'We hate the United States': Secessionists rally in Texas (Get the Fuck out then!)

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/08/secessionists-rally-texas/

or some folks in Texas, the prospect of a universal health care scheme isn't just cause for protest and debate -- it's reason enough to secede from the United States altogether.

Some 200 people rallied at the State Capitol in Austin on Saturday, a small but vocal crowd that set itself in opposition to pro-health care reform protesters.

Larry Kilgore, a Christian activist that the Texas Observer says has advocated execution for homosexuals, "drew some murmurs of disapproval" when he told the crowd: “I hate that flag up there. ... I hate the United States government. … They’re an evil, corrupt government. They need to go. Sovereignty is not good enough. Secession is what we need!”

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. I'd really like it if he went

somewhere far, far away from the USA.

[Louisiana1976]

2. Agree--good riddance. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

[BlueDemKev]

3. There's the Door....

Well Texas, there's the door, don't let it hit you on the way out.

After you secede, perhaps you could rename your new country to something that better describes the place--the Republic of WhiteTrashistan.

[MUAD_DIB]

7. There are plenty of Democratic Texans that would take

umbrage at that remark.

Texas, like the rest of the USA, has its own idiots to deal with.

[Caliman73]

43. I hear you

You can't trash a whole state just because some of the more vocal idiots. California, where I live, has plenty of jerks that would join right in on that crap. The secessionist idiots just say things like that because they can. They actually have the freedom to say their hateful idiocies without fear of being "disappeared". That is something that will undoubtedly be unable to penetrate their thick heads.

As others have said, nothing is stopping them from heading out to find greener pastures. As much as some stupid politicians want to feed the trolls to stay in office, they know where their bread is buttered, they would never seriously bring up the idea of secession.

[MUAD_DIB]

44. If the crazy right wingers want to seceded then they should be given

a trial run someplace...let's say the Aluesian Islands. ;)

[Kalyke]

58. I think we should let them have the Ross Ice Shelf.

Since they don't believe in climate change, they'll be comfortable in the "knowledge" that it will never break off into the ocean.

:evilgrin:

[TxRider]

59. Or maybe they should just go back home to the state they came from...

[MUAD_DIB]

62. You and I both know they won't be happy with that.

A nice cozy island in the arctic circle will help them to see the light...and I'm not talking about the northern ones.

[Ishoutandscream2]

8. We're talking 200 people here

Trust me, this is not the mood of most Texans. These people are considered nut cases.

[glinda]

15. Where is the counterpoint on this? Why are Texans so quiet about these people?

[Ishoutandscream2]

18. I don't know. I wouldn't have even heard of this

logged on to DU. The state's Democratic party spoke out against the comments Goodhair made a couple of months ago. You may not hear anything about this, however, because we're talking about some real loons who have absolutely no power. 200 loons.

[TxRider]

50. Because we ignore them...

200 nutty wingnuts is not something worthy of even acknowledging.

Texas is a big state, only behind California for population and size of economy... Is the largest exporting state in the nation and has the highest number of Fortune 500 company headquarters in the United States.




As for the folks saying good riddance...

That's all fine rhetoric, but along with Texas would go 1/3 of the nations natural gas supply, and the #1 producer of oil and gas, refined products and chemicals in the nation as well as over 5% of the worlds refining capacity..

And the nations largest wind farms and a quite large high tech industry.. Texas is the birthplace of the integrated circuit, ranks second in semiconductor manufacturing and produces 11% of the worlds silicon.

The nation would suffer significantly if Texas was lost.

Now if we could just manage to elect a decent governor this time...

[MilesColtrane]

54. That's 200 crazies out of a population of 24 million.

Do the math.

[SammyWinstonJack]

32. You think all of Texas is 'white' trash and republican?

:shrug:

[Ishoutandscream2]

4. That's is unbelievably radical, even for Texas

There are a lot of conservative Bushbots here where I live who would have kicked the living shit out of this guy. This is very uncommon for someone around here to say they hate the United States and its flag.

[Catshrink]

5. And as they're leaving they'll leave a forwarding address

for their social security check. Oh... and they'll want to keep their medicare, too.

[BlueGirlRedState]

36. At the Waco town hall meeting they said they didn't want Medicare

or Social Security, About 500 faving lunatics standing up and shouting "liar!" to Rep. Chet Edwards.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

6. As per Mad magazine

One of the reasons we should be happy if Texas secedes - "The George W. Bush Library will officially be on foreign soil":toast:

[and-justice-for-all]

9. Well then see ya fucker...head south..

wouldn't take you long to be OUT of the US.

There is nothing more evil and corrupt then his religion, ChristoFascist piece of shit.

[roamer65]

10. Evil and corrupt? Under Fucktard, yes.

who was your governor as well.

Want really corrupt? We'll give you back to Mexico.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

11. Wow, he's too stupid even for the birthers/deathers.

That's saying something.

[Sebastian Doyle]

12. Those Texas asshats are "fair weather secessionists"

They bitched about leaving the country in the 90's too. Funny how they were fine with being Americans when the Chimp was illegally occupying the White House.

[blogslut]

13. Good old Larry Kilgore

He isn't just a "Christian activist", he's running for governor...again. He ran/failed in 2006 and in 2008, he ran/failed for Senator against Cornyn. He's also connected to Operation Rescue.

Here's the funny part. In the city where he was raised, the county mental hospital is named Kilgore.

Trust me, kids. Larry is an attention monger of the highest order. He no more represents the will of the people of Texas than does a pile of cow dung.

[subcomhd]

29. Never heard of him

he's running in the GOP Senate primary? That's great, actually.

[charlie]

14. Where are the God and flag lovin' jingoes?

You can't say "Michael Moore" around those morons without being told you're un-American and unfit to live here.

So, what's with this "murmurs of disapproval" shit? Why aren't there 400 pieces of weaponry pointed at those America-hating heads, with an ultimatum: "Git, or get shot"?

[Libertas1776]

16. Fuck them!

and though we might like to joke and say "don't let the door hit you on the way out," we must remember and never forget that over 600,000 people died in a war over the continued union of this country, 360,000 of which gave their lives fighting to preserve that very Union. To ever let these disgusting treacherous fuckers ever get their way would be a disgrace and inestimable dishonor to all those, black and white, who perished on the fields of the likes of Gettysburg and Antietam;at the siege of Fort Wagner and the Battle of the Crater. An inestimable dishonor to the 16th President of the United States who was felled by an assassin's bullet. This rabble is the extreme of the extreme. They will never have "their" way. Never.

[barbiegeek]

35. They can go to their own Island

[raccoon]

52. I guess you are referring to the Civil War. I think the deaths of the Union soldiers were

especially unnecessary.

Why should the average Joe in MN, ME, OH, IL,etc., give a happy rat's ass whether or not the states that made up the Confederacy stayed in the United States? Anyway, toward the end of the war many of the Union soldiers were immigrants, mostly from Ireland.

[thecrow]

17. Some dare call it treason

He should be immediately shipped to Gitmo.
The people there are said to have the same sentiments.

[ejpoeta]

19. they hate the US until there is a hurricane or something and they want money.

[Canuckistanian]

20. Wow, 200 people

Some would call it a movement.

I'd call it some other kind of "movement"

[Ishoutandscream2]

21. Yes, radical, even for Texas

Many people here, both on the left and the right, would probably love to kick their ever-hating asses.

[zbdent]

22. he should get together with Todd Palin's buddy ...

and get the f*ck out of our United States ...

[Hippo_Tron]

23. Guess that means they're taking the Republican Party with them

Because without Texas' electoral votes the GOP doesn't stand a chance at winning the electoral college.

[texanwitch]

24. A few fools don't speak for all of us in Texas.

There are assholes like this in every state.

This Texas hating crap gets really old.


Just look at all the fools showing at the town hall meetings across the country.

[struggle4progress]

28. But such fools DO speak for a whole lotta conservative racist Texans: those dog-hot summers

seem to produce a certain number of people who are as nasty as deep-fried Twinkies

[barbiegeek]

39. I understand TexasWitch, i have Grassley twit 4 Senator

And Chucky has been saying a bunch of stupid shit up in Iowa. It looks like Texas hates Democrats thats where the hate comes from. The Texas Dems need to speak with louder voices and have rallies and stuff so people understand that your not all republicans.

[windoe]

25. Perhaps they need to create their own gated community then...

[AnnieBW]

26. He should go to a military base and say those words

Better yet, to a bunch of veterans.

When we decried *, people said that we were traitors who hated America. Now you have someone on the right who has said that he hates America. Nothing will happen to him, except maybe a mention in KO's Worst Persons.

[marmar]

27. Texas is a big state.....can't we split it?

The sensible part, which we keep, and the crazy part, Perry-Cornyn-Texas Board of Ed Land, which can secede.

[susanr516]

30. Sure, we'll give them Loving County

Population: 67
Claim to fame: The least populous county in the US

Oh course, the last takeover attempt didn't go so well:

"In February 2006, Mentone became the focus of a New York Times article detailing an alleged attempt by libertarians Lawrence Pendarvis, Bobby Emory and Don Duncan to "take over" the town and Loving County. According to the article, Pendarvis and his associates, part of the Free Town Project, planned to buy parcels of land in the county, then move in enough of their supporters to outvote earlier residents and take control of local government.
-----
"Although Pendarvis, Emory and Duncan claimed to have legally bought 126 acres (0.51 km2) in Loving county in 2005, and registered to vote accordingly, the county sheriff, Billy Burt Hopper, determined that this land had been sold to a different buyer. Misdemeanor charges were filed against the three men, who had left the state by this time. Pendarvis claimed to have a cancelled check to prove his purchase of the land in question, but no deed was ever produced, and the original landowners denied having sold land to Pendarvis or his associates. The three were subsequently featured on a "wanted" poster issued by Sheriff Hopper and the local Texas Rangers (displayed at Hopper's office), and threatened with arrest should they return to Loving County."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_County,_Texas

:rofl:

Seriously, I'm a fifth-generation native Texan, and batshit crazy secessionists pop up every couple of years here. They make a few headlines, then even the wingnuts figure out the depth of their derangement.

[BlueGirlRedState]

37. we need a two-state solution

Texas Dems and everyone else.

[ceile]

31. oooooo 200 people

pfft. Who cares.

[barbiegeek]

33. We keep Texas they need to pool their $$ and buy an Island

And get the Hell out of my country.

[treestar]

34. But when it comes to war

I bet he was waving that flag.

[Taverner]

38. They really do need to move to Galt Island don't they?

[JHB]

53. GilliGalt's Island

A new surreality show.

Assorted tax protesters, creationists, free marketeers, and global warming deniers live and cooperate (or don't) on a tropical island that projections say will be swamped by rising seas.

So do they produce the ideal society? Drown horribly from increasingly frequent and sever storms?

Or do they just go all "Lord of the Flies" on each other long before anything else has a chance?

[havocmom]

40. not unlike spoiled children trying to intimidate parents into giving in "I hate you!"

Too fucking bad, Texas. You gotta eat your vegetables and do your chores anyway.

Oh, and keep the tantrums up and you're grounded.

[havocmom]

41. They don't love America as they used to insist. They only love getting their own way.

At least they are being more honest.

Show them the door.

[Blue_Tires]

42. why don't they just relocate to northern mexico?

call their bluff...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

57. Yeah, like Mitt Romney's Dad??

George Romney (who some of you old farts may remember as Gov of Michigan) was born in N. Mexico b/c they left the US to practice polygamy.

[bertman]

45. Adios, motherfucker!! Don't let the screen door hit ya!! What are you waiting for, dick??

[johnaries]

46. Wasn't it a Republican President that declared war on

Secessionist States about 150 years ago? Or did I misread that whole Civil War thing?

[derby378]

47. Kilgore is also running for Governor of Texas in 2010

Not that he has any chance of winning the Republican nomination, but still...

[Regret My New Name]

48. I doubt their message went over too well with most Austinites. :P

[Initech]

49. These 200 people can just:

[KamaAina]

51. Was Goodhair Perry there?

:shrug:

[redqueen]

55. I hope Kay starts tying Perry to these outer-fringes-of-the-fringe morons.

:rofl:

[Kalyke]

56. Did Sarah Palin speak at their gathering?

She likes to attend secessionist movement meetings.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

60. Them and half the world.

:cry:

[subcomhd]

61. Sorry folks, we ain't goin' nowhere. But

these dipshits are more than welcome to leave Texas, hastening our transition from Red to Blue.

[Jennicut]

63. Carve out some land in Texas and let them secede. Let's see how long they last without living in the

US. Food? Grow your own? Money for supplies? Good luck. It would be living off the land, no electricity or running water....at least for a long time. Maybe they could learn to trade over time. Idiots, if they want to go back to living a primitive life, let them.

[moondust]

64. Then I'm sure they wouldn't mind having their citizenship revoked.

Are these the same peanut brains that used to cry "America, love it or leave it!"?