Last week’s elections certainly were controversial for many
people across the United
States. But it seems that with the end of the election,
unrest is still not settling. In fact,
people are quite loudly speaking up to make a point that
they are unhappy with the
current state of things.
Recent reports indicate that there are petitions in 19
states requesting to secede from
the union and govern themselves. And though a petition can
be filed by any one person,
the amount of signatures on some petitions is a strong indicator
of just how deep
divisions are in the United States.
But to even be considered by the administration, a petition
needs to reach 25,000
signatures within 30 days of filing the original request.
Some petitions are merely
hundreds of signatures, hardly an indicator of widespread
unrest. But others number in
the thousands. Texas has over 30,000 signatures, four
thousand over what it needed to
be considered. Frighteningly close behind is Louisiana with
nearly 17,000.
States that have requested to secede from the union to form
their own new government
as of Monday, November 12th are Texas, Louisiana, Florida,
Alabama, North Carolina,
Kentucky, Mississippi, Indiana, North Dakota, Montana,
Colorado, Oregon, New Jersey,
New York, South Carolina, Arkansas, Georgia, Missouri,
Arizona, Oklahoma, Michigan.
The website We the People lists each petition and shows how
many signatures have
been added and how many more are still needed. As of now,
Texas is the only state
with the 25,000 signature minimum. With serious unrest
throughout the country, it’s
expected that we’ll see petitions from more states soon. Are
we facing a serious threat,
or is this simply a loud statement of people wanting to be
heard?
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