Posted on 06/15/2010 6:53:43 PM PDT by george76
The Texas National Guard should join with Arizona’s
That is if Texas had the balls to be an ally with Arizona.
"Our thoroughly corrupt federal government has moved way beyond that line in the sand. Oaths of office are breached with impunity and ethics and integrity have become merely quaint terms of yesteryear, meaningless to our political elite. Whatever moral or legal authority they had to govern is now gone. They continue in office at our sufferance, subject to removal whenever we feel like it."
In the late 1850s and 1860, the Feds weren't doing enough to stop Mexican and Indian invasions into Texas. It was the constitutional duty of the Federal government to protect the state from these invasions, but the Feds didn't do enough to stop the invasions. Brownsville was overrun and captured by Mexican bandits, supposedly some 600 strong. Citizens were killed and ranches robbed. The citizens of Brownsville had to hire the Mexican army to protect the town from the bandits since the US forces were inadequate.
The Texas government sent the Texas Rangers to fight both invasions and aid the undermanned US forces. The Rangers crossed the Rio Grande leaving the Feds behind on the shore. The Rangers then fought the bandits on their home turf and beat them. Rangers also went after the Indians in their home villages, Indians who had been raiding settlers' homes and killing and kidnapping settlers and stealing their livestock.
Texas presented a bill for the Rangers' services to the US government. The US government only paid part of the Texas bill, paying it slowly at that, preferring instead to fund a big study of the Great Lakes.
The US failure to fully reimburse Texas for doing a job that the US should have done in the first place was listed as one of the reasons why the state seceded.
Nice comments. I agree.
I wouldn’t go quite that far, but I do think we need to do a whole lot of removing on election day. If that’s precisely what you meant, then we’re in full agreement.
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