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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPhotos show border militias moving across Texas
It's a slide show, so you'll have to go to the article to view the pictures if you're interested. I will say I found photo #16 was telling of the mindset of the idiots there.
This one is mild compared to some of them.
Members of the militia groups, who say they have 10 active "teams" along the state's southern border, are seen at campsites, walking along the Rio Grande River, pointing rifles and pistols out of frame and flipping off the camera in the photos obtained by the San Antonio Express-News.
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In an interview with the Express-News, Chris Davis, commander of the militia's "Operation Secure Our Border: Laredo Sector", who is seen in some of the photos, said members would secure the border in a "legal and lawful manner."
However, in a since-deleted 21-minute YouTube video of Davis, he said: "How? 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.'"
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Photos-show-border-militias-moving-across-Texas-5647487.php#photo-6643827
Maybe we'll get lucky and the heat will force them back to their air conditioned home "bases" before they hurt someone.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)madamesilverspurs
(15,801 posts)And I'll be borrowing that!
herding cats
(19,564 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)but they wont be because they are mostly white str8t males and therefore can do anything they want
when the rest of us get so sick of this we wont tolerate it, things will change, as long as we do nothing, it will get worse
mikeysnot
(4,756 posts)So easily manipulated and led.
Mention a problem, call it a crisis and the low lying fruits will foam at the mouth at the ring of the bell.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)santamargarita
(3,170 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)one_voice
(20,043 posts)if so why? I've not seen that before.
This is the first time I've seen that flag. Imagine the shit fit that would take place if a Liberal changed the flag.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)It stems from the claim that only 3 percent of the colonists were involved in the American Revolution.
one_voice
(20,043 posts)I didn't know that. Going to read more about them.
Richard D
(8,754 posts). . . it referred to their position on the bell graph of (lack of) intelligence.
Lochloosa
(16,064 posts)They have a pretend facebook page but I'm not posting the link
About
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III% seek to restore a limited Constitutional government to the people of the United States in keeping with the principles of our founding fathers.
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Mission
Our Mission Statement
The Three Percenters Club exists to serve the American people, to protect and defend the constitution and our way of life.
TTPC's mission is give our members the capabilities and resources necessary to execute Military Strategies to defend against foreign and domestic enemies.
TTPC forces provide the capability to combat any threat, force, or occupation who's purpose is to gain, sustain, and exploit comprehensive control over land, resources, and the people of the United States of America.
The Three Percenters Club's capability compliments the other militias and resistance groups capabilities.
The Three Percenters Club is charged with providing Tactical, Logistical and other functions to enable other Militias and Resistance groups to accomplish their missions and to provide support during local and national emergencies by assisting civil authorities in maintaining emergency preparedness.
The Three Percenters Club is organized to accomplish this mission.
one_voice
(20,043 posts)geardaddy
(24,926 posts)If they're serious, why don't they call it a party or a movement? Club sounds like a hobby.
earthside
(6,960 posts)From the 'Historical Flags of Our Ancestors' web site ... 'Modern American Protest and Message Flags'
http://www.loeser.us/flags/protest.html
Nyberg Battle Flag of the Three Percent 2009
Oath Keepers and III Percent Patriots
The Nyberg flag, named after right-wing activist Gail Nyberg, who apparently designed it, is being sold at the "Sipsey Street Irregulars" website. Based on the belief that during the American Revolution, the active forces in the field against the King's tyranny never amounted to more than 3% of the colonists, militia groups calling themselves by such names as the "Three Percenters," (Threepers), the "Sipsey Street Irregulars", and the "Oath Keepers" (led by Nevada lawyer Stewart Rhodes, a former staffer of Congressman Ron Paul), have sprung up expressing the belief that any attempt at gun control is unconstitutional and violating their second amendment rights. These groups claim to be the new three-percenters who "the Founders counted on to save the Republic when everyone else abandoned it."
These extreme "anti-gun control" (or "pro-second amendment" gun owners, claim to be preparing to "defend" themselves and "their right to bare [sic] arms" against perceived "enemies, foreign and domestic," and who warn all those they call "collectivists" (those who favor gun control "control" , to leave them and their guns alone. The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League have labeled these groups as anti-government, extremists, and racists.
The Oath Keepers, founded on March 2009 by Stewart Rhodes (a Yale Law graduate and former US Army paratrooper) were incorporated in Las Vegas as a non-profit corporation. They advocate their members disobey any orders that they are given if they believe they violate the Constitution of the United States. Supposably made up of present and former servicemen, police, and firefighters, the Oath Keepers include chapters in many states across America. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has reportedly been seen sporting an Oath Keepers patch.
one_voice
(20,043 posts)I know who the Oath Keepers are guess I never really paid attention to their flag. They are a nasty bunch.
I agree they are extremists.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)ARMY rejects leading people great......
earthside
(6,960 posts)... and most of these 'army men' will be back in their garages watching the NFL on their big screens.
I find their outfits rather amusing ... like 'professional' wrestlers with guns.
I don't understand why these guys aren't forming-up a volunteer legion to go fight ISIS in Iraq if they so badly want to protect 'Murica. (Ha! The ISIS fighters would shoot back -- no danger from kids and women crossing the border).
Here is one of these guys in his natural state:
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NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)upaloopa
(11,417 posts)suggest vets like myself would not want to play army, they would never really put themselves in harm's way.
I my opinion they feel they have the upper hand but if a group of militant drug lords decided to take them on there would be a need for clean undies in camp.
Brother Buzz
(36,423 posts)No way a bunch of beatniks and hippies would EVER be associated with these assholes. Someone to dumb and unimaginative to create their own usurped the name.
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)conservaphobe
(1,284 posts)I'll break my diet for some:
stranger81
(2,345 posts)See pictures 10/79, 11/79, 6/79 (maybe this is some weird "hang 10" pose instead)?
On a separate note, if we are shown the faces of the refugees in the pictures at the end of the set, I want to see the faces of these asshats parading around with guns and fancy headgear. Surely they have the courage of their racist convictions.
polichick
(37,152 posts)and the gov't tools who make sure we don't have sane immigration policies?
herding cats
(19,564 posts)Don't expect people who want to dress up in costumes and run around scaring children by pointing guns at them to make sense. These idiots are the product of the GOP giving the extremist nuts in their party a political platform.
winstars
(4,220 posts)R3druM
(50 posts)More thugs with guns
d_r
(6,907 posts)if when we first got Texas from Mexico in the 1800s, the volunteers and Davy Crockett and all those guys who went down there to fight Mexico, were they basically the same as these guys?
Please do not dishonor the heroes of Texas by comparing them to these idiots.
I doubt very seriously if Davy Crockett, William Travis or Jim Bowie needed to be part of any "club" like these sacks of beans! Crockett, Travis and Bowie were already seasoned fighters and knew what death was. They didn't have the desire to kill someone just to impress their friends.
valerief
(53,235 posts)rustydog
(9,186 posts)these goobers would be at home laughing at I Love Lucy Reruns..."Lucy, you got some 'splainin' to do!"
or watching "Honey Boo Boo" on the larnin' chanel
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)Or don't any of them have jobs? They can't all make a living selling guns and t shirts to each other. Can they?
Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)The greater the shortcomings...
Avalux
(35,015 posts)No one is going to stop them from picking off those trying to cross the border, especially when Perry is encouraging it.
drm604
(16,230 posts)If, God forbid, that happens, we will probably then be subjected to the spectacle of right-wing talking heads and bloggers defending the murder of unarmed children and cheering on and supporting child murderers.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)I mean, who runs around dressed like this?
herding cats
(19,564 posts)I think that sums them up perfectly. They'd be funny if they weren't down there to go full throttle nutcase on a bunch of kids.
Rex
(65,616 posts)but are all for hunting unarmed civilians fleeing across the border. They don't shoot back or require you to dig a foxhole.
Nothing sadder than dress up soldiers imo.
EC
(12,287 posts)Makes me wonder if Putin really does have control of them or are they like these guys? Thinking they have the right to play soldier in the name of our country.