This story is popping up in a lot of places.
How would Old Glory look with 30 stars instead of 50? As far-fetched as it may sound, the White House might soon be forced by its own rules to examine the question.
On Nov.7, the day after President Barack Obama was re-elected, the White House’s website received a petition asking the administration to allow Louisiana to secede.
If 25,000 people sign the petition by Dec. 7, it will “require a response” from the Obama administration, according to published rules of the White House’s online “We the People” program.
The Louisiana petition has collected more than 12,300 signatures in four days. A separate effort from Texas has 15,400 supporters.
Similar petitions from 18 other states began arriving Nov. 9, bringing the total — for the moment — to 20.
The White House website publicly displays petitions that have attracted at least 150 signers.
“Michael E” from the New Orleans suburb of Slidell penned the initial proposal — the website doesn’t provide last names — in which he asked the Obama administration to “[p]eacefully grant the State of Louisiana to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government.”
His entire petition consisted of excerpts from the Declaration of Independence.
The resident at 1600 PA Ave., NW has a petition that anyone who signs a seccession petion will lose citizenship and be exiled.
Secession petitions are good PR but bad politics. There is a way for states to legally and politically secede from the American union but it must be a state-by-state process established by constitutional secession conventions in each state. Read: http://thedailybell.com/28286/Ron-Holland-Secession-Petitions-Good-PR-But-Bad-Politics
Ron Holland says:
November 13, 2012 at 22:14
Secession petitions are good PR but bad politics.
Welcome aboard Ron. The reality behind the petitions is frustrations and the heavy handedness of the Federal Government. What started out was an idea of a Central Government with limited powers in 1787 has turned into what is becoming a dictatorship. It is scary and frightening to see a president to rule by decree as he did early this year by changing laws to suit him, and did it by by-passing Congress. What we’re seeing is a president who has promised the same. Sometimes I get the feeling he in imitating Castro and Chavez.
These petitions will go nowhere. The libs yammered about the same thing in 2004 and then such talk quickly faded away …