Texas Citizens' Convention For Sovereignty

My Fellow Texans:

A citizens’ convention is forming in Texas.  The map below shows the counties that have people in them calling for the people to convene. Such a call has not been heard since 1861.  Every Texan should know about this and the causes and events that led to the decision to call the people to action.   Track active counties at: http://tccfs.yolasite.com/active-counties.php /

This is critical juncture in our history.  In 1861, Texans and the inhabitants of ten other states fought to prevent the usurpation of the powers rightfully belonging to the states and the people as ordained in the U.S. Constitution.  The result was the overthrow of our legitimate governments by the federal government, who used the military meant for our common defense to subordinate the states and the people. 

This war of aggression ended governmental authority based on consent of the governed in America and instituted a rule by force in its stead.

Reconstruction Acts  followed though there was nothing physically to reconstruct in Texas.  

Today, we are undergoing another Reconstruction imposed by yet another “transformational” President, and it’s going over about as well as it did the last time.  We have attempted to gain redress of our grievances: 

Following a blitz of actions by the federal government in the aftermath of the collapse of 2008, including  binding us to odious debt of an incomprehensible magnitude, and the subsequent dismissal of our objections by the federal government, our discontent resulted in mass town hall meetings held across Texas in 2009-2010, where we attempted to convey to our elected representatives that a great many destructive actions were being perpetrated on us by the federal government without our consent and in blatant violation of its contractual limitations and obligations.

The outcome of these meetings was entirely unsatisfactory, as the object for us was to convey our grievances to our elected representatives for remedial action, while the object for them apparently, was to solicit votes for the upcoming November 2010 elections.

So in the spring of 2010, a great number of us began besieging our Governor’s office--by all methods available--with appeals to convene an emergency session of the legislature to reject federal edicts hostile to both our philosophy and our welfare.  But the Governor has thus far maintained his silence, instead attempting to appease us with federal lawsuits and various letters of objection which historically fail.  It was then that calls for a citizens’ convention began.

We’ve come full circle, as is evident in the following summary of the events that led to the peoples’ decision to convene in 1861.  Note the parallels:

After Lincoln was elected, Texans began petitioning Governor Houston to call an extra session of the Legislature to address an Ordinance of Secession , but he—like Governor Perry-- ignored them, hoping they would give up.  But instead, Texans met all over the state to discuss the state of their affairs and decided to convene, as was their right to do, under Article 1, Section 2 of the Texas Constitution:

All political power is inherent in the people,and all free governments are founded on
their authority, and instituted for their benefit.  The faith of the people of Texas 
stands pledged to the preservation of a republican form of government, and, subject to
This limitation only, they have at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform or
abolish their government in such manner as they may think expedient.

One week before the convention, Governor Houston did call an extra session of the Legislature with a view to condemn the Secession Convention as illegal, but it backfired. Instead, the Government of the State of Texas passed a Joint Resolution approving the convention on January 21, 1861.  http://www.archive.org/stream/journalofsecessi00texarich#page/n11/mode/2up, pg. 13-14.

On February 1, 1861, the delegates passed the Texas Ordinance of Secession  by a vote of 166 to 8 and it was subsequently ratified by 76% of voters in a state-wide election and the Republic of Texas was reborn. 

Now, it is clear that the initiators of the citizens’ convention were able to pull that convention together quickly in 1861 on the basis of their common interest in preserving the institution of slavery--which was then protected by the U.S. Constitution; but their underlying objective was to preserve “the true theory of our general government as an association of sovereignties, and not a blended mass of people in one social contract”—The Honorable O.M. Roberts.

http://www.archive.org/stream/journalofsecessi00texarich#page/n11/mode/2up  p. 17.

Though we have pulled together on the basis of our common interest in nullifying the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in Texas, the underlying objective of the Texas Citizens’ Convention for Sovereignty is the same as it was in 1861.  We desire our sovereignty—the right to control our own affairs, to restore our national boundaries and laws that protect the legal inhabitants of Texas. 

Now we stand on the verge of a new order with the last vestiges of our autonomy stripped away under supranational law.  We have no recourse within the current legal and political framework, save our Right of Revolution.

We Texans have always insisted upon retaining the Right of Revolution in our Bill of Rights.  In Texas, it is considered not only a right but a duty to throw off a government that has become perverse in its objectives.

The State of Texas carries out the agenda of the U.S. government and is in fact only an extension of its power.  It has made Texas a haven state for illegal aliens even incentivizing their migration and colonization of Texas allowing transnational gangs and other hostiles to flourish within its borders.

Our highest elected officials publicly embrace Mexican nationalist groups such as La Raza, though they have openly advocated our genocide and the conquest of Texas through colonization. 

We have been targeted as potential terrorists by Homeland Security, though we have not lifted a hand against anyone, asking only that the federal government fulfill its primary obligation to protect our border and that our right to bear arms be respected.

The citizens' convention will be a crucible for Texas--and for Texans.  If our government doesn't recognize our right to convene, then it is clear that it no longer recognizes our Bill of Rights.

If our local officials will not stand with us in an unofficial capacity, we will know they stand against us.

Those Texans who imagine they can remain neutral will find they cannot; silence is consent.  For if enough are silent, hoping to avoid pain, they condemn all of Texas to go into the new world order.

We are gathering in our Texas House Districts to await the formal call throughout Texas for the citizens’ convention.  Join us at:  http://tccfs.yolasite.com/