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 …
Rhett
10:15 am on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
This is probably the most outlandish, immature form of pouting I have ever seen. C'mon Alabama and Georgia, this isn't an SEC football game...calm down. Your "freedom" isn't in jeopardy and the nation isn't "broken". Look at Greece right now, for example. They have real problems. Anyways, quit pouting and go do something productive, Jesus. more ›