Under GOP rule, State website calls for violence at the border

Listen up all you vigilantes, I got a dandy of a website for y'all now.

From the Texas Tribune - By Julian Aguilar

Texans advocating extreme solutions to secure the border — including land mines and booby traps on Texas farmland along the Rio Grande — have a new forum to share their views: a website operated by the Texas Department of Agriculture. 

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples launched protectyourtexasborder.com last week to allow ranchers and farmers living on or close to the border to share stories, pictures and videos that document their daily struggles with drug cartels and undocumented immigrants. Staples said the purpose of the site, which can be accessed from the agriculture department’s web page, is to give the producers of the nation's food and livestock a portal to pressure the federal government to pay closer attention to their security.

The problem is,  they're not just sharing their stories. A message board where site visitors can register, log in and post their proposed solutions includes calls to violence.

User jcarrott suggests: “The most well known fighters of our Revolutionary war were not trained, they used hide and shot tactics that would work great today… If we — Americans — start shooting the bad guys, they will get the message!"

User 2$Bill offers methods like "watch groups, community patrols, land mines, tiger traps and roving packs of rabid [weasels]."

What do you expect when a minority like the GOP is running the state. You can be sure they're going to try every trick in the book while they still cling to power.