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创立于1995年12月13日， 号称4万支持者
1996年分为三派
2003年组成名义上的德州共和国， 有总统
有自己的网页， 电台， 杂志
有自己的国会
The Republic of Texas is a group of individuals that claims that the
annexation of Texas by the United States was illegal and that Texas remains
an independent nation under occupation. The issue of the Legal status of
Texas led the group to claim to reinstate a provisional government on
December 13, 1995. Activists within the movement claim over 40,000 active
supporters; however, there is no widespread popular support for an
independent Texas.[1]
The movement for independence was started by the research of Richard Lance (
Rick) McLaren. McLaren found that, in 1861, Texans voted four-to-one to
leave the Union. According to McLaren's work, Texas met the qualifications,
under international law, of a captive nation of war, since the end of the
American Civil War in 1865. McLaren engaged in a protracted series of court
and actual battles.[citation needed]
The movement split into three factions in 1996, one led by McLaren, one by
David Johnson and Jesse Enloe, and the third by Archie Lowe and Daniel
Miller. In 1997, McLaren and his followers kidnapped Joe and Margaret Ann
Rowe, held them hostage at the Fort Davis Resort, and demanded the release
of two movement members in exchange for the Rowes. McLaren's wife, Evelyn,
convinced him to surrender peacefully after a week-long standoff with police
and Texas Rangers. The McLarens and four other Republic of Texas members
were sent to prison. This effectively destroyed the McLaren faction, and the
Johnson-Enloe faction was discredited after two of its members, Jack Abbot
Grebe Jr. and Johnie Wise, were convicted in 1998 of threatening to
assassinate several government officials, including President Bill Clinton.
In 2003, what remained of the movement consolidated into one dominant group
recognizing an "interim" government (which replaced the "provisional"
government), headed by President Daniel Miller. This interim government
claimed authority from the original proclamations of 1995 and set up a seat
of government in the town of Overton. The movement split again over legal
arguments, resulting in the current state of affairs. Most of the original
personalities of the movement have disappeared from public view. Government
finances have come from donations and the sale of some items such as a
Republic of Texas Passport. The Republic of Texas headquarters in Overton,
Texas burned down on August 31, 2005; one person was moderately injured.[
citation needed]
An 'actual republic of Texas' [1], sometimes referred to as the 10th
Congress (13th congress now in session), convenes a monthly congressional
session at College Station, Texas. The republic has held public elections
since 2005 and all elected officials of the government have been elected by
citizens of Texas in accordance with the republic of Texas constitution of
1836 (which has never been legally replaced). Many of these members have
left previous RoT groups because they do not believe those groups to be the
legitimate continuation of the government of the original republic. The
president is Richard Perkins, and vice president is Merle Laubach.[2][
citation needed]
Various Republic of Texas movements maintain several websites, an Internet
radio station, online journals and/or newspapers.
A separate movement, called the "Texas Convention Pro-Continuation 1861" (
TCPC) claims to be the official authority "recognized by the State of Texas
and the United States Government for the contemporary effort to bring to
power, by popular vote of the People of Texas, the government of the
Republic of Texas."[citation needed]
Republic of Texas so-claimed President Miller and Laurence Savage published
the Republic of Texas's manifesto Texan Arise in 2004. The book outlines the
history of Texas, the history and philosophy of the Republic of Texas group
, a road map to independence, and some spiritualistic views of Texas. A
second important book for the movement is The Brief by the Republic of Texas
, published in 2003, a comprehensive case against the United States and
State of Texas governments. The book is laid out like a court case, and
cites approximately 250 exhibits.
In January 2004, a man in jail in Aspen, Colorado claimed that the state of
Colorado had no jurisdiction to extradite him to California on a probation
warrant, on the grounds that he was a citizen of the Republic of Texas. He
claimed that the sliver of land which contains Aspen was a part of the
original Republic of Texas and, as such, he was not a citizen of the United
States. His claim was rejected by the courts.[3] | m***6
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