More elected American officials need to act like this.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today advised the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe — a United Nations partner — that groups and individuals from outside the United States do not have jurisdiction to interfere with Texas elections. The Attorney General’s letter comes after the international group — comprised of 56 members including EU nations and other countries such as Albania, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, the Russian Federation, Slovenia and Turkey — announced they would be sending election observers to sites throughout the United States, including Texas, on Election Day.
Democratic groups that oppose voter ID laws — despite their widespread majority support and the fact that majorities in state legislatures have passed them — called on the UN to send monitors to states that have passed those laws. Abbott warns those whom the UN is sending, that Texans don’t like meddlers and we will enforce our laws.
Elections and election observation are regulated by state law. The Texas Election Code governs anyone who participates in Texas elections—including representatives of the OSCE. The OSCE’s representatives are not authorized by Texas law to enter a polling place. It may be a criminal offense for OSCE’s representatives to maintain a presence within 100 feet of a polling place’s entrance. Failure to comply with these requirements could subject the OSCE’s representatives to criminal prosecution for violating state law.
On Twitter, Abbott even fired off a Texan taunt: “Come and take it.”
So once an Azeri, a Kazakh and an Albanian walk into a Texas polling place…
Turkey sent “peace activists” to Israel, now wants “election observers” in USA.
I am not sure they of the cosmocrat-type know what his tweet means, but they should. It’s something easy to blow off as macho man bravado, but you have to understand the spirit of the common man standing up to hierarchical society elites and daying “no, you shall not” that lies behind it.
The United States is not a hierarchical society, nor is it anything but a nation of one federal government and fifty state governments mutually sharing grants of sovereignty from the citizenry over many things (in all 51 cases, soveriengty ultimately residing in the citizenry, not government). Those who run nations and institutions in the rest of the world still, in their bones, probably don’t understand either concept, or don’t believe in them.
Come and take it, indeed. in a different era, doing as the OSCE wishes would have been seen as an act of war against the people of the United States.
Saying, not daying.
Exit question along the lines of “how many divisions”: How many Texas Rangers does the OSCE have?
They are thus hereby encouraged to get back in their proper boundary lines.
Just wait ’til the UN observers get a little bored as Election Day goes on, and they start in on their normal pastime of raping the local girls and boys.
That’s when they’ll finally understand that Texas ain’t Europe or Africa.
Heck, as I understand it, OSCE may be more profitably engaged looking for Democrat voting fraud (they are supposed to be “impartial,” aren’t they?):
http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2012/10/21/very-fishy-ohio-abc-station-already-has-declared-obama-the-winner-cbs-station-in-arizona-does-too/
WHAT is WRONG with you? Don’t you realize that there is no such thing as democrat election fraud? Just ask any democrat or anyone in the Left Stream, er, Main Stream Media!
Sarc off/
The UN would never see democrat election fraud.
I, for one, am so proud of Texas I could just burst! Whoooo Hooooo!
Almost enough to make me convert from being a member of the Steeler Nation…er probably not… but still proud none the less!
Send observers to Philadelphia.
Immediately cease making payments or supplying materials, food, loans, or support of any kind to the United Nations or any of its associated organizations. They have descended to become a congeries of rapists, looters, perverts, con-artists, murderers, and pickpockets. They are about to give politicians and bureaucrats a bad name.
Close the UN, eject all its non-US-citizen employees, designate every alleged “diplomat” as persona-non-grata, then raze the building, and salt the soil.
For the last 50 years, the UN has been dominated by the most viciously depraved criminals imaginable. It has betrayed every one of its founding principles.
A few days in a Texas jail awaiting trial should give these “observers” a whole new perspective on life…of course they will claim “Diplomatic Immunity” at which point the Feds will have to rescue them and treat their bleeding hemorrhoids on the Federal dime.
Ironic that these socialist has-beens would even consider this sort of action. The USA started the ball rolling for free elections.
We need to get the US out of the UN and get the UN off and out of our territory.
they will claim “Diplomatic Immunity”
Unless they are accredited as diplomats by their home countries, this will avail them naught. Belonging to a tranzi NGO does not confer diplomatic immunity.
There will be locales that won’t enforce this, but there will be plenty more which will be delighted to have gotten the green light to keep these people well away from our polling places.
Many people that I know have long held that the guys in the blue hats showing up is the beginning of the end of our republic. And, what could be more innocent than simple “election observers”. If I see one, I am going to do my best to let them feel my hostility without getting arrested.