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Texas AG to Feds: 'Come And Take' Disputed Land
newsmax.com ^ | 4/23/2014 | Jason Devaney

Posted on 04/23/2014 8:44:53 AM PDT by rktman

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has a message for the Bureau of Land Management about disputed land along the Oklahoma-Texas border: "Come and take it."

Abbott was referring to a potential land grab of 90,000 acres that belong to Texas residents. According to Breitbart Texas, the federal government is considering taking the land, which stretches 116 miles along the Red River.

"I am about ready to go to the Red River and raise a 'Come and Take It' flag to tell the feds to stay out of Texas," Abbott said.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: blm; comeandtakeit; domesticterrorists; domesticterrorits; dontmesswithtexas; statesrights
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To: WKUHilltopper
You’re about ready? Then what will make you ready?

In fairness, the Duties of his Office do require that he go through the motions of the administrative dance before the SHTF.

21 posted on 04/23/2014 10:27:18 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a Person as created by the Laws of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man)
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To: Himyar
It sure looks to me like the feds are trying to get a fight started somewhere.

I was talking to one of my daughters about this today, and the only thing that I could come up with when she asked "Why Texas?", was the feds were taking the little-tough-man approach. That's the one where the little guy with a chip on his shoulder shows up and just arbitrarily cold-cocks the biggest guy he sees to prove to everybody how macho he is.

If Texas fights and fails, its doubtful that any other State would even make the slightest attempt to stop them again.

22 posted on 04/23/2014 10:36:07 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a Person as created by the Laws of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man)
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To: rktman

Good for him! Most folks wouldn’t have understood, “Molon Labe.”


23 posted on 04/23/2014 11:36:25 AM PDT by afsnco
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To: deport

My point was simply that BLM was not intruding into the state of Texas, one of the few if not only states with no BLM land. The argument is over where the boundary of TX is.

I don’t necessarily agree with the BLM.

BTW, what moron came up with a boundary that is inevitably going to move over time. I can understand it in the 19th century, but not today.


24 posted on 04/23/2014 1:46:40 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: rktman

You can tell that Abbot is running for reelection. Too bad we couldn’t dump him in the primary.


25 posted on 04/23/2014 2:35:21 PM PDT by zeugma (Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened - Dr. Seuss (I'll see you again someday Hope))
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To: zeugma

Abbot is the attorney general. He is running for governor, not to get reelected to the AG position.


26 posted on 04/23/2014 2:44:43 PM PDT by Texas resident (The democrat party is now the CPUSA)
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To: rktman

And where is Windy Davis?
Bet she is on the side of the feds.
If I was Abbot, I would have someone keep an eye on her.


27 posted on 04/23/2014 2:45:38 PM PDT by Texas resident (The democrat party is now the CPUSA)
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To: Sherman Logan

True BLM doesn’t own any land in Texas but they do manage some Federal owned land.
In any case it seems some 90,000 acres will be removed from the state of Texas with
ownership being transferred somewhere else. Or am I reading this process the wrong way?


28 posted on 04/23/2014 3:09:27 PM PDT by deport
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To: Texas resident
Abbot is the attorney general. He is running for governor, not to get reelected to the AG position.

As I'm aware, having already voted against him once this year. He always talks tough around election time. If elected, he'll govern just like any other pseudo-republican.

29 posted on 04/23/2014 7:38:20 PM PDT by zeugma (Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened - Dr. Seuss (I'll see you again someday Hope))
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To: afsnco
Μολον Λαβε
30 posted on 04/27/2014 9:34:23 AM PDT by RebelTex (Soli Deo Gloria, "To God alone the glory")
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