War of Words Divides Residents of Texas Town

NY Times ^ | SIMON ROMERO

[bimbo]

. "Would we be surprised today if the U.S. government executed a group of pirates, or terrorists, as they're known in modern language, who were found operating on American soil?"

Personally, I’d be surprised if they were even brought to trial in this politically correct milieu.

[bimbo]

"No wonder our town is not growing," said Rajesh Bhakta, an immigrant from India and manager of the Antlers Inn on Goliad's outskirts. "Who wants to invest in a place with all this unseemly fighting over long-ago affairs?"

Wait a minute! I take exception to that! It is easy decision for an Indian to pick up and leave India for America – it is an improvement – and trivialize American and Texan history. But Texans have no such option … The rest of the world (including India) has strictly enforced immigration laws, and there is no improvement in going there anyway. And so Texans deal with their history. So, Mr Bhakta, you can accept American and Texan culture and history, or go someplace where the culture and history is more amenable to you. You're luck Texans are a hospitable lot, or they'd run your ungrateful ass out of town.

[MEG33]

It is an unseemly affair.They are fighting over much more than massacre vs execution.They are fighting for power.Some may care about history but most take sides for a different reason.Power struggles are as old as history.(My family was part of the Texas Revolution)

[Texas Tea]

6th generation Texas here speaking up.

The straw that broke the camel's back was when the Mexican government declared that there would be NO more anglos moving into the Texas territory, under any condition.

That meant that the men who came to tame the Texas country and remove much of the Indian population (which the Mexican government wanted desparately) and to make a home for the families, could not longer bring their mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, and most of all their wives and children to come and live with them.

This along with the sky high taxes implemented was enough to cause the firm footing of the Texas Revolution in the eyes of the men and their families.