Speak Out: Maryland an Island Among Secession Protesters?
Online petitions to secede surround the Free State.
An apparent wave of post-election discontent has found its way online in the form of tens of thousands of people protesting the outcome of the presidential election by stoking the specter of secession. Maryland isn't among the states represented but all four of its neighbors are. Disgruntled residents from dozens of states—from California to New Hampshire and Texas to Florida—are using the Internet to try to invoke their First Amendment right to “petition the government for redress of grievances” by asking the White House to allow their state to withdraw from the Union. The White House's “We the People” program says the administration will respond to any petition that receives 25,000 or more signatures within 30 days. Petitions that have…
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Bradford A. Thomas
1:07 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Why waste your time on something that will amount to NOTHING ! The President was not my vote but he won fair and square so lets all move on and get working on the issues that face us as a nation ! more ›