Texas judge warns of possible ‘civil war’ if President Obama

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...and ban them from eBay.

Lubbock makes Texas seem leftist.

In a hundred miles by a hundred miles, 10,000 square miles, there are less than 10,000 people.

The issue is raising taxes, and everyone is against that.

The threat of a UN invasion is very real after a few weeks spent in the West Texas Sun.

Great idea! I'll get right on it...

If they do invade, you can expect them to go trophy hunting for blue helmets to mount alongside their deer heads.

Can't we just give Tejas back to Mexico? After all it was theirs first.

First transport Jim Hightower out of there, along with Robert E. Howard's body. Then I doubt the Republicans would ever win an election again.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I live in Houston. 'nuff said.

Do you think they'd require a hunting license for that?

No hunting license since that might be construed as a form of gun control.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Hunting Licenses regulate the kills, not the weapons. They apply to bow and arrow and cross-bow hunting as well.

ruveyn

Not gun control. Conservation. Most "gun nuts" I know generally still have a good sense of sportsmanship and respect for game. Quite a few "go hunting," which just means they sit in a tree all day and just happen to have a gun at their side. All these guys really want to do is get away from their wives for a day, unwind, and MAYBE see if there are any deer out in their favorite hunting spot. Often they won't kill the deer because they don't feel like going to the trouble of cleaning the carcass.

Animals that occur in high numbers, on the other hand, either aren't in danger of extinction or they actual pose an environmental hazard or are a nuisance. Where I grew up, it's illegal to trap beavers for collecting and selling pelts. It is NOT, however, illegal to set traps for the purpose of preventing floods in low-lying areas, particularly when creek flooding can potentially damage crops. UN soldiers would pose a unique threat to a newly emancipated nation: They can shoot back.

No, burn the steak, then undercook the potato. Make sure the iced tea has only one cube of ice in it.

Why should those wield curses at the stake, be punished?

ruveyn

Inner Yoda chanelling are you?

If Texas were to secede from the union, here's what its laws could actually look like:

- Stiff mandatory minimum sentences for all kinds of "crimes" including marijuana smoking - possibly even another attempt to ban alcohol
- The age of consent is raised to 21, most people start having sex at the age of 13, 10% of people are registered as sex offenders, and 99% of registered sex offenders in the state are registered for having sex with 18-20 year old boyfriends/girlfriends when they were 21-25.
- All prison is privatized and for-profit, and there is even more speculative prison building than there is now. Prison is motivated completely by getting more "business" (prisoners.)
- The kind of "laissez-faire" for corporations they had at the close of the 19th century
- Corporations are considered ABOVE people representation-wise
- Zero laws regarding how much one person, or a group of people, or a corporation, can give to polititicians or even flat-out say is contigent on voting for/against a particular bill. Basically, full-on legalized bribery.
- Zero gun laws. Anyone can just walk right into a gun shop and buy an AK-47 in 5 minutes. Then they'll wonder why there are so many shootings with those weapons...
- Abortion is illegal, even in cases of rape and incest. Both rape and incest will be rampant, but prosecutors will be more interested in getting the statutory, loving "rapists" to pump up their conviction numbers, thereby making actual rape all but legal.
- Employers can freely discriminate based on any disability, sexual orientation, gender and even race, and stores can refuse service to anyone for any or no reason. They'll be socialized into doing so even when it COSTS them money.

Here's what the majority of people could actually be like:
- Almost no moral compass - their "moral compass" will consist of blindly obeying the Bible, literally, and whatever laws they pass in the interest of huge corporations. Basically Asperger's-like rigid rule following, minus whether the rules actually make any sense.
- People will accept 50% unemployment, 0.1% of the people making 90% of the money and being fired for no reason (and branded for life with it) as "just the way it is." They'll even vote for it to continue!
- People will get behind tougher and tougher criminal statutes, not even realizing that they themselves routinely commit the "crimes" and could be next to go to prison.
- Racism, sexism and heterosexism are all socially acceptable.
- And worst of all, they'll have zero tolerance for anyone who learns at all differently than "most people" learn!! They'll see intelligence as one-dimensional.

That's about the extreme end of what I think could actually happen... I'm not claiming that Romney or even the current governor of Texas wants all that, but this could actually become politically possible there if Texas were its own country, free from the influence of the other 49 states... not to mention those a bit more sane are likely to "vote with their feet" and move to the remaining 49 united states of America.