Secede now or forever hold your peace!

'Till the Watchman the Tower
Cry:
      Up! Thou rascal, Rise!
      I  see the white
                      Light
                      And the night
                                    Flies!

Soon enough a majority of voters in Texas will be of Mexican descent.  I look forward to that day.  We will see

∼ Powerful pro-union laws, guaranteeing every worker the right to have a union negotiate a fair wage;

∼ A progressive income tax, very steep, to get at all those who have had a free ride for so long;

∼ A Spanish-proficiency test as a prerequisite to voting (why not; if an English one is ok?)

∼ Good schools that teach in Spanish and English;

∼ Free and plentiful pregnancy planning and birth control centers;

∼ A declaration that Spanish, which shall become an official language of the State, may be used in all legal documents, just as Hawaiian may be in Hawaii;

∼  Solid cooperation with Obamacare';

∼ When the State anthem is sung, this exuberant phrase shall be shouted out:

CHORUS: To beautiful, beautiful Texas,
Where the beautiful bluebonnets grow.
We're proud of our forefathers
Who fought at the Alamo [all citizens of Mexican  descent to shout "WE WON!"]. . . .

Those of you -- and here appears to be many, and well-armed, too,
     
           Who wish to fight

                The Hated Feds,

                    TAKE HEED:

Destroy their Bolshevik Fence!

Legalize and regulate drugs, and end the Border Wars!

 Defy the Feds if they try to close you down!


Beef up the old-style Texas Rangers  [you should never have allowed a mere baseball team to appropriate that hallowed name!];

Have the Rangers round up all federal border guards and confine them to barracks!


Open the Border ! Allow free passage between the United States and Mexico!  Don't be afraid!  You can handle it and make it work for you!



OTHERWISE,  WHERE WILL FOLKS CECEDE TO?  Wouldn't it be better to learn how to get along with folk with whom you have differences?

Here are images of Texas scenes I remember with great fondness, mixed in with images of events I expect to see multiply rapidly as minorities in Texas assume their rightful power.

 Duck-hunting, I swear.

But what do I know, out here on a speck oaf land in the middle of the ocean, with memories and hopes for a more egalitarian Future for my Home State.  A future that my grandfathers, who stood against the KKK, would be proud of.

Enlighten me, please.