An activist who is rallying a Bundy Ranch-style militia to the Texas border to address the ongoing crisis there reportedly released a YouTube video in which he said those crossing illegally would be warned: “Get back across the border or you will be shot.”
Operation Secure Our Border, with its own Facebook page, is being organized by members of the “Patriot” movement along with Oathkeepers and Three-Percenters, according to the San Antonio Express News. Those are some of the same militia groups that came to Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s defense earlier this year.
The Express News and The Monitor in McAllen, Texas, both reported on a YouTube video featuring Chris Davis, who has been identified as the commander of the militia, in which he apparently explained how the border would be secured.
“You see an illegal. You point your gun dead at him, right between his eyes, and you say, ‘Get back across the border or you will be shot,'” Davis said in the video, according to the reports.
The video has since been taken down, Davis told the Express News, because it had been “taken out of context.”
The militia is being organized via social media, email chains and a phone hotline, according to the newspaper. They plan to head to the border in a few weeks, according to Davis, when they have “enough trained manpower.” He wasn’t specific about what that meant, according to the Express News, and the Facebook page has less than 200 likes.
Law enforcement, for their part, don’t seem interested in the help that the militia purports to provide.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection told the Express News it does not “endorse or support any private group or organization from taking matters into their own hands as it could have disastrous personal and public safety consequences.”
“We don’t need their services on our border,” a Texas county sheriff told the Monitor.
The forces of law in this country need to start slapping these “militias” down, and hard. What they are doing is called treason, and if they become any more emboldened by inaction, the violence will escalate. Just wait until the election when they try and intimidate entire communities.
Rick Perry and Sean Hannity are ready to start shooting.
Or was that just a meaningless photo op?
And the shooter will go to jail!
What about all the “legals”? There are something like 160 legal people a day moving to central TX. There is already not enough water for the people and critters and crops that live there.
Pretty soon there won’t be any water in TX. So no one will go there anymore. And the guy with the gun can just finally relax.
Here is a great piece on the messed up water scene in TX.
And still no one has been charged with a crime. ANd still Bundy has not paid a cent and is still using land without paying. WTF?