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'Republic of Texas' Again Pushes for Independence

February 24, 2005

The separatist Republic of Texas group, which largely dissolved after an abortive uprising in the Davis Mountains left several of its leaders dead or in prison in 1997, has reformed, and is again pushing its message that Texas should be a free and independent nation, 1200 WOAI news reported today.

Too late for Richard Simkanin, though. You remember him:

The judge recalled that Simkanin threatened to kill federal judges and that he surrendered his Texas driver's license but continued to drive with a homemade identification card...

While under investigation, Simkanin posted
a warning on his Web site that spoke of the
"fury of a fire" that would consume his
adversaries. He wrote to the treasury
secretary that he had repatriated himself
from the United States to the "Republic of
Texas."

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