Is Independence the Future of Texas?

Of all the American states, only two have ever been fully independent nations: the Kingdom of Hawaii, land grabbed and stolen by US business interests and Texas, which, after being an independent republic, joined the US willingly, or at least that is the official line. There are quite a few who debate the willingly part, but that, dear reader, is for another story.

Texas is an independent land that has always taken its own way, even while cobbled to the rest of the Union, a Union it tried to leave in 1861 but was forced back into in 1865. As a whole, if independent, Texas would be the 10th largest world economy, with its manufacturing base second only to California. Everything Texas has and would take with her is everything that DC has to loose and could not live without.

Texas, with a land mass of some 700,000 square km, and with a population of 24.3 million, it is home to three of America's top 20 cities. It is the center of the American beef, sheep and goat industries, as well as the biggest US producer of cotton and sugar and also grows a larger portion of the cereal crops. It has 5 billion barrels of proven oil reserve and produces 1/4th of the US natural gas, as well as being the main uranium mines and nuclear weapons production sites.

The biggest US oil refinery is also in Texas, where petroleum is refined into every product that mankind uses from it. Houston Texas, not only the 3rd largest American city and one of America's major ports, is also home to the gas/oil industry of North America. Texas industry as a whole is home to such world heavy weights as North American Aviation, General Dynamic, Bell Aircraft, Dell, Texas Instruments, EDS, AT&T and NASA.

Obviously, to lose all that, America would be crippled for decades if not generations and the Empire that is DC, would more then likely then shortly loose control of the rest of the Old Confederacy and maybe much more.

But what is the mood in Texas?

In a word: angry. They are angry at the open borders, the non-stop flow of illegal aliens, of drugs, gangs and violence. They are angry at high federal taxes, high federal debt and a One Party Two Branch imperial system that never changes for the better, never listens and only dictates their lives. It is a testament to Texas that for 20 years it has reelected Congressman Ron Paul, a man who has stood up to the Empire but unfortunately, as one of a tiny minority, has always been brushed aside.

But the anger really started to boil with the out and out Marxism that is now flowing freely out of DC unto the rest of the Empire, Marxism that has already but the next three, maybe four generations of Texans into endless debt slavery. Marxism that has pushed to cap the gas/oil industry that much of the state relies on and has talked about giving citizenship to the illegal aliens and generous welfare to keep them quite.

Much of this anger boiled over a couple of days ago, on what Americans call Tax Day, the day when all their wage taxes are due in to the central government. Protest rallies, ignored at best and ridiculed at worst by the oligarch owned press, sprang up through out the America. Hundreds of rallies with thousands of protesters, but only in Texas did they take on the tones of succession, the word that can not be spoken.

Texas governor Rick Perry gave a fiery speech to a large crowd in the Texas capital, Austin, at a rally whose name said it all: "Don't Mess with Texas." With sings like "Don't Tread on Me" around him, he said "We will not stand our pockets being picked, our children's future being mortgaged, our rights being taken away." In response, the crowd yelled "Secede!".

It is symbolic that the rally was held at the Alamo, the battle, in which all the defenders were killed, that launched the Texas war for independence and was the rallying cry for the Texans. At the same rally, a locally famous radio commentator, Rick Green, declared "We are firing the first shots of the 2nd American revolution, right here in Texas!"

Later, Perry told reporters that if Texas gets anymore frustrated, it will fully consider the move towards succession, as he decryed the tyranny of DC taking away the rights of the states of America.

What just 2 years ago, would have been considered fringe declarations and would have destroyed a political career, will more then likely now, get Perry reelected.

The response of the Imperial media of the American oligarchs es was to state that Perry is insane, a lunatic and needs to shut up and disappear. Thus the cares and concerns of Texas weigh as much as the opinion of the popularly elected and soon to be reelected governor.

The Americans are in for a long, hot and troubled summer and Texas may have taken the first steps to escape this insanity.

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