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Comments :: Petition drive launched to split NC from US

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These folks are only declaring their ignorance. And dare I say racism?..Never before has there been such an extreme negative response to a president. If Rando & his buddies in the country weren't emotional reactionaries, they'd understand that ALL government is a group of people trying to make decisions, which is always imperfect-unless they want a dictatorship. These people are egomaniacs. Do they think they have any ideas that no one else has thought of?? Look at the governments around the globe...which one works better than ours?

Rando do you even know what socialism is?? That word is always introduced into the American political discourse by repuglicans to scare people. Quit pouting & whining & put your energy into improving what you're unhappy about. OR, even better, LEAVE NC & the US. You're in the minority-y'all go to some other land and set up your little happy government. And leave your citizenship at the door when you go-the rest of us don't want you back. Really-please go.

Randy Dye, renounce your citizenship and get out of the USA! You are in the minority here, so leave. You do NOT speak for me or thousands of others from NC. Anyone that signs that treasonous petition should be stripped of all rights and be forced out of this country. Good Luck finding another country to take a traitor. Maybe Somalia or Iran would work for you. Good riddance!

I just want to make it very clear, if it isn't already that Randy Dye does NOT speak for the majority of voters in Chatham County nor, clearly for a significant number of voters in North Carolina, i.e. the ones who voted to reelect the President and Vice-President. Consequently, if he and like minded people wish to leave the U.S. I doubt few will stop them. I, however, like it in North Carolina and we're not going anywhere.

As the founding fathers of the United States of America made clear in the Declaration of Independence in 1776: “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” “…Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and institute new Government…”

NC’s Secession Petition Reaches Goal of over 25,000 Signatures & Climbing…White House Must Respond!!

http://randysrightiii.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/ncs-secession-petition-reaches-goal-of-over-25000-signatures-climbing-white-house-must-respond/

Go Randy!!!!

Geez people, it just groups of righties tyring to get attention, and you lefties are giving them all the attention the "think" they need...besides, if Romney had won, what type of stupid antics would some of the lefties come up with?? Time to stop with the whining on both sides and at least try to work together to fix the mess Bush and Obama have led us to...

"I say anyone that signed those petitions should be federally charged with treason. Just because you put the word "peacefully" followed by withdrawing from the union fail to excuse from an act of treason because violence will surely occur sooner or later. "

Consider the sources of these actions. Sore losers. All of them. 4 years ago, it was the Tea Party. Now it is this.

Just a bunch of folks who CANNOT accept that they are in the minority, that folks don't agree with them.

I wish they could leave, honestly. Tired of all their silly whining. They already have a state run media network, TV and Radio.

Take off...bye...don't let the door hit you in the back.

You know, here is something interesting. More D candidates received popular votes in NC for Congress than R candidates.

Yet, because of "redisticting", there will be 9 or 10 R congressmen from NC.

Where is the outrage from the R's on that split? Redistricing doesn't work, right????

I say anyone that signed those petitions should be federally charged with treason. Just because you put the word "peacefully" followed by withdrawing from the union fail to excuse from an act of treason because violence will surely occur sooner or later.

I am deeply disappointed in 'so called' American citizens that want to muster up division in our nation - especially during the veterans day holidays. If you are not happy with your choices of freedom in America, then quietly pursue your happiness elsewhere in the world.

Instead of complaining about division in politics. Take a good look around at what we as a nation are doing to each other. If we wont work together towards a common good, then that is a fear we must learn to overcome. Im sure countries such as China, North Korea, Cuba or Iran are hoping that we begin a civil war here in America. Such an act or mention of division on our soil will certainly hurt our chances at promoting freedom and unity to the world.

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