Residents in Georgia, Other States Want To Secede From U.S.
The move, which is gathering steam, is being done in the wake of President Obama's re-election.
Residents of Georgia and more than a dozen other states have filed petitions to secede from the United States, according to media reports. Residents of Alabama, New York, Michigan, Texas and other states have filed the petitions under the "We The People" program, featured on the White House website, according to the Huffington Post. The Georgia petition, which already has more than 4,000 signatures, reads in part: "...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and institute new Government..." The petitions come in the wake of President Obama winning a second …
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Jack Gleason
9:39 am on Thursday, December 13, 2012
"Lunatic Fringe" is a phrase well-describing of those whom would now rather secede than participate in Our Nations governmental processes...who'd rather continue throwing-sticks into the spokes of Obamas Presidency for their chronic malcontent of Its success at legitimate polls than move-forward the day AFTER conclusion of the election by working TOGETHER toward finding balanced solutions to … more ›