Discussion: Texas Guard General: Troops Will Head to Border to Watch, Respond If Attacked

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Hey, these kids are DANGEROUS! Rick Perry’s got it all under control. Now, you snipers, get up there and set up a kill zone, just in case we are attacked.

Yes, I am concerned about this huge influx of children from Central America. That is a mess we helped created starting in the '50s and continuing to do so up to today. What is interesting to me is that no one (Repub) seems to say, “Lets invade Honduras and get them back to a democracy.” In fact, no one seems to say, “What a terrible mess it is down there and here is what these kids are fleeing.” Sad commentary on American world leadership.

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I hear the “cartel folk” are already scheming over their milk and cookies (or maybe just dulce de leche) about how to evade these upstanding guardsmen.

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Jeez, where to start? OK, a couple of things. 1) If I walked around carrying a AR-15 with rounds in the magazine and the magazine inserted into the weapon, 99% of people would say that weapon was “loaded.” 2) I still don’t get what the NG are going to do that will decrease the number of kids arriving in the US since after they cross the border they immediately seek out someone to surrender to. I guess that children will surrender to the NG, the NG will detain them because they are “interfering with the mission” (which is still unclear), and Perry will declare “the mission” a success because X number of children were detained by the NG (i.e. "‘prevented’ from entering the United States).

I’m sensing an Underwear Gnome moment here.

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If we’re going to spend the money to deploy these troops for purely aesthetic reasons, can’t we just get them to march in parades throughout rural and suburban Texas?

Let them wave some flags and flash their guns for the mollification of the nationalistic teabaggers, but don’t put them in a situation where their only function is to stand around waiting to get attacked.

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Everybody relax.

This is just another of Rick Perry’s schemes to squander as much of the taxpayer’s money as he can before he begins his Fox News contract.

He has consistently upped the ante: began by spending $10,000 per month(!) on RENT while the gov’s mansion was undergoing repairs. He is now up to $17.2 MILLION dollars per month on his own personal border protection racket scheme, plus an ever-growing cost of millions dollars in personal security while he tours the South Pacific looking for WWII MIAs, tours Israel searching for Jesus’ tomb, tours California looking for a place to live, New York looking for jobs, and Iowa, looking for Nicole’s killer.

What until you meet his successor!

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In the meantime, watch as Perry courts the Jewish vote by celebrating Hannukah.

At 3:54, he makes sure those rabbis don’t steal his butane lighter by sticking it down his pants. Watch, if you dare.

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So the National Guard gets to go on a camping trip while the immigrants wave at them as they walk past. What, exactly, is their mission, and what constitutes ‘inerfering with their mission’? If the NG doesn’t have the power to arrest or detain, just what are they there for?

What’s going to happen, though, is one of these trigger-happy Texans is going to shoot a few people which is just going to escalate matters, which I think is what Perry is looking for.

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Best as I can tell, their mission is to have their mission interfered with.

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And since the only people who will be attacking them are Far Right extremists, Perry must be trying to indirectly and fatally reduce the number of extremists threatening law officials, prison wardens and political officials.