You guys keep talking about doing it. Stop talking and do it already. What are you waiting for? Is there some reason you have been talking about it for 35yrs but have never done anything about it? I hear ya talkin. Now get to walkin.
Before Texas was a US territory it was its own nation. As a separate nation willingly joining the US, the Republic of Texas was granted the right to withdraw from the Union at anytime they felt their rights seriously infringed upon or when being a part of the Union is no longer beneficial to Texas. I am not saying whether or not Texas should secede, but it should become a serious option when the US becomes harmful or no longer beneficial to Texas.
Why do we force our youth to pledge their allegiance to liberty? I remember in 8th grade a long time ago when our Science teacher said that he would not force us to say the pledge everyday because that would be un-American, and that by doing so he was endangering his job. Good man.
Americans have all ways been rebels he is right any way you look at him I would rather have him than the squatters in the white house, even the blacks are turning on them, and I don't blame them secession, who knows it depends on how and when we are bankrupt.
My personal belief on sovereign nations is if a nation is strong enough to stand on its own without assistance from another, can hold its ground against foreign military forces, then it is worthy enough to be indepenant, but if it cannot do things i've said above, then they aren't worthy, and thus should be brought back into the fold. Plus as Ron Paul stated the States can exercise their right to secede from the union, but i say only do it if you KNOW you can be completely indepenant
if ron doesnt win the nomination. hopefully he'll run for tx gov and secede!! i'd support that over trying to change the massive fed gov. i believe we have the 10th largest economy in the world. have oil in the ground and natural gas. without epa breathing down our necks we can do a whole lot better. we also have the port of houston. 3 of the u.s' top 10 largest cities are from tx. houston, san antonio, dallas. we're bigger than france. lets do it!
@vgcsbano The States did not need to petition the federal government for the right to secede, that just blows the whole states' rights argument! That makes no sense! Watch the video!
New England has considered secession at least twice- once during the War of 1812, the other when Jefferson made the Louisiana Purchase. The first secessionist convention in America was held in Hartford, Connecticut.
a forced union is an oxymoron.i can never get over how yanks, libs, assholes, Northeners, feel upset that people in the US dont like being here. They seem surprised to think that others dont worship them.
We don't secede. That is running away from the constitution instead of fighting for it and defending it. We have a right to abolish any form of government destructive to us. Otherwise it is like a captain leaving the ship to wander off into the dark waters of destruction. It is our duty to stay with it. It was democrats who seceded pre civil war.
Even as an elementary child I exercised my right not to recite the pledge. I pledge no allegiance to a nation that finds it necessary to indoctrinate its young with such a recantation.
At the point that the state is unable to secede, the United States of America are no longer United. What makes us great is that we come together under the principle of liberty because we choose to. Without that, we are among the worst of the nations of history.
thank you samsizzle, as a fellow born and raised texan, im glad someone can drop some info on these other people,,,,texas was its own country.. and CAN LEAVE THE UNION anytime it wants..personally when shit hits the fan very soon i pray we leave and texans come together and hold strong the great state of texas...to those who want to laugh at Texans and their love for their state..its bc we were our own country fought for it and declared it,,,dont be mad bc ur state is owned by NWO bankers..
@egm2003 LOL... I better be moving my ass right back home then... That's where I'm from. Wow...I see why I've always had so much pride for my country...Texas...Don't mess with Texas!!!
Lincoln therefore had a right to supress the rebellion of the south because the states 1) never petitioned the federal government to leave (and therefore never received permission to do so and 2) The moral principal they seceeded for was the expansion of slavery for which there is no moral justification.
There is a right to seceede. However to break the agreement of the constitution any state must get the agreement of the other states. This agreement can be had only when the other states agree to allow the state or states to leave. Without receiving such permission, states still have a right to seceede but they have to do it by force and for any exercise of this right to be moral, the reasons for wanting to seceed must be based on some moral principal.
@vgcsbano Actually Texas was already its own country and one of the agreements for it to join The Union was that they are not bounded by that rule. It was in the contract.
@TOTCD It's not Un-American. The opening paragraph of our Constitution says that man has the right to secede when need be. Read your Constitution, bud.
@TOTCD First of all, I never said it was easy. I don't know where you found those words. But Lincoln went to war and had only 1/3 of the people's approval. Lincoln had Bo right to go to war and many people didn't approve of the war. You cannot deny the fact that secession is in the Constitution.
I believe it's the right of every man, woman, & child to choose their own path. Times are hard & twice as hard for large states that require twice the money needed to maintain the public services. "If" Texas broke away, it would be a flat out gold rush for American businesses & open many doors that are currently blocked by the fed. The Texas monetary system would trump the fed & leeching states would finally be severed.
I love these nowadays "liberals" mentioned near the beginning of the vid.
They want their freedom but for imposing laws from the federal level limiting all. Their clarity of logic would be waking up one morning in a straight jacket thinking they're still free as long as everyone around them wore one, too.
God, this guy is an idiot. The South lost. They deserved to. Get over it already! And is there anything that will not set him off on an irrelevant tangent about regulations? Never mind that deregulation is what caused our economic problems to begin with.
@DarthRandall I think you need more research. It was never about the south, the entire war was over whether even a majority of states can suppress the sovereignty of other sates. Many of the states who did succeed did so precisely to assert their right to do so. If you think deregulation is the cause of our economic problems, what specific problems came about through the loss of what specific regulation?
I apologize if anyone is from any of these states or happen to love these states, as I don't mean any offense to anyone, but I'm actually fine with Texas seceding. If they do secede, which I hope they do, I hope they take Alaska, Arizona, Oklahoma, some of the far-right backwater areas of the USA, the entire Tea Party, Fox News, far-right talk radio show hosts & all far-right conservatives & republicans with them
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I apologize if anyone is from any of these states or happen to love these states, as I don't mean any offense to anyone, but I'm actually fine with Texas seceding. If they do secede, which I hope they do, I hope they take Alaska, Arizona, some of the far-right backwater areas of the USA, the entire Tea Party, Fox News, far-right talk radio show hosts & all far-right conservatives &republicans with them.
The irony might be that Ron Paul was talking from the state that produced 2 things: George W. Bush and Rick Perry. I would say let Texas secede from the US. Let all its debts be borne by Ron Paul and Rick Perry as well as who ever else is rich. Texas is a nice buffer zone between those nasty Mexicans and the American people.
Anti-secessionists clearly believe that, since a state once (decades or centuries ago) joined the union, the people within that state are forever bound to, or imprisoned by, that union regardless of their views or the actions of that union. What the hell kind of democracy or freedom is that?
The idiots don't even understand the word "treason." The idea here is to leave the union, not undermine or subvert it. Only the latter two fit the definition of that in this context.
@stewartx5 One may well suggest, at risk of drawing scorn from the uninformed, that to attack the southern states merely because they were succeeding was rather treasonous. The civil war very nearly destroyed the Union and certainly subverted it's purpose in changing it from a voluntary federation of sovereign states to an authoritarian union of political subdivisions, to say nothing of the lives lost. People like Lincoln because he kept the union together, but I wonder: At what cost?
Agreed. However, most in this country will never accept the basic notion of secession, much less that stopping it (depriving freedom) might actually be wrong.
Its the last part that matters the most in what he says: " right now the American people are sick and tired of it all and I think the time will come when the people will consider it much more seriously when the federal government can no longer deliver, that time will come when the dollar collapses... the independence of the states will come back and it does not mean you are unamerican to contemplate what might have to be done once the dollar crashes."
Its the last part that matters the most in what he says: " right now the American people are sick and tired of it all and I think the time will come when the people will consider it much more seriously when the federal government can no longer deliver, that time will come when the dollar collapses... the independence of the states will come back and it does not mean you are unamerican to contemplate what might have to be done once the dollar crashes."
wow i disagree with Dr.Paul 100%.....I see what he is saying but you cannot have governor(s) going around and saying things like this....I has to be considered Treason....
Come on, Ron. It indeed is un-American to consider taking the United States apart. IF you did, you would weaken it severely. If we ran a government like that, this government wouldn't be united
@sxdarknessxs No, the Country is increasingly polarized. However, economically, we are united and that is the most important fact because that's how any Republic curries power.
@sxdarknessxs No, the Country is increasingly polarized. However, economically, we are united and that is the most important fact because that's how any Republic curries power.
@Seedofwinter Your statement assumes two things, first that weakening the nation gov't is necessarily a bad thing and that once a state succeeded they would never re-negotiate to join again. The former is unsupported given the results we have seen over the last 50-100 years, I think if you look at what the gov't has done with all the power it has you may want to reconsider. The latter is unlikely, there are numerous benefits to being in the union as well as to having the option.
@AndreisEntaro My statement is true, I think. This Country is strong because it's people are united, if it's people aren't united, the Union ceases to be strong. A matter of fact, we cease to be even called a union. Fracture the power and we will be susceptible to outside influences in our Country.
State governments are just as corrupt as Federal governments. You denounce the feds, you in turn power the state governments, which suffer A LOT more corruption.
@Seedofwinter I think logically states are easier to control, the corruption at the federal level is easy to see but more locally I find the gov't does more of what people want and turn over rates for politicians that do not is generally higher.
I don't doubt that the US would lose some power if it were less centralized, I argue that would a good thing for the world and for us. Looking at what the central gov't has done with all of that power, it is hard to call it good.
@Seedofwinter "Fracture the power and we will be susceptible to outside influences in our Country." factually correct to some extent, now why is that bad? Most of the nations of the world are smaller, less powerful, and correspondingly less dominant in their influence on other nations. Yet most of those nations do well and get along. I think it's worth asking the question, especially if you accept, as it is clear our founders did, the idea that power corrupts.
@Seedofwinter In the end, would it not be best for states to have to option to choose what the best situation for them is? Even if one succeeded, no doubt they would want to return under new terms because of the benefits gained by being in the union. If this is not the case, then one must wonder, why any state should be part of the union if they would be better off on their own?
@AndreisEntaro I do think that states should determine what works best for them, though. However, State governments suffer the same kind private, heavy-money, influence as our Federal government. Us New Yorkers want Universal Healthcare, yet we STILL can't get it. It's likewise for a few other states.
The Federal government should take action--like with healthcare-- when it is clear that the State governments are failing, and it's in the best interest of our people and Country.
@Seedofwinter " However, State governments suffer the same kind private" -empirically it is harder to buy influence over thousands of local politicians than a few hundred and easier to fire a politicians at the local level where your vote counts more.
"Us New Yorkers want Universal Healthcare" Then why not do that in New York? Massachusetts did. Us Missourians generally would rather not have universal healthcare.
@Seedofwinter If Universal healthcare is the way to go, you can actually demonstrate that by building a fantastic system in your state and telling everyone else how great it is. When others see that your system works better, we may be convinced to adopt that as well. Either by mandate from the fed or adoption by the states universal healthcare would happen, except by adoption we still allow experimentation elsewhere to see if someone else makes an even better system.
But it's just as hard to get such proposals passed in States as it is through the Federal government. Private interests lobby state governments as they lobby federal governments.
Secession from Britain and secession from the Union are two very different things. Another person spouting rhetoric that seems legitimate, but in actuality is full of fallacies! He is smart enough that he is dangerous.
i'd really love to know what the hell these deep fried obese shitkickin' rednecks are bitchin' about. believe you me texans if you want out of the u.s.a. NOBODY WILL SHED A FUCKING' TEAR! I for one will be kicking your ass out the god damn door! and take the bushes, ron paul, lyndon johnson, haliburton, enron, the tea party, your prison industrial complex and your right wing christian fanatics with ya!!!!!!!!!
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Texas v. White 74 U.S. 700, SCOTUS ruled in the late 1860s that Texas(or any other state) does not have the right to secede. What a liar Ron Paul is. I guess he hopes his constituents don't read SCOTUS rulings so they'll just believe whatever the hell he tells them to believe.
@vaibanez17 Then you believe the Founding Fathers were wrong. The USA seceded from Britain.
Your words also dishonor the hundreds of thousands of dead Americans who died fighting to protect right-wing Southern secession movements such as South Korea or South Vietnam. Or more recently, South Sudan which the USA supported their secession.
But when it comes to our own? We become hypocrites, America's favorite pastime. Speak of peace, wage war. Talk of freedom, enact pat-downs and body scanners.
@vaibanez17 The law of the oppressive state holds no sway over the seceding state. Thus your argument falls flat, a state will secede if it feels its in it best interest or its citizens will become rebels and outlaws fighting to secede their state from what they see as an oppressive central government. You can quote laws all you want. Also if you read that brief further you will see it has nothing to do with Seceding but more about cattle deals.
No matter what anyone says about Ron Paul, he keeps the dialog open and keeps people thinking. He's like a Libertarian version of Noam Chomsky. I hope the dollar doesn't crash.
"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." -First Paragraph, Declaration of Independence
I really like like Ron Paul but on this topic not so much. More Americans died in the Civil War then in ALL of the wars we have fought combined. This is a total slap in the face to our ancestors who fought to form a more perfect union. Those Soviet era counties never seceded as the never accepted to be part of the Soviet Union in the first place. They were forced to.
How I wish Ron Paul were our president through the last two years; we would be enjoying the Paul Prosperity, rather than suffering a worsening Obama Depression.
@Linguiphile Ron Paul would get shot like Kennedy did. Of course I would love to have a guy like Ron Paul as president, but congress needs to be on the same page. But the way things are, the "oligarcs" would kill this guy. The solution is us. Stop supporting the system, by avoiding anything "corporate". If we stop going to Burger King or Walmart. THEY WILL FUCKING COLLAPSE.
I love Ron Paul, but on this point, he's an idiot. To not want to be part of the United States of America any more, surely that's the definition of unamerican.
I like Ron Paul. I believe that he is an honest politician and that is a very very very rare thing. I'm also a libertarian but I believe that government can make things better. I don't think Paul agrees?
@ParrhesiaJoe However at the risk of entering the realm of reality it should be said. Our lives and indeed society itself is the constuct of the weaks oppression by the strong. Ron paul, although well meaning and a good man, will not change that regardless of any action he takes in his life time. All those who a real societal change would benefit are either to stupid, to domesticated or to afraid to actually do whats neccasary. But hey, X facter is on so who cares >.>
@kargwain187 He is not the motive force here. We are. He will be a product of a larger change that is taking place right now.
We've never existed in a state where a critical mass of people are informed as to the specific ways they are robbed and cheated. This is the first time the media has lost control, and we WILL take advantage.
We will try to elect Dr. Paul. Apart from that, we will fix everything else. We are awake.
@ParrhesiaJoe I wish you all the best my friend, i really do ... but what will you do when the elite class murder ron paul ? .. will protest on the street until you arent happy anymore. Maybe write to your congress .... the game is rigged friend and trust me , there isnt any fairness left in it. Ill wait and see how this turns out and i will hope to god you are right, My prediction .... He will be the first pres to be assisinated by "al quiada" and be the driving force for even more war
Check out my video. If you don't believe in secession, then you believe in slavery, for you are for enslaving people to a government that they want no part of:
dont tell americans they cant come and go as they please! we dont like it, if we wanna leave, well fight you .. if we wanna stay, well fight you...if we want your land well even fight you...dont intrude in an american's life, we come from a bloodline of people that dont like intrusions in theyr lives...i dont know about you more recently foreign bastards, but we old time americans dont like to fuck around with bigshots trying to tell us what to do...well fight damnit, ill fight you right now!
@longfootbuddy we werent a nation that went around stompiing on other countries and good americans also debate issues respectfully not like a lower class british sailor.we told foreign countries to get out of sovereign states now we are telling people to let us into there sovereign state. we are the fucking british now and we have been since the fucking spanish american war
@longfootbuddy yeah i know thtai am a firm beleiver in the rugged individual. but im not talking about liberty, im talking about your comment were you said if we want your land we'll fight you. no thats not america at all we werent about taking land that was after jackson when we adopted manifest destiny and it was a bad choice it planted the seeds for future wars that we shouldnt have been involved, in just like ww1 has caused all the wars since it
@libertarian93 my earlier comments were done half jokingly, like i said...i personally would never attack anyone simply because i wanted theyr land...sorry i havent handled your comments the way i shouldv... it happens occasionally... when you wright as many comments as i do on youtube, eventually youll mess up a couple
@longfootbuddy ok i didnt know that its hard to see sarcasm in the internet but now its hilarious. i think we probably agree on alot of issues and had a pointless arguement
american rebels came here because they didnt want to tolerate european assholes, they fought for theyr independace, they fought a civil war because the south didnt want to tolerate northern assholes from intruding on theyr lives, and they fought indians and spanish because they didnt want to tolerate assholes on the land they wanted... guess what, americans are rebels that dont like people intruding in theyr lives.. if you do like intrusion in your life, then your not a good american...
the hole thing could have been handle with out war. the south has the right to leave.. there reasoning was all wrong tho. they would have come begging for help sooner or later. i think slavery would have end to.. what cost more 1,000s of slaves to feed, house and in prison or a john deer? the north's industry would have beat out the south's old ways. the southerners with slaves were not doing a hole lot of inventing lol they spent to much time chasing slaves. American history is ugly
@schoonzer1 Ron Paul was 100% right.... first thing need to be said is i hate any one forcing any to do ant thing (slavery is pure evil) but that said, what we learned in school is not even 1/2 of the story. go read about Lincoln. the civil war was not over slavery and Abe promised at first it wouldn't be. ending slavery was about north economic domination there were to many factors that caused the war to list. Abe was in favor of segregation. the hole persona of Abe is false
Paul needs to read the 16th Amendment about Fed. income taxes, and Constitution Law, like Texas v. White " It is difficult to convey the idea of indissoluble unity more clearly than by these words. What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?" Chief Judge Chase
The court found that Texas never did leave the Union, never had a legal merit to do so. It was against the US Constitution.
i love ron paul, but he's wrong to some extent. the south wanted to secede from the north to continue slavery, and were not permitted. it's only voluntary if you're willing to fight and die for it. btw, i'm glad the south lost, but freedom to do what one likes & ensuring basic human rights can be very different things.
Texas wants to secede? GREAT. Good riddance. Can we get them to build a wall along their north, west, and east border? One request... could they take Louisiana with them? Maybe they could join up with Mexico and show them how an intolerant and corrupt legislature can still be successful. I know, let's all just cluster up in small groups of people who agree with each other. Then we don't need to tolerate diversity at all. We could be just like Europe has been for the past 500 years.
If Texas ever secedes from the union over 80% of America will be in that state. WOW move over texans here I come before the rush. I want to be sure theres room for me!
As a homeschool family we are reading the 5000 year leap. We are convinced that secession may be the only answer in this country where people are so polarized. I would love to have a conversation with some of our liberal family members, but we are not speaking the same language. If Texas goes that way we are moving the whole family there.
I'm live in Utah and if Texas secedes I'm going to move there, if they let me. I'll have to fill out the visa paperwork and stuff--I would'nt like to be an illegal alien. I wonder if Utah will secede too. We could change the name back the Deseret, the way it used to be. Either way I think that secession should be a valid argument that is taken seriously, it would be good for the US.
I live here in Texas, and I was very excited that Governor Perry was willing to talk about this in the face of all opposition. I have many friends who are all for the secession of Texas, and while I would rather the whole country be saved if it can, I would go for the Texas secession, too! I think there are a few other states, at least, that would go with us.
I love listening to Ron Paul. Can whoever is making these videos please make the website tag smaller so I can read any captions on the original video?
No offense but if texas does this oil prices will be held hostage from the rest of the us and again George W. Bush will be in power again. I love Ron Paul minus his opinion on legalizing all drugs. Weed different story... Meth, crack, heroine, etc NO WAY! That would rock this nation at it's core and people would be running around doing drugs and taking out innocents with them. I don't want all my neighbors to have meth labs do you?
mobrandt112: I just wanted to point out that Ron Paul isn't saying he wants to allow drugs all he wants to do is take the responsibility away from the Federal Government and let the State Governments take it over. The cost of our huge evergrowing government is one of the major things that is killing us.
Regardless drugs are bad. Weed in my opinion isn't as bad as alcohol I can agree on that. Right now I don't think is the time to separate and break appart but the time to join together. IMO Bush needs to be brought to justice before I think anyone within the us would trust huge movements by Texas. Especially since a huge part of the global market failing is because of the huge drop in oil prices. 1/3 or 2/3 of our oil comes from Texas. We have to be careful as the board is being setup.
Well no the neighbors wouldn't have meth labs because meth labs would become legal and thus sanitary like a medical lab. Remember when prohibition became legal?
Thats when booze stopped being produced in an outhouse and bootleggers went out of business. Meth labs andother dubious activities is a product of restriction.
Now I agree that you would have more junkies at first but I believe most people have enough common sense to know the shooting up is not good for you.
Uhh... no they wouldn't have enough common sense, junkies of meth will get highly addicted to it, I have seen families get ripped apart by it, men with kids and families to support get thrown in prison for half their lives, meth is evil, and it only corrupts, Texas could decriminalize things like Marijuana and focus our tax dollars on things like meth, it makes sense, a perfectly law abiding guy gets thrown in jail for a joint, WTF? meanwhile a guy on the street is selling meth to your kids.
Yeah junkie will exist yes, just like alcoholics and everything else. My point is legalizing or not, meth is still tearing up families and whatnot. If people are gonna be methheads they will be methheads, no law can stop it, nor doesn't stop anyone from becoming one. And that is the point.
But the fact there is a law or not doesn't factor in the decision making when one becomes a meth head. And it is one's own personal decision making that prevents them from doing it, not the law.
Uh...ok....wtf are you even talking about? You basically just repeated me and the rest of your crap is a completely irrelevant to this subject you moron! You should admit yourself to a mental hospital, you are contradicting yourself with these moronically redundant posts of yours.
Moonshiners never slowed down during the prohibition, no "dubious" activities like drugs are ever products of restriction, people do it for MONEY. These comments are products of your pathetic narrow-minded opinion. Which does not matter to anyone on YouTube. Get off the net, your embarrassing yourself on a international network site, get a life idiot.
Are you drunk right now? I was replying to your first sentence which stated that they wouldn't have common sense. Which, I believe was directed toward my comment that said people would have common sense. To clearufy, I meant people in general would have common sense. So where were you disagreeing in the first place. I think it was a simple misinterpretation on your part which you in turn, went towards irrational name calling for no apparent reason. But thats what I get for being serious online.
Ron Paul is a Diamond in the Quagmire .
TheGoat1954 1 week ago 2
You guys keep talking about doing it. Stop talking and do it already. What are you waiting for? Is there some reason you have been talking about it for 35yrs but have never done anything about it? I hear ya talkin. Now get to walkin.
hrsqsiest 2 weeks ago
I never recited the pledge of allegiance. Never will.
IntarwebUser 2 weeks ago
@IntarwebUser What a rebel
MrBartSampson 2 days ago
Before Texas was a US territory it was its own nation. As a separate nation willingly joining the US, the Republic of Texas was granted the right to withdraw from the Union at anytime they felt their rights seriously infringed upon or when being a part of the Union is no longer beneficial to Texas. I am not saying whether or not Texas should secede, but it should become a serious option when the US becomes harmful or no longer beneficial to Texas.
Riley012592 2 weeks ago
Why do we force our youth to pledge their allegiance to liberty? I remember in 8th grade a long time ago when our Science teacher said that he would not force us to say the pledge everyday because that would be un-American, and that by doing so he was endangering his job. Good man.
masterskyrunner 1 month ago
Americans have all ways been rebels he is right any way you look at him I would rather have him than the squatters in the white house, even the blacks are turning on them, and I don't blame them secession, who knows it depends on how and when we are bankrupt.
debzeppeliniv 1 month ago
My personal belief on sovereign nations is if a nation is strong enough to stand on its own without assistance from another, can hold its ground against foreign military forces, then it is worthy enough to be indepenant, but if it cannot do things i've said above, then they aren't worthy, and thus should be brought back into the fold. Plus as Ron Paul stated the States can exercise their right to secede from the union, but i say only do it if you KNOW you can be completely indepenant
DaHuntsman1 1 month ago 3
What an idoit
xg6hpyk 1 month ago
@xg6hpyk You DON'T even know how to spell, yet you dare to attempt to insult him? GTFOH LMFAO:)
loveunderlaw 1 month ago
@xg6hpyk I suppose John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin were all fools for even mentioning secession.
masterskyrunner 1 month ago
if ron doesnt win the nomination. hopefully he'll run for tx gov and secede!! i'd support that over trying to change the massive fed gov. i believe we have the 10th largest economy in the world. have oil in the ground and natural gas. without epa breathing down our necks we can do a whole lot better. we also have the port of houston. 3 of the u.s' top 10 largest cities are from tx. houston, san antonio, dallas. we're bigger than france. lets do it!
RonP713 1 month ago
@vgcsbano The States did not need to petition the federal government for the right to secede, that just blows the whole states' rights argument! That makes no sense! Watch the video!
tidewaterboy1 1 month ago
New England has considered secession at least twice- once during the War of 1812, the other when Jefferson made the Louisiana Purchase. The first secessionist convention in America was held in Hartford, Connecticut.
tidewaterboy1 1 month ago
I've got my shot gun loaded, just say when!
rosenbalmc 1 month ago
a forced union is an oxymoron.i can never get over how yanks, libs, assholes, Northeners, feel upset that people in the US dont like being here. They seem surprised to think that others dont worship them.
bluegrassreb1 1 month ago 6
@bluegrassreb1 I'm a yank, a northener, and probably an asshole. And I'm all for you getting the fuck out. Peace buddy.
MrBartSampson 2 days ago
@MrBartSampson peace to you...finally someone understands.
bluegrassreb1 2 days ago
We don't secede. That is running away from the constitution instead of fighting for it and defending it. We have a right to abolish any form of government destructive to us. Otherwise it is like a captain leaving the ship to wander off into the dark waters of destruction. It is our duty to stay with it. It was democrats who seceded pre civil war.
denalaurens 1 month ago
Ron paul for the win!
TheMrsomthing 1 month ago
Even as an elementary child I exercised my right not to recite the pledge. I pledge no allegiance to a nation that finds it necessary to indoctrinate its young with such a recantation.
luminousnerd 1 month ago
At the point that the state is unable to secede, the United States of America are no longer United. What makes us great is that we come together under the principle of liberty because we choose to. Without that, we are among the worst of the nations of history.
luminousnerd 1 month ago
thank you samsizzle, as a fellow born and raised texan, im glad someone can drop some info on these other people,,,,texas was its own country.. and CAN LEAVE THE UNION anytime it wants..personally when shit hits the fan very soon i pray we leave and texans come together and hold strong the great state of texas...to those who want to laugh at Texans and their love for their state..its bc we were our own country fought for it and declared it,,,dont be mad bc ur state is owned by NWO bankers..
egm2003 1 month ago
@egm2003 LOL... I better be moving my ass right back home then... That's where I'm from. Wow...I see why I've always had so much pride for my country...Texas...Don't mess with Texas!!!
msasiadc83 1 month ago
Lincoln therefore had a right to supress the rebellion of the south because the states 1) never petitioned the federal government to leave (and therefore never received permission to do so and 2) The moral principal they seceeded for was the expansion of slavery for which there is no moral justification.
vgcsbano 1 month ago
There is a right to seceede. However to break the agreement of the constitution any state must get the agreement of the other states. This agreement can be had only when the other states agree to allow the state or states to leave. Without receiving such permission, states still have a right to seceede but they have to do it by force and for any exercise of this right to be moral, the reasons for wanting to seceed must be based on some moral principal.
vgcsbano 1 month ago
@vgcsbano Actually Texas was already its own country and one of the agreements for it to join The Union was that they are not bounded by that rule. It was in the contract.
SAMSIZZLE123 1 month ago
So it's not un-american to want to leave the US of A?!
Hahaha what a joke!
This guy wants to be president?!
TOTCD 2 months ago
@TOTCD
No it's not, ever read the constitution? We all know the answer is no. What a dumbass
Jbrabble 2 months ago
@Jbrabble Yeah lol, you can't secede friend. Remember what happened last time?!
TOTCD 2 months ago
@TOTCD It's not Un-American. The opening paragraph of our Constitution says that man has the right to secede when need be. Read your Constitution, bud.
JKinder313 2 months ago
@JKinder313 Yes if secession is so easy how come we fought a civil war?!
TOTCD 2 months ago
@TOTCD First of all, I never said it was easy. I don't know where you found those words. But Lincoln went to war and had only 1/3 of the people's approval. Lincoln had Bo right to go to war and many people didn't approve of the war. You cannot deny the fact that secession is in the Constitution.
JKinder313 2 months ago
@JKinder313 I don't deny anything. His approval rating doesn't matter.
Fact is he went to war. Won the civil war. And today he is remembered as one of our 3 greatest presidents. Along with George Washington and FDR.
TOTCD 1 month ago
@TOTCD Having the right to secede is the exact same thing as having the right for revolution. It keeps the feds in check.
SAMSIZZLE123 1 month ago
I believe it's the right of every man, woman, & child to choose their own path. Times are hard & twice as hard for large states that require twice the money needed to maintain the public services. "If" Texas broke away, it would be a flat out gold rush for American businesses & open many doors that are currently blocked by the fed. The Texas monetary system would trump the fed & leeching states would finally be severed.
Aint1S 2 months ago
i wish the federal goverment would stop throwing our money out the window
arturdrozdz297374 2 months ago
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KillBaddBugz 2 months ago
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Ron is one of a few politicians who not only can foresee the future but also remember the past of America.
rustyjung999 3 months ago
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rustyjung999 3 months ago
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Yeah! Go Ron Paul! YOU BASTARD, Ron Paul for President of the United States!
warsilver99 3 months ago
I love these nowadays "liberals" mentioned near the beginning of the vid.
They want their freedom but for imposing laws from the federal level limiting all. Their clarity of logic would be waking up one morning in a straight jacket thinking they're still free as long as everyone around them wore one, too.
junk11111111 3 months ago
God, this guy is an idiot. The South lost. They deserved to. Get over it already! And is there anything that will not set him off on an irrelevant tangent about regulations? Never mind that deregulation is what caused our economic problems to begin with.
DarthRandall 4 months ago
@DarthRandall I think you need more research. It was never about the south, the entire war was over whether even a majority of states can suppress the sovereignty of other sates. Many of the states who did succeed did so precisely to assert their right to do so. If you think deregulation is the cause of our economic problems, what specific problems came about through the loss of what specific regulation?
AndreisEntaro 4 months ago
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I apologize if anyone is from any of these states or happen to love these states, as I don't mean any offense to anyone, but I'm actually fine with Texas seceding. If they do secede, which I hope they do, I hope they take Alaska, Arizona, Oklahoma, some of the far-right backwater areas of the USA, the entire Tea Party, Fox News, far-right talk radio show hosts & all far-right conservatives & republicans with them
TheMultioscarwinner 4 months ago
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TheAmycharron 4 months ago
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I apologize if anyone is from any of these states or happen to love these states, as I don't mean any offense to anyone, but I'm actually fine with Texas seceding. If they do secede, which I hope they do, I hope they take Alaska, Arizona, some of the far-right backwater areas of the USA, the entire Tea Party, Fox News, far-right talk radio show hosts & all far-right conservatives &republicans with them.
TheMultioscarwinner 4 months ago
The irony might be that Ron Paul was talking from the state that produced 2 things: George W. Bush and Rick Perry. I would say let Texas secede from the US. Let all its debts be borne by Ron Paul and Rick Perry as well as who ever else is rich. Texas is a nice buffer zone between those nasty Mexicans and the American people.
arugono 4 months ago
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bigyymajesticyy 5 months ago
Anti-secessionists clearly believe that, since a state once (decades or centuries ago) joined the union, the people within that state are forever bound to, or imprisoned by, that union regardless of their views or the actions of that union. What the hell kind of democracy or freedom is that?
The idiots don't even understand the word "treason." The idea here is to leave the union, not undermine or subvert it. Only the latter two fit the definition of that in this context.
stewartx5 5 months ago
@stewartx5 One may well suggest, at risk of drawing scorn from the uninformed, that to attack the southern states merely because they were succeeding was rather treasonous. The civil war very nearly destroyed the Union and certainly subverted it's purpose in changing it from a voluntary federation of sovereign states to an authoritarian union of political subdivisions, to say nothing of the lives lost. People like Lincoln because he kept the union together, but I wonder: At what cost?
AndreisEntaro 4 months ago
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Agreed. However, most in this country will never accept the basic notion of secession, much less that stopping it (depriving freedom) might actually be wrong.
stewartx5 4 months ago
I would never vote for a guy who says my states way or the highway. This would never happend in EU.
aon10003 5 months ago
@aon10003 The EU is run by unelected officials. Look up Nigel Farage, if you want to know the truth about the EU.
Blackfriday420 4 months ago
@Blackfriday420 Newer trust an englishman who had less than five whiskey. They never tell you the truth in that case.
aon10003 4 months ago
Its the last part that matters the most in what he says: " right now the American people are sick and tired of it all and I think the time will come when the people will consider it much more seriously when the federal government can no longer deliver, that time will come when the dollar collapses... the independence of the states will come back and it does not mean you are unamerican to contemplate what might have to be done once the dollar crashes."
cynthiajoyrosen 5 months ago
Its the last part that matters the most in what he says: " right now the American people are sick and tired of it all and I think the time will come when the people will consider it much more seriously when the federal government can no longer deliver, that time will come when the dollar collapses... the independence of the states will come back and it does not mean you are unamerican to contemplate what might have to be done once the dollar crashes."
cynthiajoyrosen 5 months ago
wow i disagree with Dr.Paul 100%.....I see what he is saying but you cannot have governor(s) going around and saying things like this....I has to be considered Treason....
dap0490 5 months ago
Come on, Ron. It indeed is un-American to consider taking the United States apart. IF you did, you would weaken it severely. If we ran a government like that, this government wouldn't be united
Seedofwinter 5 months ago
@Seedofwinter ...you think the government is united under the current conditions?
sxdarknessxs 5 months ago
@sxdarknessxs No, the Country is increasingly polarized. However, economically, we are united and that is the most important fact because that's how any Republic curries power.
Seedofwinter 5 months ago
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@sxdarknessxs No, the Country is increasingly polarized. However, economically, we are united and that is the most important fact because that's how any Republic curries power.
Seedofwinter 5 months ago
@Seedofwinter Your statement assumes two things, first that weakening the nation gov't is necessarily a bad thing and that once a state succeeded they would never re-negotiate to join again. The former is unsupported given the results we have seen over the last 50-100 years, I think if you look at what the gov't has done with all the power it has you may want to reconsider. The latter is unlikely, there are numerous benefits to being in the union as well as to having the option.
AndreisEntaro 4 months ago
@AndreisEntaro My statement is true, I think. This Country is strong because it's people are united, if it's people aren't united, the Union ceases to be strong. A matter of fact, we cease to be even called a union. Fracture the power and we will be susceptible to outside influences in our Country.
State governments are just as corrupt as Federal governments. You denounce the feds, you in turn power the state governments, which suffer A LOT more corruption.
Seedofwinter 4 months ago
@Seedofwinter I think logically states are easier to control, the corruption at the federal level is easy to see but more locally I find the gov't does more of what people want and turn over rates for politicians that do not is generally higher.
I don't doubt that the US would lose some power if it were less centralized, I argue that would a good thing for the world and for us. Looking at what the central gov't has done with all of that power, it is hard to call it good.
AndreisEntaro 4 months ago
@Seedofwinter "Fracture the power and we will be susceptible to outside influences in our Country." factually correct to some extent, now why is that bad? Most of the nations of the world are smaller, less powerful, and correspondingly less dominant in their influence on other nations. Yet most of those nations do well and get along. I think it's worth asking the question, especially if you accept, as it is clear our founders did, the idea that power corrupts.
AndreisEntaro 4 months ago
@Seedofwinter In the end, would it not be best for states to have to option to choose what the best situation for them is? Even if one succeeded, no doubt they would want to return under new terms because of the benefits gained by being in the union. If this is not the case, then one must wonder, why any state should be part of the union if they would be better off on their own?
AndreisEntaro 4 months ago
@AndreisEntaro I do think that states should determine what works best for them, though. However, State governments suffer the same kind private, heavy-money, influence as our Federal government. Us New Yorkers want Universal Healthcare, yet we STILL can't get it. It's likewise for a few other states.
The Federal government should take action--like with healthcare-- when it is clear that the State governments are failing, and it's in the best interest of our people and Country.
Seedofwinter 4 months ago
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@Seedofwinter " However, State governments suffer the same kind private" -empirically it is harder to buy influence over thousands of local politicians than a few hundred and easier to fire a politicians at the local level where your vote counts more.
"Us New Yorkers want Universal Healthcare" Then why not do that in New York? Massachusetts did. Us Missourians generally would rather not have universal healthcare.
AndreisEntaro 4 months ago
@Seedofwinter If Universal healthcare is the way to go, you can actually demonstrate that by building a fantastic system in your state and telling everyone else how great it is. When others see that your system works better, we may be convinced to adopt that as well. Either by mandate from the fed or adoption by the states universal healthcare would happen, except by adoption we still allow experimentation elsewhere to see if someone else makes an even better system.
AndreisEntaro 4 months ago
@AndreisEntaro I think that's a fair proposal.
But it's just as hard to get such proposals passed in States as it is through the Federal government. Private interests lobby state governments as they lobby federal governments.
Seedofwinter 4 months ago
Secession from Britain and secession from the Union are two very different things. Another person spouting rhetoric that seems legitimate, but in actuality is full of fallacies! He is smart enough that he is dangerous.
journeyfreek 5 months ago
Look, if Texas wants to leave, leave. If you don't want to be a part of America anymore, then bye. We don't want you anyways.
vaibanez17 5 months ago
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i'd really love to know what the hell these deep fried obese shitkickin' rednecks are bitchin' about. believe you me texans if you want out of the u.s.a. NOBODY WILL SHED A FUCKING' TEAR! I for one will be kicking your ass out the god damn door! and take the bushes, ron paul, lyndon johnson, haliburton, enron, the tea party, your prison industrial complex and your right wing christian fanatics with ya!!!!!!!!!
ADIOS TEXAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you won't be missed!
doucher9 5 months ago
I pledge myself to uphold freedom all over this planet.
Freedom and Independence is the True American Dream.
And you can burn all your stupid flags.
They are no better than gangster colors.
Wake Up SHEEPLE.
The revolution is here.
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stevespell2 6 months ago
Texas v. White 74 U.S. 700, SCOTUS ruled in the late 1860s that Texas(or any other state) does not have the right to secede. What a liar Ron Paul is. I guess he hopes his constituents don't read SCOTUS rulings so they'll just believe whatever the hell he tells them to believe.
vaibanez17 6 months ago
@vaibanez17 Then you believe the Founding Fathers were wrong. The USA seceded from Britain.
Your words also dishonor the hundreds of thousands of dead Americans who died fighting to protect right-wing Southern secession movements such as South Korea or South Vietnam. Or more recently, South Sudan which the USA supported their secession.
But when it comes to our own? We become hypocrites, America's favorite pastime. Speak of peace, wage war. Talk of freedom, enact pat-downs and body scanners.
Cyrus255 5 months ago
@vaibanez17 The law of the oppressive state holds no sway over the seceding state. Thus your argument falls flat, a state will secede if it feels its in it best interest or its citizens will become rebels and outlaws fighting to secede their state from what they see as an oppressive central government. You can quote laws all you want. Also if you read that brief further you will see it has nothing to do with Seceding but more about cattle deals.
1ordequis 5 months ago
Even Ukraine has less debt than the USA how stupid. ha ha
babykevinxoxo 6 months ago
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14809rob 6 months ago
No matter what anyone says about Ron Paul, he keeps the dialog open and keeps people thinking. He's like a Libertarian version of Noam Chomsky. I hope the dollar doesn't crash.
GeorgieWise 6 months ago
"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." -First Paragraph, Declaration of Independence
RaoPaoer 6 months ago
Ron cuts through all the traditions and beliefs that we were told to believe in. Perhaps we should read our history books.
sjm1341 6 months ago
I have a great idea. Let the states that want to secede, secede and elect Ron Paul as our president.
0304angie 6 months ago
I really like like Ron Paul but on this topic not so much. More Americans died in the Civil War then in ALL of the wars we have fought combined. This is a total slap in the face to our ancestors who fought to form a more perfect union. Those Soviet era counties never seceded as the never accepted to be part of the Soviet Union in the first place. They were forced to.
Jeepster1959 6 months ago
How I wish Ron Paul were our president through the last two years; we would be enjoying the Paul Prosperity, rather than suffering a worsening Obama Depression.
Linguiphile 7 months ago
@Linguiphile Ron Paul would get shot like Kennedy did. Of course I would love to have a guy like Ron Paul as president, but congress needs to be on the same page. But the way things are, the "oligarcs" would kill this guy. The solution is us. Stop supporting the system, by avoiding anything "corporate". If we stop going to Burger King or Walmart. THEY WILL FUCKING COLLAPSE.
alyr315 6 months ago
Secession is NOT a new topic.
It's approximately a 40 year cycle.
blechhh666 7 months ago
so secede Texas nobody is stopping you. Or is it the fact that Texas is pussy and doesnt want to leave the coat tails of USA
jaroncreed 9 months ago
I love Ron Paul, but on this point, he's an idiot. To not want to be part of the United States of America any more, surely that's the definition of unamerican.
CreationistsAreDumb 9 months ago
I like Ron Paul. I believe that he is an honest politician and that is a very very very rare thing. I'm also a libertarian but I believe that government can make things better. I don't think Paul agrees?
cupmyplums 9 months ago
He always seems to impress me. He speaks with parrhesia, and it is refreshing.
ParrhesiaJoe 9 months ago
@ParrhesiaJoe parrhesia.......a word I had to look up. Thanks.
cupmyplums 9 months ago
@ParrhesiaJoe Its easy to be right , when you speak the truth :)
kargwain187 8 months ago
@kargwain187 Well said.
ParrhesiaJoe 8 months ago
@ParrhesiaJoe However at the risk of entering the realm of reality it should be said. Our lives and indeed society itself is the constuct of the weaks oppression by the strong. Ron paul, although well meaning and a good man, will not change that regardless of any action he takes in his life time. All those who a real societal change would benefit are either to stupid, to domesticated or to afraid to actually do whats neccasary. But hey, X facter is on so who cares >.>
kargwain187 8 months ago
@kargwain187 He is not the motive force here. We are. He will be a product of a larger change that is taking place right now.
We've never existed in a state where a critical mass of people are informed as to the specific ways they are robbed and cheated. This is the first time the media has lost control, and we WILL take advantage.
We will try to elect Dr. Paul. Apart from that, we will fix everything else. We are awake.
ParrhesiaJoe 8 months ago
@ParrhesiaJoe I wish you all the best my friend, i really do ... but what will you do when the elite class murder ron paul ? .. will protest on the street until you arent happy anymore. Maybe write to your congress .... the game is rigged friend and trust me , there isnt any fairness left in it. Ill wait and see how this turns out and i will hope to god you are right, My prediction .... He will be the first pres to be assisinated by "al quiada" and be the driving force for even more war
kargwain187 8 months ago
@kargwain187 lol :/ oh gawd i wish it were'nt so
Naketaa 8 months ago
Ron Paul is always correct!
stephenabm 9 months ago
what a dumbass.
coolcat3232 10 months ago
The more I research the federal government the angrier I get as a taxpayer.I'm voting for Ron Paul for President.
condemned13 11 months ago
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Check out my video. If you don't believe in secession, then you believe in slavery, for you are for enslaving people to a government that they want no part of:
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ErikLiberty 1 year ago
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it!
GoingConstitutional 1 year ago
dont tell americans they cant come and go as they please! we dont like it, if we wanna leave, well fight you .. if we wanna stay, well fight you...if we want your land well even fight you...dont intrude in an american's life, we come from a bloodline of people that dont like intrusions in theyr lives...i dont know about you more recently foreign bastards, but we old time americans dont like to fuck around with bigshots trying to tell us what to do...well fight damnit, ill fight you right now!
longfootbuddy 1 year ago
@longfootbuddy calm down fella, your not the only nation that likes a scrap
jonafromwales 1 year ago
@jonafromwales a little joking, a little truth, its all in good fun
longfootbuddy 1 year ago
@longfootbuddy Lol
jonafromwales 1 year ago
@longfootbuddy america comes from a isolationist libertarian peaceful defensive state not a manifest destiny warlike state go back to germany
libertarian93 1 year ago
@libertarian93 americans were people that didnt want fuckers telling them what to do...so like a good american, ill tell you to fuck off
longfootbuddy 1 year ago
@longfootbuddy we werent a nation that went around stompiing on other countries and good americans also debate issues respectfully not like a lower class british sailor.we told foreign countries to get out of sovereign states now we are telling people to let us into there sovereign state. we are the fucking british now and we have been since the fucking spanish american war
libertarian93 1 year ago
@libertarian93 americans once valued theyr individual liberty as sovereign people....not a sovereign state...sovereign people
longfootbuddy 1 year ago
@longfootbuddy yeah i know thtai am a firm beleiver in the rugged individual. but im not talking about liberty, im talking about your comment were you said if we want your land we'll fight you. no thats not america at all we werent about taking land that was after jackson when we adopted manifest destiny and it was a bad choice it planted the seeds for future wars that we shouldnt have been involved, in just like ww1 has caused all the wars since it
libertarian93 1 year ago
@libertarian93 my earlier comments were done half jokingly, like i said...i personally would never attack anyone simply because i wanted theyr land...sorry i havent handled your comments the way i shouldv... it happens occasionally... when you wright as many comments as i do on youtube, eventually youll mess up a couple
longfootbuddy 1 year ago
@longfootbuddy ok i didnt know that its hard to see sarcasm in the internet but now its hilarious. i think we probably agree on alot of issues and had a pointless arguement
libertarian93 1 year ago
@libertarian93 thats ok
longfootbuddy 1 year ago
american rebels came here because they didnt want to tolerate european assholes, they fought for theyr independace, they fought a civil war because the south didnt want to tolerate northern assholes from intruding on theyr lives, and they fought indians and spanish because they didnt want to tolerate assholes on the land they wanted... guess what, americans are rebels that dont like people intruding in theyr lives.. if you do like intrusion in your life, then your not a good american...
longfootbuddy 1 year ago
the hole thing could have been handle with out war. the south has the right to leave.. there reasoning was all wrong tho. they would have come begging for help sooner or later. i think slavery would have end to.. what cost more 1,000s of slaves to feed, house and in prison or a john deer? the north's industry would have beat out the south's old ways. the southerners with slaves were not doing a hole lot of inventing lol they spent to much time chasing slaves. American history is ugly
mrbiggreenman 1 year ago
@schoonzer1 Ron Paul was 100% right.... first thing need to be said is i hate any one forcing any to do ant thing (slavery is pure evil) but that said, what we learned in school is not even 1/2 of the story. go read about Lincoln. the civil war was not over slavery and Abe promised at first it wouldn't be. ending slavery was about north economic domination there were to many factors that caused the war to list. Abe was in favor of segregation. the hole persona of Abe is false
mrbiggreenman 1 year ago
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Paul needs to read the 16th Amendment about Fed. income taxes, and Constitution Law, like Texas v. White " It is difficult to convey the idea of indissoluble unity more clearly than by these words. What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?" Chief Judge Chase
The court found that Texas never did leave the Union, never had a legal merit to do so. It was against the US Constitution.
thatsmetoo 2 years ago
i love ron paul, but he's wrong to some extent. the south wanted to secede from the north to continue slavery, and were not permitted. it's only voluntary if you're willing to fight and die for it. btw, i'm glad the south lost, but freedom to do what one likes & ensuring basic human rights can be very different things.
schmoonzer1 2 years ago
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Thetruthishere11 2 years ago
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Thetruthishere11 2 years ago
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Explains taxes played a role.
Thetruthishere11 2 years ago
i'm sure taxes played a role, and since i hate unduly added taxes, i would complete understand that point.
schmoonzer1 2 years ago
Ron Paul is running for the presidency in 2012. He does not want Texas to seccede.
wendy3711 2 years ago
Texas wants to secede? GREAT. Good riddance. Can we get them to build a wall along their north, west, and east border? One request... could they take Louisiana with them? Maybe they could join up with Mexico and show them how an intolerant and corrupt legislature can still be successful. I know, let's all just cluster up in small groups of people who agree with each other. Then we don't need to tolerate diversity at all. We could be just like Europe has been for the past 500 years.
aqueousone 2 years ago
I really wish New England would reconsider that. I feel like we're coming on really bad times as a nation... so New England should become its own.
josda1000 2 years ago
If Texas ever secedes from the union over 80% of America will be in that state. WOW move over texans here I come before the rush. I want to be sure theres room for me!
donttelluseenme 2 years ago
Where'd you get those figures??? out of your anus I believe.
blacklite911 2 years ago
As a homeschool family we are reading the 5000 year leap. We are convinced that secession may be the only answer in this country where people are so polarized. I would love to have a conversation with some of our liberal family members, but we are not speaking the same language. If Texas goes that way we are moving the whole family there.
dailey4jesus 2 years ago
I'm live in Utah and if Texas secedes I'm going to move there, if they let me. I'll have to fill out the visa paperwork and stuff--I would'nt like to be an illegal alien. I wonder if Utah will secede too. We could change the name back the Deseret, the way it used to be. Either way I think that secession should be a valid argument that is taken seriously, it would be good for the US.
back2thefutre 2 years ago
So will I, I don't like Texas, but if it claims liberty to be its way of government then I would be to great to pass!
Dont let the lying media tell you otherwise!
Texas needs to succeed!
Re3volution 2 years ago
I live here in Texas, and I was very excited that Governor Perry was willing to talk about this in the face of all opposition. I have many friends who are all for the secession of Texas, and while I would rather the whole country be saved if it can, I would go for the Texas secession, too! I think there are a few other states, at least, that would go with us.
Ieyusa 2 years ago
I love listening to Ron Paul. Can whoever is making these videos please make the website tag smaller so I can read any captions on the original video?
JoeTravel 2 years ago 2
Yes more represenatives .
azteksk 2 years ago
I might be moving to Texas !!!
Max9507 2 years ago 2
No offense but if texas does this oil prices will be held hostage from the rest of the us and again George W. Bush will be in power again. I love Ron Paul minus his opinion on legalizing all drugs. Weed different story... Meth, crack, heroine, etc NO WAY! That would rock this nation at it's core and people would be running around doing drugs and taking out innocents with them. I don't want all my neighbors to have meth labs do you?
mobrandt112 2 years ago
mobrandt112: I just wanted to point out that Ron Paul isn't saying he wants to allow drugs all he wants to do is take the responsibility away from the Federal Government and let the State Governments take it over. The cost of our huge evergrowing government is one of the major things that is killing us.
JoeTravel 2 years ago 2
Regardless drugs are bad. Weed in my opinion isn't as bad as alcohol I can agree on that. Right now I don't think is the time to separate and break appart but the time to join together. IMO Bush needs to be brought to justice before I think anyone within the us would trust huge movements by Texas. Especially since a huge part of the global market failing is because of the huge drop in oil prices. 1/3 or 2/3 of our oil comes from Texas. We have to be careful as the board is being setup.
mobrandt112 2 years ago
Well no the neighbors wouldn't have meth labs because meth labs would become legal and thus sanitary like a medical lab. Remember when prohibition became legal?
Thats when booze stopped being produced in an outhouse and bootleggers went out of business. Meth labs andother dubious activities is a product of restriction.
Now I agree that you would have more junkies at first but I believe most people have enough common sense to know the shooting up is not good for you.
blacklite911 2 years ago
Uhh... no they wouldn't have enough common sense, junkies of meth will get highly addicted to it, I have seen families get ripped apart by it, men with kids and families to support get thrown in prison for half their lives, meth is evil, and it only corrupts, Texas could decriminalize things like Marijuana and focus our tax dollars on things like meth, it makes sense, a perfectly law abiding guy gets thrown in jail for a joint, WTF? meanwhile a guy on the street is selling meth to your kids.
UGLandrum 2 years ago
Yeah junkie will exist yes, just like alcoholics and everything else. My point is legalizing or not, meth is still tearing up families and whatnot. If people are gonna be methheads they will be methheads, no law can stop it, nor doesn't stop anyone from becoming one. And that is the point.
But the fact there is a law or not doesn't factor in the decision making when one becomes a meth head. And it is one's own personal decision making that prevents them from doing it, not the law.
blacklite911 2 years ago
Uh...ok....wtf are you even talking about? You basically just repeated me and the rest of your crap is a completely irrelevant to this subject you moron! You should admit yourself to a mental hospital, you are contradicting yourself with these moronically redundant posts of yours.
UGLandrum 2 years ago
Moonshiners never slowed down during the prohibition, no "dubious" activities like drugs are ever products of restriction, people do it for MONEY. These comments are products of your pathetic narrow-minded opinion. Which does not matter to anyone on YouTube. Get off the net, your embarrassing yourself on a international network site, get a life idiot.
UGLandrum 2 years ago
Are you drunk right now? I was replying to your first sentence which stated that they wouldn't have common sense. Which, I believe was directed toward my comment that said people would have common sense. To clearufy, I meant people in general would have common sense. So where were you disagreeing in the first place. I think it was a simple misinterpretation on your part which you in turn, went towards irrational name calling for no apparent reason. But thats what I get for being serious online.
blacklite911 2 years ago
Very well spoken. I always love listening to him!
aflute0509 2 years ago 2
Dr. Ron Paul, YOU ARE MY PRESIDENT!!!!
Take Care...
luxuryglow 2 years ago 35
@luxuryglow I SECOND THAT~!!! Can it be possible that maybe there's "ONE" honest politician ?? Please don't disappoint us~!!!
DavidDriftwood 9 months ago
@luxuryglow time to get back to work :)
iamundergrace 6 months ago
Awesome video!!!
surfingthechaos 2 years ago 11
maybe that russian who talked about amerikkka's break up wasn't too far off?...or quite possible the "pledge of dis-allegiance" needs a remix?....lol
personkid20 2 years ago
We need to revamp the whole federal government...more representatives less slavery!
OmarThePug 2 years ago 2
Ron Paul makes so much sense it's scary!!! )))
eee8000 2 years ago 5