Video: Secessionists rally at the Texas Capitol

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Video @ the URL below.

August 29, 2009
Secessionists rally at the Texas Capitol

About 500 Texas secessionists gathered at the Texas Capitol on Satuday for a rally organized by the Texas Nationalist Movement to complain about federal government intrusion into their lives.

Some wanted a Gov. Rick Perry to call a special session to pass a resolution for state's rights. But many said they are ready to leave the Union now if major changes are not made in the federal government.

Among those speaking at the event were Republican gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina, who favored the push for greater state sovereignty but not secession.

The crowd also heard from Tracy Miller of Houston. Miller recently gained national attention after a confrontation with U.S. Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee, D-Houston, over the federal health care proposals. While Miller was critical of Jackson Lee and the Democrats, she also had no kind words for Republican gubernatorial rivals U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Gov. Rick Perry.

http://blogs.chron.com/texaspolitics/archives/2009/08/secessionists_r.html

[derby378]

1. Secession? Stick it with a fork - it's done

We've had our go at being a republic. Overall, Texas fares much better as a state.

[T Wolf]

3. But the rest of the country suffers from having to carry that parasite. Not to mention the insane

power the Texas fundies have over school book choices and content for the entire nation.

Please go already.

[derby378]

5. Hell, no...

We're doing what we can to kick these fundiecrats out of power. But we could use some help.

[DU9598]

2. I support them

Good bye!!!!

[Turbineguy]

4. I thought President Lincoln

sorted all that out. Do we have to go through this again?

[Yupster]

7. Secssion in Texas was an interesting story.

From 1835 to 1861, those 25 years Texas went from being a state of Mexico to a Republic to an American state to a Confederate state -- that's four different countries in 25 years.

When Texas voters voted 80 % to 20 % against the advise of their governor to leave the USA and join the Confederacy they really didn't think it was that big a deal. It's not like they hadn't changed governemnts before.

They were quite surprised when their vote caused them to be caught in a huge war that caused the death of 1/4 of the adult white men in the south and another quarter of them wounded.

So, fair or not, this issue was settled on the battlefields of long ago. The USA is one of those groups where once you get in, you can't ever get back out.

[Turbineguy]

8. Let's hope that the Civil War

stays the greatest tragedy in American history.

[Liberal In Texas]

6. Other sources say it was only 200.

http://www.examiner.com/x-18527-Broward-County-Liberal-Examiner~y2009m9d1-Texas-secessionists-How-far-can-they-go

The population of the state is about 25,000,000 (that MILLION). These nutcakes don't speak for me or the majority of Texans anymore than those YRs in Toledo speak for the population of Ohio.

[Javaman]

9. I wonder if this idiot is writing to these morons from prison

McLaren group set to begin trial in Midland court

PECOS, Thurs., Aug. 2, 2001 -- Jury selection and jury trial has been set for Monday for members of the Republic of Texas, including their leader Richard McLaren on federal weapons charges.

A trial on charges of violating the National Firearms Act against McLaren, his assistant, Robert "White Eagle" Otto, and three other Republic members, Richard Frank Keyes, Greg Paulson and Karen Simon Paulson is scheduled to begin before U.S. District Judge Royal Furgeson in Midland on Monday. The federal weapons charges are separate from the state charges for which McLaren and the others were later convicted of following the standoff.

The former Republic of Texas leader Richard McLaren and several of his associates declared themselves prisoners of war, before U.S. Magistrate Durwood Edwards in U.S. District Court in Pecos during their hearing in May.

Edwards ordered McLaren and four others detained pending their August trial on federal weapons charges, stemming from the 1997 standoff with Texas Rangers and other state law enforcement officials near Fort Davis.

http://www.pecos.net/news/arch2001a/080201p.htm