Friday, April 17, 2009

A Quick Question for the Governor of Texas

How do you claim to be patriotic on the one hand and on the other hand hint at Texas seceding from the Union over spending issues? That's like saying you love your wife more than anything, but then threatening to divorce her if she doesn't make your favorite dinner every night.

What's really crazy about this is that it is clear that it is just rhetoric. And the governor never actually used the "secede" word, he just hinted at it pretty strongly in a couple different speeches that he gave in the last couple days: Link.

I say that the Union should go ahead and let Texas secede. Then people born in Texas won't be U.S. citizens. We can build a wall to separate Texas from the States. People from Texas would have to enter the immigration process to get jobs in America. The minutemen groups could patrol the Texas border to make sure that no Texans were illegally trying to enter America. We could even make Puerto Rico a state without changing to a 51 star flag.

Seriously though, it is an interesting mental game to consider what would happen if a state seceded and then compare that to the way we treat immigrants from other countries.

1 comments:

President Shannon (N5KOU) McGauley said...

How do we treat immigrants? How do they treat us as immigrants in their countries?

The Texas Minutemen believe in the rule of law and to always show respect to our fellow man.

If you'll look at the public protest it's the law breakers that become violent, not the Minutemen.

We have the right to speak our minds and we do it in the manner that our founding fathers intended.