RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 01/02/19> The Texas Advantage… we are a Republic.
Well sir, I am aware of the history of Tejas and Texas. I just happen to have on my immediate left right this instant a quote from a famous Texan, Mr. David Crockett. " You all may go to Hell and I will go to Texas." That was delivered on the floor of the US House of Representatives as part of his farewell speech. I call him a Texan, not because he was born there, but because he died there fighting for the Republic.
Did you know that he was the odds on favorite to become the next President of the United States until Andy Jackson (another sad president) wrecked his chances because of his belief in property rights?
Arizona's claim to sovereignty is tied to the California Republic and the land that much of Arizona sits on. At the end of the war with Mexico the State of Alta California became a Republic for a short amount of time. There in lies the claim.
Alas for me, I happen to live in the Gadsen Purchase which was brokered by the US and IS part of the US aside from the sovereignty claim. I'm a couple miles south of that line...
Anyway, I am aware of the Republic of Texas and once considered moving there mostly because of it. You all are probably our last, best hope.
I raise my glass (or coffee cup, more correctly) to the Republic.
Yes, if I remember correctly Kalifornia was a republic for all of twenty or thrity days, something like that, big whoop.
We will keep plodding along trying to get the World Court in the Hague to take up our petition on hearing and get the US to abide the terms of the treaty. If we can get that to happen, there is no need to go back to being an independent sovereign nation. People in other states need to realize that we are actually working for THEM in the quest as well as ourselves, but you will never hear that in the media. They just try to portray us as people who are "lawless cowboys".
Good luck with that. The Sioux tribe has had a petition before the World Court right from the start to get the US to abide by the Laramie Treaty of 1868. They also refused payment for the Black Hills in the 1880s and that fund is unclaimed today and worth billions. They won't EVER take it.
There was a treaty for Alta California, too. But those folks are mostly willing to let you guys do the fighting... Because frankly, your claim is much better. But, in theory, almost all of the Republic of Texas (historic border) and all the rest of New Mexico and Arizona along with some of Nevada and Colorado would be affected. State of California abrogated their rights to claim statehood...
We do need some luck, and it is an uphill battle. The thing it does do is draw attention to the fact the US government is not operating as the Republic it was conceived as, if it were this whole country would be in a lot better shape.
Of course that would mean the politicians couldn't continue to screw us left and right and so they would put a big fight up over them making to follow the constitution.
It's a good fight and worthy. My aunt had 100 silver rounds from the Lakota Project when she died. She had quite a little silver she had acquired, and hired me to inventory it late in her life. That wasn't official tribal coinage, but was a native project in support of the Laramie Treaty fight. I have no idea if my cousins kept or sold that silver...
Those would probably be worth a nice chunk of change right now.