SECEDE, SI SI!

So, the President of the United States has canceled two functions in Arizona, presumably to punish the State and its citizens for passing a bill that would enforce America's immigration laws and would protect them from illegal immigrants. This bill parallels a federal law tat the President refuses to enforce. California, too, wants to restrain commerce and other connections to Arizona. (I guess the States aren’t as United as we thought they were.)

So, if I were Governor I would introduce this bill:

“When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one State to dissolve the political bonds which connect it with others, and to assume among the powers of the Earth the equal station to which the laws of nature entitle it, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind require that it should declare the causes which impel the separation:

We hold this truth to be self-evident, that all States are created equal, and whenever any President of the United States fails to recognize that fact, then it becomes necessary to secede from the union of States and to institute a new status that will seem most likely to effect its safety and the happiness of its people.

The President has refused to enforce validly established laws that are his duty to enforce. He has forbidden Governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance unless his Assent is obtained. He has endeavored to obstruct the laws for naturalization of foreigners. He has taxed our people but has refused to protect them. He has obstructed the administration of justice, treating some states more favorably than others.

A Prince, whose character is thus marked by acts which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be President of a free people.

We, therefore, declare that Arizona is and of a right ought to be a free and independent state, and hereby secedes from and is absolved from all political connection to the United States and to its President, and for support of this declaration we pledge our lives, our fortune and our sacred honor.”