Don’t mess with Texas? Fine. We’ll put the border fence up in Oklahoma
April 16th, 2009 at 02:13pm Chuck Sweeny
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said at one of those tea-bagging sessions that Texas entered the union in 1845 only because it secured the right to secede if it got tired of the Americans.
Perry, a right-winger in a Republican battle for the Senate nomination with the more moderate Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, suggested Texans who are frustrated with federal mandates and taxes may well want to exercise this “right” to secede.
In the cheering crowd in Austin was a giant Texas flag with “Republic of Texas,” printed on it.
Well, Texas has been a lot of things. It was part of the Spanish empire, then part of Mexico, then an independent republic. It joined the Union in 1845 as a slave state, and seceded from the Union in 1861, not to be a republic again but to join up with fellow traitors who formed an illegitimate regime, never recognized by the U.S., called the Confederate States of America.
That plan didn’t go too well for Texas, which rejoined the Union after the “War of the Northern Aggression.”
Maybe Rick Perry doesn’t remember his history and doesn’t know that Texas already seceded from the Union.
But if Texas wants to secede for a second time and be independent for a few years until demographics put it back in Mexico, I think that would be fine.
Don’t mess with Texas? I won’t. We’ll put the border fence up in Oklahoma.
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5 Comments Add your own
1. Lee Ann Buscemi | April 17th, 2009 at 4:58 am
Hey Chuck, look at it this way. He won\’t run for President and become another George W Bush. I\’m a Texan and can only see the good in this statement.
2. rodney jenkem | April 17th, 2009 at 6:27 am
Looks like Sweeny likes to “demystify” things in favor of his liberal friends. He is talking about the Confederate states of America, and calling them traitors, what ancient history! I bet we never hear Sweeny talk about traitors like Louis Farrakhan, Reverend Jeremiah Wright {Obama’s mentor}, and Obama’s new appointee Van Jones. Van Jones is a traitor to the bone, and a self proclaimed communist.
3. roger | April 17th, 2009 at 7:01 am
I wished we could secede too.
4. Chuck Sweeny | April 17th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Historically, Americans had a number of choice words and expressions for the rebels, including traitors, as in the popular Civil War tune “RallyRound the Flag:”
Yes, we’ll rally ’round the flag, boys
We’ll rally ’round again
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom
We will rally from the hillside
We’ll gather from the plain
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom
The Union forever, hurrah boys, hurrah
Down with the traitor, up with the star
While we rally ’round the flag, boys
Rally once again
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom
We will welcome to our numbers
The loyal, true and brave
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom
And although he may be poor
Not a man shall be a slave
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom
So we’re springing to the call
From the East and from the West
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom
And we’ll prove a loyal crew
To the land we love the best
Shouting the battle cry of Freedom
5. Chuck Sweeny | April 17th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
FYI: The johnny rebs ripped off the melody and wrote their own lyrics, which say things like, “Down with the Eagle, up with the Cross.”
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