Please, Mister Norris. Please, sit down.

[xenologer]

First, the entry I saw.

Talk of "Revolution" and Texas. Someone please tell Chuck Norris to stop doing anything, please. Or I'm sending Mr. T to show him what's what.

Anyway. Once you're done laughing at that, a more serious question. Do states still have the right to secede? Did they ever in the first place? If they don't have the right to secede--if that is, as President Lincoln seemed to feel, a treasonous endeavor--should there be consequences for statements like this if there really is a system of revolutionary cells waiting for a word from Chuck Norris?

Yeah, I know. There's that laughing again. But once you can breathe, what do you think about this?

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[elorie.livejournal.com]

Oh, Lord. There was a guy taking secession on the Mars Society forum (don't ask) about how "Northern liberals" wouldn't pick up guns to defend the Union. I told him that any Southerner with an appreciation for history might well pick up a gun at the mention of secession...to shoot the guy who suggested it. I quote myself: "There is no Confederate cavalry coming to the rescue of the neocons. Just a whole lot of chickens coming home to roost."

I think there is zero, seriously zero real will to separate from the United States in most places, definitely not the widespread "rising up" he seems to believe. I don't know about Texas, though. They are like to do anything.