“Don’t Mess With Texas!”
That famous phrase is actually a double entendre. For one thing, it’s a caution against littering. Anyone who has traveled the vast state of Texas has seen the signs noting the heavy fines for throwing trash on the miles and miles of roads and highways.
But it’s also a reminder that Texans are a tough, independent lot, not to be messed with.
As a Texan with roots pre-dating the fall of the Alamo, I can assure you that rural Texas landowners covet their properties –their farms, their ranches and their thousands upon thousands of old country churches and cemeteries.
The Trump administration keeps learning this cultural fact as it keeps meeting legal resistance from Texans who refuse to let Trump steamroll them and their sacred properties.
It’s a sad thing that Trump holds nothing in this world sacred except Dollar Almighty. And more sad that people like the good Texan and his kith and kin featured in this video are having to fight like hell to preserve a historic United Methodist Church chapel and cemetery that they hold so sacred.
(Once you’ve viewed the video, here’s another horror story from two years ago regarding the wall.) https://jitterbuggingforjesus.com/2017/08/04/trump-vs-land-owners-ugly-wall-news/
Unbelievable. And he has the support of the religious right?
On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 4:40 PM Jitterbugging for Jesus wrote:
> Rev. Paul McKay posted: ” https://youtu.be/IOy1mJZCQcw “Don’t Mess With > Texas!” That famous phrase is actually a double entendre. For one thing, > it’s a caution against littering. Anyone who has traveled the vast state of > Texas has seen the signs noting the heavy fines for ” >