Recent Petitions From States

Ever since the presidential election last week, news is all a buzz with states wanting to secede from the U.S.

Honestly I think it’s all despicable. We voted for who we voted for, some voices were heard well over others. So take what you are given and try to make the best of it. 

Regardless of what I personally think, I was still intrigued enough to do some research. I was told the name of the website to view these petitions was we the people. However, I was not told which dominion. So I tried .com which brought me to an oops page asking if I meant wethepeopleusa.com, which is actually just a legal documentation preparation site. So I tried .gov which is a website for the national endowment of humanities (books people, just books). Org brings up a domain for sale. Net says social networks demo and edu brings up a search results page. So far the only way I can find the petitions is from https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitions.

Before I go on to tell you which states have petitions, I must say it is very unorganized. Multiple petitions for single states with a different number of signatures on each, just very unorganized. Of those I bet many of the same people signed the multiple petitions. It does not scream united front to secede!!!! Then again, united isn't really what people seem to be going for anymore, so I guess that really doesn't matter.

After doing my research, here is what I found:

*only 25,000 signatures are required to make it go before the President for his official response*

States Petitioning	Number of Signatures			Reached Required
Alabama	25,479	25,473		Xx
Alaska	5,642	5,692
Arizona	16,602
Arkansas	18,152
California	9,294
Colorado	17,331
Delaware	6,056
Florida	27,499			X
Georgia	10,723	26,199	4,156	X
Idaho	2,853
Illinois	2,578	1,389
Indiana	16,258
Kansas	5,750
Kentucky	14,946
Louisiana	32,054			X
Maine	342
Michigan	15,556
Minnesota	2,060
Mississippi	14,756
Missouri	11,796	15,487
Montana	11,099
Nebraska	4,784
Nevada	7,878
New Hampshire	2,710
New jersey	11,532
New Mexico	1,710
New York	12,577	6,312
North Carolina	24,490
North Dakota	9,785
Ohio	8,317	5,605
Oklahoma	14,467	6,917
Oregon	12,072
Pennsylvania	10,000	5,809
Rhode island	2,538
South Carolina	12,831	18,877
South Dakota	4,307
Tennessee	25,156			X
Texas	91,553			X
Utah	6,117	4,196
Virginal	4,892	1,866
West Virginia	4,945
Wisconsin	3,575
Wyoming	6,503

There is also the petition for peaceful secession that has 434 signatures and the recount the election that has 48,757 signatures.

It is our constitutional right to send out petitions, so by no means am I trying to say no don't do it. But I am saying make sure it is what you really want. When Lincoln was our president the south was so angered that they seceded and a civil war broke out. Hundreds of thousands of lives were lost. So it really is something to think about. Remember you have the right to sign a petition if you want to secede but you also have a right to move, and others have a right to sign a petition to stop the secession. I've come across at least three of those:

 Keep the U.S. United has 248 signatures

Deport everyone that signed a petition to withdraw their state from the United States of America has 11,925 signatures

Strip the citizenship from everyone who signed a petition to secede and exile them has 6,991 signatures

There is also the more asinine petition called justice for Missouri secession. This actually calls for a national pizza party so that those loyal to the U.S. can shove pizza in the face of those in Missouri that wish to secede. This one has 565 signatures.

By the time you get around to check out the correct website the numbers may have changed. The last time I look was 11:34 pm on 11/13/2012. Let me know what changes. 

-Mandi-