How are we able to sign out of Messages on Mountain Lion?

I want to sign out with the apple ID associated with Messages and sign in with a new one. Any Ideas?

HI all,
The Preferences are in the Message Menu (like most apps).
That is to say the current "Front" app gets listed next to the Apple Icon top left and this is a menu which you can click to drop down and Preferences is an option in there.
In Message Menu > Preferences > Accounts select the iMessages Account.
The default is that on first start up of Message it will ask you to create an iMessage Account using an Apple ID which then appears at the top of the list before it picks up on (what were) iChat Accounts names that are in System Preference > Mail, Contacts and Calendars.
However not everyone does this so it may not be top of the List (your can also re-order the by dragging the accounts about the list).
There is a Sign Out button in view if you are at OS X 10.8.2 (Messages Ver 7.0.1)
Use the Sign Out Button.
It will not hurt to also Untick the "Enable this Account" box.
Messages can then be restarted and will not have an active iMessage account.
9:19 PM      Saturday; January 12, 2013
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