Birthright Citizenship Is Hollowing Out American Identity

A single oath can reveal a whole system. We start with a simple question that turns into a bigger one: if regular taxpayers get hammered for missing paperwork, why do powerful officials keep finding “technicalities” when the heat is on? That leads us into the Harris County fight over whether Commissioner Adrian Garcia effectively vacated his seat after serving on the Gulf Coast Protection District, and why the Texas Solicitor General siding with challenger Richard Vega matters for public trust, transparency, and the rule of law.

From there we hit a few Texas stories that all orbit the same theme: accountability. We talk about the “war is good for the economy” myth and why honest American history should teach lessons, not just shame. We also cover the dropped Montgomery County assault charge against former Harris County prosecutor Gabriel Kabak, what “beyond a reasonable doubt” really means, and why the public still deserves clarity when a case disappears after a detailed arrest narrative. Plus, a quick Houston weather rundown as the Fourth of July weekend approaches, with heat index concerns and scattered rain chances.

Then the episode’s biggest policy flashpoint: birthright citizenship and birth tourism. Texas Rep. Brian Harrison joins me with seven concrete proposals he wants Texas to pursue right now, including making birth tourism a felony and challenging whether Texas should be issuing state birth certificates to children of non-citizens. We wrap with a hard-edged argument about when written law collides with self-preservation, a deep critique of the 14th Amendment’s consequences, and a final headline that hits close to home: the allegation of nearly $1 million stolen from Tomball ISD tax deposits while property taxpayers get squeezed.

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History, Progress, And Modern Discontent

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The voice of Reserve, easiest 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 here on Patriot 920, and it's July 2nd, which means a couple of things. First and foremost, it means we're one day closer to one of the best holidays of all time. And as I promised, tomorrow on the show, we are going to do, I don't want to say a full show of American history. But you you guys who are consistent listeners to the show, and if you're new here, you're going to find this out very quickly. I thoroughly enjoy a good historical conversation. I like learning. I enjoy history. Might be, I don't know that I would say this is my favorite subject in school. I had a lot of things that I like to do in school. And but but now especially, I think it certainly is. The more I learned about history and heritage, I you it's just, it just so much more stuff makes sense about the world. And you realize how much the government lies to you, and you realize that's not a new thing to happen, the government lying to you. Then saying, but we have to we have to go do this, and we have to go do that, we need more of your money. Then you find out that's exactly what Rome was doing with the Coliseum. It's just nothing new. Maybe a little less barbaric when they're wearing shoulder pads when they are playing the game. But it's it it's it's the same principle. And studying history teaches you that in a variety of ways. It really brings home the phrase, there's nothing new under the sun. You learn that that is true. And that all the stuff that we're dealing with today is basically just an unsettling version of stuff that's already happened. It may look a little different because we have more technology, we have more access to resources, you know, people and capitalism is in a lot of this, right? People are richer historically than they've ever been. It used to be that you had, this is why you had surf classes, you had peasant classes and nobility. Don't really have that anymore, even though you do have people who are impoverished, but even the impoverished group is getting such crazy welfare benefits that they're making twenty to thirty thousand dollars extra a year. So no one's really even impoverished in America anymore unless they want to be. Unless you just actively want to be hyped up on drugs and sleep on the street, no one needs to be impoverished. So, yes, we've come a long way. Things are a little different now. And yeah, and yet despite all of that, again, the sin is the same, the corruption is the same, the claims are the same, the evil is the same, and despite all of the innovation and the capitalistic free market that's given us the ability to work hard and to produce things and to be successful, people are basically less happy than they've ever been. I mean, you look at the standard, the quality of life in America, and I'm not talking about the quality of life, uh, how easy is it for you to get things? How how affordable is this or that? Because that that shifts every you know four, five, six, seven years. And it's just not I know that we all want to pretend like it's whatever president is in. Uh when Biden was doing it, we're like, well, yeah, that's because he's coming off of COVID and Trump had to do. I that's why do we just debate the policy and what we think actually works? Because when you when you watch the graphs, it just gets so messy to really hone in on exactly what policy did what in terms of a single administration. The global market moves over a much longer period of time than that. Nevertheless, I'm getting ahead of myself. Not really, I'm I'm just going down a rabbit hole. The bigger thing I wanted to say was that you you pay attention to all of this stuff, you watch all of it, and you are brought to the inevitable conclusion that people are not happier today. And that there's not there's not that all the quote unquote greatness that came from computers and that came from all of this stuff, it turns out that that didn't actually make anyone any better. That it may have given us more access to things, and it turns out that's not inherently a good thing. And that's why on my show I keep saying, hey, I'm a big fan of progress. Progress can be good, progress can be beneficial, progress can can be helpful. And I also caution that if we if we pursue progress with no end goal, if the goal of the progress is just to progress, do you understand? It doesn't produce anything. It doesn't produce any level of tangible benefit for anyone. And in many cases, when you do that, turns out there are side effects you didn't think about. When you pursue progress without a known positive goal, turns out there are also side effects, so that thing can become a net negative very quickly, a stain on the culture. Uh, we were watching a movie the other day. And then you're like, Michael, are you getting your evidence from movies? No, you'll understand why this still qualifies. There's actually a very well done, I don't know what category of film this is. Uh when they make a movie that's actually pretty accurate based on a true story, but pretty accurate. I don't know what genre. It's maybe biographical action. I I don't know. But it was from 2013, it's about a couple of Formula One racers who had this rivalry back in the 70s. And it was it was very entertaining, it was very well done. But these this guy is going or is is taken by his teammate in Formula One to a party. And as he's leaving this party, because he decides I don't want to be here. I'm not a social guy, not my atmosphere. He's leaving. He stands there and there's a beautiful woman that comes out, and he he approaches her and says, Hey, would it be possible for you to give me a ride to the next train station? And she says, Yes. Right? Turns out that that woman becomes his wife. That's how they met. And a couple things happen in that moment. First and foremost, back in the 70s, you know, there was and this isn't just in America, this is also in Europe. Things are a lot more safe.

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Right?

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Things have changed drastically in in terms of violence, in terms of criminality, in terms of immigration. All these things have changed things where now, you know, a woman may not feel very safe if a guy asks to get a ride somewhere. She'll be like, eh, probably not. Sorry, and then try to speed away as quickly as possible. And you can't blame her. You look around at the country, you look around at the world, and you go, yeah, I mean, that makes sense. So that's changed. I also pointed out that that would never happen today. People just call an Uber. When you can get on your little demon box, that's what it turns into a lot of times for a lot of people. When you get on your little box and you can click a button and it can just order a car to your location for a pretty cheap price, you don't have to talk to anybody. You don't have to ask anybody for a ride, you don't have to take charity, nothing. How many marriages were formed by social outings and and and were were found through things that people won't do today. But that's progress. So it's good, right? And history can teach you over and over and over again that progress and the pursuit of progress, that that all of these things that supposedly make people happier don't do that. That some of the richest men in history, it turns out a lot of them were actually not very happy. And you can you can also find out where there was joy. You can also find out what drives action. You can also find out what drives men to be good. And and that good men are often much happier than go along complacent men. And those are very important things to learn. And those are just the vague things you see just by glancing at history. The more you dive in, the more you learn about the details. And that's why on my show, I don't want to be a history pro. I don't want to be on the history channel. It's not where I belong. I belong in politics. I do believe that. But I think the politics, if we're not willing to address all these historical things, we're gonna lose all of it. Everything we built, if we don't know how we built it, if we don't understand what we built, why we built it, we're going to lose it. It's going to be gone. And that's a sad reality that we have to come to grips with if we want to change anything. We can't just sit around and say, well, maybe the next guy will do it. Right. Just it reminds you of the mayoral administration in Houston. Well, I know that our water department has a big problem, but maybe if we just kick the can down the road a bit, the next guy will handle it. The next guy'll take care of this. No. There's no next guy. We're it. You have to view things that way. You have to understand that this is coming to a head. We're the line of defense. Right? May I be in war that my children not be, that my grandchildren be in times of peace. And that's, I I I wholeheartedly believe that. I do believe that we're approaching. I don't want to say some sort of civil war. I don't want to be those the sort of, you know, warmongering, fear-mongering. I'm not that kind of guy, right? And if if at all possible, I would, I would always choose to avoid that sort of conflict, a country-destroy conflict. But you look at a lot of what's going on, and this is what I said the other day about birthright citizenship. You know, the reality is that somebody's gonna have to stand up.

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Right?

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Whatever that ends up looking like, however that ends up going, someone's gonna have to because that policy will destroy this country. Birth tourism will destroy this country. Allowing people to just come over, become citizens by nature or geographical location, that will destroy the country. It will destroy what it means to be an American. If we can't agree on that, if we can't establish what an American is, which we can't right now, they want to tell you it's just anyone who's born here, just anybody from anywhere at any time that can just get here. If that's what it means to be an American, then it doesn't really mean anything at all. And that's why these fights today are crucially important. And we have to understand what happens when you let the invading force in your gates. Because it's this is not the first time that's happened. It's probably not gonna be the last time that it happens. And we need to be aware of what that looks like so we can combat it effectively. Nevertheless,

Did A Commissioner Vacate His Seat

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that's the kickoff of the show, but I wanna I want to spend the rest of this first segment. This may take a two, this may be one of those two segment stories that spans two segments because I talk so much at the top of the hour. Texas is now siding with petitioners in a time-sensitive dispute over whether a Harris County commissioner vacated his seat. And you guys are probably gonna remember this story because you have you have Richard Vega. And Richard Vega, his petition was to declare Democrat Adrian Garcia's seat vacant and call a special election in order to fill it. And so the petition asked the court for a ruling by July 6th, so there's only four days away, mind you, which would allow time for an August special set election to fill the vacancy before commissioners vote in September to adopt a budget and a tax rate. Vega, who is Garcia's Republican challenger for the precinct two seat in November, sued Harris County Commissioners a couple of years ago for appointing Garcia to the Gulf Coast Protection District without forcing him to vacate his commissioner seat. And by logic and necessity, he actually did vacate his commissioner's seat in that moment. The Lawsuit Society of Texas is a long-standing prohibition on public officials occupying two offices with conflicting duties. District and appellate courts denied Vegas claims, agreeing with the county's argument that Garcia's appointment was invalid, and thus he never vacated his commissioner seat, even though Garcia served on the Gavison or on the uh Gulf Coast Protection District board and cast votes for three years. Commissioners, of course, quietly removed Garcia from the Gulf Coast Protection District after they were sued. They said, well, all of that irrelevant. He didn't really actually do that. I know that it looks like he did, but no, no, no, none of that really even happened. And so last month, Vega petitioned the Texas Supreme Court to declare Garcia's commissioner seat vacant and compel the county to call a special election to fill the position. And so just a few days ago, Texas Solicitor General William Peterson filed an amicus brief siding with Richard Vega. Peterson is arguing first that Texas recognizes the obvious incompatibility of individuals holding offices with competing loyalties and of being a member of a body appointing oneself to a second office. He said both doctrines may be implicated when a self-appointment is made to an office that has conflicting duties. Peterson is also arguing that because acceptance of an incompatible second office automatically vacates the first office, the first office may be filled without judicial determination. Garcia's acceptance of the GCPD appointment operated an abandonment of his commissioner's court position according to case law cited by Peterson. He said to the extent that Garcia accepted an appointment to an office incompatible with the office of commissioner, the office of commissioner would immediately be filled, as the law provides, without any prior judicial ruling by quo warranto. Finally, Peterson is arguing that if it is irrelevant whether the appointment to the second office was invalid due to the self-appointment doctrine, it still triggered automatic vacateur of his office. In other words, even if they want to claim it is invalid, it's not really relevant because he did it. That alone vacated the original seat. And he said enforcing this rule provides important clarity to the public. The public has a right to know which office is held and which is surrendered. It should not be left to chance or to the uncertain and fluctuating whim of the office holder to determine. In other words, you don't get to appoint yourself. And then when the water gets hot, you jump out and you say, Well, that was not even that wasn't really real. That wasn't really a real office. That was invalid, actually. That's random chance. You can just do that at any time. I can appoint myself to a board, and then five years down the line, when someone realizes what's happened and I get sued, I say, Well, no, that wasn't really real. And I just move on and go back to my original job. You can't do that. That's obvious. I think we all understand, even if you think it wasn't valid, that you can't just do that. That's that you have to have some sort of case law to handle that. And so he added, the the facts of this case in which Garcia executed the oath of office as a board member of the Gulf Coast Protection District, participated in public meetings, and voted as a board member, illustrate the wisdom of the common law rule. Treating acceptance of an incompatible office as a resignation of an incompatible existing office is indispensable for the protection of the public. And so Vega said taxpayers are being asked to accept the idea that an elected official can take an oath, serve in an office, cast votes, exercise governmental authority for more than a year, and then claim none of it matters. That is a question every voter should be paying attention to. And Vega's attorney, Jared Nav na uh Najvar, noted that the special election required under state law to fill a vacancy remains required, and the court has authority to designate when it shall occur. He added an election to fill an unexpired term pursuant to a judicial order does not have to be held on a uniform election date. Najvar noted that if the election is held, a Republican victory would move Commissioner's Court back to three to two partisan split, enabling two Republican commissioners to thwart any tax increase come September. And so his lawyer said the county doesn't dispute that Garcia accepted the appointment to the GCPD board, took the oath of office, and actually served for three years in the conflicting office. Even if the appointment was void, Garcia exercised the powers of two conflicting offices at the same time, dividing his loyalty owed to precinct two. The normal consequences should apply, meaning he resigned and voters should get to fill the seat. And that's not some out there random, grandiose claim, ladies and gentlemen. It's not like they're coming out and they're just have a bone to pick with Adrian Garcia and want him out. This is a fairly clear-cut case. You don't get to take the oath of office and serve in an official capacity to which you were appointed and vote on monetary decisions, among other things. And then three years later, three years after all those votes were cast, three years after you took the oath of office, say, Well, I guess that I didn't really do that because I want to keep my commissioner's seat. No, you did really do that. Even if you want to declare it as void now, you already did it. The moment you took the oath of office and then participated, you actively did actually do the thing that you're being accused of doing. You don't deny that. You just want to say, well, all of that's actually invalid. And that's not any sort of a legal argument. That's just something that you can say that hopefully protects your seat in commissioner's court. That's not actually a legal argument at all. Now, with that being said, before we go to the break, we did get

War Economy Myths And Real History

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a text in. I want to read this text in before the break. It says, Good morning, Low Star Conservative. When I was a kid, I used to hear old people say that war or the end of a war settles the economy and gets America back on track. Not sure if that's true, but I have never forgot hearing them say that. Yeah, I also grew up hearing war is good for the economy. And that was a lot of times the justification for a lot of it was, well, don't worry, everything will be all right. Settling this will be good for everybody. And here's the thing that I want to remind people of is that for a very long time, war has been unfortunately treated like a sort of inevitable reality of being a government. And and to be clear, there there are times to pursue good and moral war. Right? There are times that you have to defend your borders. I would argue that we are in a war with the cartel, that we are in a legitimate war. It may not be a world war. It may not even involve other technical governments, though, in the case of all the immigration, it it almost certainly does, the governments that are allowing and facilitating this nonsense. But we we are. And the problem is that there are so many wars that go on at any given point all around the world. And we seem to want to stick our noses into all of them. And then we justify it because, well, the economy gets better, and well, uh, you know, all the shareholders get there, whatever. And especially when you come out of a war, it's also a stark contrast because when you're in one, things get pricier, things get more expensive. Um, not necessarily there is always a recession, but there is at least some sort of recessionary problem in terms of finances and in terms of the economy. And so by contrast, you get out, and not only did you make more money than you were making before, but also compared to where you were during the war, it looks even much better on paper. And unfortunately, that has that has gotten us embroiled in numerous conflicts that we never should have been involved in. The list is long of conflicts we never should have been involved in. Wars involved that the people didn't want to be involved in, but were manipulated into being involved in, that we're manipulated into justifying. And our history is filled with that. And again, I keep saying it over and over and over again. No one on the right is asking us not to teach real history. You know, the left says, well, you don't want to teach what America, the sins of America. Yes, I do. I do want to treat, I do want to teach the sins of America. But you want to teach the sins of America as a as a point of shame and embarrassment. And I want to teach the sins of America as things we can learn from because we still, despite the issues, are the greatest country in the history of the world, and we can be even better. I don't want us to be just filled with shame and embarrassment. I don't want us to walk around with our heads held low, saying, oh man, what a country we've been. I can look back at a lot of the conflicts and the wars we've been in that I don't think we're moral at all. That resulted in numerous deaths that never should have occurred in places we never should have been. And I can do that and say, well, the end result of that is that I just America's just awful. And that could be my position. Or I could say, yeah, how about we learn from that? And and I think again, the importance of studying history and of knowing our past is so important to that. Because if you if you learn history well, you learn that no people group ever has been perfect. There there are sins in all times from all peoples. But that if our if our end goal is truly to pursue what is good and what is true and what is beautiful, which that should be our goal. If our goal is ultimately to glorify God in everything we say and everything we do, in word and deed, then dwelling in shame is not the way to get there. Ignoring sin is not the way to get there. And just refusing to fight is certainly not the way to get there. It doesn't mean that it's gonna be fun or easy, but that's what we have. With that being said, when we get back from the break, I did say there's gonna be a two segment story. When we get back from the break, we are. Are going to jump over and give some commentary on this commissioner's seat, the state support from the Solicitor General, Peterson, what that sort of looks like, where we go from here, what's probably going to happen, and what we need to do, all of that stuff coming up in the next segment. As always, if you would like to text into the show, let us know your thoughts on anything we're covering, or like I say, anything we're not, something completely unrelated. We'd love to get those texts in. I can address them. I'm happy to address them. I'd love to address them. So feel free to do that at 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord Willie. I'll be right back with the rest of that commentary on that story after the break. So hang tight. We'll talk soon.

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Local Government Power And Double Standards

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case here of Richard Vegan Adrian Garcia really exposes is not just, you know, well, Adrian Garcia did something bad and he shouldn't have done it. It is actually much deeper than that. I think it exposes the, I'll say, ruling class attitude that has unfortunately inflicted Harris County for years now, which is rules for for thee, but not for me. Rules for thee and loopholes and ways out of the rules for me. The average taxpayer does not get to play games like this. You know it. If you fill out a form wrong, if you miss a deadline, if you forget a fee, or or you violate some bureaucratic rule that most people don't even know exists, the government has no problem coming down on you with the full force of the law. They will find you, they will threaten you, they will tell you that ignorance of the law is no excuse to break it. Right? You get told that all the time. But when you have somebody who's politically connected who takes an oath of office, serves in that office officially, who casts votes and exercises governmental authority, and then later he gets challenged. And people say, Well, you you did do this thing. All of a sudden it happened, but it didn't really happen. He served, but didn't really serve. I mean, he took the oath, but somehow uh the public is supposed to pretend that the oath was just a meaningless nothing burger. Right? That's not how order government is supposed to work, and that's not how order government works at all. Uh that's how a political machine, which is what this is, continues to protect itself and to grow itself, right? Which is why we have to we have to this is why I say on my show all the time, you want to know why I would generally call myself a local show, first and foremost? Why the most important stories to me are big stories coming out of Houston, Harris County, Gavza County, Fort Bang County, Brisoria County, Montgomery County. The reason for that is actually very simple. And it's that yes, the things that Washington DC does, the things that DC does over and over are very important. The big budgets are very, very, very crucial to the functioning. What the Supreme Court rules on uh determines our sovereignty. These things are very important questions that need to be answered. We need to address them. But who's talking about us? Who's talking about the day-to-day decisions that have direct, daily impacts on we the people? Who's talking about the flop cameras that are getting approved by commissioners court? Who's talking about the budgets that are passed uh that are trying to support the Illegal Aliens Defense Fund? Who's who's talking about the gay softball world series that Garcia wants? Who's talking about all of the things that impact all of us on a daily basis? People that are taking our taxes at the local level and are making absolutely horror decisions. Let me tell you something. We have to stop treating our local government like it's somehow just less important than what happens up in up in federal Congress, right? Harris County Commissioner's Court is not some harmless tiny little board. Uh that's where your tax rate gets set, ladies and gentlemen. That's where budgets get passed. That's where your public mount money gets routed around and determined where it's going to go. That's where all the contracts and the county priorities and the law enforcement funding, you know about public safety, your law enforcement funding is coming from them. Right? Where flood control comes from and roads and property tax, all of that stuff is coming from the local level. Right. And the left knows that. That's why they fight like like crazy lunatics for these offices. That's why, despite having something that obviously very clearly vacates the office, they won't give it up. They know that county government is where a lot of power becomes very real and very useful. Right? It's where where ideology at the lowest level can become actual, legitimate, lifelong policy, right? And so, and especially when you look at the fact that one seat in this case can determine whether you get hammered with a tax increase, can determine whether you know a lot of these policies even end up ult and ultimately end up getting passed, suddenly, those legal technicalities that no one else would ever be privy to, suddenly they become very convenient. Suddenly, it's very funny that these same people who for years who are are you know five years later still just absolutely decrying the events of January 6th as a total threat to democracy, well, this isn't very democratic, is it? You very clearly vacated your office and you don't want to have an election to fill the seat. I mean, drop the other office and run again, then. That's democracy, right? You want democracy in action, then just run again. Oh, but no, no, no, no, no, not for me. No, no, no, no, no. We're not very we're not very excited about letting voters decide that. No, no, no, no. We that's not democracy, right? And again, that that word democracy has become one of the most abused flashpoints of modern American history. They invoke democracy whenever they want power, right? Whenever, whenever they want something out of it, and then they ignore democracy, they ignore any level of of representation, uh, when when voters might threaten their power, when all of a sudden it's not going their way, right? Because if there was a vacancy, which there was, then the remedy would be very clear, very upfront, very transparent, very simple, right? Call an election. Let the people choose. That shouldn't be controversial if you're s if you care so much about being a d a democracy, and it's not some radical demand. Uh if supposedly, as you claim that the public office just belongs to the public, to the people, then the people should decide who holds it. But that's the dispute, isn't it? Does the office belong to the people? Or in your opinion, Andrew and Garcia, does it belong to you? Is it your seat? Because our answer is pretty clear, right? Public office is not private property. It's not personal possession of something. It's not a throne, right? We don't believe that about our country. Uh it's not something that you just get to shuffle around and preserve and then defend through your lawyers. Uh that's not what office is all about. It's not what it's supposed to be. It's actually much, much more important than that. Um, and and that's I think that's the kind of the point that we actually believe something very different about this country than what the left believes. And they're willing to use your beliefs about this country against you when it suits them. It's the same thing we talked about yesterday when we talked about how you know consistently the left will preach Christianity to you from afar and say, Jesus said you have to do this, and then you say, Well, there's a lot of other things, and they go, No, no, no, we don't care about that. It doesn't impact us, we're not Christians. Then why are you telling me what I'm supposed to believe about what Jesus said? That you want to threaten me by saying this is uh that we are threats to democracy, but in the moment that you clearly have divided loyalties and you do the thing that vacates your office, all of a sudden democracy doesn't look so promising, does it? You don't like it so much, do you? And that's again the thing, it's divided loyalty. Right? The the the doctrine, the reason that Peterson is speaking up here is that we we always had doctrines against incompatible offices for a reason. Because and the Bible says this is not a new novel concept. You cannot serve two masters, right? When you have competing duties in two different offices, overlapping authority and conflicting obligations, it's not a technical rule. There's a reason that it's very clear, it is very common sense, and it's recognition that government officials are not angels, they are men with ambition, and that can be a good thing. It can also be used for evil if it's not kept in check. If it's if it's given just blatantly and arbitrarily out. If it's just handed away like candy. Oh, I guess that's your power. No, it isn't. That's why we have strong legal boundaries, that's why having consequences for actions is very important. Because if enforcement depends on whether the establishment feels like enforcing the rules, well then there's no rule at all. It's just their discretion, right? And discretion in the hands of these sorts of people, in the hands of the political machine, is very bad and just becomes protection for your friends and family and anybody else you like. Right? And that's how you erode public trust, not just through big corruption scandals, but through these sorts of things where people don't trust you, and by extended, people don't trust the government and they're right not to, right? The normal citizen is is very clearly held to the letter of the law. Right. The connected officials protected by these these bureaucratic interpretations, right? And the double standard is poison, and it is poison to any level of governmental institutional trust at all. And it's poison any form of self-government. And so this case, while it certainly is important for Adrian Garcia, is is also very important beyond Adrian Garcia. Because Harris County taxpayers are and should be watching what the law means, uh if the law means what it says and what that means. Right? They're watching uh whether you can create a legal mess, benefit from it, and then just walk away completely unscathed. Just escape any sort of accountability. Well, if it was void, then why was he serving? If it was meaningless, then why did you treat him like a board member? Why did he get to take the oath? Why did he get to pass votes? Why did he get to participate in in all of these decisions? Right? If it didn't matter, why did you have all those things? Public's not stupid. We understand the difference between an innocent paperwork mistake and a governing class that thinks that consequences are ultimately optional. It's not hard to delineate between those two things. This is not that you accidentally filled out the wrong paperwork and ended up serving somewhere that you didn't even realize you were serving for for six months. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You took the oath of office, you passed things, you voted, you participated, you had things to do in both positions, and you did them. You knew you willfully and knowingly did them. And now that the law's been presented to you, you can either claim that you didn't know the law was there or you did and you intentionally broke it. Either way, what you can't do is say, Well, I I didn't mean to do that. No, you meant to break the law. You just either didn't know that was the law or you didn't care. And either way, you still face consequences. Right? If I don't know, if I go and break the law and I didn't know it was a law, you know what happens to me? But if it is my if I'm visiting from out of out of country or or out of state and I don't know the gun laws and I'm carrying somewhere in New York, you know what's gonna happen to me? I'm gonna go to jail. I'm gonna get in a lot of trouble. Because ignorance of the law is no excuse. And so Dadrian Garcia, you can make all the claims you want about ignorance and well, it doesn't apply and this and that and the other. But everybody knows the truth. Everybody, literally everybody knows the truth. That's just how it is. Now, with that being said, when we get back from the break, we're gonna jump over and uh talk about some some stuff going on in Montgomery County, uh, because they're now dropping their assault charge against the former Harris

Dropped Assault Charge Raises Questions

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County prosecutor accused of choking his girlfriend at a party. Uh he lost his job at the Harris County District Attorney's office after his arrest, and now they're saying that the case cannot be proven beyond reasonable doubt. And any case anytime you see this level of months of investigations and then finally an arrest and a charge, and then it just randomly gets dropped, especially against someone who has a level of political power. I think the public is again right to ask questions about where that power is coming from and whether or not that had an influence and what happened. We'll talk about it when we get back from the break. If you want to text in the number is 713-779-5978, that is 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. And Lord, will I be right back? Let's talk all about that story after the break.

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Here for the morning show, Montgomery County prosecutors have dismissed an assault charge against former Harris County Assistant District Attorney Gabriel Kabak, who lost his job after being arrested by the Panorama Village Police Department earlier this year. Records filed this week show the prosecutors could not prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt, and the case got dismissed before being presented to a grand jury. Gabriel Kabok, his defense attorney, Shelby Burns, said, I want to personally thank the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office for doing the right thing and dismissing this case. Gabriel Kabok lost his career due to these false allegations. He was defamed by Panorama PD. He has been through hell. In declining to present this case to a grand jury and dismissing it, the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office has sent a clear message. Gabriel is innocent. At the time of his arrest, the Panorama Village Police Department posted a detailed press release on Facebook, which indicated that officers got called to a child's birthday party for a disturbance between Kabok and his girlfriend, in which he was allegedly intoxicated, pushing people into arguing with her over concerns about him driving drunk. The same then said he allegedly pushed her, pinned her against the side of a home, and grabbed her by the throat. Within twenty-four hours of his arrest, his employer at the time issued a brief statement, Gabriel Kabak is no longer an employee at the Harris County DA's office. As a prosecutor, he handled cases involving sex crimes and domestic violence. And so you have the Montgomery County DA's office wrote, quote, following a thorough review of all available evidence in the case involving Mr. Kabok, the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office determined that the state could not prove the charge beyond a reasonable doubt. The burden of proof required in every criminal prosecution, a significant factor in that determination was the inability to obtain the cooperation necessary to move the case forward, which affected the admissible evidence available to prosecutors. Additionally, the charge was dismissed. Missed prior to presentation to the grand jury. Prosecutors have an ethical obligation to pursue charges only when the evidence is sufficient to need that burden. Every case is evaluated on its own facts, the applicable law, and the available, admissible evidence, and that standard is applied consistently in every case. But again, the the question I think is fair to ask due process is great. That is an essential staple of Western civilizations having a level of due process all the way from English common law to today here in America. But I think it's also fair to say and and to ask, hey what happened? And and I think the response largely is, well, we don't have the cooperation, which sounds like the people at the party are not willing to testify against him for whatever reason. Um either because it didn't happen or because, you know, they were intimidated or or any other number of things that could have happened. Uh regardless. Is that how it stands? And the the DA's office in Harris County still has every right to say, hey, but you're fired. I mean, we are Texas for crying out loud, we don't like what you claim to have done, so we fired you. And if you don't like that, go find another job. I mean, and maybe don't even give the appearance of evil. Don't even have claims against you. I mean, you the police did get called. They probably you probably weren't doing anything good. I don't know. But that's probably my advice. And again, I think it it begs a level of public trust to wonder what happened when he was arrested and charged, and all this evidence was supposedly there and now it's not. I think that's frustrating for everybody, but due process would demand, and it as it should, uh the burden of proof is quite high for a reason. So that's where it stands. With that being said, of course, to wrap up the first hour of the show, when we get back, we're gonna talk all about the weather report, especially now that we're getting even closer to the holiday weekend. I'm sure everyone's wondering how things are gonna kind of play out. Well about all the details that we have for today, tomorrow, and the weekend. When we get back from the break, as always, if you would like to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. One more time. That is 713-779-5978. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord willing, I will return after this break with our weather report to wrap at the first hour of the show. So stick around, we'll talk soon.

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And so taking a quick uh uh quick look at June weather data, you have a few trends. Uh June, for the first you know, time in a minute had had zero days of a hundred degree weather, uh which of course the humidity made it feel hotter than it was, but Houston air temperatures peaked at only 97 degrees on June 29th. By averaging all the recorded daily high and low temperatures, you get an overall average daily temperature of 83.7 degrees, which is only 0.7 degrees higher than normal, but also a full degree cooler than June last year. And so that's pretty cool. Uh rare summer cold fronts and even a side swipe by tropical storm Arthur led to nearly eight inches of rainfall in Houston in June. And so given June's numbers, then we wonder, well, what's what's July going to look like? The weather service remains concerned about a moderate risk of heat danger today and tomorrow, with peak heat index values, ranging between 102 and 107 degrees. The heat drives increases tomorrow and into the 4th of July weekend. Forecaster said, adding that the peak heat index values this weekend could be between 105 or 110 degrees. So Houston today has a forty percent chance of sun afternoon showers under otherwise mostly sunny skies. Forecasters are the anticipated scattered showers along the Gulf Coast and parts of the piney woods. And so that's that's kind of where we're at. Um they're calling for some high temperatures, potential chances of rain that shouldn't rain anybody out. I'll keep you guys updated more tomorrow. The weekend is still a little shaky right now in that evidence, but we're looking at potential, some a little bit of rain, uh, but not much, if any, at all. It'll be more scattered and uh shouldn't mess anything up for everybody. With that being said, we can be back at the top of the next hour. We're gonna have Brian Harrison coming on because he's now already said it's time to end birth tourism and text after that landmark Supreme Court decision. We'll talk all about it with Brian after the break. So stick around. You're listening to Lone Star Conservative. Text in 713-779-5978, and Lord willing to be right back with Brian Harrison at the top of the next hour.

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Brian Harrison Pushes Texas Action

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And as I mentioned, we have a very exciting guest joining me this segment. That is Brian Harrison, Republican from Midlothian, former chief of staff at Health Human Services under Trump. And right now, one of, if not the loudest voices calling for Texas to act after the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling. Representative Harrison, thanks so much for joining us this morning. Yes, absolutely. And a lot has happened since then, by the way. I mean this alone, but like so much other stuff. And so I wanna I want to kick it off uh getting from you uh kind of how you see what's happened here. Can you kind of walk our listeners through the Supreme Court decision, what happened, what's going on?

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Yeah, the short version of it is basically that, you know, the President Trump had issued an executive order that ended up setting up a legal challenge to the status quo of birthright citizenship and birth tourism, which basically is if you show up anywhere on American dirt, have a baby, even if you have been there for two seconds, you are not a citizen, you're not uh legally allowed to be on American soil. If you were here for for the minutes or the hours necessary to give birth, and you immediately leave and go back to your home and let's say China or Russia or wherever else, that baby, under our current understanding, the Supreme Court uh with birthright citizenship, is immediately a citizen of the United States of America, even though they have no fealty to this country, they have no uh desire to become American in any sense of the word. And so that's what Trump's executive order set up a legal challenge to in the Supreme Court to the you know, it is infuriating to a lot of us to watch uh Justice, uh Chief Justice Justice Roberts as well as uh Amy Coney Barrett join with the liberals and upholding birthright citizenship, which is going to be a massive problem, especially in light of the Biden border invasion where 10, 20 million people illegally came into our country. They're not allowed to be here. They are criminals, but if they have if they have children here, we're going to now, under this constitutional ruling, their children are immediately citizens, and and that will effectively lead to their whole family, you know, staying here probably forever. It's a massive problem, and especially here in the state of Texas, where we're disproportionately impacted by illegal immigration. So what the Supreme Court did, it was a liberal ruling. Uh, the conservative justices dissented and talked about how this uh completely undermines the value of American citizenship. And I, you know, my message to the liberal justices, including Roberts and Comey Barrett, is if everybody's an American citizen, then basically nobody's an American citizen. They have completely devalued American citizenship, and I believe that the state of Texas should stand up. We shouldn't just be content to have elected Republican leaders in Texas lament and moan on Twitter or issue press releases. I want action. I want the state to stand up and fight back and protect state sovereignty and protect the value of American and Texas citizenship. And I'm sure we'll get into that a little bit.

SPEAKER_18 56:32

We absolutely will. And that's that's been a big frustrating part about this to me is that I mean, two things. First and foremost, I'm glad you mentioned action. Uh uh, we get a lot of press releases around here. We get a lot of, hey, we need to do this, we need to do that, we gotta stand up, and then literally nothing changes. We see that over and over and over again. And so I'm I'm I'm kind of tired of the let's hey, let's do something, and then nobody does anything. And then on the on the flip side of that, uh you really did hit the nail on the head saying that this completely devalues what it means to be an American at all, American citizenship. If everyone is just a potential American waiting in the wings, if you can just manage to get pregnant and get here, and they can sponsor their green cards to get their parents to stay, then that then then being an American literally means nothing more than a piece of paper that you you f really fraudulently earned. Uh and I I think it's an insane way to view our heritage and our country. Uh but what do I know? I'm not on the Supreme Court. What I do want to get is is kind of wondering what this looks like. Because obviously now, according to the Supreme Court at least, the modern reinterpretation of our Constitution would say uh that this is allowed. But uh for us as conservatives, we say that's that's unacceptable. This is country ruining. I mean, this is invaders of the border. Yeah, just let them in and they can stay constitutionally, protect them. So what do we do as a state? Where do we go from here? Uh what does this sort of look like? I know that you're mentioning calling for a special session. Can you kind of walk us through the details of what you're calling for?

SPEAKER_14 57:50

Yeah, so so unfortunately, unfortunately. So Texans, let me be really clear about this. When republic destroying edicts come down from Washington, D.C., that will harm the livelihoods and the future of 30 million Texans, it is incumbent upon the state to respond. Okay, the states under our federal constitution are the sovereign. The state of Texas is a sovereign state. The states created Washington, D.C., and it's supposed to serve the interests of the state, not the other way around. And I'm sick and tired of the supposedly Republican leader leadership in the state of Texas being willing to simply take it on the chin when these disasters come down from Washington, D.C. to lament on social media, but they just want to act like, you know, powerless bystanders to watch this what happened. No, we've got the we've got the livelihoods of 30 million Texans that we need to defend. So the state of Texas needs to act. And unfortunately, I think I'm the only one demanding action right now. I wish every Republican in Texas would join my call for action, but here's what I think we need to do. We got a lot of tools in our toolkit, and we need to get creative about protecting state sovereignty, protecting the 10th Amendment, protecting citizenship. So yesterday morning, I called for a special session. I publicly demanded that Governor Abbott use his authority. He's campaigning for governor right now, but he is the governor right now. We don't need to wait till November. He's the governor now. Call a special session and let us do. I've I've listed a number of things. There's seven of them. I'll go through them real quick and we can talk about whichever ones you want. But number one, I want us to make it a state crime. I want it to us to make it a felony to operate or participate in birth tourism here in the state of Texas. And birth tourism are these businesses and they exist right now. They facilitate housing, transportation, medical care for pregnant women from all over the world, including, you know, for geopolitical adversaries or whatever. They bring them here, they have a baby, and then they send them home. And then that baby is an American American citizen. Not for just forget the fact they could well be the child of, you know, a Chinese spy. Okay, there now we've given them citizenship. This is insane. Texas has tools to stop it. We need to make that a state crime. I'm calling for us to make it a felony to engage in birth tourism. Number two, I want to, it's already we we created a crime uh last year, the crime of illegal entry, uh talking about illegal immigration and state crime. I think we can include, expand that to include people coming here for the purposes of birth tourism. If you're coming, you're crossing our border to engage in birth tourism, we can make that a crime. Um, number three, here's one that I think is getting this getting a lot of attention. Um I'm calling for us to stop issuing birth certificates to children of non-citizens. Birth certificates, for all your listeners, think about it, those are state documents, state of Texas documents. There is no reason we should be giving birth certificates to children of non-citizens, and certainly, certainly not to children of illegal aliens. And as we speak, the state of Texas, the printing presses are running. You, the taxpayers, who are being taxed out of your homes with outrageous property taxes. You're paying for your state government to give birth certificates to illegal alien children. That's outrageous, and we need to stop that. We need to stop it now. Um, the last four I'll go through quickly. We should give the attorney general authorities to investigate and prosecute birth tourism. Um, we should do something that Florida has already done. By the way, Florida usually leading Texas these days. Um, we should ban these pre-planned adoption agreements and surrogacy contracts, which it sounds crazy. Surrogacy contracts if one of the parties uh is a citizen or resident of a country of concern. Again, Florida has done this. Texas should follow Florida's lead, even though I think Texas should be leading here. Okay, final two. We need to end a special session, we need to make our voice be heard in a united way. We should formally pass a joint resolution condemning the Supreme Court's decision here, and we should pass a resolution formally demanding that the United States Congress fix birthright citizenship once and for all. So those are seven items, seven real tangible things that the state of Texas could do to protect uh the Tenth Amendment, protect state sovereignty, and uphold the value of U.S. citizenship. Because it's not just a federal question. People want to say, oh, this is just a federal issue. It's not. If the Supreme Court's decision means that anybody in North Korea or China or Iran can decide who can become a citizen of America, they're not just determining U.S. citizenship. What they're saying is anybody in China, North Korea, Iran, wherever else gets to decide who can become lawful Texans. And as a constitutional officer of the state of Texas, I'm standing up and I'm demanding bold action. And I wish that every Republican, state rep, every Republican, state senator, governor, lieutenant governor, they should join me in this. Let's get our bus back to Austin and let's fight back.

SPEAKER_18 1:02:45

Absolutely. And you mentioned that this is happening right now. These are not fringe hypotheticals, though, even if they were, we have to rule based on how it can hypothetically be used anyway, even if it wasn't happening yet, that we understand the ramifications of everything that we pass and everything that we say. And so we see this. I mean, there was a damning report the other day that there was the full possibility that it was already happening or that it may be happening, that China could send, you know, pregnant women over. Uh, they give birth here, they bring the children back, though those children are now U.S. citizens, they hold dual citizenship. China will give it to them. They'll raise them in the Chinese schools to believe in China and to report to the CCP, and then when they're adults, send them back to participate in our elections and participate in our country. And so, I mean, this this is the sort of stuff that you'd rehear and you'd go, what? That that can't be happening. That can't be possible.

SPEAKER_14 1:03:28

Well, it's not it's not and it's really not even it's not even theoretical. There has our our attorney general, um, Ken Thon, has tried to go after some of these birth tourism companies. Again, they're not even they're it's not even a secret. You can go and read about these businesses that the state of Texas is allowing to operate where they are literally bringing in exactly what you said um to happen here in Texas, but when he he has prosecuted them, we don't have any state laws, um at least specific to birth tourism, that they're breaking, which which is crazy in light of the Supreme Court's ruling. Maybe it's understandable we didn't have these laws before, but now, now, I mean, my goodness, talk about we're incentivizing this. We're probably gonna have a surge of illegals, new illegals pouring across our borders to engage in birth tourism because the Supreme Court has wrongly decided that they can for sure be American citizens. And there's no reason the state of Texas should take this lying down. No reason at all.

SPEAKER_18 1:04:27

Yeah, absolutely. And that's another thing I wanted to ask specific specifically about, because the federal government uh has already come out and said, well, we already have birth tourism-related fraud that can be prosecuted through visa fraud and wire fraud and money laundering and other statutes. So the big question for me, and I think for our listeners, would be like, and maybe it's kind of reminiscent of what happened under Biden, where we say, hey, the border needed protection even though Biden wasn't there. Texas needs to now be saying, okay, then we need to pass laws that allow us to do it if they don't. Is this kind of a similar thing where we say, regardless of the laws that the federal government can still act on, we need our own sovereign laws to defend our state?

SPEAKER_14 1:05:01

Well, 100%. I mean, Texas, like, I mean, we should take pride in being Texans. We're the eighth largest economy on earth. Texas used to be its own republic, okay? We joined the union for certain benefits, okay. Let me be really clear. If the federal government is going to do things that are detrimental to the sovereign interests of the great state of Texas, it is incumbent upon the elected leadership of the great state of Texas to act like they're leaders of the great and sovereign state of Texas and to use the tools available to us under the state constitution, under the federal constitution, to make sure that the harm coming out of Washington, D.C. Um, to mitigate that as much as possible. And there are absolutely things that the state of Texas can be doing. I've listed seven, and I invite more for my colleagues. Like the the it's not Democrats, the controller gets to decide whether we do this. It's Republicans. So if the Republicans elect the leadership of the state of Texas wanted to fight back. Here's what they don't want you to know. They could. And so if you're listening to this radio show right now, you should call your state rep, call your state senator, call the lieutenant governor, call the governor, call the speaker. You know, that's not going to do any good. The speaker of the Texas House is elected by Democrats, as you know. So, but you know, call the governor, call your state rep and state citizens, and ask them if they're willing to join the call for Texas to act immediately to defend citizenship in this country and have a special session to pass these kinds of conditions. And if not, people should be asked to answer the question: why are they okay with illegal aliens being issued birth certificates with your tax dollars? I can't state this enough. If you're listening to the show right now, you pay taxes, your taxes are funding your government, your state government, to give you birth certificates to illegal alien children. This is absolutely outrageous. There's no there's no need for this, and we need to act.

SPEAKER_18 1:06:58

Absolutely. And I want to, that's the last thing I want to highlight as we wrap up this segment. I wanted to ask about the birth certificate thing, because I think a lot of people are going to hear that and hear an immediate challenge of sorts uh to the order. But I think it's actually, I think it's actually much more nuanced than that. When I'm hearing about this, what I'm hearing is, hey, they're told that they're citizens, uh, but you know, if you want to, if you want to say that, then you you have it's on you. It's in it's in your boat. You handle the the proof of that, then you handle dealing with it, you handle the funding. Stop saying that not only are they citizens, but now Texas has to participate in giving them Texas citizenship and on on monetarily supporting that. I mean, that's insane.

SPEAKER_14 1:07:34

Absolutely. Yeah, no, I mean, sure, of course anything is anything is going to be challenged. I mean, the progressive left is gonna litigate and sue anything that a conservative does these days. You you have to expect that. But here's the thing you're exactly right. It would it would set up another challenge, sure, but but that's a challenge that we should invite and welcome because that's a totally different question. Okay, Supreme Court, uh, you say they're citizens, cool. Um, there's nothing in their citizenship that dictates that the state of Texas and Texas taxpayers have to fund government certificates that are handed out to these children at state taxpayer expense. And maybe it sets up another challenge, and that's you know what? That's just fine with me. And it's a hell of a lot better than just sitting around twiddling our thumbs and moaning and crying on Twitter, which unfortunately as about as it describes about the extent of the rest of the uh elected leadership down here in the state of Texas. And Texas, they don't need words, they want action.

SPEAKER_18 1:08:33

I was gonna say that's my job is to is to complain on on social media. That's what I do. I'm supposed to be complaining, so they read it and do something about it. That's the difference in positions here. They're acting like they're the radio hosts uh that have no power. It's frustrating because I'm like, stop doing my job, you do yours, I'll do mine. And I I I just I think everybody is fed up just in general of the inaction uh that that has permeated the swamp in Texas and in our federal government too. Uh, but that's just been it's just been highlighted by hey, they say a lot of the they say a lot of wrong things, but they also say a lot of the right things, and then nothing changes. And I think people are sick of that. So I was gonna ask you, hey, what can people do to get involved in this? But you you kind of already said it. Hey, just get involved by calling your senator. Get involved by calling uh the people who represent you, by calling the general governor, by saying, hey, we got to do something here.

SPEAKER_14 1:09:21

Yeah, go to my no, it's very easy. Go to my you know social media, Facebook, or on Twitter. On Twitter, I'm at Brian E. Harrison. Uh at Brian E. Harrison. Um, yeah, Brian E. Harrison on X. And there's you can read. It's one page, very simple language, very short, um, with my seven proposals. You can send it. The easiest thing anyone can do is just send that to your state senator, to your state representative, to the governor, to the lieutenant governor, and ask them if they support it, and if not, to explain to you why is your money, why is the Texas government giving birth certificates to the children of illegal aliens? Get an answer. Get an answer on the record. Call them, email them, post- or worse, they hate you being a reporter. What these politicians, my goodness, they care about their social media, like you can't even imagine. Post about, you know, tweet at them, tag them on Twitter or on a Facebook with uh with my call for a special session and ask them why they're not supporting it. Um that's something very tangible, very easy that citizens of the state of Texas uh could do, and they and they could do it today.

SPEAKER_18 1:10:24

Absolutely. Well, Brian, we appreciate you coming on. More importantly, we appreciate uh you actually pushing for action, especially in the wake of what is unfortunately a disastrous recommendation. I call it a recommendation, but it's not. It's an interpretation. A disastrous decision by the Supreme Court. Um, and Lord willing, uh, we get enough people on board with this, we can actually make a difference. We can actually have some action finally. Uh, but I do want to appreciate you uh for starting that off and for coming on the show to explain it to all of us.

SPEAKER_14 1:10:51

Yeah, absolutely. And appreciate your help of informing Texans about what's going on. Uh, I've worked in the swamp of DC, I've worked in the swamp of Austin. I don't honestly anymore know which one is worse. But here's what I do know when Texans get involved and when they demand action and they hold their elected Republicans a feet to the fire, that's how we get uh conservative results. So always great to be on the on the show with you, my friend.

SPEAKER_18 1:11:12

Absolutely. And Lord willing, next time we talk to you, maybe we'll have some good news of some action coming out of Austin. In the meantime, uh God speed you, my friend, and we'll talk to you soon.

SPEAKER_14 1:11:20

Appreciate it. Sounds good. God bless you. God bless the great state of Texas.

SPEAKER_18 1:11:23

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Let me say

Jefferson On Law And Necessity

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this, and let's see what people think about it before I tell you who else said it. A strict observance of written laws is a high duty for a citizen, but it is not the highest. That the laws of necessity, of self-preservation, and of saving our country when in danger hold a higher obligation. Do you agree with that? I I it's an honest question. That yes, it is very crucial that we are law-abiding citizens. We can't have a society if we don't obey the laws, right? You can't just on your whims, just say, I don't want to obey that one. I just I want to do this, I want to do that, I don't want my f my freedom. So I I refuse to engage in societal participation in the law. It doesn't work in anarchy, of course. But do we also hold that there are times and places when the law is evil when we say actually this law should be struck down and I won't abide by it in the meantime, that I I refuse. Uh if the law under Julius Caesar demanded that you recant your Christianity, if the law demanded that you say that Jesus Christ is not king, that he is not Lord and Savior, that he is not the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, would you do it? I mean it's a it's a fair question to ask. Because many Christians, suppose the Christians, would say, Yeah, you gotta do it. It is what it is. And many real Christians would say, No. I could never, I could never disparage my Lord. I could never deny him. And I think in similar fashion, it goes much beyond that because the reality is that, and the Founding Fathers recognize this, right? If they believed that uh strict adherence to the written law was only the highest, was the highest of all goods, then we would have had no revolutionary war at all. We would have no America, we would have no United these United States, they wouldn't exist. You'd have no Texas. Then of course there are things that are higher than the written law of man, and that is the law of God. And the principles of fighting for truth. And the principles of standing against evil and tyranny. And maybe that's just in my blood, because you know, I'm a Scotsman that came over to America and my family fought for this country to found it. And maybe that's just this is by nature that that's just how I'm gonna be. But that's how it is. That's that it is that's how that's how it's going to be. That yes, a strict appearance to the written law is good. And you should obey the law whenever possible. God calls us to obey the governing authorities that were put in place under his sovereign decree. We we do believe that. The providence of God drives these things. So like it or not, suck it up and follow the law. That's how it works. But also there are laws that are immoral, that are evil, that we cannot follow, we cannot abide by, we cannot allow to transpire. And that's that's again across the board, by the way, if you didn't know, uh, that came from Thomas Jefferson. So that's not me speaking, though it is. Uh that has been rooted in this country's history from before the Revolutionary War. You have to remember that a strict adherence to the law actually drove the the people to America in the first place. That yes, they still believed in the king. They still believed in the monarchy when they came here as as pilgrims. They still followed the common law of England. But the reason they left was for religious liberty, because they believed that a strict adherence to the law could, of course, and did manufacture a lack of religious liberty that resulted in them not worshiping Christ as they saw fit. That's not good. And so they left. And they said, even though we still respect the king, we still are English or Dutch, it doesn't matter. We have certain rights that God has given us and we must exercise them. And the same is true today. I know the Supreme Court said it. Yeah, the Supreme Court has said a lot of things that are evil, wrong, and tyrannical. If the Supreme Court came out tomorrow and they said, Well, actually, it turns out um the Second Amendment doesn't mean what everyone thinks that it means. Uh the Second Amendment is it was is actually just for militias specifically, actually. Or it's just for hunters, and it doesn't include weapons of war, and that we get to define what those are according to federal governmental statutes. If that happened, rightfully every red-blooded American would say, Yeah, come and take them then. Come and take it. Like, feel free. Not happening. We're not gonna we're not gonna do that. That would be there would be an uprising, and there should be an uprising in response to that. And really making sure that doesn't actually ever happen, because again, I said at the top of the show, I don't actually want a civil war, right? And I've said this countless times. I don't want there to be civil unrest and there to be, you know, blood in the streets. I don't want any of that. I think that's I think any person who's saying time for a civil war is a coward, actually. And and let me be honest, it reminds you of some of the stuff that the founders said multiple times when they'd say, you know, compared to governing and having to start a country and having to run it efficiently and well and with clarity and with truth and with with honesty and with goodwill and with virtue is actually possibly harder than fighting uh uh a nearly impossible war. Turns out fighting a global superpower is actually easier than it is to govern a people. But the reality is that we have the obligation to govern and to govern well. And we have the obligation to stand up against tyranny wherever it arises and to prevent tyranny from arising in the first place. Again, we don't want there to be tyranny. We don't want there to be tyranny so we can justify war. That's not good. Nobody wants that. Nobody should anybody who does is probably a psychopath that you shouldn't listen to. This is what we want. We don't want there to have to be a war to fix these problems. We want to fix them the right way. That's much preferable. Right? The founders again acknowledge this. They didn't you think they just wanted a revolutionary war? I'm sure there were some warmongers, there always have been. But most of them wanted an amicable solution to the problem. Most of them were anti-war guys. We're like, we don't if this is the only option, then we we as men, as good men, we must do what we must. But we don't we don't want this. And I'm in the same boat. I I don't want I know I I've seen it already on social media. Prominent names in the so-called conservative sphere said, I guess civil war is brewing. No, can we unbrew? Can we can we can we make a different brew, throw that one out and start over? No. And if it comes to that, I'm not saying I won't pick up arms, of course. If the if the occasion demands it, I'm not afraid. I'll do what what must be done as a good man. But that's not that's not what any of us should want. So we have to make our stand politically. We have to make our stand as much as is before us, as much as is possible. We have to make our stand with inter with integrity. We have to do it with all the political mechanisms we have. And it's frustrating because as you have people saying there's a civil war brewing, Texas is sitting idly by in many of these cases. There's what Brian Harrison just told us. Yeah, we can actually do something about this. We can actually have our own stance, have our own stand as a sovereign state and say, no, we refuse. We're not we're not going to do what you tell us to do. We're not bending the knee. And who knows where that might lead. Um, but i it's better than the alternative of doing nothing and sitting idly by and being complacent with yet more crimes against the people. But again, uh most of these things should and can be fixed with preventative action, saying, hey, before there ever is tyranny, how about we stand up against future tyranny? Right? That's why the founders had the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to say, hey, let's let's prevent tyranny from ever rising up. And it's imperfect, but it's a good system. It's a darn, it's a darn good system. I think we should abide by it. One of the ways that we must prevent tyranny is by defending

Drawing Lines Against Tyranny

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our rights. And one of the most important rights to defending tyranny point blank is of course the Second Amendment. If you believe that, you should become a member of our sponsor, Gun Owners of America. Gun Owners of America understands the Second Amendment is for for the entirety of American life. That is a wide-ranging, wide-reaching amendment designed for you to be the enforcement mechanism against tyranny. That's that's how it is. And that means we must protect that right with everything in our power. Right? Do you do you want do you want this decision coming out as they say, yeah, you also can't have your firearms to defend yourself? No, of course not. And Gunters of America is standing there fighting that fight from campaigning for good candidates for office who are gonna stand with you to lobbying in the legislature, which is coming up before you know it's gonna be here, to make sure that the bills that get passed support your rights and the ones that that don't support your rights get shot down. And furthermore, if something bad does go does go through, does make it through the cracks, does make it into law or into an executive order uh or into an ordinance, whatever that may look like, that the federal that the that the GOA, the Gun Owners of America lobby says no, no compromise. We will sue. We will go to court over this. If you'd like to become a member, you can of course go to GOAHuston.com. That is G-Oahuston.com. It is a $25 annual membership, just $25 per year, which goes right back to the continued defense and support of your God-given, constitutionally enshrined Second Amendment rights that we may have a functioning civilization into the future. But I again, the this sort of blatant blind eye that I keep seeing to any sort of action that might cause conflict. We have so many nice guys in the Republican Party. We have so many nice guys. So many guys that are so nice and they're so amicable, and and they're so they're so willing to just go along to get along. Sorry, that's actually not what we need. That's actually not what the people desire. That's actually not going to work right now. We're not in an amicable time of our history, unfortunately. History would teach you this. This is why I said at the top of the show that history is so crucial to understanding the future of our country. We're not at a time where we just amicably amicably smile and walk away from this. This is an issue that must be fought over, or it will be nation-destroying. It will ruin us if nothing is done. It is incentivizing other countries. And I know Brian Harrison mentioned countries like China and North Korea and Iran. But it's any country. Right? They may not have a particular spite against us. They may not have a particular uh, you know, global fight to pick with the US. But anybody who does this should be a criminal. This should not be allowed. We should not be required. We're bullied into saying, well, I guess you're an American now because you made it. So congrats. You broke the law, and now here's your reward is that you for all time your family is now American is is ludicrous. And it is frustrating doesn't even begin to come close to comprehensively describing the amount of frustration that I feel over the total lack of willingness to do anything about it. I I I'm upset about just about just about everybody but Brian Harrison right now. Brian Harrison is on my I like you list. Everybody else off the list. We're starting the list over, people I like, and Brian Harrison is the only one on it right now. Because nobody's doing anything. Right? And I've said for a very long time, you know, I like being in politics, but not in politics. I like having something to say about politics. I like being the radio host. I like being the podcaster. I like being the social media guy. I like saying things and saying, hey, we demand action from our elected representatives and holding them accountable. That's very important. We need people who do that. But man, goodness grace, if things don't change and and and God forbid things get worse. One day, I I can't I can't even rule out running for office anymore. One day, should words come to worse, I just don't know what else to do. I I at some point I'm gonna have to take action. I'm not like predicting a future run. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying there's clearly not enough people willing to do the hard things, willing to get themselves called mean names, willing to say, yeah, but I just I just want to go along. I just want to, I just want to be friends. You know, no, I I won't be friends with these people. Friendship means something. And it does not mean throwing our country in the garbage can of history on the altar of insanity. Right? And I I I I've said this about the 14th Amendment over and over and over

The Case Against The 14th Amendment

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again. What we really need, if you want to know my honest opinion about how far this needs to go, we need to scratch it off. That needs to be wiped from the record. We need an amendment to amend the amendment. We need to say the 14th Amendment uh shall hereforth be destroyed. It is it has been ruinous for our country. It's provided nearly no tangible. Benefits in the last hundred years. Right? I don't even know why we needed an amendment in the first place as opposed to just regular law that would have only applied to specific people at a specific time. Though I know why the case really was. It's not like there wasn't tyranny before and they didn't have plans for the future. They knew what they were doing when they wrote that and when they forced people to compromise and to sign it and to ratify it. And this is where it led. You can complain all you want about the civil rights movement and DEI and the feminist revolution and gay marriage and transgenderism and all of these cra and birthright citizenship, all of those things, every single one of them is ultimately predicated under the protection, supposedly, of the Fourteenth Amendment. And I've said before, the plain wording of the 14th Amendment, unfortunately, is because it's so vague, it was designed that way intentionally. It does allow this. I've heard a lot of people say, well, the Supreme Court justices really, they really messed up this one. They really screwed us over here. Sure they did, but the Supreme Court's job is to interpret the Constitution. And you can say all day long, you can point to some of the people who were a part of the 14th Amendment process who said this is not for foreigners. They can say that, but they should have written it. If you believe that, why didn't you put it in there? The plain reading of the law. I am not going to be a hypocrite and pretend like that's not in there. This is the same argument I make for the First Amendment. When they wrote the First Amendment, they intentionally put Congress shall make no law, meaning it did not apply to the states. It did not apply to local governments. If you wanted to have a state church, it was totally allowed. If you wanted to have a state religion, it was totally allowed. If you wanted to have uh a statewide blasphemy law, it was allowed. Even among the most liberal of the founding fathers, things like blasphemy laws were defended in certain states like Virginia. That's not most of the states had a church coming off of being, you know, colonies with churches. That's not unheard of. That's not uncommon. They believe that. And what I what I what I will not become is someone who picks and chooses which ones I think should be interpreted that way. No, no, the Fourth Amendment does say that. But the Fourth Amendment is wrong. It's evil. It was pushed through manipulatively. I think that I think that was done with intention, though I can I can't prove that. I think that that's just I it's one of those things, it's my opinion, but I get to say on air, because I'm a radio host. I'm allowed to speak my mind. I think it was done with intention, but even if it wasn't, um, what is what's the old statement? The road to hell paved with what exactly? Good intentions. So even if the intentions were solid, I it's it's rather irrelevant to what they did. Right? If my intentions are solid and a bunch of people die, um, yeah, a bunch of people die and I'm a I'm accountable. Right? Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Ignorance of the future is no excuse for passing a bad thing. And when you put it into the constitution that that that all these things, and and and maybe what it is is that most people don't even know what the 14th Amendment is. I think that's I think that's part of the problem is that most people probably don't even they're like, oh Fourteenth Amendment is is uh um um w w it's it's the it's the birthright citizenship now, right? Or it's it's the civil rights, it's the slaves are freed, right? Um I I'm gonna read the Fourth Amendment real quickly here. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states, right, which is where you get into um uh the right to vote and and and all that also comes in here. Uh they also get into that that um basically I don't want to read the whole, but the when the right to vote at any election for anybody from president to representatives to judicial offices, whatever it is, um cannot be abridged, basically. That that that's that's something that you get to do. No person or elector um who has taken another con who has taken an oath as member of Congress or as an officer of the U.S. uh, of course, shall engage in insurrection, right? Because again, remember, the point of the amendment was really the civil right amendment, or not the civil right, it was the civil war amendment. Um the first section, section one, was designed to make sure that the freed slaves were allowed citizenship. Section three is of course to make sure that if you were a part of the rebellion and insurrection, that you couldn't run for office anymore. Right. And then it gets into debt in section four um in terms of slavery's obligations, um, and then the of course section five, which just says that the Congress should have the power to enforce the provisions of this article. But all of that none of that's good. That some of it you could say, well, equal protection is positive, but we could do that anyway. We don't need all section, we don't need four sections to have equal protection under the law for people. And the way that it's worded has been has it's not just that we've misinterpreted it, it's that by the plain reading of the text, this has been allowed. It's why when the left comes out and says, Well, you know, Michael, the Fourth Amendment does say this. I I'm not gonna sit around and say, Well, but that's not what they meant. It doesn't matter what they meant. That is what they wrote, like it or not. And because that's what they wrote, what we really need, if you want to talk about action, what you really need is you need the states to get together and just say, no, we refuse. That this constitution no longer represents the people. And if we don't do away with the 14th Amendment, then we're done. That's it. We leave. And I I'm not saying that we should just secede and again, I'm not calling for another civil war. I'm not calling for any of that. But these things, this amendment, all of the policies that have followed have been absolutely ruinous for our nation, for our culture, for our society, for our posterity, all of it has been so beyond damaging again, doesn't even come close to describing what's occurred. It's not damaging, it's cataclysmic. If you look at the cultural problems with again, all of the things that have ultimately followed under the 14th Amendment, from DEI to racial gerrymandering to now birthright citizenship, all of these things, from gay marriage, everything here, has been disastrous. And what I'm not going to do, what I've never done, and what I again I I consistently promise I will never do, is sit around and make peace with evil. What I won't do is be the token radio host of the moderate right that says, well, you know, it is what it is. I mean, maybe we can we can, you know, fight on social media and nothing will change, but at least we said something about it. No, actually, that's not what I believe. What I have promised, what I will continue to promise for for as long as as God gives me air to breathe, is that the truth will be spoken on this show. And if the truth offends people, or if the truth is controversial, I mean that's that's when it's more important than ever to speak it. And unlike some people that appear to be leading this state and leading this nation as elected representatives of the people, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not making bones about it. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna skirt around the issue. I'm not gonna say things that make people's ears go fuzzy and hearts go fuzzy and say, Oh, that's so nice. I'm not gonna do that. I I I've said before, I'm uh I I I do my best to follow the virtues that Christ has laid out in his word. I do my best to be kind, to be compassionate, to be loving, but I will not be tolerant. I'm not I'm not often very nice in the things that I say, and that's for a reason. Because we're not called to be tolerant. We've not called to be nice. We've been called to a much greater purpose than that. One that demands action, one that in many cases can demand violence, one that demands that we have self-control, but that also demands that we have the ability and the propensity and the the comprehensive willingness to say no. I refuse. I will not bow down before tyrannical regimes that demand my fealty. I it's just not I just I I don't know if it's if it's I again, I don't know where it comes from, but I I tell you what, I I just don't I don't think that I am capable of it. When I hear somebody say something that's not true, I just I don't seem to have the ability to shut my mouth very much. And that is what it is, for better or for worse. That's how it is. And unfortunately, in this case, this is going to require some pretty serious effort uh that it doesn't appear that your elected representative seem to want to take. Huh. Oh man, I mean the 14th Amendment, that's kind of that's already there. No. The 14th Amendment is evil. It's written for an evil purpose to bully a people, and it's been used for a wide array of disastrous consequences intentionally for for generations. And I, for one, have had enough of it. And if that means you can call me an anti-constitutionalist, call me that. I I don't care. I think the Constitution is one of the greatest documents ever written outside the Bible. I think it's excellent, but it is imperfect. And we did make mistakes along the way, and those mistakes must be rectified if we want to keep our constitution in the first place. As Thomas Jefferson pointed out, strict appearance to the law, good. It is a high duty of citizens, but it is not the highest. The highest is self-preservation, the defense of the innocent, of justice, of true love, and of Christian ethics. That's that's my highest concern of speaking the truth. And I'm not gonna be bullied by any document into not doing that. Not a single one, other than the word of God. That's it. That's my standard. Now, I know I went on a little bit of a tangent there. My apologies. When we get back, we will uh go back over. I mentioned Tomball ISD. I do want to talk about that before we wrap up the show this morning. So we'll go over Tomball ISD. 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Tomball ISD Million Dollar Theft Claim

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back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. So Christy Williams ran the district's tax office in Tombaugh ISD from 2018 to 2023, has been charged with one count of wire fraud. According to the complaint, Williams is accused of stealing cash deposits made to the district and using tax software to disguise the theft. The goal of the fraud was to steal money and property by means of materially false and fraudulent pretense. Prosecutors alleged that Williams stole right around $996,000, rounding error to say a million. It's a million dollars. The three-page complaint filed in the Southern District of Texas included few other details about the alleged scheme. Williams is the only person named in the complaint. The FBI Houston Field Office announced the charges on social media. Williams was fired in 2023 after officials identified suspicious financial activity. District officials also said in their statement, which was reported to federal investigators. Williams' attorney didn't immediately return a phone call. However, school district tax assessor collectors are not elected in Texas, we all know. Some school districts can choose to hire a tax collector rather than use a county tax office. Williams once served as a board member of the Texas School Assessors Association. If convicted, she faces a maximum penalty of up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, though that fine should be up to and not lower than one million dollars. She is scheduled to appear in court on July 13th, which is only uh 11 days away. Uh but again, this should arrange everybody, right? Because again, these are allegations. We have due process, uh, but nearly a million dollars, not a misplaced receipt, not not some sort of rounding error, oops, might be we lost, we lost a couple grand. No, no, no. Million dollars, right? Not some confusing accounting problem. And so when when a conservative comes out, we say, hey, maybe government already has too much money and money's not the problem. You get a lecture from the left. We get told that we hate teachers, hate children, you don't care, whatever. Uh, but then when you open the hood of the car and you go, oh, look, waste, fraud, bloats, bureaucracy, and corruption, uh, well, well, just trust the system. Everything's okay. No, it's not okay. Right? We have eyes. We watch these institutions demand more authority and more funding, and then they're not accountable for it. Uh and look, property taxpayers are being crushed. Families are trying to afford groceries and insurance and rent and all the other things that you have to afford for your children, electricity, gas, um, and and you know, you have older folks who are struggling to pay their bills, and you have younger folks who can't afford to buy a home. And then the school district comes back and says, hey, we need more money, and then a million dollars gets stolen. And then we say, well, maybe she'll pay back 250 grand and you are on the hook to pay for a prison sentence. I mean, it's just, it's just ludicrous.

Final Thoughts And Tomorrow’s Plan

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But that'll do it for the morning show today. Thanks everyone for tuning in. You've been listening to the Lone Star Conservative. Lord willing to be back bright and early tomorrow at 6 a.m. for a special edition uh on July 3rd, leading up to the 4th of July. In the meantime, enjoy the rest of your Thursday. Let me know if you get any rain. And Godspeed.