I expected to be too afraid to stand up for anything? If someone has something to say to me, they know where to find me.
Let's face it: if the government starts rounding people up, this blog provides plenty of evidence for us to get locked up--petition or no petition.
@Badger, You're expected to be "as sly as serpents and as innocent as doves." This is not sly.
An article appeared on CNN about these petitions:
"The fine print notes the White House "may decline to address certain procurement, law enforcement, adjudicatory, or similar matters properly within the jurisdiction of federal departments or agencies, federal courts, or state and local government in its response to a petition."
IE, you will get as much effect from that petition as one here on this site.
"A host of other states have similar petitions on the "We the People" section of the White House website, including South Dakota, West Virginia, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Alaska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming, California, Ohio, New York, Delaware, Nevada and Arizona."
You didn't even make the news.
"Other petitions on the website take the opposite tack: an appeal to "strip the citizenship from everyone who signed a petition to secede and exile them" had just over 1,000 signatures on Tuesday."
It was nice knowing you Badger. Do you think they'll give you a choice of countries for your exile? I hear Afghanistan is nice this time of year.
Rick Perry nixed the idea.
Sour Grapes have turned your blog into a poisoned chalice.
Posting this is deplorable.
Anon, what is deplorable is that my fed tax dollars are going toward the slaughter of millions of unborn children.
What makes Catholic tax dollars more important than Jehovah's Witness tax dollars; their tax dollars go towards blood transfusions they believe are immoral and reprehensible.
Where will you secede to? You cannot even secede to the countries of the OT - after all it clearly says in the OT that a person is not living until God breathed life AFTER birth (in some instances through nostrils.
Anon, think about these three items:
1. I am more justified in my disappointment(for lack of a better term) of tax dollars going toward abortion. We are in two different ballparks here. Direct abortion in and of itself is an intrinsic evil, always and everywhere, and it should be avoided at all costs. A blood transfusion is morally neutral in and of itself, it is neither good nor evil. So your example doesn't hold any water.
2. You're assuming that I am Catholic. It is quite possible that I am not. In fact, I could even be a JW.
3. Where's this Old Testament stuff coming from? I think BC and all the others who signed the petition realize that it is highly unlikely that secession is even a remote possibility for WI or any other state for that matter. It's more an outlet to let our frustrations with the current situation in our country be known. Lighten up.
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