Dakota Beacon

DId the Supreme Court just invite Texas to secede?  You could make that argument.  What they said is that Texas did not make a sufficient case to establish standing - that the bizarre behavior of election officials in Georgia, Pennsylvania, WIsconsin and Michigan did not have enough of an effect on Texas.   Well, think about that.  

The Wild West behavior of those four rogue states’ governments most certainly does affect every other state in the Union.  They are deciding who is to be the President of the WHOLE United States of America, not just the President of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.  We are all stuck with this.  Our states and the people of our states have a pact with the other states and their people.  We agree to abide by the decision of the whole based upon the free and fair election of the president.  We have not agreed to allow crooks and city bosses in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit and Milwaukee/Madison to pick our president.  

It is interesting that concurrent with the lawsuit which Texas brought to the Supreme Court (referenced above) Texas Representative Kyle Biedermann (R) , is introducing a bill calling for secession of Texas inasmuch as the federal government no longer represents the values of Texas.  It is a somber moment in our history.  Those of us who have studied our history know that this is a very serious threat to our republic.  It is certainly understandable.  

Texas has a huge economy - larger, it is said, than Russia’s.  It has a set of problems which our federal government has been very slow to look at, especially with regard to our border with Mexico.  The four years of Trump’s administration gave hope for some improvement in that he had begun the Wall - which Texans deemed essential for their and their families’ safety.  Under a prospective Biden administration this would all be turned back.  Biden has promised open borders.  He has also promised to end fossil fuels.  Can he succeed?  Well, we know he can open the borders.  He’ll be safe.  So will his temporary VP, Kamala.  They’ll have protection.  Not so the ranchers in West Texas.  It is easy to see that many Texans will welcome the idea of secession.  They’ve been at war already for decades, while help has been withheld by Washington.  

We need to let all of the options play out and give things enough time to let the dust settle and sort out this election.  We still don’t have a winner.  The 2020 election remains in dispute as of today.  Perhaps the question of secession need not come up . . . yet.  But it is a very real spectre.  

Thomas Jefferson:

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

The people of Texas are thinking about this now.  At least some of their leaders are.  Do the parameters of the Declaration of Independence fit the situation the people of Texas (and some other states) find themselves in?  Has it become necessary to dissolve the bands which have connected Texas for a time to the United States?  It entered our Union as a free republic.  Will it leave to resume this status?  These are troubling times indeed.  We can’t have it both ways.  Either Texas is a part of the United States of America and what illegal activities in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin might lead to a false president of the whole United States affects Texas or it doesn’t.  If it does, then the Supreme Court just let us down again, and this means that Texas does not really have an agreement with the United States.  Other states might also feel this way.  It is reasonable to argue this.  If Texas is a part of the Union, and if other parts of the Union manage to elect a false president through illegal means, as Texas and the whole world allege, why does Texas not have a stake in this big enough to claim the attention of the Supreme Court of the United States?  Let us hope that the courts and the people of these four states can solve this properly and not reward theft.  Time will tell.  We must wait and watch.  The formal breaking up of our Union is not apparent as yet, but the actual breaking up has begun.  We can thank the Supreme Court’s cowardice.