They do everything bigger in Texas, I’ve been told. Well almost everything:
For some folks in Texas, the prospect of a universal health care scheme isn’t just cause for protest and debate — it’s reason enough to secede from the United States altogether.
Some 200 people rallied at the State Capitol in Austin on Saturday, a small but vocal crowd that set itself in opposition to pro-health care reform protesters.
Larry Kilgore, a Christian activist that the Texas Observer says has advocated execution for homosexuals, “drew some murmurs of disapproval” when he told the crowd: “I hate that flag up there. … I hate the United States government. … They’re an evil, corrupt government. They need to go. Sovereignty is not good enough. Secession is what we need!”
“We hate the United States!” he declared later in his address.
Here’s the video:
I pity the fool. And by that reference I specifically mean Larry Kilgore. If health care reform is enough to make him go secesh on the US than he and those like him really are pitiful creatures. Maybe he can go hole up in some small West Texas enclave and declare his forty acres of wasteland the Republic of Gilead. I bet it would make a great reality show for the Fall TV season. I’m sure FOX would pick it up in a heartbeat.
