Sometimes I worry about our local Metro Columnists at the Houston Chronicle. I worry that they will survive the day as they often take some pretty potent licks at the prevailing Texas Culture down here.
With gun and ammo sales up 50% because white people are very very angry here in Texas, it seems the only winning issues left to the Republican Base are no marriage rights for Gays and rounding up all them damn Mexicans. Both winning issues of course as they represent what the Republican Base is mostly about: Intolerance, bigotry and petty hatreds.
Over the past two years we have taken notice of ICE (the once hated but now loved federal police) bashing in doors of homes and workplaces and dragging Hispanics into Paddy Wagons. Families are literally torn apart, children left motherless and fatherless, and many of those fathers, mothers and children thrown in prisons that are mostly old army barracks surrounded by barb wire and then shipped out.
Any of that sound familiar? Best not go there hey?
The many letters to editors and online debates finds the Republican Base screeching for more of it, after all, if their papers are not in order they are criminals and deserve what they get. It is the rule of law.
Any of that sound familiar? Best not go there hey?
The local press here has done a fair job of reporting what is going on but often decrying the draconian measures being used. This was the case Metro Columnist Rick Casey whose Thanksgiving column shot a bit of sarcasm over the bow down here in Dumbutt.
Not only did he define the greatest Texas Heroes as Illegal immigrants, but he goes on to write of the superior Mexican culture of that time which held both slavery and executions as inhumane. I give thanks for illegal immigrant by Rick Casey.
This year, as we gather for the feast, I am giving thanks for illegal immigrants.
I have a particular group of illegals in mind, but I confess that my gratitude to them does color my view of most other illegals.
I refer to the liars, debtors, opportunists and criminals who flooded into Texas in the first half of the 19th century, and then wrested the land from Mexico.
Among the illegals violating that particular law were David Crockett, William B. Travis and Sam Houston.
I have a suggestion for Mr. Casey which conforms to Texas Thinking. In that he has so angered so much of the Texas Republican Base with his article, he had best gallop down to the gun store and buy a bigger gun and lots more ammo… Than the other guy already has. And so on… And so forth…