Texans fear Obama-led U.S. military invasion

The Day (CT) ^ | 7/4/2015 | Kevin Slullivan

[HomerBohn]

Nice spin to make Texans look like a bunch of crazies. Could easily write a similar story about even crazier liberals, but of course the media would never do that because they would be labeled as homophobic or racist.

[MagnoliaB]

“Here in the soft, green farmlands east of Austin, some say the answer is simple: “The truth is, this stems a fair amount from the fact that we have a black president,” said Terry Orr, who was Bastrop’s mayor from 2008 to 2014.”

BS!!! It’s not because he’s black, it’s because he’s RED and habitual LIAR!

[The Working Man]

It’s interesting that this is in an Connecticut paper.

Perhaps they are losing businesses and residents to Texas?

[novemberslady]

Do not run .
We are your friends.
We come in peace.

[Crazieman]

Aack! Aack!

[Gaffer]

One wonders how much outrage there would be if a place like NYC, Detroit or Chicago was labeled RED and soldiers maneuvered in and around their digs. Of course, only on federal land and on property from whose owners they had secured “permission.”

In this world today, there is more of a need to control urban areas than wide open spaces if one would want to ‘practice’ realistic scenarios. In areas like that planned for this exercise, the ‘government’ would only need the GBUs, Drones and air strikes they are using today.

[novemberslady]

Aack Aack Aack Aack Aack!
making sign of peace-circle in mid-air with pointer finger...

[Original Lurker]

I didn’t notice it’s from a Connecticut publication.
Doubt there is a business angle. I tend to lean toward it’s more demonetization of any one or thing from
below the Mason/Dixon line. Perhaps you’re unaware of the visceral hate of many New Englanders towards anyone from the south.

The love of money *IS* to root of all evil.

[nathanbedford]

Perhaps the author would like to respond to these 25 questions:

1. Was Obama raised by communists?

2. Was Obama mentored by terrorists?

3. Has the Obama administration labeled dissenters potential terrorists?

4. Is Obama primarily concerned with the welfare of blacks and illegal aliens?

5. Why did the author deem it necessary to put the phrase "illegal aliens" in quotation marks?

6. Do people, in fact people all over the country, think that "the government is just not on the side of the white guy?"

7. Are things as good as they used to be?

8. Is the middle-class getting squeezed?

9. Is Obama a great (deserving) target?

10. Is the anger and disrespect directed at Barack Obama a "red flag" that our country has a lot of things it needs to come to terms with, or, is it the reasonable reaction of reasonable people to extra-constitutional and tyrannical actions of Obama?

11. If it were any other president than Obama would it be an issue? If it were a black president who was conservative would it be an issue? Has Obama behaved in a way that he deserves to be criticized?

12. Does a desire to "take our country back" imply racism?

13. In view of the history of the Obama administration including its definition of conservatives and Christians and veterans as potential terrorists, is one necessarily "conservative-minded" to be wary of military operations in which liberal portions of the country are labeled "permissive" but conservative portions of the country are labeled "hostile"? Is it to go into "overdrive" to question the intentions of the government under these circumstances and in this context?

14. Is it "conspiracy-minded" to question why the logo features anti-Nazi resistance but not anti-Communist resistance?

15. Does it do our troops a disservice or is it irrational to be wary of an armed force in your midst under the orders of a commander who has distorted the Constitution?

16. How so do the fears expressed amount to "paranoia"?

17. Does the president "take national threats seriously enough" considering his record on Obama's policies toward Russia, Iran, Cuba and the Islamic State, as well as illegal immigration across the U.S. southern border and the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya?

18. Has the Obama administration used the Internal Revenue Service to attack The Tea Party and other groups?

19. Has the Obama administration been hostile to gun owners?

20. Has the Obama administration issued Executive Orders considered by the courts to be illegal?

21. Has the Obama administration been complicit in stirring riots in Ferguson Missouri and Baltimore Maryland?

22. Does the Obama administration in fact have a history of attacking Texas on issues from education to environmental regulations to healthcare?

23. Is it a great leap to believe that Obama would deploy the military as he did the IRS?

24. Has the federal government shown itself to be trustworthy in the Obama administration?

25. Are the people who expressed concerns "crazy"? I know what my answers to those questions would be and I suspect I know your answers as well.

Don't mess with Texas

[HomerBohn]

No American in their right mind would ever trust this out-of-control central communist government.

Obama is a maniacal bomb thrower and is capable of any disastrous deed.

[HomerBohn]

Great movie, but not given the credit it truly deserved.

[TalBlack]

“If it were any other president but Obama, it would not be an issue.”

Simply NOT true. bozo is being judged by his ACTIONS, his ARROGANCE, his CONTEMPT. Frankly I think the Black townsmens’ inability to see any other possibility for dislike of bozo among whites is kneejerk racist.

[Pollster1]

"The truth is, this stems a fair amount from the fact that we have a black president," said Terry Orr, who was Bastrop's mayor from 2008 to 2014.

We have a usurper whose skin happens to be black, but melanin has no relevance to the rejection of a communist who is certainly not culturally American and may not even be legally American.

[papertyger]

[patriot08]

Obama hates Texas because it is so successful, and because governor Gregg Abbott and Perry before him have dared to fight back against his tyranny.

Perhaps legendary coach, Bum Phillips said it best:

"When William Barrett Travis wrote in 1836 that he would never surrender and he would have Victory or Death, what he was really saying was that he and his men were forged of a hotter fire. They weren't your average everyday men. Well, that is what it means to be a Texan. It meant it then, and that's what it means today.. It means that come Hell or high water, when the chips are down and the Good Lord is watching, we're Texans by damned, and just like in 1836, that counts for something..."

The spirit of those brave men still lives in all of us.

We have fought off tyranny before and we'll do it again.

Don't mess with Texas.

[bert]

L T N

[rawcatslyentist]

"The truth is, this stems a fair amount from the fact that we have a black president,"

Based merely on the melanin content of whazhizname's skin.

He's about as black as Michael is a female!

[rawcatslyentist]

23. Is it a great leap to believe that Obama would deploy the military as he did the IRS?

Ask Gibson Guitars!

[papertyger]

Tag line update.

[Cen-Tejas]

Bastrop County is one of the fastest growing counties in the US and is a great place to live. I lved there 17 years. I know.

I got a few sentences into the article before realizing it was authored by a Lib with the usual and customary agenda.