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?

Comments

[kayay.livejournal.com]

Being a native Texan I'll be the first to agree we have some real nuts there, but I didn't realize Chuck was that... odd.

People who want secession are very narrow minded with a short sighted view of the world imo. For one thing, people often have friends and family in other states, and that unites the country in one way. Secondly, states' economies are interconnected. Third, it's all fine and dandy talking about independence, but they may be singing a different tune once they you lose all the gov't services, benefits, funding, laws, (postal service, medicare, medicaid, social security, federal unemployment benefits, insured bank accounts) etc. all at once. Secession isn't a simple thing, but, like it was said earlier, people fantasize revolution.