A wave of secession petitions flooded the White House website as all 50 states said they want to secede, but the city of Austin is protesting the petition. Austin filed its own petitions to secede from Texas and to remain a part of the United States if Texas does secede.
Thousands of Americans from every state have signed petitions to secede from the United States following President Obama's re-election. The petitions have flooded the "We the People" site which gives "all Americans a way to engage their government on the issues that matter to them."
According to the site, "If a petition meets the signature threshold, it will be reviewed by the Administration and we will issue a response."Under this threshold, a petition needs 25,000 signatures in 30 days.The Texas petition has received over 107,000 signatures, meaning the Obama administration will have to address the issue.
However, Austin wants to part of it. The city started its own petition to the White House to "Peacefully grant the city of Austin Texas to withdraw from the state of Texas & remain part of the United States." The city is protesting Texas' secession petition.
Austin's petition reads:
"Austin Texas continues to suffer difficulties stemming from the lack of civil, religious, and political freedoms imposed upon the city by less liberally minded Texans. It is entirely feasible for Austin to operate as its own state, within the United States, in the event that Texas is successful in the current bid to secede. It is important for Austin to remain in the union as to do so would protect it's citizens' standard of living and re-secure their rights and liberties in accordance with the original ideas and beliefs of our founding fathers.
We would also like to annex Dublin Texas, Lockhart Texas, & Shiner Texas."
The petition has already gained 6,800 signatures and has until December 12 to reach the threshold. At the rate that signatures have been building, the city will likely reach it within a few days.
Austin isn't the only one to protest. Several petitions in protests of the secession petitions have also appeared on the site. One is to "Strip the Citizenship from Everyone who Signed a Petition to Secede and Exile Them." Another is to "Force all states to pay their portion of the national debt before they can secede from the union."
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