I know I should care so much more than I do and that is true about so many things the Globe is giving me, and yet I find myself caring less and less about anything in their pages. I want to go read blogs.
As for this, I see the Clinton political operatives and the hand of conspiracy in the form of hardball politics a la Nixon. They already tried to throw Christie under the bridge.
Don't get me wrong; I'm not a supporter of either Christie or Perry. The whole lot of choices so far, speculated or otherwise, is unappealing. The letter after the corporate party name? Couldn't care le$$, and the fact that we are talking 2016 presidential when the 2014 midterms are just starting? It's called filler.
As for Perry in this case, if he was acting like a dictator, well, then he holds one of the qualifications to be president.
"Grand jury indicts Rick Perry on abuse of power claim" by Paul J. Weber and Will Weissert | Associated Press August 16, 2014
AUSTIN, Texas — A grand jury indicted Texas Governor Rick Perry on Friday for allegedly abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public corruption — making the possible 2016 presidential hopeful his state’s first indicted governor in nearly a century.
A special prosecutor spent months calling witnesses and presenting evidence that Perry broke the law when he promised publicly to nix $7.5 million over two years for the public integrity unit run by the office of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg. Lehmberg, a Democrat, was convicted of drunken driving, but refused Perry’s calls to resign.
I've seen enough, and I'm heeding the call.
Several top aides to Perry appeared before grand jurors, including his deputy chief of staff, legislative director and general counsel. Perry did not testify.
Abuse of official capacity is a first-degree felony with potential punishments of five to 99 years in prison. Coercion of a public servant is a third-degree felony that carries a punishment of two to 10 years.
No one disputes that Perry is allowed to veto measures approved by the Legislature. But the left-leaning Texans for Public Justice government watchdog group filed an ethics complaint accusing the governor of coercion because he threatened to use his veto before actually doing so in an attempt to pressure Lehmberg to quit.
Michael McCrum, the San Antonio-based special prosecutor, said he ‘‘took into account the fact that we’re talking about a governor of a state — and a governor of the state of Texas, which we all love. Obviously that carries a lot of importance, but when it gets down to it, the law is the law.’’
They are not impeaching Obummer, so....
In office since 2000 and already Texas’s longest-serving governor, Perry isn’t seeking reelection in November. Though the Republican governor now faces two felony indictments, politics dominates the case.
McCrum said he’ll meet with Botsford on Monday to discuss when Perry will come to the courthouse to be arraigned. McCrum said he doesn’t know when Perry will be booked.
He should just stay out of state for safeties sake.
Lehmberg is based in Austin, which is heavily Democratic, in contrast to most of the rest of fiercely conservative Texas. The grand jury was comprised of Austin-area residents.
The unit Lehmberg oversees investigates statewide allegations of corruption and political wrongdoing. It led the investigation against former US House majority leader Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican who in 2010 was convicted of money laundering for taking part in a scheme to influence elections in his home state — convictions later vacated by an appeals court.
We all know about AmeriKan ju$tice.
Mary Anne Wiley, Perry’s general counsel, predicted Perry ultimately will be cleared of the charges against him: abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant.
‘‘The veto in question was made in accordance with the veto authority afforded to every governor under the Texas Constitution,’’ she said.
"Perry said he wouldn’t allow Texas to fund the unit while Lehmberg remained in charge.
Perry said Lehmberg, who is based in Austin, should resign after she was arrested and pleaded guilty to drunken driving in April 2013. A video recording made at the jail showed Lehmberg shouting at staffers to call the sheriff, kicking the door of her cell and sticking her tongue out.
Hey, she was drunk. That's always a good excuse for elites.
Lehmberg faced pressure from other high-profile Republicans in addition to Perry to give up her post. Her blood-alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit for driving.
She was blasted, huh? A sign of tolerance and a problem!
Lehmberg served about half of her 45-day jail sentence but stayed in office, despite Perry’s assertions that her behavior was inappropriate.
The jail video led to an investigation of Lehmberg by a separate grand jury, which decided she should not be removed for official misconduct.
The indictment is the first of its kind since 1917, when James “Pa” Ferguson was indicted on charges stemming from his veto of state funding to the University of Texas in an effort to unseat faculty and staff members he objected to. Ferguson was eventually impeached, then resigned before being convicted, allowing his wife, Miriam “Ma” Ferguson, to take over the governorship."
He did a Nixon, and why would the web version of my Globe cut that printed part?
David L. Botsford, Perry’s defense attorney, whose $450-per-hour fees are being paid for by state funds, said he was outraged by the action.
‘‘This clearly represents political abuse of the court system and there is no legal basis in this decision,’’ Botsford said in a statement. ‘‘Today’s action, which violates the separation of powers outlined in the Texas Constitution, is nothing more than an effort to weaken the constitutional authority granted to the office of Texas governor, and sets a dangerous precedent by allowing a grand jury to punish the exercise of a lawful and constitutional authority afforded to the Texas governor.’’
‘‘We’re pleased that the grand jury determined that the governor’s bullying crossed the line into illegal behavior,’’ said Craig McDonald, executive director of the watchdog group.
That makes two qualifications to be president that Perry possesses.
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Any others we can find?
"Rick Perry calls charges ‘a farce’" by Manny Fernandez and Jonathan Martin | New York Times August 17, 2014
AUSTIN, Texas — A defiant Governor Rick Perry on Saturday vowed to fight his indictment for abuse of power, calling it a “farce” and a political prosecution.
Looks like the bully defending himself to me.
It was his first appearance since a grand jury indicted him on two felony counts Friday on charges of trying to pressure the district attorney here, a Democrat, to step down by threatening to veto state funding for her office.
“I wholeheartedly and unequivocally stand behind my veto,” Perry said, adding, “We don’t settle political differences with indictments in this country.”
Vowing to stay in office until the end of his term in January, Perry said he would “explore every legal avenue” to fight the charges and was “confident” he would prevail.
The governor, a Republican, was accused of abusing his power last year when he threatened to veto state financing to Austin’s top prosecutor — Rosemary Lehmberg, the Travis County district attorney — in an attempt to get her to resign after her arrest for drunken driving.
The grand jurors charged Perry with abusing his official capacity and coercing a public servant.
Perry was unsparing about her, saying she had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit. “Americans and Texans who have seen this agree with me,” he said.
The indictment Friday marked a change in fortunes for a man who has been an unrivaled power in Texas. Throughout his nearly 14 years as governor of Texas, Perry has filled every position on every board and commission in the state.
Texas a training ground for presidents. Hand him the nomination now.
That amounts to thousands of appointments, from the most obscure positions on the Texas Funeral Service Commission to more influential posts on university boards of regents, all of them loyal to some degree to one of the longest-serving governors in US history and one of the most powerful ever in Texas.
But there were two things he did not control. The first was the prosecutor’s office here in the state capital. The second was the 12 seats on the grand jury investigating what critics said was his attempt to force out Lehmberg and shut down a potentially damaging investigation into a medical research institute that has been one of Perry’s favorite avenues for grants and jobs.
On Friday, like a plot out of Shakespeare, Perry’s attempt to control one of the few things of substance in the state that was out of his reach led to the two felony charges that threaten to tarnish his legacy and derail his hopes for a second presidential run.
Sometimes I feel all I am reading is fiction.
The indictment was a stunning rebuke to Perry, but also set in motion a battle of competing narratives over just what kind of overreach it reflects.
Remember that phrase.
Democrats say the charges describe the arrogant overreach of a governor with unchecked power.
They don't seem to mind when the guy is residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Republicans took up Perry’s argument Saturday, that the excess was in the investigation and indictment themselves, which they describe as political in nature and extremely dubious in legality.
Few criticisms or legal challenges to Perry’s actions or policies have done any significant damage to his popularity among Texas Republican voters, lawmakers and officials.
Even after Perry stumbled on the national stage with his embarrassing first campaign for president in 2012, he remained feared and respected in Texas.
Feared and respected? That's a president!
But his critics have seized on his criminal indictment with a new vigor, saying it was a sign that he had been blinded by his own power. Democrats have already called for Perry to step down.
Well, okay, let's put the brakes on. That blinded with power thing, that usually works out bad for the rest of us.
“It’s a reminder that there ain’t no cowboy that can’t be thrown,” said John Whitmire, a Houston Democrat who is the state Senate’s longest-serving current member.
Republicans defended Perry’s actions as lawful and said the indictment would not do any long-term political damage to him. They said the grand jury, in one of the state’s few Democratic strongholds, had exceeded its authority and inserted itself into politics.
Having decided against running for a fourth full term as governor, he has spent much of this year seeking to reintroduce himself to Republican donors and voters in states with early presidential primaries.
Perry has seemed determined to prove that a disastrous campaign signified by the infamous “oops” debate moment should not define his national political legacy. He has repeatedly used the same mantra: “I think America is a place that believes in second chances.”
Used to be. Now you get one chance.
He has received tutorials from policy experts and traveled abroad. This month, he unveiled a political action committee, RickPAC, that will allow him to contribute money to candidates for federal office this year, a way to earn gratitude and stay engaged in some of 2014’s most high-profile races.
RickPAC was also created to serve as a campaign-in-waiting, and Perry used it last week to release a web video carrying his response to the surge of Central American youths to the border and criticism of President Obama on the matter.
That's over, but impeachable.
The border issue had been heartening to Perry’s backers in recent weeks, portraying the governor, they said, as an effective leader on a topic of great interest to conservatives.
“The message to the president of the United States is clear,” he said last week in Iowa. “If you will not secure the border of our country, then the state of Texas will.”
Perry has taken this sort of tough talk to Iowa in repeated visits. He has trips to New Hampshire and South Carolina, the two states with early presidential primaries, on his schedule for this month.
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He sure is looking presidential on a Sunday morning.
"Perry defends veto that led to indictment" by Brian Knowlton | New York Times August 18, 2014
WASHINGTON — Governor Rick Perry of Texas, who appeared on “Fox News Sunday,” also used the occasion to criticize President Obama, saying he was responsible for a national erosion of the “rule of law.”
Perry’s appearance was his first national television interview since his indictment Friday on two felony counts stemming from his effort to pressure Travis County’s top prosecutor, Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat, to step down by threatening to veto state funding for an ethics investigative unit within her office. Lehmberg had been arrested on a drunken driving charge.
And she made a scene.
Grand jurors in Travis County charged Perry, a Republican, with abusing his official capacity and coercing a public servant.
On Fox, Perry laid out his complaint against Lehmberg — saying she had almost three times the legal blood-alcohol limit and was “abusive” when arrested. He then added, of the indictment: “This is not the way we settle differences — policy differences — in this country. You don’t do it with indictments. We settle our differences at the ballot box.”
Perry repeatedly invoked the “rule of law,” suggesting that it had suffered under Obama, whether in the scandal over the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of political nonprofit groups, enforcement of border security, or surveillance by the National Security Agency.
You don't have to like him to realize he is right.
Of course, where he to be president nothing would change.
The governor said he had received support from a range of political figures, not just Republicans but also from the other end of the political spectrum. He quoted a Twitter post from David Axelrod, the former senior adviser to Obama, as saying the indictment seemed “pretty sketchy.”
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Perry also cited Alan M. Dershowitz, a retired professor of constitutional and criminal law at Harvard University. Dershowitz told Newsmax, the conservative news website, that he was a “longtime Democrat who would never vote for Rick Perry” but that the indictment represented an unacceptable “criminalization of party differences.”
On Saturday, in a news conference in Austin, Perry made some of the same arguments....
That's where it all started falling apart, for I remember that Perry has visited and been vetted by Israel.
I have two qualifications for president: one, he/she stands up to Israel. Two, he/she.... okay, I have one qualification for president (I leave the bankers for Congress).
The indictment Friday marked a change in fortunes for a man who has been an unrivaled power in Texas. Throughout his nearly 14 years as governor, Perry has filled every position on every board and commission in the state. That amounts to thousands of appointments, from the most obscure positions on the Texas Funeral Service Commission to more influential posts on university boards of regents.
But one powerful institution he does not control is the prosecutor’s office in the state capital of Austin. The office has often been a potent irritant to state politicians.
At the time of Lehmberg’s drunken-driving case, in which she pleaded guilty, her office’s Public Integrity Unit had been conducting an investigation of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, which received a steady stream of lucrative state grants. The investigation led to the indictment of one of the institute’s former executives, who was accused of improperly awarding an $11 million grant to a Dallas firm. Travis County officials have struggled to fund the unit through other means.
Depending on what deal was worked out if Lehmberg had resigned, Perry could have been in a position to name her successor.
Now, Perry’s indictment threatens to tarnish his legacy and derail his hopes for a second presidential run.
Deja vu.
The charges set in motion a battle of competing narratives....
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Speaking of keeping the narratives going:
"Texas man held in powder letter hoax; Boston threats among hundreds" by John R. Ellement | Globe Staff July 29, 2014
A Texas man who has claimed to hear voices in his head was allegedly the author of hundreds of letters that contained bizarre threats and white powders, a combination that triggered anxiety and hazardous materials team responses across the country, including in Boston in 2013.
Hong Minh Truong, 66, appeared in US District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Dallas on Monday where he is facing a criminal complaint for hoaxing the public and conveying false information, federal officials said in a statement.
A key piece of forensic information in the case came from the Boston public schools’ computer network following the receipt of 28 letters that contained white powder and made references to the terror group Al Qaeda and anthrax, officials said.
The letters led to a hazardous materials response across the city, generated anxiety among parents and staff members, and led police to increase patrols near the city’s schools. In the aftermath, school officials discovered that someone with a Time Warner Cable subscription in Rowlett, Texas, visited the School Department website in June 2013 before the letters were sent.
The information that was sent to federal investigators and officials matched up with the cable subscriber at Truong’s home in Rowlett, officials said in a statement.
“We offered our assistance to investigators throughout the process and we are pleased with today’s news that an arrest has been made,’’ Brian Ballou, a spokesman for the Boston School Department said in a statement.
According to federal officials in Texas, since December 2008, Truong allegedly mailed out more than 500 letters that contained bizarrely written threats and a white powder the writer said was anthrax.
Federal officials included a partial quote from the letters sent to Boston.
It read in part, “we are terrorist victim from Al-Queada FBI, Communist FBI and Nazi FBI in Texas. We let you all know to aware. They have been forcing and controlling us to do something to harm the America.”
That is usually how the patsy plots unfold, yeah.
Truong told Dallas police in 2002 that he heard voices in his head telling him “to do things he does not want to do” and that federal law enforcement agencies and police “are after him and beaming radar into his body.’’
That really aggravates me with suspicion.
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Related: Boston Schools Get a Letter From Texas
Also see: Richardson Played Her Role Well
So did that guy.
"Police: 6 killed in Houston-area police chase" Associated Press August 12, 2014
LEAGUE CITY, Texas — Four family members were among six people killed Sunday when a motorist seen driving erratically southeast of Houston fled from police and drove past a stop sign before striking another vehicle, police said.
Authorities described the collision in League City as one of the worst they have seen, with both vehicles left unrecognizable. ‘‘As far as lives lost and a devastating accident scene, this would probably top any other accidents for the League City Police Department,’’ police spokeswoman Reagan Pena said Monday.
The police pursuit began Sunday night in nearby Dickinson when a Dodge Durango was seen operating erratically and without its headlights on, according to Dickinson police Captain Jay Jaekel.
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NEXT DAY UPDATES:
"No arrest warrant being issued in Texas for Perry; Governor keeps travel agenda" by Paul J. Weber | Associated Press August 19, 2014
AUSTIN, Texas — A judge is not issuing an arrest warrant for Texas Governor Rick Perry, a court official said Monday, and the Republican is planning to continue galloping around the country gearing up for a possible 2016 presidential run — despite being indicted on two felony counts of abuse of power back home.
Perry on Friday became the first Texas governor since 1917 to be indicted. He is facing charges that carry a maximum sentence of 109 years in prison for carrying out a threat to veto funding for the state’s public integrity unit last summer.
Perry has emphatically denied all wrongdoing.
‘‘This is nothing more than banana republic politics,’’ Tony Buzbee, a Houston-based defense attorney who will head a team of four lawyers from Texas and Washington defending Perry, said at a news conference Monday. ‘‘The charges lobbed against the governor are a really nasty attack not only on the rule of law but on the Constitution of the United States, the state of Texas, and also the fundamental constitutional protections that we all enjoy.’’
We have reached that level, yeah. It's why I don't give a $hit about politics anymore -- or the propaganda pre$$ focus on it.
Linda Estrada, a Travis County grand jury clerk, said that the judge overseeing the case, Bert Richardson, decided against issuing an arrest warrant. Instead, Perry will receive a summons, which has not been issued yet. He eventually will have to be booked and fingerprinted.
For the attack ad during the campaign.
Of course, being a criminal gives Perry another qualification for the job. Racking them up pretty early is he.
A grand jury in Austin indicted Perry for carrying out a threat to veto $7.5 million in funding for the state’s public integrity unit after Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat, refused to resign following a drunken driving arrest. The ethics watchdog unit is housed under Lehmberg’s office.
No one disputes that Perry has the power to veto measures approved by the Legislature, but the veto vow prompted a complaint from a left-leaning watchdog group. Richardson, a Republican, assigned a special prosecutor to lead the case against Perry, who has been charged with abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant.
He lobbied for what?
Word that his attorneys were negotiating a court appearance raised some questions about favoritism, but legal observers said forgoing an arrest warrant is common in white-collar cases.
I keep telling you it is AmeriKan Ju$tice.
Former US attorney Matt Orwig said that insisting on an arrest warrant for Perry would have been ‘‘grandstanding.’’
‘‘He’s obviously not a flight risk or danger to the community,’’ Orwig said.
I don't know about that second one.
He's a politician, right?
Thus, by definition....
The public integrity unit also led the case against former US House Majority Leader Tom Delay, a fellow Texas Republican who was convicted in 2010 on campaign finance charges but eventually had them overturned on appeal.
Ca$e clo$ed.
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"Texas’s justice system claims a new victim, Rick Perry | August 19, 2014
The term “Texas justice” has never conveyed procedural fairness or high standards. Since the Old West, which sometimes seems to be inordinately on the minds of current-day Texans, Texas justice has suggested impetuousness, righteousness, and lack of forgiveness. More recently, Texas, with its elected judges and penchant for harsh punishment, has been the epicenter of the anti-death-penalty movement. Political biases and a prosecutorial mindset hold too much sway in Texas’s judicial system, civil rights attorneys believe.
Rick Perry, the state’s governor for the past 14 years, doesn’t share those criticisms. But last week, a grand jury in Travis County — the state’s Austin-based Democratic stronghold — indicted Perry himself on charges of abusing his public office and coercing a public servant. The case brought smiles to the faces of Perry’s political rivals in both parties, coming as the governor is testing the waters for a second presidential run. But it has a political stink about it all the same. It bears the hallmarks of a classic miscarriage of justice, Texas style.
Perry did nothing to prompt the indictment except veto $7.5 million in funds for an anti-corruption unit of the district attorney’s office in the very same Travis County. He had threatened to do so unless Rosemary Lehmberg, the district attorney in Travis County, resigned her post. Lehmberg had been arrested on a drunken-driving charge, but refused to leave office. The indictment claims that Perry’s threat amounted to “coercion” under the state’s criminal code. But governors often veto spending bills for purely political reasons. Perry’s offense, apparently, was to be open about it. And in demanding that a chief prosecutor should leave office while facing criminal charges of her own, Perry was hardly going beyond what governors in other states might say or do. Whatever Perry’s motives, mere political strong-arming shouldn’t be a crime.
While Perry’s conservative defenders are leaping to portray the charges as trumped up, they should pause and consider: If a DA can cajole a grand jury into bringing an indictment for political payback, what does that say about the DA’s power generally? In Texas, with its law-and-order mentality, DAs feel intense pressure to seek maximum charges against suspects, with little incentive for caution. There isn’t much of a counterbalance; judges themselves are often elected based on promises of toughness on crime and risk political fallout if they appear sensitive to defendants’ rights. The state also lags in resources devoted to defense counsel. Perry, at least, won’t suffer on that score.
But if anyone thought the governor might cast a skeptical eye on his own state’s justice system, they’d be wrong. Perry decried the charges as a travesty, but blamed — get this — President Obama for creating a national culture that undermines the rule of law. Politics shouldn’t play a role in justice, period. But it’s in every crevice of the Perry case.
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I'm sorry, I wasn't listening. I've stopped reading the paper at that point.
"Armed militias alarm law enforcement along Texas border; Groups endanger agents in complex area, officials say" by Christopher Sherman | Associated Press August 19, 2014
MISSION, Texas — On a recent moonlit night, Border Patrol agents began rounding up eight immigrants hiding in and around a canal near the Rio Grande. A state trooper soon arrived to help. Then out of the darkness emerged seven more armed men in fatigues.
Agents assumed the camouflaged crew that joined in pulling the immigrants from the canal’s milky green waters was a tactical unit from the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Only later did they learn that the men belonged to the Texas Militia, a group that dresses like a SWAT team and carries weapons but has no law-enforcement training or authority of any kind.
Ah, the return of the "militias" as Ferguson heats up. This agenda is all too obvious.
The situation ended peacefully with the immigrants getting arrested and the Border Patrol advising the militia members ‘‘to properly and promptly’’ identify themselves any time they encounter law-enforcement officers. But the episode was unsettling enough for the Border Patrol to circulate an ‘‘issue paper’’ warning other agents.
The presence of armed militia members working on their own in a region known for human smuggling, drug smuggling, and illegal immigration has added one more variable to an already complex and tense situation.
Translation: AmeriKan government doesn't like citizens taking back their government and being what the founders intended.
I know that makes me some sort of domestic terrorist, but I am not.
Unfortunately, I am here every day wasting time by chronicling the bull$hit being slung at us by the propaganda pre$$. Sorry to disappoint you.
Although the Aug. 6 incident in Mission resulted in no harm, it’s not hard to imagine deadlier outcomes throughout the Rio Grande Valley, a wide area patrolled by more than 3,000 border agents, as well as hundreds of state troopers, game wardens, deputies, and local police officers. Governor Rick Perry is also sending as many as 1,000 National Guard troops to the area.
Let's see if the mowing down of rednecks gets the same sympathetic(?) response from government as Missouri is getting.
I gotta tell you, folks, I feel a lot of love in this room right now.
‘‘How do they identify themselves? Do they have badges? How do we know who they are?’’ asked J.P. Rodriguez, a spokesman for the Hidalgo County sheriff’s office. ‘‘If they’re all just dressed in camos, it’s kind of hard to distinguish whether they’re law enforcement or not. . . . There’s a lot of potential for stuff to go wrong.’’
Or a private security contractor hired by government, or a terrorist in faraway lands wearing one.
One year ago, a member of an Arizona Minuteman border-watch group was arrested for pointing a rifle at a sheriff’s deputy he apparently mistook for a drug smuggler. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio warned of ‘‘chaos if you’re going to have private citizens dressed just like our deputies taking the law into their own hands.’’
Of course, Arpaio is a big hero to tough conservatives, blah, blah, blah. I'm reading all this as only the cops have the right to shoot, beat, and all the rest. You citizens shouldn't even be armed and how dare you fill the vacuum of government neglect or even encouragement?
Don't get me wrong: I'm not for armed mobs roaming the streets; it's just that there are armed mobs roaming the streets, and they are called law enforcement.
If militia members aren’t careful in their dealings with real law officers, ‘‘there could be some dead militia out there,’’ he added.
I take that as a THREAT, don't you?!!
The Border Patrol declined to comment on the encounter in Mission, referring questions to a general statement on militias released last month by US Customs and Border Protection.
That statement said the agency ‘‘does not endorse or support any private group or organization ... taking matters into their own hands as it could have disastrous personal and public safety consequences.’’
Yeah, leave that to them as they kick in doors, fire tear gas at people, chuck flash grenades, and drive their armored vehicles through the streets.
The militia members who surprised the Border Patrol that night told agents they wanted to help with the ‘‘border crisis’’ and that they supported the agency’s efforts, according to a copy of the issue paper.
E-mails sent to a website for the Texas Militia were not answered.
The spot where the incident happened is a popular smuggling corridor where a thumb of Mexican farmland pushes into South Texas. The canal, an earthen channel that delivers water to the city of Mission, is 6 to 8 feet deep. Immigrants who emerge from the canal have only to cross a single sorghum field to reach a road.
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I smuggled those out under cover of a next day update.
