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Feds raid Texas secessionist meeting
The San Antonio Express-News ^ | February 23, 2015 | Dylan Baddour, The Houston Chronicle

Posted on 02/25/2015 8:15:28 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

It seemed like a typical congressional meeting for the Republic of Texas. Senators and the president gathered in the center of a Bryan, Texas, meeting hall, surrounded by public onlookers, to debate issues of the national currency, develop international relations and celebrate the birthday of one of their oldest members.

But this wasn't 1836, and this would be no ordinary legislative conference. Minutes into the meeting a man among the onlookers stood and moved to open the hall door, letting in an armed and armored force of the Bryan Police Department, the Brazos County Sheriff's Office, the Kerr County Sheriff's Office, Agents of the Texas District Attorney, the Texas Rangers and the FBI.

In the end, at least 20 officers corralled, searched and fingerprinted all 60 meeting attendees, before seizing all cellphones and recording equipment in a Valentine's Day 2015 raid on the Texas separatist group....

(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 201502; 20150214; fakecourts; fascism; kooks; lawenforcement; policestate; rot; secession; texas; tyranny
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To: nascarnation

Just setting up your won court system is against the rules. Substitute Sharia Court for Texas Republic Court and you can see how that might be scary for the powers that are.


41 posted on 02/25/2015 8:48:41 AM PST by Vermont Lt (When you are inclined to to buy storage boxes, but contractor bags instead.)
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To: MaxMax

What the feds have been doing to get the cooperation of many police agencies is giving them DHS vehicles and grants. I have had people send me photographs of them. They will day something like XXX County Sheriff’s Officd and then undeneath that it will say Department of Homeland Security


42 posted on 02/25/2015 8:48:49 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: rarestia
Muzzies and leftists are protected; secessionists, libertarians, and constitutionalists are not.
43 posted on 02/25/2015 8:49:28 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I think they would be very pleased.
Take away Texas 38 Republican evs, and the Dems have a permanent lock on US POTUS elections.


44 posted on 02/25/2015 8:49:34 AM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

First Rule of Fight Club: There is no such thing as Fight Club.

These bozos are amateurs.


45 posted on 02/25/2015 8:49:35 AM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What did I miss? Were they slicing necks? hanging people?
Still think this is a free country?


46 posted on 02/25/2015 8:51:20 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Escalate their response. They want violence that they can blame on others as pap for the low information voters.


47 posted on 02/25/2015 8:51:32 AM PST by Ingtar (Is this the Ebola and rumors of Ebola mentioned in the Bible?)
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To: DoodleDawg

Even “loony-tunes” folk can go too far. They send out their fake, symbolic sub poenas and there’s no reaction. So, what do the loony-tunes do next? And after that? And so on. How long do we wait before it reaches a critical point?


48 posted on 02/25/2015 8:51:39 AM PST by Clara Lou
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To: John S Mosby

> The Texas Republic— filed fake legal documents, that is “served” papers to the judge and a banker to “appear” in their “court” at the Veterans building for a “hearing”. That is to appear in a court with no legal (in the sense of current legal system of Texas) basis.

Now that is a no no. They have no standing to do that. I wonder who the genius was that thought that up. Folks if you’re going to keep shooting yourself in the foot and not be smarter than your opponent how can you expect to succeed at anything you endeavor to do?


49 posted on 02/25/2015 8:52:22 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: dfwgator
Sleep well, America, the DHS is on the job.

According to the article DHS had nothing to do with it. Texas and the FBI/DOJ were running this operation.

Actually DHS is quite limited to which laws they can enforce. DOJ owns domestic terrorism unless there is an immigration angle to the case.

DHS spends their time releasing illegal immigrants, seizing counterfeit products, looking through underwear at the airport, kiddy porn and writing intel briefings nobody but the media take seriously.

50 posted on 02/25/2015 8:52:38 AM PST by usurper (Liberals GET OFF MY LAWN)
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To: originalbuckeye

During the 2008 election, the media played up Todd Palin’s supposed links to some Alaskan secessionist movement. They did not pay the same attention to Obama’s support for the Hawaiian secessionist movement.

He’s still supportive.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3197253/posts
This Obama Administration Proposal Would Effectively Authorize Some Americans Seceding
Daily Signal ^ | August 26, 2014 | Hans von Spakovsky

In its latest assault on the U.S. Constitution, the Obama administration is proposing to recognize so-called “Native” Hawaiians as an Indian tribe entitled to separate and become an independent sovereign and to “reestablish” a “government-to-government relationship between the United State and the Native Hawaiian community.”

Such an unconstitutional action would amount to authorizing secession for certain residents of Hawaii.

It would also implicitly authorize government-sanctioned, discriminatory conduct against any other residents who don’t meet the explicit ancestry and blood-quantum requirements to be considered a “Native.” This would balkanize Hawaii, dividing the islands into separate racial and ethnic enclaves, and undo “the political bargain through which Hawaii secured its admission into the Union.”



51 posted on 02/25/2015 8:52:45 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Meanwhile in local mosques Islamic terrorists are plotting mass murder and no one gives a damn.


52 posted on 02/25/2015 8:54:01 AM PST by The Great RJ (Pants up...Don't loot!)
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To: Vermont Lt

Dallas HAS a Sharia courts system with Islamists calling themselves judges.

Islamic tribunal in Dallas draws criticism and clients
Dallas Morning News ^ | 02/23/2015 | DIANNE SOLÍS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3261029/posts


53 posted on 02/25/2015 8:54:10 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: usurper
DHS spends their time releasing illegal immigrants, seizing counterfeit products, looking through underwear at the airport, kiddy porn and writing intel briefings nobody but the media take seriously.

And yet the DNCmedia is playing up the horror show that will occur if the Republicans delay further funding of DHS just because of Obama's amnesty program for illegals.

54 posted on 02/25/2015 8:55:46 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

>>The Feds have informants every where.<<

Why yes they do. We truly live in a police state. With that said, this group, Republic of Texas has checkered past.


55 posted on 02/25/2015 8:57:43 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: tgusa

The Ranger Service took a big nose dive in the mid-late 90’s. They are political fodder now.


56 posted on 02/25/2015 8:58:03 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The raid was a response to legal summons sent by Republic of Texas members to a Kerr County judge and bank employee, demanding they appear in the Republic's court at the Veterans and Foreign Wars building in Bryan the day the officers stormed in. Jarnecke's group, the subject of a half-hour YouTube documentary, maintains a small working government, including official currency, congress and courts.

"You can't just let people go around filing false documents to judges trying to make them appear in front of courts that aren't even real courts," said Kerr County sheriff Rusty Hierholzer, who led the operation.

The show of force may be a little excessive, but this wasn't a BS search warrant. Don't send a summons unless it is legitimate.

57 posted on 02/25/2015 8:58:19 AM PST by Darren McCarty (Mike Pence in 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I'm certain this is how Adolph got HIS start!

Welcome to Germany, 1933!! And if you're JEWISH, you should be ESPECIALLY WORRIED!

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58 posted on 02/25/2015 8:58:23 AM PST by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Is there any provision in law or the Constitution for states to secede from the union? We know there are provisions for admitting new states to the union. But what about states wanting to leave? History tells us we fought a civil war to keep the union together. If the states really have sovereign status, shouldn’t they legally be allowed to develop plans to secede? I don’t know the law and am curious as to whether someone is committing a federal offense to work towards a state leaving the union.

I hate to point this out about the rationalizations about a "social contract" and "governing with the consent of the governed". How is a "social contract" a contract when it is done under duress? If I put a gun to the head of someone who just drove off the lot after paying cash for a Bugatti supercar and made them sign a contract to sell it to me for $1, how valid is that contract?

I love how "consent of the governed" works. "I will only govern you if you consent to be governed, but if you refuse me consent to be governed, I will imprison and/or kill you."
59 posted on 02/25/2015 8:59:26 AM PST by baltimorepoet
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To: servantboy777

The US actually has the highest amount of law enforcement per capita in the world.


60 posted on 02/25/2015 8:59:44 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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