The past as prelude?

"The Principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form."
-- Jefferson Davis, President, Confederate States of America

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"Texas is a unique place. When we came into the union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that," Perry said. "My hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention. We've got a great union. There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, who knows what may come of that." - Rick Perry, Governor of Texas

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Oklahoma City - State lawmakers have passed a resolution that claims the state's sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. It comes a day after Texas made headlines for doing the same thing.

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The state House OK’d a resolution Tuesday affirming North Dakota’s rights as a sovereign state after a debate that one member compared to pre-Civil War secessionist talk.

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It wasn’t quite the firing on Fort Sumter that launched the Civil War. But on April 1, your Georgia Senate did threaten by a vote of 43-1 to secede from and even disband the United States. It was not an April Fool’s joke... the resolution states that if Congress, the president or federal courts take any action that exceeds their constitutional powers, the Constitution is rendered null and void and the United States of America is officially disbanded.

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About 300 people turned out for a 2005 secession convention in the Statehouse, and plans for a second one are in the works. A poll this year by the University of Vermont's Center for Rural Studies found that 13 percent of those surveyed support secession, up from 8 percent a year before.

"The argument for secession is that the U.S. has become an empire that is essentially ungovernable — it's too big, it's too corrupt and it no longer serves the needs of its citizens," said Rob Williams, editor of Vermont Commons, a quarterly newspaper dedicated to secession.

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I'd have to say a lot of people seem to agree with part or all of that last statement. I hope bullhorns are enough to get the message across to those who are running our future off a cliff. Because if it isn't, there are going to be a lot of people scratching their heads and saying "OK, we tea partied... now what?" God help us all if we end up there.