Citizens in all 50 states sign petitions to secede from United States



As of 3:00 a.m. Pacific time Wednesday morning, hundreds of thousands of citizens from all 50 states have signed petitions at the White House We the People website seeking permission to secede from the United States, the Daily Caller reported.
According to the Daily Caller, over 675,000 digital signatures have appeared on "69 separate secession petitions covering all 50 states."

Petitions from seven states have exceeded the 25,000-signature threshold for White House action, with Texas leading the pack at over 94,000 signatures.
The first petition, started by "Michael E." of Slidell, La., asking permission for Louisiana to secede, has over 32,000 signatures.
Petitions covering Alabama, Florida,Georgia, North Carolina and Tennesseehave also crossed the required threshold for White House action.
A spokesman for Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Tuesday the governor does not support the idea of secession.
“Gov. Perry believes in the greatness of our Union and nothing should be done to change it. But he also shares the frustrations many Americans have with our federal government,” a statement said.
In response to the requests for secession, a petition calling for the exile and deportation of those who signed the secession petitions appeared, and another petition wants to strip citizenship rights from those who signed petitions to help states secede, the Daily Caller added.
Residents in three Texas cities, Houston, Austin and El Paso, have signed petitions asking to secede from Texas if Texas secedes from the Union.
The Houston petition says that "those asking for secession of the state of Texas are mentally deficient and do not want them representing us."
"We would like more education in our state to eradicate their disease," the petition adds. As of this writing the petition has only 41 signatures.
But even if petitions from all 50 states reach the 25,000-signature threshold within the 30-day time limit, the President cannot grant the request.
Nevertheless, the signatures show the deep split that remains in the country after one of the most acrimonious elections in modern times.
It is not the first time that those who lost an election called for secession.
William A. Jacobson, associate clinical professor at Cornell Law School, reminded readers of his blog that in 2004, liberals like MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell called for blue states to secede from the Union.
"Speaking on 'The McLaughlin Group' the weekend after George W. Bush’s victory, panelist Lawrence O’Donnell, a former Democratic Senate staffer, noted that blue states subsidize the red ones with their tax dollars, and said, 'The big problem the country now has, which is going to produce a serious discussion of secession over the next 20 years, is that the segment of the country that pays for the federal government is now being governed by the people who don’t pay for the federal government,'” Salon reported in 2004.
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