I can never figure out why Texas is considered such a bastion of freedom around here.
It is all PR. Other States have better laws but you’ll hear the Texas PR come out and proclaim Texas better.
Macks Creek, Missouri was once funded almost totally by speed trap fines.
Today, the town has been unincorporated.
Texas has just as many cowboy cops as any other state. Probably more.
In this case the idiot cop who knows nothing about the law arrested a woman for “money laundering” with absolutely no evidence. I wonder if he spelled the charges correctly on the ticket.
3 words: Sheila Jackson Lee
Apparently, everything IS bigger in Texas. Including the morons. Texas? No thanks.
Now if I could only convince the illegal aliens.
“I can never figure out why Texas is considered such a bastion of freedom around here.”
Compared to elsewhere, it is. Don’t judge a whole state by a few bad people. Texas is overall one of the most conservative states around, excluding the welfare class in the bigger cities.
I used to live in a town where the police chief made cops stand on left turn lane islands at intersections and hand out tickets for not wearing seat belts. They had a quota before they were allowed to return to the cop shop. Seeing them stand out there for five to six hours was just too funny. The officers became angry at motorists for wearing seat belts!
Same here. Its like the rest of the south, corrupt and happy about it. Only a people willing to be slaves would tolerate (and vote for) it. Southerns think the north is awful but they need only look to themselves and clean house before pointing fingers.
“I can never figure out why Texas is considered such a bastion of freedom around here.”
Yes, and in my experience there are dozens of Estellines in Texas (and other Southern States for that matter). Little $hit hole “towns” that exist as parasites feeding off of those non-residents who venture through.
I’ve been wondering the same lately and initially attributed the high-volume of stories of police problems in Texas to the size of the state vs others. That may be part of it but I think the other factor is that a lot of Texas prisons are run by private for profit corporations, which may sound good in theory but is anything but. There was one Texas town about 10 years ago where the police were in cahoots with the private prison to keep the prison full so they could get as much state/fed funding (profit) as possible. They were locking up innocent citizens (mainly ‘poor’ people w/o the wherewithal to pay for a good atty), accusing them of (planted) drug possession.
” I can never figure out why Texas is
considered such a bastion of freedom
around here.”
I think it was last year TX got hammered for extorting people to sign awa claim to money. They threatened arrest and DCF ifthey didn’t. No parrent, even innocent, would refuse that demand.
Why people think TX = freedom, I don’t know.