Spectre, love your posts from the past month or two, keep up the Texas secession talk . It is amazing how much the topic of Texas seceding has picked up even on campus lately, a place I would consider largely liberal. Also I would love a larger version of your sig if you have one.
But on a less fun note, do all of your threads have to devolve into arguments about how much California sucks. Yes I know it is mostly Californians who feel the need to argue with you, but I do find it a tad repetitive.
If the Californians stop attacking, I'll stop shooting them to doll-ribbons.
As for the sig, I made it out of text and a logo from
www.texassecede.com. If I have time, I'll see about making up a bigger one. How large would you like it?
I think Mexico would dissolve Texas at first ear shot of hearing about something like this. How anxious would the US Government be to bail out Texas when Mexico comes-a-crawling for those resources so highly acclaimed. How big of a militia can Texas build to guard its borders? I admit, I don't know much about the topic and I haven't read anything but most of the first page of this thread but this topic has been discussed in the public lately in my area.
Nope. Mexico is busy right now. In case you hadn't heard, Mexico is being wracked by gang warfare and neither the Mexican police or the Mexican army can do anything about it. Gangs raid police stations and military arsenals with ease and impunity, and crime is rampant everywhere down there.
Mexico can't even solve its own problems, and you expect it to be able to conquer a state whose *civilians* alone outgun it, whose citizens own frigging TANKS and who has people whose idea of fun on the weekends is to go out and shoot their own private artillery? Not to mention all the veterans that retire here.... If the need were obvious, we could mount a million man army in twenty-four hours. You also forget we have a fairly decent sized little military under the command of the state governor, and if worst comes to worst,
we have nukes. Mexico doesn't.
Not going to happen, Yankee.
While you're at it, you might want to consider this. When Houston and the Texas Coast was going to be hit by Hurricane Rita, we were told the old saw about "there's going to be thousands of dead, nobody could even begin to evacuate an American metropolitan area in less than two weeks" - you know, the same excuse that city planners all over the country use for why they don't have evacuation plans in case of an emergency. Since, as they believed, nobody would be able to evacuate the entire city in time, there was no point in planning for it. Same excuse they used to give the idiots in Louisiana a pass on their horrible handling of Katrina, as a matter of fact.
We not only evacuated Houston, we evacuated all of the Gulf Coast and got everyone
who wanted to go out of harms way.
Five million people. Seventy two hours. Everyone who wanted to go was evacuated or evacuated themselves. Nobody who wanted to go was left behind.
The current record for human evacuation, by far, is held by Texas. The largest human evacuation in history, the one everyone said would never happen. The one they ridiculed Texas for planning for since 1901.
"They" told us it was impossible.
We did it anyway.
Think about that.
