Happy Texas Independence Day

[Cobraman]

Good day for some TX whiskey amirite????

[Sean88gt]

The Welcome a Californian to his new state day.

[cyclonescott]

Police Raid Texas Political Meeting, Seize Phones, Fingerprint and Photograph All

BRYAN, TX — Federal and local police forces raided a political meeting, taking unusual measures to document every attendee by taking fingerprints and photographs, and seizing every cell phone and all recording equipment in the meeting hall.

The raid took place on February 14, 2015, at VFW Post 4892 in Bryan, Texas. At 10:10 a.m., an “army of policing agencies with flashing emergency lights” showed up, shut down the meeting of “congenial and unimposing” Texans and forced them to hand over their private effects and biometric data.

The meeting was the monthly gathering of a group known as the Republic of Texas. Drawing participants from hundreds of miles away, the group shares a common vision of an independence Texan nation.

This group differentiates itself from others because it believes that the 19th century Republic of Texas was never legally dissolved, and the subsequent integration of Texan land into the USA was illegitimate. This is explained on the group’s Proclamation statement:

For over a decade, a movement of Texans has carried on the tradition of the Republic of Texas, and even held elections to to fill its offices.

Rejecting the media’s “patently false” characterization of the group as a “militia,” the Republic’s website says that “the Republic of Texas is a self-determined people attempting to throw off the yoke of military occupation of Texas through peaceful and lawful process.”

Bob Wilson holds an elected position and described the group to RT: “In the early 2000s, a number of people got together and said, ‘You know what? If the land is still ours, and if there is a perpetual treaty that says we are a nation, lets just be a nation.’ And so they elected, but with a vote from the people, a President, Vice President, a Secretary of State, a Congress, Supreme Court justices — and all of those are still occupied and manned to this day. In fact, that government meets every month on the second Saturday of the month, and the people of Texas who are interested come to those meetings.”

Wilson currently sits as an elected Senator of the Republic of Texas.

“The purpose, the goal of the Republic of Texas,” Wilson explained, “is to restore and to preserve all the freedoms and all the sovereign rights that were won in 1836 at the Battle of San Jacinto, when that treaty was signed. In other words, we’re here to make sure that people get to exercise those rights, even though an overreaching federal government of the U.S. keeps trying to take away more and more of the rights and freedoms. We’re here to restore them and make sure that they’re preserved.”

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/pol...a2hzIDqHJX0.99

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/pol...a2hzIDqHJX0.99

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/pol...a2hzIDqHJX0.99

[Denny]

Man, imagine if they took that kind of action against illegal aliens or terrorists.

[Gasser64]

they skeered.


What happens if you refuse to give biometric data? Technically they can't even legally arrest you. They could take the fingerprints if you were under arrest, but they're not allowed to stop you and demand fingerprints.

[hotrodcobra]

Happy Texas Independence Day. Enjoy...








I have several albums full of Texas currency, treasury warrants, historical documents and ephemera. I love this stuff and have been collecting it since I was 8 years old.

[01-GATOR]

That's bad ass man ^^^^