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WND.com
Voter
frustration with government
hits critical mass
Pent-up anger over leaders' actions
produces talk of secession
While
the move by residents in
several Colorado counties to secede from the state has been described
as
frustration over recent moves by the legislature in Denver, a retired
political
scientist and author says the move actually is a symptom of a much
larger
undercurrent of frustration that Republicans are in a prime position to
tap
into in 2014 and beyond.
“What
is happening in Colorado is a
little bit different than what we have seen elsewhere,” Charles Dunn a
retired
political scientist with Regent University said. “What we’re seeing is
a
manifestation of the frustration and distrust by the people in Weld
County who
are angry at what their state government and leaders are doing and this
has
caused them to be distrustful of them.”
Immediately
following the
reelection of Barack Obama in 2012 petitions from every state began
appearing
on the White House’s “We the People” website respectfully asking for
permission
to be allowed to secede from the union.
The
Louisiana petition, which was
the first to appear on the site, quoted from the Declaration of
Independence:
“‘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.’”
The
petition quickly reached the
25,000 signature threshold for generating a White House response and
was
subsequently followed by petitions from the remaining states. The
movement was
ridiculed in the mainstream media and by liberal groups who expressed
vitriol
for the peaceful requests. One counter-petition demanded the White
House deport
everyone who signed a petition.
The
administration was finally
forced to respond to the numerous requests, in a statement that
included a
promotion for Obama’s actions, by stating that the founding fathers
“did not
provide a way to walk away” from the union...
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