No, Texas You Can't Secede Either

Following up on my Waco breakfast meeting:
For those that would answer that your State should secede or your not sure about it:

"Do you believe your State should secede from the United States?
Yes 23%
No 58%
Not Sure 19%"
you need to check out the law on this. Not just the law about what you think, but the law about what others must do about what you say and do.

U.S. CODE TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 115—TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sup_01_18_10_I_20_115.html

Furthermore:
The Supreme Court in its opinion in Texas v White (74 US 700 [1869]), said that the entry of Texas into the United States was its entry into "an indissoluble relation." Legally, Texas did not secede even during the Civil War. It said that only through successful revolution or mutual consent of the State and the United States could a State leave the Union.

As odious as Texas politics can be at times, most probably The United States will still not give mutual consent to leave. So Texas or any other State could only secede by revolution which infers the use of force and thus is treason under the U.S. Code.

Now for you 23% of rank and file Republicans who want to have your State secede from the United State you are flirting with treason, pure and simple. For the 19% who are not sure, whether you fish or cut bait you are doing the same thing.

For you "fellow travelers" who listen to and associate with these persons and do nothing when things heat up, best you check out Chapter 115 above.

Some things it is just not sane to be "cute" about.