People who sign the petition of secession should be charged with treason.
I signed this petition instead:
Deport Everyone That Signed A Petition To Withdraw Their State From The United States Of America.
http://wh.gov/9FAY
"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."
Really?
Schlepnier and david.ross - I think the word you're looking for is "secede> I believe we all want the states to succeed.
Schlepnier and david.ross - I think the word you're looking for is "secede> I believe we all want the states to succeed.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
As treason may be committed against the United States, the authority of the United States ought to be enabled to punish it. But as new-fangled and artificial treasons have been the great engines by which violent factions, the natural offspring of free government, have usually wreaked their alternate malignity on each other, the convention have, with great judgment, opposed a barrier to this peculiar danger, by inserting a constitutional definition of the crime, fixing the proof necessary for conviction of it, and restraining the Congress, even in punishing it, from extending the consequences of guilt beyond the person of its author.
I do not want to see a second civil war and i pray we never do, relegating our internal battles to the realm of the "battlefield of ideas"
It took the colonists facing threat of being forcibly disarmed at concord to start the revolutonary war that created america, lets hope we never get to that point again.
If a war starts, I'll join the PA state military and go to arms against the domestic terrorists who want to secede because they didn't want to get their way. I'm all for mowing down anyone wanting to commit terroristic acts just as we mowed down al-qaeda and the taliban.
-sure its from star wars but the premise is applicable.What if the democracy we thought we were serving no longer exists, and the Republic has become the very evil we have been fighting to destroy?
the people can rise up and if neccisary overthrow a government that has gone to far as a matter of last resort.
I have received several reports of this post asking me to remove it as off-topic. After thinking about it, I am going to leave it since it IS about the Washington petition.
I know that a lot of people see these petitions as a vehicle for sending a message of dissatisfaction after the election.
However, I think it is important to publicly state that OCDO is NOT in support of seeing the nation torn apart.
Our vision is of an America where our Constitutional protections are fully realized for all people in all states. The ONLY way to do that is to keep America strong.
The best way to fight to system is to BECOME the system.
We do this by electing pro-liberty candidates at the local, state, and federal level.
We do this by making sure the next generation is educated about gun rights and other pro-liberty issues.
We do this by challenging violations of rights in the courts.
We do this by inviting people to go shooting.
We don't do this by taking our ball and going home.
John