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Facts:

-https://suntzusaid.com/

-https://www.britannica.com/event/American-Civil-War

-https://hqudc.org/objectives/

-http://duvcw.org/research.html

-http://civilwar.si.edu/slavery_intro.html

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o__ZZav-T00

-https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/

-https://texassecede.com/faq.php

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._White

-https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep074/usrep074700/usrep074700.pdf

OPED-Warning

Ok, phew, this is going to be a tough one and probably label me as a…well anything the left is saying now and days, then garner a little hatred from the right as well. Hell, if you like Tim Pool you’re going to end up not liking me, maybe. So here goes nothing! So, there’s been a lot of talk about a lot of things lately. One of the things that grabs my attention is the fact that there’s talk about secession from the union by Texas.

That’s insane! Can they actually do that? I thought there was laws against that now, especially after the civil war! Yeah, well your friendly neighborhood Libertarian Barbarian here thought the same thing here. I grew up moving around, when I was younger, but it was mainly in the Midwest…and well funnily enough Texas at one point.

So, I went end on end searching for the truth of anything being able to happen like this. The little bit that I did live in Texas I found out something funny, it is actually a legend over there that they can still secede from the U.S. if they wanted to. I called bullshit on that while I was down there, then went on with my life. I’m 32 years old and I never once thought that we’d have a day where we could see that type of shit going on. I mean they made it illegal in the when ever the hell the civil war was solved, right?

Well first I had to sit there and think outside of the box because every answer I got was a flat-out no. So, I went ahead and asked a couple of questions.

1)-What WAS the United States?

2)-Could the federal government tell a state no?

3)-How the hell would this cause a civil war? And what would that look like?

For the first one, that’s actually more complicated than any single regular run of the mill American can really answer. Stay with me now, it’s big brain energy time. States if you really look at it are really sincerely just countries all in their own. I mean for christ’s sake we sit there and talk about all the states of the union, and then go on to talk about in high school about the “Nation States” of Greece when Plato was a thing. It’s not that hard of a logical conclusion to say that we’re really just an alliance of countries that have a hierarchical government to make sure we all agree.

We got a good example of that right now. So, no shit, Europe right now has the “European Union”. They’ve got a lot of countries Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, Greece, Ireland, so on and so forth and the “European Union” is there to make sure that they all have an agreement to supplies, money…ahem the Euro…and generally get along with each other. Oh, for fucks sake that sounds oddly familiar doesn’t it? That’s pretty much the same thing that we’ve got going on over here.

Yeah, I’ve got number two for ya now. Could Texas leave the union? Well, these sneaky little bastards when they adopted their current state constitution in 1876 made sure to put in there; “Texas is a free and Independent State, and the maintenance of our free institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend on the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States.” That in 1800’s gobbledy goop basically is saying that; “Hey were a state only until we, or someone else gets screwed over on their U.S. constitutional rights.” They also made sure to not put the fact that they answer to congress or the president or the supreme court in their constitution if it comes down to it.

In essence they only really answer to the constitution. If that’s violated, then they don’t have to answer to the rules that violate it. The people that are all for, trust me there’s a website for it, are stating a case for it as well, Texas V. White. Basically, it was a dispute over some post-civil-war bonds and debts that Texas owed the union. What the hell ever on that one. The interesting part is that the whole lawsuit states that they owed it because they were apart of the union at that time, BUT then the president at the time Ulysses S. Grant pretty much stated that they weren’t apart of the union they were apart of the confederacy.

You know I can’t shrug hard enough for the amount of stupidity that could bring. So yeah, I guess, in essence if Texas wanted to yeet itself right the hell outta here it could. It doesn’t explicitly state that in the state constitution…it more or less hints that it could, and the federal government didn’t help that matter at all either. “But Mr. Barbarian,” you might say “if the European Union is like us, they don’t have anyone leaving. Then doesn’t that mean in todays day and age that Texas can’t leave?” No, conspicuously place quotation that is an obvious plot device, it does. The European Union, fuck it E.U. cause that’s a damn mouthful, actually has that shit going on right now. It’s commonly referred to as “Brexit”.

Right now, as we speak, probably around nine days after posting this, Great Britain is going to leave the E.U. because over there Greece has actually been bringing their economy to the gutter. Of course, the other countries threw a fit, and as I write this, the last report I saw is their taking out their own retaliation of sorts stating that Great Britain basically has a new strand of covid-19…which for them amounts to keeping all the money, people, supplies, and food out of a small little island nation. Gee, that sounds swell. Which if you ask me…kind of sounds like what would happen to Texas if they told the rest of the country to go fuck itself, you guys aren’t holding up your end of the bargain.

Now for a very lengthy and fun number three. In my opinion, ahem OPED-WARNING time, that could lead to a lot of things. I did not look all the state constitutions…sorry there’s fifty and I’m not going to sit there and do all that research, I have shit to do…like ranting and raving on the internet. But I’m fairly certain that it could be an encouragement for other states to do that. I mean hell its already happened before why the hell couldn’t it happen again? I mean one way or another the main tagline for 74 million people is that “You’re a nazi. You’re the fake news. You’re a conspiracy theorist. You’re the one that’s wrong! Fuck you just accept it!” that isn’t exactly conducive to a healthy environment for anyone. Occam’s razor, if you don’t know what that is, basically says the path of least resistance is usually the answer. Yeah, know I don’t think being a dick to 74 million people then telling them that they have to listen to you is necessarily a good idea.

Will it happen? Fuck if I know, all I can tell you is that all signs point to-they can if they want to. But one thing I do know is that if it does spark a second civil war for the U.S. then it aint gonna be your grandpappy’s civil war. For one, we have the internet, information is going to spread far and wide really god damned quick. Another thing is, it probably won’t be like a normally split like we had back in the day, there probably will be a cut off, of your internet services if you live in one of those states. I’m pretty sure the media is going to be a thing too, misinformation superhighway…as we already know.

Then there’s the whole military question. So, this one is complicated as hell. But the main thing that you have to ask is “Who is the military supposed to follow?” Technically no one in all sincerity. I, as a veteran, can attest to the fact that we don’t swear an oath to the president, congress, or the supreme court. We, as enlisted and commissioned, members of the military swear an oath to uphold the constitution of the United States of America, against all enemies foreign and domestic. So, if you ask me personally that opens the flood gates wide.

There’s another issue with this whole military thing. The representation of the United States as a whole that I can think of, is the military itself. Literally all walks of life, including immigrants seeking citizenship here, are in the armed services. So, you’ll probably have loyalists to what was the United States, and then those in the military that will break away for the cause of this…new nation, country? What ever the hell you want to call it. During the first civil war it wasn’t that much of a problem because the Confederacy pretty much had its own military already set up. Right now, we kind of have that with the National Guard. I know people kind of equate it to the reserves but trust me they’re different. The National Guard is actually state funded and actually has to listen to the Governor of each state, whereas the reserves are federal. So technically you could say that these states already have their own military. No to mention militia’s…I’m not getting in to that one.

The part that I’m going to stress though is Sun Tzu. I did a little bit of digging on his book “The Art of War”. I know, I know you’ve already heard of it. But there’s something to say about practicality here. Most of those who are on the left, radical or not, normally are what I would call “book smart”. Yes, they’ll be able to quote it all day long, they’ll know what to apply these things that Sun Tzu talks about like his views on the five constant factors for shit you gotta think about in the field, or the seven considerations of a battle/war forecast. Oh, they know it, the only issue is that even though they read the book and think that they’re going to win anything and everything because they do, they can’t apply it properly.

I grew up, for the most part, in South Chicago. It’s nitty and gritty plus a little shitty. Most of the things that Sun Tzu talks about are kind of an everyday part of life. I didn’t have to read a book about it, I had to live life in order to learn it. All if not most of the people that are crying out that “this is bullshit” right now are pretty much the same as me. Blue collar, every day is a struggle, life sucks and is dangerous types. Not a single person I can think of right now got a scholarship, went to college, or even trade school. It was mostly “I don’t like having to do this, but I have to if I want to live” shit. To me those who are the proprietors of all the shit that we need to accept and shut up about are elites that did all the opposite of what I just said and have an ere of arrogance about them as well. And any fellow veteran/active-duty service member will tell you that arrogance gets you killed. Why didn’t I just state that in my freaking notes…my hands still cramped from that little Chinese bastard.

So, can Texas secede from the U.S.? Yeah, actually they can, as a matter of fact, if they do it might encourage other states to do it as well. Would the civil war look the same as it did a hundred some odd years ago? Hell, no it wouldn’t, it would be bloody, technologically weird and stupid, and there would be a lot of hate amongst U.S. citizens for a long time. Would I suggest it? Well, I’m kind of hung on the fence on that one. I’m a libertarian, and I’ve said that plenty before, but the thing is I can’t tell a whole state what to do. I can say that if they think it’s the right thing to do, and it’s the best for them, fuck yeah go for it! But there’s something to be said about who we are as a nation…and I’m sorry but a lot of who we were and a lot of who we are now is as different as night and day. I personally wouldn’t mind seeing it happen…if it didn’t come with bloodshed. I can also tell you this dear reader, if anyone oppresses you, you have absolutely every right to stop that oppression…and I think that’s what could happen with Texas.
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