Governor Rick Perry suggested recently that because “Washington continues to thumb its nose at the American people” Texas might just secede from the United States. Hendrick Hertzberg (2) imagines fondly what the nation might be like after such a schism.
Hertzberg speculates we might be better off just to let Texas--and whatever other parts of the old Confederacy wish to join the exodus--go ahead and leave.
What was left of the Congress, he guesses, would promptly enact sensible gun control, universal health insurance, and ample support for science, education and the arts.
The new Lone Star Confederation could then get on with the business of protecting the sanctity of marriage, making sure creationism is taught in its schools, and mandating organized prayer sessions in all public places. Freed from meddlesome federal judges, the LSC could proceed with mass executions, freeing up prison space for abortion providers.
Realizing that not every Southerner would be eager to go along with the new order, Hertzberg proposes that certain locales might have to be designated “free cities,” like Danzig was between the world wars. (Peacekeeping troops could be sent in if necessary to thwart illegal aliens desperate for a better life.)
Please pray for us in Huntsville, Alabama, to be included on the list.
(1) song by Ray Wylie Hubbard
(2)“So Long, Pardner" The New Yorker, May 4, 2009, p 17-18
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