-=> Quoting Mike Angwin to Jean Halverson <=-
 MA> There is no valid reason for the militarization of thousands of
 MA> square miles of south Texas.  Military units sould simply not be used
 MA> to conduct civilian law enforcement.  They are not properly trained,
 MA> equipped, or managed to serve in such a capacity.  When I see almost a
 MA> third of Texas placed under the modern day equivilent of martial law
 MA> with federal agents and military forces conducting exercises in
 MA> civilian areas, violating private property, and conducting random
 MA> searches of our citizens a hundred miles from the border at federal
 MA> blockades on our highways, it angers me.  This is Texas and the soil
 MA> they are violating is the soil of Texas.  We, the people of Texas, all
 MA> the people of Texas, have endured tyrranies, dictatorships, and four
 MA> revolutions, saturating this soil witht eh sacred blood of our
 MA> ancestors, in a desperate and often hopeless struggle to secure our
 MA> liberty.  Having, at no small cost, secured our freedoms via such a
 MA> costly process, I cannot accept the sacrifice of these liberties at
 MA> the hands of any government, for any reason.
DH> Mike, unless the constitution has been repealed, I would think that
DH> such action as you have described would be illegal.
 
         Of course it is!  That's why I'm upset about it.  However, the
buildup, the harassment, and the deployments continue to grow.
 
                                                 Mike Angwin
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