Charlotte Tea Party Headquarters

In considering the movement building in the states to recognize states rights over the Federal government and its latest attempt to forcibly make people join and pay for insurance they don't want I ran across a very insightful thought about secession.

As you may know 9 states have already passed resolutions reinforcing that the tenth amendment reserves to them all rights NOT granted to the Federal government and 12 other states have resolutions pending.

I found this and believe it is quite true in its analysis.

Keep in mind the first time a shot is fired in "defense" of the Federal mandates and their enforcement upon individual citizens. I believe the same logic applies to a Federal government that attempts to force citizens to comply with a law not made by representative republicanism but by autocratic rule, especially one made in direct conflict with the Constitution but as of yet undeclared as such by any court. I find it hard to fathom a US soldier would shoot at a US citizen or former citizen now declared seceeded, but I DO find it possible if this President creates his own "civil defense" force as he stated he would in his campaign. Half a million men strong with the same armaments and equipment and training as our armed forces...

Again I ask as 18 months ago- What would be the purpose of such a force? We already have a civil and military authority in this nation - just not one that directly answers to a dictatorial President. That may be coming soon my friends. Will your relatives and acquaintances wake up by the time of its formation?

The QUOTE:

"For secession to be succesful, you don’t need any rights guaranteed to you by the Constitution. If a state, say Texas, votes to secede from the Union, the ONLY challenge that the Federal government could make is either a political one (isolation, pressure on foreign governments to not recognize Texas as a country, embargo, etc.) or a military one. But the reality is that, in this present day, any military action would be broadcast across the world and repeated on every possible medium ad nauseum. The second that a soldier of the Federal government shot at a former U.S. citizen, the power and legitimacy of the government would disappear. Anyone can see that the person getting shot could have been from any state, any community. The country would be divided between those that sympathize with the secessionists and those that demand that all states remain with the Union. As soon as it is demonstrated that your government can and will kill you if you disagree with it, whether or not secession is legal, the Union will have been dissolved."