ACLU of Texas & Others Renew Calls for Federal Investigation
Operation Lone Star in the Crosshairs
Hello Friends,
Kinney County’s back in the news, after a new effort by the ACLU of Texas and other illegal alien activist organizations to try and pressure the Department of Justice to begin investigating Operation Lone Star, renewing their calls and claims that it is a corrupt disgrace— a racist effort, championed by racists.
The announcements came shortly after Midday, on Twitter, Wednesday (Feb. 23).
We’ll post a link to the document they’ve sent to the Department of Justice in just a moment. Essentially, they’re trying to pressure the DOJ to declare whether or not an investigation is underway within the next two weeks.
One supposes we could ask why the effort is being made now— but it’s actually more fun to guess— and in some cases, it may even be more accurate! Why? Because people lie— frequently to themselves.
One of the reasons they do mention is the fact that Operation Lone Star is expanding— with Jim Hogg County, Maverick County, and Uvalde County all coming online soon and others surely soon to follow.
Another reason, may be the fact that recent legal efforts on their behalf in Austin seem to have come to naught. Indeed, efforts there may have exposed further difficulties for certain attorneys that now stand accused of various ethical violations.
See our two most recent dispatches, here, and here, for some of that. As well as this follow up piece in the Texas Scorecard:
It may very well be that the Department of Justice, and Attorney General Merrick Garland are their last, best hope for derailing Operation Lone Star, now that possible efforts to pervert the course of justice in Texas have come to light.
This is all not to suggest that the ACLU of Texas is involved in the various potential ethical violations that have been uncovered— indeed, they are almost certainly innocent of any such charges— victims perhaps of overzealous individuals determined to soak taxpayers. Or perhaps victims of those seeking to make unrestrained use of lawfare for their own vague political goals.
Who knows at this point? We certainly don’t.
Here’s the link to their document, sent to the Department of Justice:https://www.aclutx.org/sites/default/files/operation_lone_star_title_vi_supplemental_complaint.pdf
It’s something like 26 pages long, perhaps attempting to impose the imprimatur of authority by volume, even if the actual evidence may be a little thin.
One of their more interesting suppositions is that Kinney County officials may have helped craft many of the broad strokes behind Operation Lone Star. If true, they are liable to actually burnish the credentials of the very officials they seem to dislike.
What a testament. The idea that some small town podunk county basically handed the Governor of Texas a turnkey operation. One actually hopes it is true. It lends us all hope that you don’t have to be from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex to get some things done in this state. To put it another way: The little guy still has a voice in Government.
The other allegation made is that Kinney County is closely coordinating with volunteer vigilantes who surely must be racists.
Here at the Dispatch, we’ve written more words on the subject of militia groups and volunteer efforts in Kinney County than just about anyone. Take a spin through our archives and see for yourself.
We will however, mention that one of the articles the ACLU of Texas leans upon to support their arguments appeared not too long ago in the Wall Street Journal. While we felt mostly ambivalent about the piece— the ways that the ACLU of Texas has attempted to use it, requires us to point out that the piece had some serious factual flaws. Flaws that we noted in this dispatch:
Was the reporter out and out lying? Not at all— we anticipate that they were told something by a certain individual, and ran with it— without inquiring with others.
It is a common peril in Journalism. Technically speaking— one can quote someone accurately, and still be false. That is to say— just because someone said something like “We’ve been going on patrol with Border Sheriffs up and down the Rio Grande, helping make America safer,” doesn’t mean they aren’t full of bull.
There is a popular quote in some circles of journalism by a British journalist named Jonathan Foster. It’s about what to do when two people argue and one says “It’s raining,” and the other says “It’s sunny.” “Your job isn’t to quote them both. Your job is to look out the f*cking window and find out which is true.”
Like all quotes, it can be turned and twisted to suit just about any argument. In this case, it must be admitted that Kinney County Officials haven’t made it easy for places like the Wall Street Journal and others to cover activities down here— in many cases seeming to avoid any reporters they aren’t confident will be sympathetic.
This in and of itself is problematic. But, from their perspective— they don’t answer to the Wall Street Journal and other organizations. And negative press in such organs has little traction in a rural area where they’re on a first name basis with the vast majority of voters.
In any event, various militia leaders and others have been known to claim very close ties with the Kinney County Sheriff. The ACLU of Texas points to various photographs taken of the Sheriff posing with a man named Sam Hall— the leader of a group called “Patriots for America Militia.”
Mr. Hall’s efforts in the area have been well-covered here and elsewhere. Long time readers know, that as near as anyone can determine they’ve been mostly symbolic.
If such photographs are compelling evidence that someone is a racist then we have bad news for Hillary Clinton— documented on camera and elsewhere exchanging hugs and cheek-kisses with a former Grand-Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. (Correction: He wasn’t a grand dragon. He was an Exalted Cyclops!)
True story friends, his name was Robert Byrd, and he used to be a Senator from West Virginia. She called him a mentor.
Obviously, Hillary Clinton isn’t a racist, just because she hung out with an old man that used to be a Klansman. Similarly, one hopes the ACLU of Texas has something more substantial in their quiver than some petty little photographs.
Have you seen the one they’re probably referencing? Here you go:
How about some more:
Here’s the thing: So far, there’s no evidence of any kind of law breaking or violations on the part of Sam Hall and his associates in Kinney County. They are free to come and go as they please.
As we’ve noted previously in other dispatches, Mr. Hall and his friends have complained about harassment by Texas DPS. At the time, we said what some call harassment, others might call prudent surveillance. Indeed, one feels confident that if Mr. Hall and his friends were up to no good, DPS would have them locked up as a matter of priority.
Further, just their use of the word “militia” suggests they’re being monitored by the Federal Government already, given the FBI and other organizations’ aggressive efforts to keep track of and on top of such groups. The ACLU of Texas’s actions may even jeopardize some kind of an ongoing federal effort, if this is the case.
So, why is the Sheriff taking pictures with them? Maybe he’s just a generous guy. Maybe he’s trying to keep them out of trouble by advising them on the legal limits they face. Or, maybe the ACLU of TX is right and he’s a horrible racist.
Is anyone else bothered by the fact that all it takes is a picture with some smiling faces and one can be smeared as an unrepentant believer in the superiority of certain skin colors?
What’s the ethnicity of all those guys anyway? Are they all “white-white” as Whoopi Goldberg might say? Are some of them actually Hispanic? Who knows? Who cares, would be a better question. Who cares, and why?
In other news, it’s been quite some time since we’ve checked in on the reporting by Charlotte Cuthbertson at the Epoch Times.
She has a recent banger, offering something of a walkthrough on how sex-trafficking works— following the miserable path walked by a young woman sold into bondage in New York City, and kept there by threats against her self, and her family.
Five members of a family-run sex trafficking operation smuggled young Mexican women and girls to New York City and forced them into prostitution. Several girls were 14 years old.
Last week, all five received prison sentences of 20 to 39 years for sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, sex trafficking of minors, interstate prostitution, alien smuggling, and money laundering conspiracy, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
A sixth co-defendant is awaiting sentencing.
— Charlotte Cuthbertson, The Epoch Times
The piece goes on from there, branching out into a broader look at the border crisis and sex trafficking, while also documenting how the girl was brought into the states and enslaved by her traffickers.
We try not to be too self-referential in our newsletters. But this all touches on one of the pieces we’re most proud of:
We bring it up here, because while sexy— coverage of volunteer militias, and bleatings about racism— threaten to obscure much more important things, like how the border crisis is driving new heights of profit for the Cartels. How it is enabling the trafficking of more women than ever. Certain progressives may want to deny this— or suggest there’s no evidence to support it— but their arguments are mostly all just variations of a common theme: one telling you to ignore the evidence of your own eyes and the conclusions of your own critical thinking. We are told not to think. Not to question. Accept the experts’ opinions.
Hush.
That should do it for tonight. Stay tuned— we’ve been working on some original reporting that may actually surprise or even dismay some folks reading this particular dispatch. As always— and most especially now— we should mention our ongoing recent employment with the Kinney County Sheriff’s Office. Any opinions or errors expressed in this newsletter are our own— as it is produced as an entirely separate work product, without the input or oversight of any county officials. Indeed, the Cavalry - Dispatch predates our employment with the County.
Even with the above disclaimer, some readers would be very justified to assume our work here in this case especially, is not only biased, but also corrupt and riven with conflicts of interest. So be it. We invite them to take a spin through the archives before becoming married to that opinion.
The thermometer reads 31-degrees Fahrenheit right now. Stay warm friends, and we’ll see you again very soon.
We leave you with the last news release from the Kinney County Sheriff’s Office, documenting the state of things year-to-year. It’s a jpg. Click on it and expand to read it if the text is too small. If you can’t be bothered, we’ll sum it up in a short sentence:
“Situation’s crazy, yo.”
