Citizens in more than 30 American states have started petitions to secede their state from the U.S. government. The petitions can be found on the White House website, under a segment called “We the People.”
The section of the website was added by the Obama administration and said any petition gaining 25,000 signatures in 30 days will be reviewed and responed to by the government.
Several petitions have already met this requirement after being submitted only a few days, including Texas with more than 100,000 signatures, Louisiana with more than 33,000 signatures, Florida with more than 29,000, Georgia with more than 28,000, Alabama with more than 27,000, Tennessee with more than 27,000 and North Carolina with more than 26,000.
States that are less than 10,000 signatures away the requirement consist of South Carolina, Arkansas, Colorado, Arizona, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Missouri.
The White House website said, “The right to petition your government is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. ‘We the People’ provides a new way to petition the Obama administration to take action on a range of important issues facing our country.”
Petitions to strip state secession petitioners of their U.S. Citizenships have also been gaining momentum.
“Deport everyone that signed a petition to withdraw their state from the United States of America,” read a petition with more than 16,000 signatures.
Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s press secretary Catherine Frazier responded to the Texas secession petition in an email sent to the Dallas News.
“We cannot allow Washington’s tax and spend, one-size-fits-all mindset to jeopardize our children’s future, undermine our personal liberties and drive our nation down a dangerous path to greater dependence of government,” she wrote.
