Texas secessionists can’t understand why cops raided their revolution-plotting party

[Panich52]

Travis Getty’s headline at Raw Story says it all: “Texas secessionists can’t understand why cops raided their revolution-plotting party”

group of Texas secessionists had their meeting busted up by law enforcement officers, and they can’t understand why.

“We had no idea what was going on,” said John Jarnecke, president of the Republic of Texas. “We knew of nothing that would warrant such an action.”

He claims the raid violated the group’s constitutional right to peacefully assemble.

More:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/texas-secessionists-cant-understand-why-cops-raided-their-revolution-plotting-party/

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[BarbaRosa]

1. I'm sure that's not the only thing they don't understand.

[Kalidurga]

2. Someone ratted them out most likely

or spies hard to say which.

[truebluegreen]

5. Serving falsified legal documents to a judge was a dead give-a-way.

No spies or rats required.

[Kalidurga]

7. LOLZ

I would have read the article if I knew it was a comedy piece. Seriously they did that ha ha ha ha.

[truebluegreen]

9. Yup. And then they're surprised to get a reaction.

[Kalidurga]

10. The article was as funny as you alluded to it being

even funnier another article a racist uses the N word then claims he is not a racist. Well it's not so funny it's more take my breath away stupid. Still Republicans sigh, don't know whether I should hide from them or laugh at them.

[truebluegreen]

13. It does boggle the mind

and it seems that being called a racist is worse than being one. And somehow everything is the left's fault. Shows what decades of propaganda and degraded education will do.

[TexasTowelie]

3. Constitutional right to peacefully assemble.

The irony is that these secessionists just recognized that the US Constitution guarantees their right to peacefully assemble while they plot to overthrow the government. Idiots.

[HereSince1628]

4. A month or so ago we were all Charlie Hebdo support broad, free speech rights.

The highest authority involved in that raid will have to convince me that a band of deviant thinkers was a real threat or this gets filed under "We aren't free to assemble and express our deviant opinions."

If they threaten violence, that's another issue. But stealing change out of people's pockets is crude as an enforcement of what is RIGHT

[peacebird]

6. Apparently they issued warrants against sitting judges demanding they appear to be tried

in their kangaroo court. The judges were not amused.

[HereSince1628]

8. Judges amusement not withstanding, specious paper is something that sort of goes with deviance

and it could be dealt with as such.

As Thoreau said, the character of a great democracy is proportional to it's capacity to accept deviance. We MUST accept deviance if we are going to achieve greatness.

[hifiguy]

16. I have clerked for two state judges.

Their sense of humor regarding shit like that is nonexistent. For good reason. But these schmucks sound so damned dumb they couldn't even realize that. Lock 'em up for a good long while.

[Thinkingabout]

11. This secession crap has gone on for a long time and is baseless except for those still willing to

Think Texas has a right to secede. This was over after the Civil War when re-admittance to the union this right was signed away.

[metalbot]

15. No state has a right to secede

But there are interesting (and not completely without merit) positions that the annexation of territories is not legal:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/02/22/great-powers-and-the-unconstitutionality-of-the-annexation-of-texas-and-hawaii/

Of course, in any practical sense, it would be impossible to undo this, so it's purely academic. Still fascinating.

[Thinkingabout]

18. At the time Texas cirst became a state there was rhe right to secede, it ceases after the Civil War.

[misterhighwasted]

12. About .001% of them have actually read the Constitution

..the one they shout about, that gives them the right to do the stupid shit they do.
Just another day in dumbfuckistan.

[hifiguy]

14. To paraphrase Otter in Animal House

"Boy they're dumb!"

[struggle4progress]

17. Well, dayyam! It's gettin so a bunch of peaceful folk cain't even git tigither no more to plot

overthrowin the gummint by armed force. The day is acomin when ya won't be allowed to raid a federal arsenal or shoot down a federal agent in yer own yard