Don't think so personal, as in these individuals have came together and reject whatever federal, state, and/or local governance that is bound to the property they live on. It should be their right to come together as property owners (to the front of the line, renters to the second) to enter into their own federation alliance and claim their own lands as sovereign. /s

They fail at the logic that owning their land equals collectively determining law of their land. They owe the past, present, and future dues that anyone in the city, state, or nation pays for the infrastructure, safety, and economy of the land. Their land that they try to secede from. Texas, being a southern state, would be a fine example of Mexico's mongol hordes waging war against the border and flying nuclear ICBM's into Houston... which doesn't happen.

Mexico doesn't have nuclear ICBM's because they share a huge border with the US, they are our ally, and fall under the protection of Article 5 of NATO's charter. What with them being a member of NATO, and being next door to the USA, Mexico decided that they do not need to have a nuclear arsenal at all.

Yea. Let's just let a few local Texan towns unite and put the fear of physics and physical destruction into another sovereign country to the point that they trust the USA enough to not develop what is coming on a century old ballistic and nuclear weapons technology. That'll happen.

They are mental. I understand their mindset, but they can't ignore taking land from the USA without reparations to the taxpayers that gave them the opportunity to contemplate their fictitious, unlawful, and illegal if they ever enforce it, secession from my country. They are more than welcome to shit upon the idea of our Constitution as it relates to their right to secession, and that is a right granted to you BY our Constitution by the 1st Amendment to think that. They can think and talk and pray that this happens all they want. The moment they enforce their word as law is the moment they commit treason.

It is delusional to begin with. It is stealing from the taxpayers of America. It is hubris to think that their position would ever have been as safe as it is without the rest of the United States surrounding their Republic.

We did this once. More Americans died in the Civil War than any other war in American history. This group got shot down by the Feds and local authorities. Was it heavy handed?

He acknowledged he used a "show of force," grouping officers from city, county state and federal law enforcement to serve a search warrant for suspicions of a misdemeanor crime.

Basic fact of governance. You have to control the monopoly on violence. If these secessionist can't control the police raiding their pool haul or whatever this was, how could they protect the rest of us? Why would we want them to protect the rest of us?

They can't protect themselves, let alone force Mexico to not build ICBM's. Fuck them and their ideals because they are ultimately stealing from an America I paid for.