13 Responses to “This article supports my contention that TX or any other state is free to secede, just as Scotland is free to secede from GB. No state ever signed any document, stating that it cannot secede from the union. Southern states were kept in the union by force and by the martial law under duress, not by any law or freely signed agreement”

1. Paul Jackson
   September 18th, 2014 @ 10:49 am

   The article does no such thing. Nor does the Constitution nor SCOTUS. Perhaps you should try reading the Constitution and SCOTUS decisions on the matter rather than some unrelated article.

2. Jason
   September 18th, 2014 @ 10:55 am

   Yes, the American “Civil War” was not a true civil war, which is a conflict where two sides are trying to gain control of one government and territory. This American conflict was a secessionist movement sparked by an overreaching Federal government imposing new taxes and unconstitutional local control. (Sound familiar?)

   The Southern States were trying to re-establish a Confederacy among themselves as existed at the beginning of the nation. (By the Articles of Confederation.)

   But of course the victors always write the history so you have these inaccuracies baked in.

3. Rich
   September 18th, 2014 @ 11:24 am

   The democrats are self destructing. Maybe we should let them finish the job.

4. Davey Crockett
   September 18th, 2014 @ 2:16 pm

   Hey, Pauly: where does the Constitution say that a state/or states can’t secede?

   That is what Dr Orly is discussing!

5. Davey Crockett
   September 18th, 2014 @ 2:53 pm

   Had something flip my post off of Orlys’ site.

   Pauly…you just love to agitate don’t you? Why don’t you post where in the Constitution that says that states can’t secede? Huh?

   Dr Orly is right on! Any state can secede, if the feds get out of line and try to move into something called: the NWO!

6. Bryan Slot
   September 18th, 2014 @ 3:32 pm

   When the States adopted the Constitution, they gave up all rights to act on anything outside their borders including trade agreements, treaties, ect. Seceding would break that agreement. It would be rebellion.

   The Confederacy did adopt a Constitution which was very similar to the current one we have. The only difference dealt with slavery.

7. dr_taitz@yahoo.com
   September 18th, 2014 @ 3:52 pm

   drop it, obot. Any state can leave the union and enter in its’ own trade agreements

8. Rod Riddle
   September 18th, 2014 @ 4:44 pm

   Texas doesn’t need Federal funding to flourish. Within a very short period of time they would have a military the size and strength of Israel and no debt. Oil wells that had dried up and were capped back in the 70’s have now replenished themselves. $1.00 Gal gas would be aplenty while it rises to $4.00-$5.00 Gal in the Communist USA.

9. Rod Riddle
   September 18th, 2014 @ 4:48 pm

   Has anyone ever received a copy of any of the “supposed 27 victims” murdered at Sandy Hooks Death Certificates which are available to anyone via FOIA request? I’ve never seen one?

10. earthplanet
    September 19th, 2014 @ 8:51 am

    Just like the third bldg that fell on 9/11 without being hit by a plane…

    HMMM. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN…

    WAKE UP AMERICA…

11. John
    September 19th, 2014 @ 3:38 pm

    God willing,
    The South May Rise Again!

12. David
    September 19th, 2014 @ 8:34 pm

    In reading the 14th amendment you will see a guarantee of due process in the first section and in the third section you see a penalty applied by congress to anyone who has taken a loyalty oath to the Constitution and then rebelled against the same. This penalty was applied to Jefferson Davis and other Confederates without due process when Davis was insisting on a trial to vindicate himself and the south’s cause. This made the application of the amendment constitutionally faulty and hypocritical within its own construction. An assumption of guilt was made without charges, a trial or conviction. The due process of the first section was denied and the penalty of the third section was applied. The supreme court then threw out the case against Davis due using the excuse of double jeopardy since he had already been punished by congress without a trial. The trial would have exposed the fact that the government of the United States had first violated the constitution which led to secession by the offended parties, the southern states. If tried, the case would have found that president and congressmen from northern states had engaged in insurrection against the constitution and attacked the states which is treason. President Lincoln even sent troops to guard the state house in Maryland to keep them from meeting and voting on secession. He shut down the Maryland state legislature with martial law. Lincoln didn’t free anyone, he enslaved us all.
    https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv
    Judge Napolitano ties it all together
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HDA8l8maR0

13. David
    September 19th, 2014 @ 9:14 pm

    Thomas DiLorenzo author of “The Real Lincoln”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVmgUqv8ZcE

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