Residents in Louisiana, other states 'petition' for secession after ...

The 'We the People' portion of the White House website (Photo by White House website)

Residents in at least 19 states, including Louisiana, have filed petitions on the White House website seeking for the state to "peacefully ... withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government."

The White House set up the section, We the People, to allow citizens to have their voices heard. If a petition gets 25,000 signatures within a month, the "White House staff will review it, ensure it's sent to the appropriate policy experts, and issue an official response."

The website Gawker notes: "As unilateral secession was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, it remains to be seen if this movement is more than a toothless temper tantrum thrown by armchair revolutionaries."

On Monday morning, the Louisiana petition had more than 13,000 signatures, ahead of the pace to meet the mark.

The Examiner website says the "petition was created by Michael E. (full last name not provided) of Slidell. If the petition gathers 25,000 signatures by December 7, the White House pledges it will be place the petition in a queue for response from the Obama administration."

The complete Louisiana petition says:

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..."

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Source: http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/11/louisiana_other_states_petitio.html

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