Finally, Someone Of Import Said the “S” Word
Late post for me, but take a quick peek at this article from the Dallas News. Texas governor Rick Perry, in a presser following his appearance at a Tea Party, suggested without saying that secession could possibly be one course of action taken by his state. Finally, someone in a position of authority has sort of broken the ice.
Let me say that I don’t favour secession as an easy solution to our current divisiveness. I think the union of states is important and worth preserving. I also think that our founding fathers left us in a quandary. They told us in our Declaration of Independence that:
“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.”
But then they drafted a Constitution which failed to provide any means for the various parties of the union to dissolve what was created and start anew. In today’s parlance, they failed to provide a reset button. I understand all of the reasons why that might be, and yet, as brilliant and even prescient as they were in creating the documents which have guided this country well for over 200 years, they missed that one possibility - the need for a reset.
Anyway, my point in reporting this story is just to note that this is the first time in my memory in which a recognised, stable and respected public figure has broached the topic of secession in anything but an educational manner.
