Treason?

The Civil War took the lives of thousands of Americans. Abraham Lincoln took the chance of a Civil War in order to keep the Union together and now Governor Rick Perry of Texas is making comments about possibly seceding.

In a speech, where he was trying to stir up the right wing extremist he said that "the federal government has become oppressive, oppressive in size, and oppressive in intrusion in the lives of citizens." He is not happy with how the federal government is using our tax money, even though citizens in Texas receive 88 percent back in tax returns, which is more than other states. What is ironic about this, is that as soon as the Swine Flu started moving towards Texas, Perry decided that he needed federal assistance. This happened after he stated, " no longer are we going to accept their oppressive hand in Texas."

Rick Perry has become a sort of embarrassment, challenging the federal government about taxes while ignoring the Texas Constitution, which does not grant the state the right to secede from the country. He believes that he is sending a "clear message" that "we won't stand for our pockets to be picked, our children's future to be mortgaged and our rights to be taken away." He says, "we will not be ignored." Obviously, he is not being ignored, with everyone commenting on how ludicrous and extreme his idea of seceding is.

The ideas that Rick Perry is putting out there is similar to the ideas of Rick McLaren, who led a separatist group, which ended up in violence. Hopefully, something like that does not form out of Rick Perry's ideas. It's known that not everyone agrees with what our federal government is doing, but seceding is not the answer. If anything our states need to work together to make things better. And after our new presidential election, we should wait and see how Obama does with fixing things.