> **First, Texas is the one state in the union that actually does have the right to secede. It was embedded in its agreement to enter the Union.** So let's not have a cow about any talk like that coming from Allen West. If one state can do it, so can many, and never mind the Civil War, because let's face it: the Supreme Court has effectively ruled that how states run their affairs doesn't matter anymore, and no one has "standing" except for them. The Court has opened the gates to secession themselves by their refusal to grant Texas and its 18 allied states so much as a chance to plead their case. The refusal to hear sends the message that anything goes in the states. > And spare us the allusions to the Confederacy, a Democrat-led secession movement, as many leftist Twitterati are doing. West, as it happens, is black, and Texas was the state where Juneteenth was first celebrated, quite possibly by West's ancestors. This is no Confederate thing. > The most annoying thing about this, though, is that West didn't call for secession. He made a call for a "union of states," as in a club. Far from being secession, this is what is known as civil society. It makes sense, because states have been denied legal relief and told they're to be forced into participating in fraudulent elections as determined by four corruption-infested blue cities. Legal remedies have been nixed, and conservatives have now been shut out.