Facebook
Fark
Digg
Reddit
Stumble
Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012 | 2:01 a.m.
What a coincidence. It is intriguing to watch Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” biopic about Abraham Lincoln at a time when the current president is receiving secession petitions via the Internet. I wonder: How far would the 13th Amendment have gotten in today’s age of Twitter and cable TV news-talk shows? Would black folks still be in slavery? Would John Wilkes Booth have skipped Ford’s Theater if he had his own talk show? The odd parallels between the two eras illustrate Karl Marx’s point about how history repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” The movie recounts ...
I wonder Mr. Page if the Sons of Liberty made peace with the King of England and there was no American revolution and blood shed if America would exist today as we know it.
CarmineD
"Perhaps the secessionists should consider self-deportation." They would not be missed.
One might assume that the secessionists are just making a statement about something rather than truly wishing to secede. It is probably very similar to all of the celebrities who have over the years said, "If candidate X wins this election, I will leave the country and renounce my citizenship." And then they pretty much never actually do it. We live in an age of hyperbole where it seems that to state something, you must greatly overstate it for effect.
Texas should take notice.
They got over 100,000 people signed up quickly. The important part is that most of those that signed are not in Texas.
That shows me that many in the U.S. would be happy to see Texas go. ;-)
The successionist have their own network (Fox). Their own facts. Then they get the attention they want. But they lost the last election.
Carmine your statement to Mr. Page went way over his head you know.