Posted on 07/08/2007 7:13:18 AM PDT by Dysart
As you articulately point out, there are many holes to plug.
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
After we Texans won independance from Mexico, they claimed the new border was the Nueces river.
We disagreed, stormed their capital, and inspired agreement for the border to be the Rio Grande.
The Texas Rangers were formed to patrol that area between the Nueces & Rio Grande, and ensure that inspiration did not fade.
Am I spelling 'Texas' right? If there is anymore you wish to learn, I'll be here all week.
By 1823, there were serious problems with raids by the Comanche, Tonkawa and Karankawa Indians. Under Mexican law, Austin was authorized to form a militia to ward off Indian raids, capture criminals and patrol against intruders. In May, while Austin was in Mexico City, his lieutenant, Moses Morrison, used this authority to assemble a company of men to protect the Texas coast from the Tonkawa and Karankawa Indians.
After returning to Texas in August of 1823, Austin asked for additional ten men to supplement Morrison's company. He called for "ten men...to act as rangers for the common defense...The wages I will give said ten men is fifteen dollars a month payable in property." These two companies are regarded as the first ancestors of the modern Texas Rangers.
I just read 2 books on the Texas Rangers. However, there's a brief history here. http://www.texasranger.org/
Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders!
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Courtesy of a pro-amnesty group, no less!!
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NOW that is a good idea.
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Well GOLLY! Just how about that. I was thinking the very same thing!!!
It must be that we are jaded and pesimistice. No one in the drillin' business would have any use for cheap labor, or a seven mile stretch of US mexican border in one of the easer and more remote, not to mention highly active illegal alien border crossing points in the US now would they?
Yep, it's just us. That's gotta be it.
It is a forum for conservative opinions. It is OK if you want to tell people what you think they should think. They will agree or not agree. But you can count on them not being sheep. Smart crowd here.
That said, thanks for the post and as you predicted, no one needed a barf alert to alert them to the BS in the article.
Thanks for the info.
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