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Masked militias on Texas border
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 7:07 am
by Bob Of Burleson
Los Angeles Times
HOUSTON — Masked militias have arrived in South Texas with semi-automatic rifles and tactical gear, causing a stir not only in border communities, but also among state officials.
News of the militias has spread at a time when the border has grown more militarized in response to an influx of Central American immigrants, many of them families and children who made the crossing unaccompanied — more than 57,000 since October.
Gov. Rick Perry activated 1,000 National Guard troops last month, drawing from the Texas State Guard as well as Texas Air and Army National Guard. That activation came on top of a state Department of Public Safety border surge, bringing the state’s total monthly cost to more than $17 million.
Perry has so far said the troops do not have arrest powers, although it appears they could if authorized by the state. Immigrant advocates and some local officials oppose granting them arrest powers.
Additional militia members started arriving on the Texas border in recent weeks to assist as part of a deployment they called Operation Secure Our Border: Laredo Sector. The effort entails creating a training command near San Antonio and rotating groups south to patrol private ranch land on the border with the permission of ranch owners.
The early groups included Oathkeepers, Three Percenter’s Club and Patriots. Then the Minutemen announced that they, too, were deploying.
An online controversy flared after a militia member appeared on YouTube advising members to confront and intimidate those caught crossing the border illegally. There also have been tensions between militia groups, but no major clashes have been reported.
Response to the groups has been mixed.
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Re: Masked militias on Texas border
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 8:14 am
by grouchy
Idiots.
Re: Masked militias on Texas border
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 12:17 pm
by GFB
Loving this
Re: Masked militias on Texas border
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 1:11 pm
by Red Oak
Vigilante Law is better than nothing.
Citizens have the Right to defend themselves and their County from Aliens as well as their own Government.
Re: Masked militias on Texas border
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 1:26 pm
by Bob Of Burleson
Red Oak wrote:Vigilante Law is better than nothing.
But what if the vigilantes are supporting something that you oppose?
Re: Masked militias on Texas border
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 1:43 pm
by LibraryLady
grouchy wrote:Idiots.
+10,000
Re: Masked militias on Texas border
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 5:28 pm
by planosteve
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JUST STOP RIGHT THERE STANGERS!
Turn around right now and go back where you came from! And when you get back there, tell the rest of your damn illegal tired and poor and your alien huddled masses to stay the hell out of my country. This is Amerika and we have laws here.
Right Tonto?
Re: Masked militias on Texas border
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 5:36 pm
by Bob Of Burleson
The Lone Ranger's Creed
By Fran Striker
1. I believe that to have a friend, a man must be one.
2. That all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world.
3. That God put the firewood there, but that every man must gather and light it himself.
4. In being prepared physically, mentally, and morally to fight when necessary for that which is right.
5. That a man should make the most of what equipment he has.
6. That "this government, of the people, by the people, and for the people," shall live always.
7. That men should live by the rule of what is best for the greatest number.
8. That sooner or later... somewhere... somehow... we must settle with the world and make payment for what we have taken.
9. That all things change, but the truth, and the truth alone lives on forever.
10. I believe in my Creator, my country, my fellow man.
http://www.cowboyway.com/LoneRanger.htm
Re: Masked militias on Texas border
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 6:56 pm
by Red Oak
I don't believe in Illegal Immigration, I believe in the United States Government acting in the interest of Citizens rather than invaders - I am not the idiot in this thread.
Re: Masked militias on Texas border
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 7:54 pm
by grouchy
Red Oak wrote:Vigilante Law is better than nothing.
Citizens have the Right to defend themselves and their County from Aliens as well as their own Government.
Yes they do, but the types of people discussed in the article are in my opinion idiots.
Re: Masked militias on Texas border
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 7:59 pm
by Sangersteve
Red Oak wrote:I don't believe in Illegal Immigration, I believe in the United States Government acting in the interest of Citizens rather than invaders - I am not the idiot in this thread.
No sweat, as soon as Obama signs the executive order they will be legal.
Re: Masked militias on Texas border
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 9:18 pm
by Red Oak
Not in my opinion.
Re: Masked militias on Texas border
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 9:12 am
by grouchy
If they feel that they are in the right why do they feel the need to hide their faces?
Re: Masked militias on Texas border
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 2:45 pm
by Red Oak
To hide their indenity from the Cartel Smugglers, Coyotes, the FEDs, and other criminal organizations.
LEO's often do the same, for the same reasons.
Re: Masked militias on Texas border
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 3:39 pm
by grouchy
Yes, if they are undercover. It would be interesting to know just how many ranchers down there really think they need help from those groups.