Don't mess with Texas.
Posted on 10/25/2012 1:06:53 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross
Texas authorities have threatened to arrest international election observers, prompting a furious response from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
“The threat of criminal sanctions against [international] observers is unacceptable,” Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), said in a statement. “The United States, like all countries in the OSCE, has an obligation to invite ODIHR observers to observe its elections.”
Lawmakers from the group of 56 European and Central Asian nations have been observing U.S. elections since 2002, without incident. Their presence has become a flashpoint this year, however, as Republicans accuse Democrats of voter fraud while Democrats counter that GOP-inspired voter ID laws aim to disenfranchise minority voters.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott further fueled the controversy on Tuesday when he sent a letter to the OSCE warning the organization that its representatives “are not authorized by Texas law to enter a polling place” and that it “may be a criminal offense for OSCE’s representatives to maintain a presence within 100 feet of a polling place's entrance.”
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Don't mess with Texas.
SHOWDOWN! TEXAS VOWS TO ARREST UN ELECTION OBSERVERS ...
LOL!
Thank you, Texas.
Arrest these interlopers and put them on a chain gang.
Long Live Texas!!!!! Now if the rest of the states will do the same!
Texas needs to give these "observers", 0bama and the dims a little lesson on the meaning of SOVEREIGNTY!
“The United States, like all countries in the OSCE, has an obligation to invite ODIHR observers to observe its elections.”
No we don’t, so go home.
Flip the bird to the blue-heads (bluebonnet? heh)—and take a pic.
We are a sovereign nation with our OWN Constitution and we answer to NO ONE except OUR people. SCREW YOU, U.N. Take your ‘Agenda 21’ and shove it where the sun don’t shine!!
Who in the hell does the OSCE believe they are? Good grief.
“The United States, like all countries in the OSCE, has an obligation to invite ODIHR observers to observe its elections.”
Y’see, Skippy, now there’s yer problem: there’s the United States, and then there’s the Great State of Texas [or insert your state here if you can run with the big dogs]. Understandable mistake on your part. Now git.
Doesn’t the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have some pathetic little dung heap in one of the 56 European and Central Asian nations affiliated with them that is in need of some nanny-care...Because Texas is not one of them.
” your opinion is legally irrelevant in the United States . . .”
Love it.
But ... I am from zee OSCE. I demand to be permitted to observe you.
See that phrase, “Obligation to invite”, that's bovine scatology.
Texas has NO “obligation” to foreign countries to invite them anywhere. The only obligation we have to is follow our laws and no where will you find “obligation to the UN” anywhere.
I think this is where Texas stands up to evil.
I read yesterday that some states actually have it written into law to invite these people. I don't recall if it gave the names of those states. What a crazy thing to do.
Stay out of my Texas county. We are about 95% Republican and I would bet our law enforcement people are ready to arrest these invaders if they show up to violate our distance markers at polling places. The UN needs to think twice before they cross the border into Texas.
Don’t start nothing ‘til I get there, jag! I’m packin’ as fast as I can.
Excellent. I guess my next vacation will be in Texas! LOL
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