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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: a fool in paradise

Divorce settlements, property rights etc that are not then referred to a judgement docket of at least an administrative judge and then to the clerk of the court for filing jurisdiction in the county? Doubt that sharia types have their own property court honored by TX. If so, then that is some news.


121 posted on 02/25/2015 11:14:43 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: a fool in paradise

Agreed. A tough nub for them to uh, rub.


122 posted on 02/25/2015 11:16:34 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: John S Mosby

Have any of those “Citizens Grand Juries” ran by truthers and such been raided? They issue subpeona’s too, they say....


123 posted on 02/25/2015 11:26:03 AM PST by GeronL
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To: Ben Ficklin

I live in Kerr County. The ROT members who have made the news were usually breaking the law- from trying to claim ownership of private land, to felons in posession of firearms, to refusing to renew their car registrations.

The false claims against legitimate owners of property pretty much branded them as criminals in these parts.


124 posted on 02/25/2015 11:52:41 AM PST by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: MaxMax

:: They were not hiding anything or doing anything illegal, that I’m aware of. ::

They may win in court, but...the DHS/FBI ^still^ has their fingerprints. Kinda like when [S]Hillary was found with those FBI flies. Yep, she was wrong and gave them back, but...

Horse, barn. etc.


125 posted on 02/25/2015 12:13:54 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: a fool in paradise

The feds would say they get to decide who can do this and who cannot...Like they are doing in the HI case. But that won’t wash. Equal protection clause and all that. So if they allow that they will lose in court for other “natives’.

Now, it seems pretty obvious to me that this is designed for any colored folk...not white native populations. Wait for that argument to be made.

But guess what? we CAN fight them back with their own sword.

For me the whole idea is the fed power should be diminished.


126 posted on 02/25/2015 12:42:27 PM PST by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: pierrem15

Exactly. The responded to a misdemeanor with multiple felonies. Seizing cellphones, fingerprints, allowing for DNA tests, and arrest when a they should have only served a warrant were all meant to intimidate, not address crime.


127 posted on 02/25/2015 2:38:14 PM PST by Ingtar (Is this the Ebola and rumors of Ebola mentioned in the Bible?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“”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.””

And since the sheriff knew the documents were false, why weren’t they simply ignored? Seems like the simplest way to handle something like that.


128 posted on 02/25/2015 3:55:50 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: a fool in paradise
And yet Obama supports Hawaii’s own secessionist movement.

That's different. The Hawaiian are virtuous people of color, and vessels of the world's cooperative-universalist destiny, you see.

<Do I need a tag? >

129 posted on 02/25/2015 4:20:16 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: Ingtar
The Bigfoot response of Big Brother is going to make the meeting attendees' point in a way that will be much more effective than they could have done by their own efforts.

Way to go, Sasquatch.

130 posted on 02/25/2015 4:24:00 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: John S Mosby; jsanders2001
Having had some experience in the family some 150 plus years ago, the outcome wasn’t good then either.

I'm not saying that they should be taken seriously, or that they have any chance of succeeding. I just can't believe that it is a crime to send someone a letter - replete with wax seal and ribbon - demanding that they appear before some hokey "star chamber" they've set up.

Since the courts have standing to issue summons I guess “impersonating a public servant” might be one of the charges filed.

They wouldn't be "impersonating a [bonafide] public servant" if they plainly state that their subpoena comes from the "Grandduchy of Fenwick" or some-such.

Regards,

131 posted on 02/26/2015 8:21:05 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Old Yeller

Muslim groups get their “no go zones,” but Texans ca’t hold secessionist meetings, etc.
Nice...


132 posted on 03/02/2015 12:41:44 AM PST by 4Liberty (Prejudice and generalizations. That's how Collectivists roll......)
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To: arthurus

I heard someone the other day call what is happening the “Velvet Coup.” Very apropos.


133 posted on 03/03/2015 9:11:38 PM PST by ponygirl (Put. A. Bird. On. It.)
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