Texas- I might like to move there if...

Back in the late 1970’s after my first marriage ended, I fled North Carolina back to California. After being back a couple of weeks, and regaining some composure, I returned to NC to sign divorce papers, and retrieve my personal property (a separately long story ), to include a car I had bought. I then departed across country, to Houston to spend a week with friends there, before continuing on to California.

This was my first real exposure to Texas, which definitely is not like "blue law" North Carolina, as friends would say "NC is the buckle on the Bible Belt".

 

I enjoyed the drive thru liquor and gun store in League City, where my friend’s husband bought a case of beer and some .38 special cartridges from the comfort of his Ford pickup, and then cheerfully popped open a beer as we drove away. ( I checked and it wasn't until 2001 that Texas passed prohibitions against open container in a vehicle.)

While I really didn’t care for Houston, I remember as I drove to El Paso thinking that parts of west Texas were pretty…that i might not mine living there someday. Well, someday may be sooner than I thought.

Why I am discussing this now…?

Because with the current trend towards nationalization and change I can’t believe in, I can’t but wonder if things get so bad that some states don’t honestly contemplate what many in the media say is a lunatic idea-secession from the USA. I am not speaking about overthrow of the US government, but what I read are legitimate discussions of states exercising their rights to resist federalization, unfunded federal mandates (programs the federal government requires the states to join, but provides no money for, and in most cases threatens states with loss of federal funding of other programs if they don’t comply)

Unfunded mandates plays a role in California’s current budget mess, and by taking more bailout money, California will likely be in a BIGGER mess in two years when the feds turn off the tap to the free flow of money now being offered.

Lately Governor Perry of Texas has been in the news, with his positions that

"Texas is a unique place," he said. "When we came into the union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that.

My hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention," he said. "We've got a great union. There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that. But Texas is a very unique place, and we're a pretty independent lot to boot.”

There is a secession movement afoot and its proponents are determined to put a halt to the federal government’s ambitions to destroy and reconstruct an entire economy and dissolve the last remnants of individual liberty. Twenty-eight states are invoking the law of the land, the U.S. Constitution, by rolling out legislation to assert their sovereignty as free states in order to keep from being undermined by the never-ending swarm of unrestrained federal decrees.

The speed with which the federal government intends to take over private institutions and usurp states’ rights and individual autonomy is unprecedented. When the Bush-Obama regime maneuvers are compared to the Hoover-FDR New Deal era, it looks like today’s hare vs. yesterday’s turtle. The state’s various propaganda arms, from big media to institutionalized special interest forces, are being empowered to publicize and sell the agenda of the totalitarian state by painting it in glossy colors that warm the hearts of unresisting Americans. There are, however, growing pockets of dissenters who conclude that life, liberty, property, and the futures of their children are more important than the trivial things that occupy the minds of the submissive class.

Which brings me to another topic- why is dissent viewed as unpatriotic ?

The Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) report dated 02/20/09 and titled, "MIAC Strategic Report: The Modern Militia Movement" a "law enforcement sensitive" secret police report proposes that certain citizens as being potential violence-prone "militia members." But who might these malcontents be?? They detailed in the report, if you oppose any of the following, you could qualify for being profiled as a potential dangerous "militia member":

The United Nations
The New World Order
Gun Control
The violation of Posse Comitatus
The Federal Reserve
The Income Tax
The Ammunition and Accountability Act
A possible Constitutional Convention
The North American Union
Universal Service Program
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
Abortion
Illegal Immigration

(I italicized areas where I would fall under suspicion-geez)

However, it is the following statement contained in the MIAC report that is particularly disturbing to me.

Under the heading "Political Paraphernalia," the report states, "Militia members most commonly associate with 3rd party political groups. It is not uncommon for militia members to display Constitutional [sic] Party, Campaign for Liberty, or Libertarian material.

These members are usually supporters of former Presidential Candidate [sic]: Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, and Bob Barr."

Can you imagine the fallout of this preposterous report had the names Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi been used instead of the names Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, and Bob Barr?

Damn…I better go outside in the morning and remove the stickers from the car- Protected by Smith & Wesson, NRA, VietNam Vet -  US ARMY, Don’t blame me- I Vote Libertarian….I guess the ASPCA stick is safe.

Fightin Words - Trace Adkins