Texas governor busted sending racist call-to-arms a day before El Paso attack: 'take matters into...

[Soph0571]

...our own hands’

But this was decidedly not the attitude Abbott had just one day before the shooting took place, when, according to the Texas Signal, he sent out a letter peppered with racist attacks on Hispanic immigrants — and a menacing, violent suggestion that Texans “take matters into our own hands.”

“Just three weeks in June, 45,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended crossing the Mexican border into Texas!” said the letter. “That amounts to the entire population of Galveston – every three weeks. In just six months, we’d add the population of Arlington!”

“If we’re going to DEFEND Texas, we’ll need to take matters into our own hands,” the letter continued. “The problems of illegal immigration never reach swanky limousine-liberal neighborhoods in New York and California!”

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/texas-governor-busted-sending-racist-call-to-arms-a-day-before-el-paso-attack-take-matters-into-our-own-hands/|]

OF COURSE he did this and as sure as night turns to day there is no way he will ever accept any culpability for violent words and deeds that follow such rhetoric...

[hlthe2b]

1. Why the hell haven't the main newspapers & tv news covered this in Texas?

I don't know the 'Texas Signal,' but I'm guessing it is a small independent paper...

[DeminPennswoods]

2. Send it to

the MSNBC primetime shows.

[2naSalit]

9. Send it to RMS...

she has a report link online at her show's web site.

[abqtommy]

3. In his historical book TEXAS, James Michener states that

after the people won their independence from Mexico the primary goal of the leaders of Texas was to
get rid of the brown-skinned Mexicans (I've met Mexicans with the full Spanish ethnic background and they're whiter than I am!) and Indigenous/Native/Indian people. Some traditions have a positive effect but not this one.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Ethnic Cleansing on American soil by white Americans. . . . nt

[abqtommy]

8. Don't forget ethnic cleansing perpetrated

by the Portugese, the Spanish, the English and the French, all on American soil. Over the years American soil has gotten soiled by all these efforts. It's interesting to me that the Vikings had the good sense to withdraw when met with strong resistance in Newfoundland from the Indigenous people
around 1,000 AD. Maybe the Vikings weren't so bad after all...

[Wounded Bear]

13. Isn't this what God told the Israelites to do after they seized Canaan?

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. Beto

Texas needs a good Governor.

[bronxiteforever]

5. Kick and recommend for visibility.

[Lonestarblue]

6. Abbott and his cronies are all despicable.

Perhaps this letter explains why he couldn’t be bothered to call a special legislative session to deal with gun violence after the El Paso murders, but in 2017 he was so bothered by the need to force trans students to use the bathroom matching their birth gender that he called a special session to try to get the bathroom bill passed that had failed in regular session. Fortunately, saner heads prevailed and it failed.

Abbott is obviously a big racist in the Trump mold and a big gun supporter. He may want to get rid of all brown immigrants, but they are part of the success of Texas. Texas has a lower unemployment rate than the national rate and fast growth, but without Hispanics that growth would come to a screeching halt.

[UTUSN]

10. K&R

[dalton99a]

11. Kick

[UniteFightBack]

12. LOL there are no immigrants illegal or not in NY and California? Ain't that some cock and bull. nt