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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Should Pennsylvania Secede from the United States?

Petition on official White House website, We The People, has more than 5,000 signatures so far.

The President won a decisive victory but there are still many disgruntled Americans who are not happy with the path Barack Obama has chosen and they want their home states to secede. Petitions from more than 30 states have been posted on the White House's 'We The People' website - where individuals can post petitions and voice concerns. If a petition gets more than 25,000 electronic signatures then the White House will respond. A petition for Pennsylvania reads: "Peacefully grant the State of Pennsylvania to withdraw from the United States of America and create a NEW government." On Tuesday morning, Nov. 13 at 11 p.m. there were 5,783 signatures. A second, similarly worded Pennsylvania secession petition has nearly 10,000 signatures. Texas…

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Stan Zukowski

1:34 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013

You've made our point. Your cries of civil war are exactly why we don't want people like you to have automatic weapons. Frankly, I'm not worried about mentally ill people getting automatic weapons. I'm worried about gun nuts who pretend they're patriots stockpiling weapons for some civil war they've been dreaming about so they can use all those guns.   more ›

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