Why I Am A Texas Nationalist

Entertainer Glen Beck featured Texas Nationalist Movement leader Daniel Miller in a segment on his Fox News Network show recently. Although not outwardly hostile, Beck didn't exactly seem enthusiastic about Miller's cause—despite the fact that he and the other personalities featured on Fox these days are openly sympathetic to many of the Texas Nationalist Movement's concerns.

Where his interview of a secessionist leader in Vermont the previous evening had touched on the comedic—it was obvious Beck did not consider the Vermont movement to be a serious one—his tone with Miller was different.

Like many others, Beck doesn't seem to understand why so many Texans have decided that enough is enough, and it's time for Texas to resume its place among the nations of the world.

Texas Nationalists come from every walk of life, every background and every political stripe. The one thing we share is our unique Texas culture and our love of less-intrusive government.

I'd like to take a moment to tell you why I am a Texas Nationalist.

I was born a half-century ago. I grew up believing in the United States as a land of opportunity. I grew up believing that those we elected to represent us truly had the best interests of the American people at heart. I was taught that hard work would get you places, and that knowledge was power.

But somewhere we went wrong.

The people we elected to the statehouse and to Congress came to crave power over everything else. They became pawns of greedy corporations, whose only loyalty is to themselves. The federal government began meddling in things it was never given the authority to meddle in - including public education. The more government meddled, the less aware the American people became.

Slowly but surely, we Americans grew complacent. We came to love comfort, and in the process grew more and more dependent on government. The more dependent we became on government, the less accountable the government became to we, the people.

In time, many of those who sit in elected office came to realize that so long as they could maintain the support of cliques, narrow special interests and the big corporations, they could get away with anything and no one could hold them accountable by throwing them out of office. Our Congress is now the home of murderers, adulterers, sexual misfits, tax cheats, alcoholics, racial panderers and liars.

Our republican form of government is irreparably damaged. The two-party system has failed, because both the Democrats and Republicans spend more time sniping at one another in their effort to gain or regain power that they no longer hear the voice of the people.

The Fourth Estate--the news media--has failed us: they, too, are servants of the big corporations who are responsible for the elimination of millions and millions of American jobs … including mine.

Now our government has decided to open our borders, allowing millions more to come in and lower our standard of living, taking away more of our jobs and sucking up all the free entitlements that WE pay for. And our government has passed the greatest tax increase in history, one based on a hoax, to make billions of dollars for investors in big energy companies, including a prominent former Vice President of the United States.

We cannot repair the United States: too many of our fellow citizens are unable or unwilling to set aside their partisan views to do what needs to be done to fix the federal system. They have been trained by our public education system and news media to hate their country, to hate their history, to hate their culture and to hate anyone they disagree with. They cannot be reasoned with.

I hold out hope, however.

We in Texas have a unique history and culture. We have always been a little more independent of the United States than any other state in the Union. We have a chance, as Texans, to restore accountable, representative democracy - as an independent nation.

We who are members of the Texas Nationalist movement are not a bunch of anti-government, militant, rifle-toting, bigoted, religious conservatives. We are an alliance of liberals, moderates, libertarians and conservatives, former Republicans and former Democrats. Our members come from all races, all ethnicities and all backgrounds. We are Protestants and Catholics, Jews and Muslims, evangelicals, agnostics and atheists.

We reach out our hands in brotherhood to anyone who believes that we share a culture, rather than having cultures divide us.

We are many people with different views—some of them widely divergent--working toward one common goal and only one common goal: Texas independence.

Our members believe in smaller government which constitutionally prohibits the formation of political parties and cliques, which limits the influence of money over the political process and which helps foster personal responsibility.

There are some who say the Civil War "proved" that secession was "illegal." The Civil War proved only that the industrial North had more manpower and more weapons than did the agrarian South, of which Texas was a member.

The United States Constitution has never been amended to prohibit secession of a state--but does specifically state that powers not specifically authorized by the Constitution are "reserved exclusively to the States, or to the People," and therefore not allowed the federal government. The federal government has no constitutional authority to prevent secession.

Moreover, the United States has spent more than a century using "self-determination" as its justification for interfering in the affairs of other countries around the world. It has no moral standing to prevent the people of Texas from exercising self-determination.

We offer our fellow Texans a challenge. We do not offer merely change in government, but a fundamental change in the way government operate. Citizens of Texas must again learn self-reliance. We must become educated on issues. We must participate - because without active citizen participation, as we have seen in the United States, government fails.

Spend a little time learning about us, which you can do at www.texasnationalist.com. Ask questions, offer your opinions, discuss matters. And if you come to feel as we do, then welcome aboard.

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