The Fifth Circuit Clears The Way For Ten Commandments Posters In Public Schools

A federal appeals court just handed Texas a major cultural and legal win, and the ripple effects could reach far beyond one state. We walk through the Fifth Circuit’s decision allowing Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms, why the judges say it does not create an “establishment of religion,” and how the Supreme Court’s shift toward a “history and tradition” test is changing First Amendment religious freedom fights. If this goes to the US Supreme Court, the precedent could shape what public schools can display for years.

Then we turn to the messy collision between city policy and state power. Texas Scorecard’s Brandon Waltens joins us to explain Houston’s ICE detainer ordinance, why Governor Greg Abbott’s office moved to pull more than $110 million in public safety grant funding, and what Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit means for the city. We also compare Austin and Dallas, where similar policies and big grant dollars raise the same question: who actually holds the cards when state law bans sanctuary style rules?

We close with hard accountability stories and a broader look at public trust. Harris County Jail faces fresh questions after another inmate death, and we revisit the Alexis Cardenas case after a grand jury declines to indict jailers. We also react to a viral video involving an HPD officer and talk about credibility, intent, and why words can end careers in public safety roles. Finally, we touch the Texas Supreme Court fight over TCEQ public records deadlines and the Texas House probe into Roblox and child safety, including violent content and Section 230 concerns.

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The voice of reason. It is the most of the conservative, Michael Wilson.

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. It is good to be with you this morning once again, now making it to the middle of the week. And you know, we have, of course, coming on at the top of the second hour, Texas Scorecard. Uh, and today, very exciting because we're gonna go over all of the major updates sort of going on with really, we'll just go immigration talk uh with Brandon Waltons today from Texas Scorecard, because between everything going on with Mayor Whitmeyer, everything going on with Dallas and Austin, lawsuits from the Attorney General's office, refund uh revocation of grants from the governor's office, there's so much to unpack between all of these different kinds of facets of what's going on. Uh that we'll do that with Texas Scorecard at the top of the second hour. Till we get there, however, we do have a lot to cover this morning. And I want to kick it off talking about a very exciting story. This one, you're gonna love this. I'm I I read that I read the headline yesterday, and I was just blown away. I I could not believe what I was reading. And of course, of course, it doesn't end here, right? Let me be clear, let me be clear. Before I I should temper expectations, this is not the final it, right? This is not it. Just because this headline may sound good, what we're about to cover may sound good. It is not over yet. Uh, this is expected, I'll go ahead, I'll go ahead and temper it. This is expected to be, shall we say, appealed. Let's let's talk about

Fifth Circuit Ten Commandments Ruling

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it. So the federal appeals court, where this Ten Commandments case had gone, has now ruled in favor of the state of Texas and said that Texas's law does not resemble a historical establishment of religion. Which means that Texas can now require the Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the law and cleared the way for us to be able to enforce it. In a decision which was issued yesterday, the court overturned a lower court ruling that had blocked Senate Bill 10, you guys remember, allowing schools now to cross uh across the state to begin placing the displays. The law requires a clearly visible poster or framed copy of the Ten Commandments in every classroom if the poster is donated to the school. Judges said the requirement does not establish an official religion or force students to believe anything. Instead, the court described the law as simply requiring a text to be posted, noting that it does not mandate prayer, religious instruction, or participation. At the center of the case is, of course, whether the long-standing president said in Stone v. Graham, which struck down a similar Kentucky law, still applies. And the Fifth Circuit essentially said that it does not. According to the court, Stone relied entirely on the now defunct Lemon test, a framework the Supreme Court has since abandoned. Instead, judges applied the more recent history and tradition standard outlining Canada B. Bremerton School District. Under that test, the court found that Texas' law does not resemble a historical establishment of religion. They said SB 10 looks nothing like a historical religious establishment, and they noted the law does not compel worship, punish, dissent, or establish any sort of official church. The court also rejected claims that students would be coerced, emphasizing that nothing in the law requires them to follow or agree with the Ten Commandments, though I'd love to know which commandment the left doesn't like. I mean, I know I'm not saying internally, they don't like most of it, but I would love to know which one do you think that kids should not be coerced to believe in? Um obviously, you know, I know you wouldn't like thou shalt have no other gods before me. But I'm saying as you get into it, uh, you know, I know that the left is totally fine with things like adultery and theft if it's justifiable. But a lot of these things are just principles that, of course, God gave us and that we've followed since I I mean you can go all the way back, but but in the West, since really I what seventeen hundred years, it's been a very long time uh in Western history that we've been following the precepts of the Ten Commandments. Because these are just very, very clear, very outlined laws that are are I don't want to say easy to follow, but very simple. And in fact, I think they largely form the bedrock of our of our criminal justice system. When you look at the laws that are most obvious, right, what it what would you start listing? Okay, murder, theft, right? You start listing all these different laws, and you realize, oh yeah, those are those are straight from the Ten Commandments. And then of course you get into it and you say, you know, we also should have laws I think against adultery. I think it should also be the end of no fault divorce. That would also be a good principle. And you can see a lot of times where we've turned away from some of the Ten Commandments, and it hasn't gone so well for our country. Nevertheless, this has been this is a massive win. And by the way, not just for us, right? Because now that we've gone to a federal appeals court, uh, this is no longer just about Texas and just about us being able to put the Ten Commandments in classrooms. What this actually does for us now, and I'm very excited about, it was kind of already a defunct case based on Supreme Court precedent. But you don't really know that it's defunct. You don't really know what the new precedent is until it's actually applied in a case. And now that we're sitting here and we're looking at it being applied in a in a specific case, I'm very excited to say this is exactly the direction we kind of hoped it would go. And you also have Paxton, of course, who came out, he said, this is a major victory for Texas and our moral values. My office was proud to defend SP ten and successfully ensure that the Ten Commandments will be displayed in classrooms across Texas. The Ten Commandments have had a profound impact on our nation, and it's important that students learn from them every single day. Meanwhile, State Senator Phil King, who authored the measure, said the ruling affirms the state's authority to recognize the historical foundations of the state. He came out and he said this, You ready? Today's ruling confirms that the Constitution does not require us to erase our history. The Ten Commandments have been referenced throughout our nation's civic life because they are part of the historical tradition that influenced American law. The Fifth Circuit properly applied the Constitution as written and understood rather than rewriting it to scrub away our heritage. Now, of course, as I mentioned at the start, this is a massive win, especially uh from a cultural perspective, of course. When when you look around at the country, you know, we faced so many losses in the courts so many times that I mean. Oh, you can't keep that family anymore. Uh there's no evidence they're connected to the crime, and so you can't keep them detained any longer. Right. Again, the court trying to limit the federal government's power and not in the right kind of way. And they've been doing that since the start. I mean, well, I was gonna say the start of the Trump administration, but the courts have really been been doing that for a very long time, much longer than they should have been. They've been doing that. I mean, you can look back even before Roe v. Wade, but especially with Roe v. Wade, you can see a very clear example of that sort of abuse. And so to see that kind of go the exact opposite direction is of course incredibly exciting. This this is the sort of thing that we've been waiting for for a very long time, are these sorts of wins. And the reality is that it took a lot of fighting to get there, right? Because we did have court precedent for a long time that essentially said, hey, no, you can't, you can't, that's religious extremism, right? That's actually that's an example of the establishment of religion, which everybody should have known or did know, but didn't want to say, was insane. Of course that wasn't true. Of course, we're not violating the First Amendment by putting up the Ten Commandments, the bedrock of Western civilizational justice by putting that up in our classrooms. Not it's not even this is not even a court case about the curriculum, right? They're not suing the State Board of Education for uh some of the curriculum that's adding in biblical references, though I'm sure they're gonna want to do that too. No, this was only about hanging up posters of again the very foundational principles of everything this country was founded on, and way before this country was founded, everything the West was rooted in. And they came out and they said, no, you can't do that. And really, for a very long time, I do believe the courts would have agreed with them. I do think that if you'd have gone a decade ago or 15 years or 20 years, I think you'd have found that this was likely going to be the answer from the courts. No, you can't. That's an establishment of religion that violates people's religious liberty. Because we have no idea what religious liberty really means anymore. We have no idea. I I look at listen to the courts. I mean, even in this ruling, which is which is good, even in this case, it's very clear. Well, well, we can't allow you to establish a religion, why not? What does that even mean? Can you do fine- I mean, these are things that of course have been built on years of court precedent that have said you can't do this. And if we're gonna if we're gonna come back to being a Christian nation again, which isn't a real which is establishing a religion of sorts, but not in the way the founders ever intended to be a problem, if we're gonna ever fix that, well, it's not gonna happen by just dismantling everything left in a single day. That that would be incredibly chaotic. It would not be successful. It would largely result in probably the downfall of I mean, it would be like trying to rebuild by burning our country down first. Instead of saying, okay, let's redo this pillar and let's redo this and let's put some new, you know, plywood here. We have to do it step by step. That that is is that is exactly what has to happen if we want to succeed. And this, by the way, major step in the right direction. And by the way, we talked about this before the case, really when the case was first being heard, because it got appealed to the Fifth Circuit, and we said that no matter who wins, whether it's the state of Texas or like the ACLU and everybody else that's doing alongside them, no matter who wins, it's probably going to get appealed to the Supreme Court by whoever, you know, loses. If they said no, you can't put the Ten Commandments up, it was likely that Ten Pax in the state of Texas is going to, of course, appeal to the Texas Supreme Court or the U.S. Supreme Court, pardon me. But since we won, right, that actually does make a noticeable difference. And by the way, I'll go ahead and say it. I said at the beginning, um this is probably going to be appealed. That is still the major expectation. In fact, we would be quite surprised if it wasn't appealed. The only reason they wouldn't appeal it now, right? And and actually, I think there might be an argument for why they wouldn't. I still expect them to. But if they don't, I'll tell you why that's probably the case. As of now, you do have federal court opinion on the ruling of establishing this sort of problem, right? You you do have a federal court saying that it is not a violation of the Constitution to put up biblical posters, posters of uh and of course it's a historical litmus test, but almost any scripture is historic will pass a historical litmus test for America because we always had them. We always had the Bible. Nevertheless, as of now, it's just a federal court opinion. This is not a nationwide US Supreme Court ruling that is now sending the president for potentially generations. And there is a very strong possibility, and they know this, that if they take it to the Supreme Court, they might lose. We might win. And just for reference, it's not though it determines the outcome, but but whoever wins in the appeals court, they have they're they're like the favored to win after that. Once you've won the the the appeals, once you've once you've made it out of the Fifth Circuit, that's where even if they appeal to the Supreme Court, you kind of look and you're like, we still have a lot of work to do, but we're going into this favored to win, right? We're going into this with home field advantage, right? Whatever it is. And so even if they do appeal it, which again, I do expect them to, and if they don't, it's because they're cowards and they're really scared that the Supreme Court gives us this sort of precedent. But I I still ex- I think everybody still expects them to appeal it to the Supreme Court. And it's it's going to be a massive case, gonna set, again, some massive precedent for the entirety of the country and the standards that we apply when it comes to the First Amendment, when it comes to freedom of religion, what freedom of religion ultimately means, and dismantling that step by step to return to an era of American greatness. I mean, what a beautiful case. What a beautiful win. And I I've been praying about this case for a while. I have been kind of keeping an eye on it, seeing what was going on. I am, I'm just incredibly excited. And I don't want to get, you know, too, I as I said, I don't want to hype it up too much. I don't want to be too excited because I know it's going to the Supreme Court and we don't know what could happen. Right? It could be changed in a heartbeat. They could get the case and read through it and hear the oral argumentation and whatnot. And then they could say, yeah, the the Fifth Circuit was wrong. They ruled incorrectly. Actually, the district court was correct. This is a violation of people's constitutional rights. This is the establishment of religion. Now, to be brutally honest with you, I don't think the Supreme Court's going to do that. I if I'm being completely open and transparent, I think the Supreme Court, though imperfect, and that they've had some pretty bad rulings over the past couple of years, they've also had some pretty darn good ones. And I think this is a layup. I I I mean, I really don't see. Based on all of the recent precedent, again from Bremerton, the fact that we just won in the first the Fifth Circuit, I think it's pretty clear. The Supreme Court's gonna say, oh, you know what? Actually, what's the argument here? Is it because right now, be based on former president, a lot of the question is, is it historical? Is it applicable to the history of the US and the heritage of the US? And if so, you can put it up. That's that's the new standard, really, is the historical applied nature of whatever the thing is. And the Supreme Court would almost essentially have to either go back over their other ruling, which I don't think they're going to do, or they're going to have to come out and they're gonna have to say that the Ten Commandments are not historically relevant to the U.S., which I really don't think they're going to do. So I'm not saying it's a win, we got it in the bag, we can just kind of move on. We still have a fight ahead of us, assuming that they appeal it, but I'm very excited for how this case is shaping up. Because again, I I I first of all, I really love when Texas kind of leads the charge enough on something, uh, that we end up taking a case of the Supreme Court that sort of changes the trajectory of a lot of things. This is a big one. And I mean that. If we go to the Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court rules that public schools, states' public schools, are allowed to put Ten Commandments back in the classroom, I mean, that is a major step in the right direction. And of course, I I know, I know, because there's always negative Nancy's. Well, what about this other thing? Well, what about prayer time? What about I know it's a process. It's going to take time. It's going to take a lot of time and a lot of effort. And it's not going to be a single case. It's going to be dozens, hundreds of cases if we want to return to that. It's going to require more presidents who appoint more conservative Supreme Court justices. That all has to happen. But this is a step in the right direction. And I've always said take the wins, celebrate when you have them. I can't stand when people are just negative and you can't possibly ever have a good time, and there's no such thing as a win. With that being said, when we get back from the break, we're going to jump over. We have some updates, which is usually not a good thing when we talk about this particular thing. We have some updates coming from the Harris County Jail. First, we have a 30-year-old inmate who's now died after suffering a medical emergency again at Harris County Jail. And we also have another kind of story that kind of highlights, we'll see if we can get into it the same segment, or it might be two segments. Uh, but a grand jury has now declined to indict Harris County jailers in the 2025 death of Alexis Cardanas. We'll go back over which story that was so that you guys are refreshed and you can remember what we're talking about. If you'd like to text in, let us know your thoughts, ask any questions, et cetera, et cetera. The number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You are listening to the Lone Star Conservative, and I'll be right back after the break with all these pretty bad updates out of the Harris County Jail.

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Harris County Jail Death Questions

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So let's kick it off talking first about this newer death. A 30-year-old inmate at the Harris County Jail has died after suffering a medical emergency over the weekend. Tanner Goldaid has then engaged the jail for 301 on a charge of assault of a peace officer. He was pronounced dead at St. Joseph Hospital after suffering an apparent medical emergency, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office. Goldaid's death has been reported at the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. The Houston Police Department is investigating the death in accordance, of course, with the state law that requires all jail deaths to be investigated by an outside law enforcement agency. The Sheriff's Office Internal Affairs Division is also investigating to determine whether all applicable policies and procedures are followed, which is, of course, standard following the death of a person in jail. Now, Goldade's cause of death will be determined by an autopsy conducted by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences. Um I would be shocked who doesn't have to come back with natural causes. I mean, we'll find out whether it was like uh some sort of cardiac issue, some I I mean, we don't know exactly what it was, uh, but it it's not really that relevant. The bigger question, I think on everyone's mind, especially when it comes to our jail, which has consistently had problems inside and out, by the way. One of the biggest questions we're gonna have is was this a preventable death based on the promises we've been given recently by the Harris County jail they were gonna do better? Because they keep saying, and they've been doing this for years, hey, we're gonna do better. Hey, don't worry, we're fixing that problem. Hey, don't worry. This one, not a big deal anymore. I know we've had these, but that just taught us a very important lesson for how to deal with it in the future. And we're here in the future. And now, here we are at another death. And I'm sure they're gonna say, well, those fixes are not complete yet. We're still really working hard. They're probably gonna point to the the new hospital wing of the Harris County jail they're they're building out and say, that is what this is for. This is why we're building that, because of cases like this. And they're gonna use it as like a prop for their v just overt spending of your tax dollars to build a jail hospital, right? And again, I said at the time when they announced that, I'm not actually even that upset by it. I I don't mind having an on-site facility so that people who are assumed innocent, even if they weren't, but but people who are presumed innocent have access to medical care. Now, of course, I think they should have to pay for it. And I question that from the get-go. Who's covering the the medical care, right? Who's paying the salaries of the doctors, right? Where does that come from? If that's tax dollars, it's a big no-no. Right? That's that's literally just socialism. You're giving them straight insurance at my dime, right? Which I know you do anyway, for a lot of people, especially the the criminal sort. But I I don't want to do that for literal people who are being held in jail. I don't want to pay their medical bills, actually. I I think they should have to work for that. What happened to forcing people to work? Anyways, all this to say yet another jail death. I'm sure, I'm sure everyone that works in the district generally is I I don't I don't want to use the phrase bummed out because I think that's making light of a really serious problem. And I'm sure this this individual had a family and all that's really rough. But from the political side of things, can I just say this is gonna be such a mess because the Harris County Jail just recently passed their first inspection from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, and now you've you're gonna be heavily looked into for what happened and what allowed this to transpire, for if you had any any fault in this, if your facilities were not up to par, and if not, why not? Right? Those are all gonna be very big questions that everyone's gonna be asking, and I think rightfully so. Because we're in a situation where this has consistently happened. This is not again, this is not like this is the first time. I think we'd all have a little understanding, even then, it would still be very serious questions, a very real investigation. But if this was the first time somebody had died, you had a great facility and somebody died, we'd say, Wow, that's a tragedy. And then I think we'd be able to kind of eventually move on from it in the sense that we don't think it's gonna happen again. But then you ask yourself, wait, how many people have died so far this year? How many people died last year? How many people died in 2024 in the Harris County jail from so-called medical emergencies? And you start asking those questions and you start realizing it was not a small number. It was it was not five people, it was not one person like maybe would have been explainable. No, no, way more. And so now we're we're kind of caught in this sort of mess where the Hairscade Jail has consistently been a not very safe place, putting it mildly. And we've consistently been incapable of passing any sort of inspection, whether that's due to our water issue, whether that's due to our our fire code not fire system not being up to code, whether that's to do with the the amount of officers, right? The overstaffing, or overstaffing, if only we had that problem, with the overcrowding and understaffing, with having to ship inmates away to other states to house them because we don't have the room, right? We have all these issues. It's a very clear pattern, and we finally do it, right? After years, literally, we finally pass an inspection, and just as we've done that, boom. Another death in the Harris County jail, another one. And at some point, I think everyone's gonna have to say that whatever leadership is doing is not working. And I get it, again, they're gonna point to this new policy that they put in place. Hey, we're building out the hospital, it's not done yet. When it's done, this will never happen again. In the meantime, what about people that are literally dying in your jail? Right? There are plenty of jails across the US that don't have literal hospitals in them that also don't have the death problem that you do. So I'm not sure what to tell you, right? Maybe a medical emergency is stress related because somebody yelled at him. I I could I don't know. But what I do know is that this is incredibly unacceptable. I don't think there's any justification for it. And I don't think we should let them make the argument, well, we need this new thing in order to stop this. I I don't think that's true. I think it'll be beneficial, I think it'll be helpful, I think it'll be good for the inmates, but I think if we allow them to run this lie, well, if we don't have the hospital, that's why this happens. No. This has not been a problem in recent history until like very recently. This was not a problem a few years ago. This is not a problem in a lot of other localities and geographical regions. This is your problem. And you can blame it all you want. I actually think a bigger brunt of the blame should fall on the fact that we're not funding our officers enough to have plenty of officers that can see this stuff happening and address it correctly. You don't have the staff. That's a much bigger problem in general than building a hospital, is that you don't have the proper staffing and when it comes to the officers that are there. That's a much larger problem, in my opinion. And one that they're really still not addressing. Nevertheless, that being said, we're coming up on a break. And so after this break, of course, we're gonna talk about Alex Cardenas, remind Alexis Cardenas, and remind you guys kind of what went down in that case. This is you might have seen the video uh back when it came out about what went on, what the grand jury's kind of come out with, all of that coming up. I just want to say one more time, just to be clear, they better not take my money to pay for the inmates' medical care. That that's that should not happen. I'm very happy they're building a hospital. I think it will be helpful, but it better not be the doctors and the medical, it better not be funded by the taxpayers, right? I understand we're building it out, and so the taxpayers are on the hook to build it, but after that, no bueno. I'm not we're not covering or we should not be covering the actual medical medical care for inmates. That that's just insane. Uh, and there's much better uses for our money. For example, becoming a member of our sponsor, Gun Owners of America. Gun Owners of America is, of course, a a very large sponsor of Patriot Talk 920, and for very good reason, we're the Second Amendment uh station in the really I say the Houston area, but really look across the US. We're probably the the most pro-gun station in in maybe the country, as far as stations go. And we partner with Gun Owners of America because Gun Owners of America understands a vital truth. And that is that our rights are not magic, they don't just magically stick around and they won't always be here unless we fight for them to be. And that is exactly what they're doing. 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Now, like I said, when we get back, we'll talk all about Alexis Cardanas, everything going on in the jail, everything you kind of see in terms of the grand jury indictment, or maybe we should say lack of indictment. If you've got any questions, concerns, disagreements, or anything you'd like to hear me report on that I've just not covered yet this morning, and you're like, hey, can you get to this? Feel free to text in, let us know. The number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You're listening, the Lone Star Conservative. And Lord willing, I will return with that jail update after the break. So stick around, hang tight, and we'll be right back.

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Alexis Cardenas Grand Jury Declines

SPEAKER_16 38:16

Usually the exact opposite problem is when there's there's these sorts of issues happen. When people don't want to go to jail. This one he did not want to leave the jail. The jailers were among the county employees who attempted to escort him to a doorway leading out of the processing center, right? So it's kind of in this processing area. Um and so a lengthy fight ensued after he refused to step outside, prompting more than 15 other jailers to spill into the room, according to security footage. And by the way, we saw the 17-minute video that came out. It was on YouTube, it was made public, um, and it showed one officer punching him in the face, but this was all. I mean, I don't want to say deserved, but he's like kicking and and throwing his elbows into people and tackling people. So it's it's understood, it's understandable that they would respond in kind with a level of force, right? And so that's what's going on. And so you have uh a taser being used, and after all of this, they notice, hey, actually he's unresponsive. Uh we gotta do something. He didn't have a pulse when he when the medical team arrived about a half hour later. Again, all this is on video. And um so Harris County District Attorney's Office prosecutor, uh Vincent Tanzillo, who presented the case, said the grand jury declined to indict each of the targeted employees, who were all detention officers. He said he couldn't explain the jury's decision or what evidence was presented as the grand jury's proceedings are secret by law, right? You don't you don't get to hear it, you don't get to hear what they're presented with. You just get to find out, okay, they haven't, they have or they have not been indicted. And so I I will say uh that that the the grand jury came out and they said that, okay, yeah, you're not at fault. Now I will say that a Harris County Institute of Forensic Science employee uh left the grand jury room right ahead of the decision and and uh an autopsy report concluded that a combination of drugs, mainly the acute toxic effects of methamphetamine, cocaine, uh chlorodiaz uh diaze We need to find better drug names. It should not be a street drug if I if I can't pronounce it. I read and speak for a living. And if I can't just read it and pronounce it, you need to rename it. So some some sort of I'm sure they have a street name for it. I just don't know what it is. I'm not a drugie, okay? I'm sorry I didn't know the name. Chlor dye az epoxide and ethanol, as well as an irregular heartbeat and restraint, which led to his death. Uh but of course the restraint it kind of reminds you of the old George Floyd debacle uh when they just I mean, absolutely went after uh for no reason, the officers, instead of going after, you know, the criminal. Well, of course, he's like, I can't breathe. But he's saying that before anyone's even touching him, right? Before he's ever on the ground. Because of course he got fentanyl in his body. I I I mean, it's just what do you what do you want us to do about that? Yes, this may have exacerbated the issues, but what do you that's his fault for being uh like on extreme levels of drugs. I I can't help that, and I'm still required to do my due do my duty. This guy's attacking us in the processing center of Harris County Jail. We gotta hold him down. What do you want us to do? I I didn't mean to for him to die, obviously. But the drugs are are very clearly a leading cause in that. And so uh Jason Spencer, he's a spokesman for the Sheriff Edgonzala's office. He also said the internal investigations would be presented to an administrative disciplinary committee to also determine whether any jailers violated policy, not the law, because the grand jury already determined that, uh, and if disciplinary actions are recommended. And so the grand jury essentially heard all the details. And again, we didn't hear the tr- we didn't hear how that went, but I'm sure they heard about the autopsy, the drugs, what the jailers did. Uh and this doesn't mean the jailers did nothing wrong. It just means that there was no sort of criminality, right? They didn't they didn't violate the law in whatever they did, even if they did violate policy, which we'll find out through the internal investigations. With that being said, when we get back, we're gonna, of course, at the bottom of the hour, go over the weather report, what is coming out of today, the rest of this week, now that we're the middle of the week, if we have any rain chances left, all that sort of stuff. When we get back, if you would like to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. Hang tight, because we'll be back to wrap up the first hour of the show with the weather report after the break.

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Houston Storms And Flood Risk

SPEAKER_16 46:41

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. Let's get into the weather. We're coming up on the bottom of the hour, so let's let's get into this before we run out of time. I was about to ramble and then I said I looked at the clock, I said, no, we need to get to the weather report. Scattered storms today could bring another round of downpours to the Houston area after a pretty stoking rainfall yesterday. Uh we have an upper-level storm system that's going to approach the region throughout the day today. Despite intermittent rays of sunshine, clouds are expected to quickly grow as afternoon temperatures rise into the lower 80s. Now, this morning's commute will likely be very different from the the drive that was very wet yesterday. Despite mostly cloudy skies, Wednesday morning should be dry in most, if not all, neighborhoods, uh with the exception being, again, uh areas mainly west of Houston. A few light to moderate showers could begin to develop between eight and ten a.m., mainly I think from college station out to Columbus. By midday, those showers will grow into storms capable of producing especially heavy rainfall and frequent lightning. Rain chances are highest between roughly noon and six p.m. across the Houston metro area, which means your midday trip to grab lunch could take a little bit longer, right uh or at least prepare first take a little bit longer. Unlike yesterday's light to moderate rain, today's storms are likely to feature more intense rainfall rates. The greatest flooding risk will be along and east of the Brysis River, including Houston, uh. As we already now have very saturated soil and more rain will just make the ground which is already soggy, I guess we'll use the word soggier is is what's gonna happen. Today's storms could produce heavy rainfall, but severe weather is not expected. Of course, any storm could produce gusty winds, but those should be pretty isolated. Now, today is the last day when rain chances are pretty likely. Uh the weather pattern becomes less active and more typical of a late spring or summer day in Houston by tomorrow. Afternoon heat is gonna cause some storms to develop quickly, rain themselves out, and just dissipate. And so in the absence of any sort of large-scale storm system, rain chances across the region will be generally capped at maybe twenty percent. Temperatures to round out the work week will, unsurprisingly, without any sort of widespread rain, continue to go up. Most of these metro area will spend the afternoon in the mid-80s tomorrow, with temperatures in the upper eighties by Friday. As heat index values or humidity driven, it feels like temperatures exceed ninety degrees. And so again, we'll we'll go over all the upcoming stuff. Saturday could bring the temperatures into the nineties uh for the first time this year if we don't have any storms. But we'll of course keep everyone updated on what the weather is in the meantime. When we get back from the break. Of course, we have Brandon Waltons from Texas Scorecard coming on. And today we are going to go over all the updates with what's going on in the immigration realm, specifically when it comes to cooperation with ICE, big cities, Ken Paxton, Governor Abbott, right? All of these different parts that are all playing in a big sort of mess that we'll address with Brandon after the break. As always, if you'd like to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You are listening to the Lone Star Conservative, and I'll be right back with Texas Scorecard to discuss immigration at the top of the next hour. Hang tight, don't go anywhere, and we'll be right back.

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Houston ICE Detainer Ordinance Fallout

SPEAKER_16 50:31

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. Joining us this morning for our Wednesday morning Texas scorecard segment is Brandon Waltons coming on to discuss all of the variety of updates coming out from multiple cities, multiple offices in a variety of ways on this whole immigration cooperation with ice debacle. Welcome to the show, Brandon. Hey, Michael, always good to be here. Always good to have you here. I want to kick it off. Uh obviously here in Houston, I want to start here. What's can you give us some background, first of all, on kind of what's going on in regards to all of this? What kind of kicked this off and and where we're kind of headed towards now?

SPEAKER_19 51:13

Yeah, so you know, really this whole thing started off not that long ago, right? I mean, it's only been maybe several weeks now that uh Houston City Council, uh, along with with the mayor's support, with Mayor Whitmeyer's support, uh, passed an ordinance that would essentially say that police do not need to cooperate with ICE detainers, uh, you know, longer than 30 minutes. So if you know they're they're 31 minutes, ICE doesn't come to get them, uh, then then they're gonna let them go. Um, which is not just problematic as a policy, um, but it's also in violation of state law. Back in 2017, folks might remember uh Texas passed a law banning sanctuary cities in the state of Texas, saying that no cities do need to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. And you know, that was almost almost a decade ago at this point. And so uh don't say that. That no wow really puts it in perspective, yeah. Um this is in the law. So this is not a new law, this isn't something that, oh, cities are just finding out about. Uh this has been the law for quite some time in the state of Texas. Right. Um and and why, you know, why Mayor Whitmeyer decided to join with some of the more radical um elements of his party on this, I think people can sort of speculate. Maybe, you know, there's some electoral concerns there, or he's trying to short up some of the Democrat base. Either way, uh the George passes, and uh pretty shortly after you have uh Governor Greg Abbott in the public safety office and his and his uh uh governor's office come in and say, okay, well, uh if you're going to do that, um then we're going to uh pull uh some state funding, some state grants that were given to uh to the city of Houston to the tune of you know more than 110 million dollars in public safety grant funding because um there are certain stipulations that go along with these grants, and one of them is that you know you're not going to essentially violate state law, right? We're not gonna give money from the state to the cities uh to violate the law. Uh that has thrown um obviously uh uh a range into their plan. Uh you know, this this came out last week, and since then you've essentially had um a lot of work behind the scenes to say, okay, well, if we can't repeal this ordinance, because there might not be, and you look at the math on the city council and look at whose support, there might not really be enough support at this point to to put the two states to take the two. Right. Uh that you know, there there are enough radicals on the city council that want to stand up and want to fight the governor on this issue, uh, that there might not be the votes to repeal it. And so uh obviously later later this morning the city council is going to be meeting. We've seen uh uh sort of a draft proposal that would uh not repeal the orders but would amend it. Um it has been floating around that essentially would say uh, you know, well, you know, they can hold over through there are other other circumstances, and um, you know, and it would essentially put wording into the order that says in, you know, it doesn't violate state law, which is sort of an interesting, uh interesting way to way to put it in is that you know we're we're not gonna do this in violation of state law. Um, but it doesn't really address, and maybe what we'll get more clarity this morning when when council meets, uh it doesn't really address, you know, whether or not this will satisfy what uh what the governor is is calling for here. Um, you know, Governor Gray Abbott said, uh I I believe it was yesterday, which asked about this, and said, you know, the the state ha holds all the cards here. Houston doesn't have any cards in this debate. And to a to a sense that is true. I mean, this is a massive state grant. Um, and so they do exercise a lot of control over the city. Um and we'll see what happens later this morning.

SPEAKER_16 55:07

And of course, you know, Mayor Whitmeyer really has put himself between a rock and a hard place here because, of course, he ha has been fighting for as much as possible, shockingly, of course, that we have no rise in our in our taxes here. He's been fighting for that tooth and nail at the city level, saying we don't want to raise taxes on people. And so every little bit of money is and and budgetary concern when it comes to the mayor is very clear-cut to him because that's his number one issue is I want to keep it affordable. And so $110 million is not a drop in the bucket. That is massive. And so that's why I think immediately you saw him come out and say, I warned you guys, I know I voted with you, but I warned you uh we need to stop this before it's too late. I will say, uh, Brandon, one thing that is really, really crazy to me about this particular issue is I remember it also was not that long ago when the 30-minute policy was put in place. It was only a couple months ago that they put the 30-minute policy. Before that, we would literally take them and hold them at jail. It we didn't have a a policy of how long we'd wait. And they did the 30-minute policy because they talked to the attorney for the city and they said, We believe that we're actually going to be able to do this 30-minute policy and that that won't violate state law. That was the whole reason. And then uh a couple months later they've come out and they've done this new policy, which is almost very clearly in violation of state law. Why? You thirty minutes? Is that really worth all of this? I mean, w what's the point?

SPEAKER_19 56:39

Exactly. Thirty minutes, oh, and you can't also pull over, you know, you can't you can't actually detain people simply because of uh uh you know offering these uh based fully on administrative immigration warrants and stuff. Right. Um it's uh uh it it it's sort of surprising. It comes down to blood field. And you're right. I mean, the mayor actually you know said, like, well, I warned you about this, but I I voted for it. Very interesting, especially coming from you know a mayor who I think has up until this point had enjoyed and has enjoyed some some pretty broad support from Republicans and Democrats at Houston. Um so it's an interesting, interesting choice by him. And I'll say this if if the the threat of you know grant funding wasn't enough, uh you also had coming in last week, piling on, uh, that Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the city of Houston, um, seeking to block the old ordinance. And so if they don't uh if they don't uh repeal it today or or or make some some substantial changes, then they also have uh they also have that to deal with.

SPEAKER_16 57:37

Yeah, and what does that look like? Uh uh what what's the process here for that? Because on obviously dealing with the grant money, you also now have this lawsuit. What does the process of the lawsuit look like in terms of where it'll be, what we'll be dealing with? Um I'm assuming it already is a lawsuit. So it's not like what will happen if he instigates it. We're already there, and it only I guess gets stopped if we decide, hey, we'll we'll stop the thing that you're suing over.

SPEAKER_19 58:02

Yeah, it was filed last week. Uh and and so I think that uh, you know, um the way these things usually go, I think if if the ordinance itself gets substantially changed or repealed, then I think the lawsuit might be moot at that point. But but it's another um yeah, it's it's another threat against the the city right now at a time where uh I think the mayor you know doesn't doesn't really want this kind of uh this kind of thing happening.

SPEAKER_16 58:29

No, and of course you have the radicals like Alejandro Salinas on city council who they're like we'll take them on. I think we can get them on constitutional protections. And the mayor's like, even if we could, we don't, what are we doing? We can't do that. We don't have the stuff to do that.

SPEAKER_19 58:46

Yeah, exactly. And all of this costs money as well.

SPEAKER_16 58:50

Right, right. And on top of the $110 million, you know that lawsuits are not free, right? You are aware. I think somebody talked to me the other day the average cost, if we ever were to go to the Supreme Court and stuff, the average cost like a million dollars. So just add in, and that's the average cost. When you have big like players like this, it gets substantially more expensive. Now, to make our Houston listeners feel better, because you know it's always nice to not be alone. Misery loves company, right? Isn't that the saying? Um what's going on in Austin?

Austin And Dallas Grant Pressure

SPEAKER_16 59:18

And really we'll go over Dallas too, but Austin, what's what's going on there? Because I'm hearing there's some pretty similar issues.

SPEAKER_19 59:25

Yeah, some similar issues uh in Austin. Last week you had uh the governor sending out a very similar letter uh to City of Austin leaders over essentially the same thing. Back in March, uh there was an update to the Austin Police Department's general order outlining how officers should handle requests from ICE. Uh and basically the changes they made says that officers can't arrest or detain individuals solely because of ICE administrative warrants. So that's part of uh you know what Houston did, a very similar thing happening here uh in Austin. Um now uh the grant that officers receive far less than the city of Houston is about two and a half million dollars. Um and the you know, Austin City Manager with two and a half million dollars, you know, the Austin City Council seems prepared to fight this. Um and uh we'll we'll we'll see what happens there. But um, you know, it is interesting. It really did, I think, take uh the city of Houston doing this uh for a city governor's office to start investigating some of the larger cities and finding out that some of these policies have been passed um behind the scenes.

SPEAKER_16 1:00:34

Right, I was gonna say, because this is the I think Houston is the most recent, right? The most recent addition to these lists of policies, and so these have all both been uh both of the other major, two of the other major cities have both been kind of in violation, it appears like, of state law for uh a pretty extended period of time now.

SPEAKER_19 1:00:52

Well, exactly. They uh and and and specifically I would say that is uh really the case in Dallas where um you know they received a similar a similar letter, uh, but their policy goes back to uh uh over a year ago.

SPEAKER_16 1:01:06

Wow. So this this has been an ongoing issue for a long time. And I I have to wonder, I I you know, I don't want to, you know, jump down a rabbit hole of of blame shifting and and whatever, but I have to wonder why it took Houston doing it and that being reported on uh for us to get involved in a place where it has been there for over a year. I I have to wonder why it took that to get there.

SPEAKER_19 1:01:31

Yeah, and I think a lot of people are looking at it to say, okay, well, what anyway, the style said this policy for a year, why are why are we just now uh why are we just now taking action on them? Uh, you know, I think it was one of the things where I think that uh you know the city of Houston uh just based, you know, in large part due to its size and and uh um and its status, the biggest city of Texas. Uh I think whether they like it or not, I think uh, you know, the Houston City Council put a spotlight on this policy. And so now I think that uh any city in Texas that has a policy that looks like this, uh whether it's something that's surpassed by the city council or uh something that has, you know, just become part of the rulemaking authority within their police departments, I think all of them have been uh put on notice. And if any of them have received any of these state grants, I think uh uh they should all uh have uh reason to be concerned right now.

SPEAKER_16 1:02:20

Right. Uh so essentially what you're saying is the squeaky wheel gets the grease, uh but the especially big squeaky wheel gets the grease first, is is how this is going. Now, with that being said, this morning is when we're supposed to have Houston really start kind of working on this. And and you said Austin prepared to fight it. I was gonna ask, what does Austin and Dallas look like in terms of where their policy kind of goes from here? Because we kind of know where Houston's headed, or at least trying to head. Where is Austin and Dallas looking at this? Do we know?

SPEAKER_19 1:02:48

Well, uh, you know, Austin city manager told me that they're confident that their their policy complies with state law. And so, uh, you know, they they could end up fighting fighting back against this. It's certainly possible. And at the end of the day, Austin's grant funding is can only quote unquote only two and a half million dollars. Um, and so uh, which is you know less than 110 million dollars that the Houston's facing. Dallas is in a bit of a different situation, though. Dallas has as well a a huge amount of money, eighty plus million dollars um that's tied to to grant funding. Part of that, by the way, because of like like the city of Houston, is is tied to uh special event funding for um the World Cup later this summer. Uh and so you know that's a lot of money for for them to have to put there. Um and uh, you know, we'll we'll the city of John Civic has uh uh kept close to the best. They've been given until tomorrow to respond. Um and so we'll see what their tactic is. Uh their their communications officer told me that they they are you know committed to to following all state and federal laws, and so uh we'll we'll see if uh that actually is true.

SPEAKER_16 1:03:57

Yeah, I'm sure they're also committed to not losing 80 plus million dollars. I think that's what he meant to say. Um with that being said, Brandon, as always, we greatly appreciate you coming on. We appreciate Texas Scorecard coming on every Wednesday. When Texas Scorecard is not here for our Wednesday segment, what is the best way to keep up to date with all this reporting, especially now that we're gonna have major updates coming out from all these cities and what will be going on in these fights, among of course other things from higher education to public education uh to holding the government officials accountable? Where does all that sort of come out?

SPEAKER_19 1:04:27

That's with uh Texas Scorecard.com. You can sign up uh for our email list, or uh if you're on X, you can go to uh at Texas Scorecard.

SPEAKER_16 1:04:35

Perfect. Well, again, as always, we greatly appreciate you coming on, Brandon, and Lord willing, we'll talk to you again in the future. Absolutely. Thank you. Of course. With that being said, ladies and gentlemen, when we get back from the break, we're gonna jump over and go over the Houston Police Department officer who has now been relieved of duty after apparently there's a so-called racist rant, which went viral on social media, which of course it did. We'll talk about it when we get back. If you'd like to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back after the break. Talk soon.

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HPD Officer Video And Trust

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So a Houston police officer has been relieved of duty after a video circulating on social media allegedly shows her making offensive racist remarks, according to the Houston Police Department. Officer Ashley Gonzales was sworn in back in January of 2024, couple years ago, and assigned to the South Gessner Patrol Division. She has been relieved of duty pending an investigation, according to HPD source confirmation, yesterday. In the video, the woman sitting in her car can be heard using racial slurs and making offensive remarks targeting black people. She also expresses hostility toward people of color and makes comments referencing slavery, racial discrimination, and stereotypes. A clip of the video with the slurs censored was shared. Um it's it's you can find it on the internet. I'm not playing it. In one portion of the video, she describes confronting someone she claims attempted to steal her wallet. Y'all don't know how good it felt to say a certain racial slur out loud. I felt like I was back in the Marine Corps. I don't know what they're doing. By the way, I she said it. I don't know what they're saying in the Marine Corps, what racial slurs are going around, but you get a bunch of young guys, you know, I guess she's a woman, but you usually get a bunch of young guys in a group. I I don't know what to tell you. It's just the way the world works, I suppose. The US Marine Corps has confirmed that she did serve from 2019 to 2023, attaining the rank of corporal, which is an E3. The Houston Police Department has not released further details about the video or the circumstances under which it was recorded. Gonzalez had logged more than sixteen hundred hours of coursework for the Houston Police Academy and other law enforcement organizations, according to documents. In a statement, the Houston Police Officers Union said it is extremely disturbed by the video and emphasized that it does not condone or tolerate racist behavior among its members. I don't know why that's a sense sort of pride, but but whatever. He added that the Union believes HPD will take appropriate action regarding the video in an effort to maintain public confidence. The DA's office came out and they said, without discussing the specific case, I can confirm there is a process in place to notify prosecutors, defense attorneys, and the courts when a police officer has been disciplined or terminated for conduct that would tend to impeach their credibility. And I'm gonna also give you guys the full statement from the Houston Police Officers Union just so you're aware of what they're saying. We are extremely disturbed by a video circulating on social media regarding an officer making offensive racist comments. In no way does the Houston Police Officers Union or its leadership condone or tolerate racist behavior from any of our officers. The Houston Police Department prides itself as being the most diverse police department in the nation, largely a product of that collaborative change to civil service law, the HPOU and the Department of May through our meet and confer process. It is our belief that the department is diligently working to confirm the authenticity of this video and will take appropriate measures to ensure public confidence and trust between our department and our community. Now, I have a I have a couple different notes. And I want to be careful how I say this, because I don't want to come out uh and sound insane, but I want I do have a couple of notes. First and foremost, I don't I don't use this term lightly on the show. It's it's usually maybe once a week or less that I use this particular term. But how stupid do you have to be to be in a position where you're being recorded? Right? You're you're being you and and you're where? You're being recorded or you're recording yourself, whatever it is, and you're in a relatively public position. You're in a job where your job is largely dedicated to public safety and the protection of all people. And for you to say things that if they were ever heard would very clearly result in termination. Let's be honest, right? This is not you know, we could go over free speech, which we'll get to that. But it's also called strategy, right? Even if e l let's say I came out and I said, I believe that it is morally plausible to use certain words that have become um in our language slurish, right? Words that that are inappropriate. I think it's acceptable to use them. Even if that were true, time and place, I I mean, even if you believe it, time and place, right? Do you really think that while you're on video in a job where you're public facing is a good idea? No, of course, it's a really dumb idea. It's very foolish. Even if you think it's justifiable to use the word, even if you believed that, I think it's insane uh to to use the w these words that you know are likely gonna result in your termination unless you want to be fired. I mean, maybe maybe it wasn't dumb. Maybe she was done working for the police department and has another job lined up. I couldn't tell you. But it is pretty insane uh that that you'd even think to do this in the first place. The second thing that I want to get to is and this this is not, I want to be very clear, and I want to be very very I want to be very clear in how I say this. There are, I'll say, generational differences. This is one thing that a lot of people have not caught up on yet. There are there are generational differences in the words that people use. And I we don't have time to get into etymology and linguistics enough for me to say this as clearly as I'd like to. But some things that may have been, we'll say, very inappropriate 50 years ago, have changed verbiage, usage, all those sorts of things, where things that if you said them 50 years ago would have been really bad, 20 years ago would have been really bad, 10 years ago was okay, that's awful, five years ago was what in the world are you saying, and now is okay, not a big deal. Right? That that changes, and that's not just racial slurs, that's any word. Words do that over generations and over over centuries. Words change. Words mean new things, uh concepts change. With that being said, there are also words that in general, uh context-dependent, you should almost never use. There's almost no benefit to using them, right? Uh and that's not just me talking because of FCC guidelines. That's me saying there are a lot of words that just don't there's no reason for them to exit your mouth. We should we should as Christians especially exercise constraint and self-control in the way that we speak and in the things that we say. And context-dependent, you know, there are a lot of words, and and I can't list them, but there are a lot of words that we should as Christians say, I don't plan on using that word. Or there's no reason for me to use that word. There's no there's no benefit, there's only negative consequences for using it. Why would you? What's the point? Even if you have the technical freedom to use the word, what's the intent behind you using it? Because that matters a whole lot more, and that's what language is all about is intent. Right? When you design it, when when any word exists, and again, we don't have time to d dive into really what language is and all of that, but when you use a word, a word in general is designed to paint a picture, right? Every word we have in the English language is designed to communicate. That's the point of language. And so when we have words like pizza, for instance, what are we communicating? Well, it's just sounds, right? It's p e z, right? You're you're za. You're you're intentionally communicating, okay, I want this thing that is dough, circular usually, but it could be square if you want a Detroit deep dish. But it's it's uh uh it's dough with some sort of sauce and some sort of topping, usually cheese plus other things or just cheese. You're communicating that's the thing that I want. Could you get me pizza? Each of those words, could you get me pizza? Each of those words has specific meaning to communicate a sentence that says, I want that person to deliver me this particular thing. And every word works that way. That's why words can change. That's why uh, you know, to someone who says speaks German and does not know English, a racial slur spoken in English would mean nothing to them. And if they ever said it, they they they would not be saying something inappropriate because to them it's not a word at all. It doesn't communicate anything. And so by nature, it can't be bad. And so that kind of gets into language and kind of describing what we're talking about here. But when you use words, that means you have to know what the words mean and you have to know the intent. And again, I I have not watched the video, but given the context, I think it's very clear the intent behind the words, and it does not appear to be positive intent, right? It does not appear to be encouraging or building up. And again, I think it's totally fair to have conversations on issues that are prevalent, right? I think it's fair. If I come out and I start having a conversation on, hey, what's going on in black communities across the US? It's totally fair for us to have that conversation and to say, why is there rampant fatherlessness in black communities? Why is there very clearly an issue with criminality in black communities? What's driving that? In fact, I think it would actually be racist to not do that because we'd approach it the same way if we had those sorts of issues in in Asian communities, in white communities, in Hispanic communities, we'd be having the exact same conversation. And so, of course, it's totally fair to address that and to say what's causing this, what's driving it. But there is a vast difference between the intent of building up, encouraging, and finding solutions, than there is to hatred and vitriol displayed towards a group. Those are very different things. And and and I understand there is a fine line on what those things look like. There is a fine line on on the difference between hatred and the but but a lot of this is driven down to intent. And from everything I'm hearing from this video, the intent here was not to build up, it was not to encourage, it was not to address real problems and how we fix them. It was purely out of spite and frustration. And I I think that intent to me makes all the difference. Obviously, to the police department, it it wouldn't matter when you use certain words and certain phrases, what have you, you're gonna lose your job. Uh, but as Christians, as conservatives, when we do look at the intent of language, when we do look at the things you're saying, when we do discuss, hey, why did you say the thing you said? Sh what does holding you accountable to this mean, we have to look at the intent of it. And from everything I'm hearing about what she said and why she said it, it does not appear to be the case that this is a justifiable use of any sort of slur, of any sort of uh, you know, vitriol that that that's incredibly unjustifiable in the context in which it was said and why it was said and what's being said. And so uh apart from just Houston Police Department policy, you know, we should hold ourselves to a high standard, especially those who are in a position of public safety, who are in a position of supposedly uh being uh non-discriminatory in the way that they approach their job, that's difficult to do when you harbor these sort of feelings of of what appear to be resentment. It's difficult, and this is why they talk about credibility and the impeachment of said credibility, because if we think that there you have hatred towards certain people, regardless of why, if you have that kind of hidden down and you're willing to even come out and say it, even at the behest of losing your job, we have to wonder, are you capable then of even doing the job? Are are you capable of participating in the protection of the innocent if the innocent are people that you apparently don't seem to like? And I think that's where a lot of this this when it comes to policy kind of comes out because when you look at what happened here, and it's a very clear example of someone who doesn't care about certain people, uh, who is not capable of doing the job they're called to do. And as a result, we c we have to set, you know, it's kind of like when you have teachers uh who are coming out and they were celebrating the the assassination of Charlie Kirk or calling for further violence, right? When they said, Well, free speech, and we replied, but it's not about free speech. It's not about whether you have the freedom to say the thing. It's about whether or not we think that the person who'd say that is capable of being the kind of person we want to educate our children and to raise them correctly, to be involved in their upbringing and their education. Do we believe that you're capable of doing that given your very clear beliefs? And the answer is no. And it's the same thing here. If these are the things that you believe, do we think that you're capable of doing the job? And I think the answer, at least from what we're seeing right now, is no. We'll find out as that trial proceeds and as the the in the internal investigation kind of comes out more and we verify a lot of these facts. Um, but just I I my biggest takeaway is what what a dumb thing to do. Even if you believe it. What a dumb thing to do. I that that's all I can really get out of this. With that being said, when we get back from the break, we still have a couple segments left. And to kick it off in the next one, we're gonna jump over and talk about the Texas Supreme Court, which has now said that the TCEQ, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, beat records deadline in a seven-year legal fight, kind of wrapping that up. We'll talk more about the details of that fight, what that looks like, and what this means when we get back from the break. As always, if you would like to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You are listening to the Lone Star Conservative, and I'll be right back after the break. 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TCEQ Public Records Deadline Fight

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The case is being remanded for further review of whether those records are protected by the deliberative process privilege, a legal doctrine that lets government agencies withhold internal predecision communications. If not, they may still be required to release those extra documents. And it all hinges on whether or not, you know, you have uh the sort of met the deadline uh in this 10 day legal process. Process. As was kind of previously reported, the Sierra Club, a left-wing environmental activist group, requested records from the TCEQ back in 2019 regarding a common chemical manufactured here in Texas. The request was made under the States Public Information Act. The following day, TCEQ asked the Sierra Club to clarify whether it sought any confidential information, as the agency would not would need to seek an attorney general opinion in order to approve that if that's what they were requesting. The Sierra Club immediately answered that it sought all information, including confidential, that must be released under the Public Information Act. And so they sent the request to the Office of the Attorney General, which was not received until July 18th of 2019. They sought to withhold certain documents under its deliberative process privilege. Now the OAG found no reason for the TCEQ to withhold the relevant documents, but also decided that the agency blew through its 10 business day deadline under that order. In calculating the 10 days, the OAG excluded the date the request was received, the Independence Day holiday, and weekends. That calculation put the 10 business day deadline in July 16th, two days before the OAG received the letter. As a result, the TCEQ faced the prospect of producing all of the documents, a default requirement when an agency fails to meet the deadline. However, they sent a request for correction as to timelines based on three pieces of information that weren't considered. First, that Friday, July 5th wasn't a business day because the agency was closed in observation of Independence Day. Second, that its July 2nd clarification email to the Sierra Club provided necessary context and should have reset that period. We don't know what we're sending. Third, that its letter to the OAG was placed in the mail the day before it was received, qualifying as a submission. And so you have uh you have weekends, holidays, clarifications, and the letter was sent out that they weren't past the 10-day deadline by the time they received the letter. And so the OAG refused to reconsider its decision, and then the TECEQ sued under that, seeking a declaratory judgment that would allow the agency to withhold the contested documents. And so that's been going on for a while now. Uh and so what we essentially have now is that because the first really two games, and in this case, they're they're calling them arguments, the court concluded that the shot clock didn't start running until July 2nd. And they also won that the letter had been sent the day before it was received, meaning the requirement was satisfied on July 17th. Because those were already won, the agency took the series, uh, which meant it had satisfied the 10 business day deadline, leaving the court to reverse the Court of Appeals decision and remand for further proceedings. Now, they did not rule on whether July 5th counted. Um and so it gets cum it gets a little complicated that we're not going to get into because we don't have the time uh what this actually means, because we're still gonna have to decide if they're gonna have to release the documents in general under the Public Information Act, but for now they won't have to until it's going through the lower courts

Intent Matters More Than Words

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again. With that being said, I wanted to wrap that story up a little early because we got a text in that I want to cover before we go to the break here. Uh the text in says, Good morning, Michael. Your comments about words meaning something is right. I remember growing up in the 60s, my parents told me that if you had to say swear words, you were not very educated in English. So I didn't grow up using that type of language, right? And and people do grow up differently. One of the things that I want to highlight uh about that is again, uh and this is this is very complicated. This is this is this this gets into very deep linguistic philosophy, right? This is not something that a that a morning radio show would usually be going into. But language is just a combination of sounds intended to communicate meaning. That's it, right? That's all we do with it. Words, the sounds themselves, don't mean anything. That's that that's true. That's why language is is is so comprehensive in the sense that when you say something, it's only because you and I agree that what I'm saying means something to you, and it means the same thing to both of us. And if people can't agree on what those sounds mean, then they're incapable of communicating. It's why if I were to go to another country in a language I don't speak, I would be communicating nothing to them. My words would literally be meaningless. It's why uh you'll find videos of people who I'll give you an example with the in-word, right? The word that shall never be uttered. You have people that will go to other countries that the the speakers are not English, and they'll be Americans that are trying to cause a scene, cause an issue. They'll ask somebody, say in Germany, hey, say this say this word. And they're they're like, I don't know what you're saying. They're saying they're speaking in German, obviously. And they finally communicate, we want you to say these combination of sounds, and they'll say the N-word. But to them, that's not the N-word. They have slurs that are in German that they're not using. You're asking them to use a combination of sounds, they have no clue what those sounds together mean. It means nothing to them. So to them, it's not a slur because it means nothing. And that that gets down even complicated into English. Because if you grew up in a community where a word that I would look at and say, that's a terrible thing to say, was very common nature in that community. It's difficult for me to go in and say you should never say that, because to them, with the way they communicate with their peers, it means something very differently. And so we have to be very cautious with any words that we automatically ban the use of any word for being evil when words are incapable of being evil. Meaning is evil. You can have evil meaning and evil intent and an evil heart in the way you communicate, but words themselves are not inherently evil. They're like anything else, a neutral tool. They're just a combination of sounds designed to communicate an idea. And the question is not whether the word is evil, but whether the idea is evil. And that's why when words change, it's it's very important that we understand those those minute differences. That's why dialects were very important to understand. This is so complicated. But it it's it's very, very important that we be cautious with any sort of claim of, well, you should never say that word. And anyone who ever does is bad and evil. Because you have to be aware of what they believe, what their intent in using the word is, why they use the word, what kind of language they grew up around. That's all very critical because the way that I speak is different from the way that somebody in in Louisiana is gonna speak, it's different from the way that someone in Massachusetts is gonna speak. And maybe words have different meanings in certain communities that that I would never say because I believe the word means something that somebody else says, no, but that's not how I use that word. That's not what that word means. What are you talking about? I grew up with the word meaning this, and they'll use it for that. And it's it's difficult for us to say, well, I'm very offended. I am I am very offended that you would use that word. And they'd say, Why? It's not bad. And so I think we should be very cautious because it's very important to delineate intent. And that's why I said in the context of that video with the officer, the intent doesn't seem good, which is where my issue comes in. I don't really care about the words she used. I know they tried to make it all about the racial slurs. I I almost couldn't care less about the the the words themselves, but the fact that she was communicating through the words with intent, with hatred and vitriol. That's that's where my concern comes in. And I say, hey, here's what you're saying, and here's why you're using that word. It's very evident of the reason behind your language. And that's a much bigger issue than whether or not you used a word that I didn't like. With that being said, to wrap up the show, when we get back from the break, we will uh talk a little bit about uh this investigation into Roblox at the state level. Lawmakers are now conducting an investigation into Roblox, citing violent content and risks to children uh surrounding online gaming platforms, harmful content that's targeting minors, all that sort of stuff. When we get back to wrap up the show, as always, this is your last chance if you'd like to text in. The number is 713-779-5978. 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Roblox Violence Probe And Parenting

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As we wrap up here, the Texas House is launching a probe into online gaming platforms after reports that children were exposed to graphic real-world mass shooting simulations, including one recreating the attack at Robb Elementary in Uvaldi. The City Affairs Committee will investigate online gaming platforms amid mounting concerns about harmful content targeting minors, following a supplemental interim charge issued by House Speaker Dustin Burroughs. He's headed a game simulating the 2022 shooting in Uvaldi that claimed the lives of 19 students, calling it a profound moral failure and warning that such content goes beyond poor taste and crosses into dangerous territory. The charge directs lawmakers to study the prevalence of violent and sexually explicit material, as well as features that allow communication between minors and adult strangers. It also calls for a review of existing safeguards, including parental controls, content moderation, and chat filters, and whether platforms are prioritizing engagement over child safety. Quote, with nearly forty percent of Roblox's 144 million daily users under the age of 13, there is no excuse for performative safeguards or indifferent oversight. The state of Texas demands accountability, not a system that profits from violence and provocation while exposing young minds to hateful content. Lawmakers are also tasked with examining state laws on age verification and parental consent, as well as reviewing potential legal liability for platforms and third party developers, including the impact of federal protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. He also said that the issue reflects broader systematic failures in oversight, adding that platforms have allowed exploitation and shock value at the expense of basic human decency. We also have the Attorney General doing similar investigations and lawsuits. I I actually have a pretty crazy opinion on this. I think a lot of the issue here is not actually about the gaming platforms at all. And that's not to say that I don't think that there should be safeguards to prevent children. A lot of my issues surrounding a lot of this are conversations. Do we think it's acceptable for an adult to participate in violence in a video game? And I think the answer should be yes, right? I think adults have freedom to do that. I think there are things that we shouldn't have, right? I have a I have I have no issue with banning pornography. But there are other things like I don't have an issue with an adult playing Call of Duty. But if you put a 10-year-old on Call of Duty, you have a problem, especially when you have game chat open. This is the same thing I said about cell phones, right? Smartphone devices. Is social media inherently bad? No. Is the content inherently bad? No. Is it really bad when you put a 10-year-old on there? Of course it is. And so this has to come down to parents wanting to protect their children, right? The issue is not whether adults can talk to each other and then a kid pops in. The issue is what parent let their kid pop in, right? What are we doing here? And so I understand that that means we have to talk about kids' games versus adult games, where that sort of content is. But I think a lot of this comes down to parental authority and responsibility to protect your own children. With that being said, that'll do it for the show today. Thanks everyone for tuning in. You've been listening to Lone Star Conservative. Lord willing to be back bright and early tomorrow at 6 a.m. In the meantime, enjoy your warmer Wednesday and Godspeed.