Border Smuggling Profits And The Case For A Total Immigration Moratorium

Fireworks are easy. Keeping a country is hard. After a Fourth of July weekend, we lay out a blunt idea: America doesn’t stay free because it’s “a pretty cool country,” it stays free when citizens know what they believe, show up prepared, and fight for order, truth, and the foundations that built the nation. I connect patriotism to responsibility, and I argue that complacency is how a great country quietly becomes a doormat.

We start with the border, using a DOJ case about a Mexican stash-house operator tied to an international human smuggling pipeline that moved thousands of illegal aliens into Texas and generated millions in profit. I explain why this isn’t just “people seeking a better life” but an incentive structure that empowers cartels, traffickers, and document networks. Then I make the policy case I know will spark debate: a total immigration moratorium that shuts down the whole machine, legal and illegal, until the pipeline is sealed and the country can have an honest reset.

From there we go local and personal: Liberty County allegations involving a former police officer and a pastor become a bigger conversation about standards. If communities accept “good vibes” in place of integrity, we should not act surprised when institutions collapse. We also cover Texas governance with Governor Abbott appointing Don Huffines as Texas Comptroller, why that office matters for waste, transparency, and taxpayer stewardship, and why accountability can’t stop on Election Day.

We close with Houston’s homelessness reality after a man is accused of spraying homeless and disabled people with a high-powered water gun for online clout, plus a look at proposed Sharia law restrictions and Ken Paxton freezing a porn site’s domain over age verification. 

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Fourth Of July And Patriotism

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Juskin Luther, for 30, etc. 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 Talk 920. First of all, how was everybody's 4th of July? Because mine absolutely excellent. I always say, you know, everybody knows 4th of July, second favorite holiday. I think I've I've I've run that point into the ground. Everybody, everybody knows what Michael Wilson's favorite holiday and second favorite holiday are. But it was it was a lot of fun because we got to we got to go to two s two different fireworks shows. And both of them uh were superb. It wasn't like, you know, sometimes when you get an extra day of celebrations that one of them is kind of low tier, low budget kind of no, they were both they were both phenomenal. Uh both shows were great. Both of the events had live music and food trucks. Um we had a July 3rd and a July 4th. It was a very good time. We also went to a parade with my family and um extended family, I should say. Did everything with my family. We had a parade with my extended family. I that that wording, I really sounded like I just abandoned my family for 4th of July. Did not do that, by the way. Um, but it was it was a very good time. I hope you guys also had a great weekend. I hope you took some time out of your day to celebrate and to remember what this country is about, remember how this country got started, remember why this country was great, how this country can be great again, um, and to think back in gratefulness on all of the sacrifice and the dedication and the perseverance and the blood, the sweat and the tears that that made this country. But I I have talked often on this show about things that we have to do if we want to keep our country. And unfortunately, the reality, the reality is that it doesn't quite work like a lot of people would like it to. It doesn't quite function the same way that people would would prefer that it work, which is to say, this isn't magic. Our country is not going to stick around and survive simply by nature of the fact that it's a pretty darn cool country. Right? We don't get to watch fireworks go boom in the sky and say, hey, we're good. Nothing's gonna change. This is America, after all, and it's our country. And everything's gonna be fine because America's the best country that's ever existed in the history of the world. While that's true, things will change. Things things will change if we don't fight to keep them the same. And some things should change, right? There's some sort of progress that's good, and there's a lot that's bad. And the reality is that the country that was created 250 years ago and two days when we adopted the Declaration of Independence, this country is only a great country insofar as we manage to keep it one. It is not by magic, though I guess some people would look at Providence as magic. But Providence uses people. People have to answer the call. We have to rise up, we have to talk, we have to speak the truth, we have to understand what it is that we're dealing with. We have to, we have to have a cemented set of beliefs, a set of principles, right? Doesn't really matter if you're fighting, if you don't really know what your own principles are. What are you fighting for, after all? And maybe it was G.K. Chesterton. I don't remember who who said it, um, but it was it's the old um, you know, it's a lot easier to fight when you're fighting not what's in front of you, but for what's behind you. Well, what's behind you? Your family, sure. But also all of the principles that guide this nation. That's and we're fighting to preserve that for the sake of our posterity, for the sake of our countrymen. And we have to be aware of that. And there's a lot of those. There are a lot of principles worthy of fighting for. There are a lot of principles that this country stood for. Most of them fall under the banner of Christianity explicitly, right? We know that. We understand that from history, but we also know that there's things in the modern day that are, you know, the other side will try to use as evidence of Christianity for their side, for their argument. And that's why us being principled, our side understanding what it is that we're talking about, why these things are dangerous, and understanding the history of our country is crucial to our survival. Because before it ever gets to a point where somebody, you know, gets to political violence or or times of war, whatever it looks like, before you ever get there, there are so many, there are numerous, numerous opportunities for debate and for persuasion and for policy making and for elections. And we can't throw every single one of those opportunities away. We must fight for them. And we must use them when they're put before us. But in order to do that, we have to know what we're talking about. You don't win a debate if you show up unprepared. You don't you don't win an election if you don't show up to vote. And you you can't win policy decisions if you don't know what policies you stand for, and you don't know why. And in a way that can persuade people why those policies are good, why those policies are positive. So it requires and to be persuasive, you have to know why you believe what you believe and why you're persuaded, and why you believe it's the truth. Those are all essential practices. And I do my very darndest on this show to make everyone as well aware of those arguments as possible. To make everyone understand why it is that I believe what I believe, and why the right wing of the Republican Party, which is where most of the grassroots falls, even if they don't know it sometimes, why it's so important that we address issues that maybe even an RB talked about in the mainstream at all. Right? They'll talk about illegal immigration all day long, but they kind of shy away from questions of legal immigration. I won't do that. Right? They'll talk about, you know, you you've probably heard it a billion times at this point. The LGBTQIA plus stuff, they'll say, well, I I don't support the L I don't support the Q, but I like the LGB. Just throw away all the rest. The LGB is fine. Right? That's that's okay. It's everybody else that's the price, it's everybody else that has the mental disorders. I won't do that. I'm I'm willing to take the flack on what has become mainstream popularity and say, hey, no, actually the LGB is also bad. And is also it also erodes our culture and our civilization. It also should be banned, as it was for again, hundreds of years prior to 2003 when the Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws, and really was still considered a private kind of gross affair until 2015 with Obergefell, right? Until until a decade ago. This is recent. And we have to be willing to speak the truth, even when that truth is uncomfortable or when it's unpopular. And that's what that's what I aim to do here. Now, speaking of unpopular, I'm gonna kick it off with a story and then tie this story into some other issues related to the topic.

Smuggling Pipeline And Border Incentives

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So this Mexican man has pleaded guilty for his role in smuggling thousands of illegal aliens into the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, this guy named Efrain Zaniga Garcia, he's 38 years old, he was extradited from Mexico in September three years ago, 2023, as part of a coordinated effort by the Justice Department's Office of International Affairs and Mexican Law Enforcement. Zaniga Garcia operated a stash house in Monterey, Mexico as part of an extensive international alien smuggling operation. After housing aliens, he would coordinate with coyotes who smuggled the aliens across the Rio Grande and into Texas. A co-defendant admitted that in November, beginning in November of 2020, the organization transported between 2,500 and 3,000 illegal aliens, generating between 16 and 30 million dollars in profits. The aliens came from countries like Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, India, Pakistan, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, and Ecuador. And so Assistant Attorney General A. Tyson Duba of the Justice Department's criminal division said we take seriously organized human smugglers who seek to undermine the integrity and security of our borders and our immigration laws for their ill-gotten gains. Investigations into the organization were operated and supported by Joint Task Force Alpha, the DOJ's lead effort in combating high-impact human smuggling and trafficking committed by cartels. Zaniga Garcia's sentencing is expected to occur in federal court with a minimum sentence of three years behind bars. Along with Zaniga Garcia, codefendant Anil Adil Meha Zaniga has already been sentenced to ten years in prison, and Monica Hernandez Palma was given 41 months in prison. And so it is it is fairly expected, at least, that this guy's probably going to spend longer given that he's kind of the lead in a lot of this. And so if your codefendant's getting 10 years, it's at least partially expected that it'll get longer than that. We don't know that for sure. They could just give him the same name. They might even give him less, right? We don't know. I didn't watch the whole outcome of the court case in the trial. His lawyer may have been better, more equipped, whatever that looks like. We don't know. Sentencing hasn't yet occurred. Uh, but I think this case is again a highlight of why Americans are so kind of fed up and tired of being lectured about compassion uh by people who refuse so any compassion for our country being overrun by crazy people. That's I i i it it it's I I don't I don't just want to use the word hypocrisy. It is so blatant in your face hypocrisy that you don't really care to listen to those people. Well, you have to be compassionate. Yeah, but your compassion, so-called, is I don't actually think it's compassion. I think you've taken it to a whole nother level that isn't virtuous. Whatever you believe in has led you to justify, right? This is why these people are all anti-ICE, has led you to justify the mass invasion of unvetted people into our into the interior of our country. Pardon me if that does not inspire confidence in your ability to tell me what compassion looks like. That's that's the reality, right? We're talking about an international smuggling operation moving thousands, thousands of illegal aliens in the U.S. It's not just from Mexico, though that's already bad enough. We're getting them from countries that are hostile, that are completely unrelated to ours, that are on the other side of the world, that don't respect our culture, don't desire to assimilate, that will form enclaves, uh potentially commit violence, all these things, right? This is not some poor guy wandering across the river with a backpack in a dream, which is what the left wants to paint it as. Even if it was that, it would still be wrong. But that's not what it is. You take it a step further, this is an industrial pipeline. This is stash houses and and uh cross-border coordination and millions of dollars. That's that's that's not even just illegal immigration. That that is that is an industry of invasion. That is an invasion industry, is what that is. And so, and here's the problem: when you create incentives for mass illegal immigration, you're not just attracting individuals who are desperate for the American dream, though you will attract those. You are also creating a business model for cartels and for smugglers and for traff and for traffickers and for every criminal network on earth uh that looks at our border and sees the option for money. Right? That's the same concern we had Brian Harrison on last week for the new birthright citizenship ruling out of the Supreme Court. You have created an incentive structure for pregnant women to get here and then give birth. Right? You've just said if you can manage it, your children will gain citizenship, which means it's likely, based on the way that our green cards work, that you will one day have some sort of re permanent residency here, at least. That's that's what you're incentivizing to happen. And so for decades, the the ruling class in America has treated our border like it's just a little suggestion. Um, they've treated citizenship like it's just a participation trophy. Like it matters not at all, like it's completely meaningless. And that has to come to an end, right? And and my position is very simple, and I've said it before, and I'll highlight it again: total immigration moratorium. Not reform, not even comprehensive immigration reform, uh, which is just, you know, DC speak for amnesty with some sort of dress-up tuxedo, and it's not just another blue ribbon commission and and a border bill that also funds every other foreign war and refugee contractor and nonprofit and lawyer, and and then and then, you know, all of these added effects. No, I'm talking about a moratorium. You seal the border, you shut down the pipeline, you stop the bleeding, right? I'll give you an example, an analogy. If your house is flooding, you don't start by debating what color the new carpet is gonna be. That's if if your house is on fire, you don't say, wonder how we're gonna remodel the kitchen. No, no, no. You you turn you turn off the water if it's flooding. You you call the fire department and you you start getting all of your kids out of the house. You start sprinting to make sure everyone's okay. Then one day you clean up the damage, you decide what, if anything, is gonna get rebuilt. It's time that we have to turn off the water. We got to get the fire department. This is not the time to start debating what that needs to look like. That can come later. And and yeah, that means that means land borders, that means airports, that means visa overstays and student visas and asylum fraud, and really the visa programs in general, not just fraud, but the visa programs in general, which are crazy. Right? Those need to be completely ended. That includes birth tourism, of course. Uh, that includes chain migration, that means the whole immigration machine, legal and illegal, doesn't matter. Um and again, we also need to start understanding that this is a national security threat, right? Not just in the sense that it threatens the government's ability to do what they want to do, but in the sense that it threatens the civilization that we live in. And it's not just illegal immigration that threatens that, by the way. That's immigration in general. When you're mass importing a group of people that is not willing to assimilate, that doesn't assimilate, that that overruns the country, uh, that that participates in elections and votes for crazy individuals, that transforms what this country believes, what policies it sets, when you do that, you that is that is its own sort of national security threat. Right? When when you're and then that's not even including, again, the the sort of v you know frustration that we're talking about in this particular story, right? That's just immigration in general. You talk about this, and it gets an extra level of problems, because you're you're you're talking about moving people from Afghanistan and Pakistan and India into Texas, right? And so, yeah, you should create no fly lists for foreign nationals, right? You sus those who are subjected to cartel coordination and immigration fraud, right? If you're connected to one of these pipelines, you should not be ever even remotely near a plane that can get to Houston or Dallas or Miami or New York or anywhere else in the country. And if that sounds harsh, good. Okay, right? A nation that cannot say no is not a nation at all. It is a it is a doormat with a national anthem. That's all that we that is what we've turned into. That is what we've allowed ourselves. We are out there celebrating the 4th of July with fireworks, and we're standing for the national anthem and we're excited and we're cheering as we've allowed our country and our citizenship process to demean our country so far that you you ask even a mainstream Republican, what does it mean to be an American, and they they don't know how to answer you. It's just anybody with a piece of paper that says so. Well, then what if we just give everybody a piece of paper that says so? But if we just give that to literally everyone. If you just want to come here, you you can. Well, we have done that. That's what we've been doing. And so we've demeaned it all to the point where our country is not a country. That's at least that's that's that's sort of where we've gotten, right? And that and that's a deeper problem that that you know we can get into that America has forgotten the whole purpose of immigration. We talked before on the show uh again about another topic that seems like most on the mainstream don't want to be discussing very much. That's that goes right back to 1965, the 60s and 70s, uh, which completely rewrote what this country stood for. Uh the 70s were where you got rampant, overwhelming pornography all across the U.S. and you got abortion policy. Uh the 60s, where you got immigration changes, and they weren't just changes of how many people came in or where they were coming from, though those were changes. We also just redefined what the country believed about these things. Right? It was before the 70s, uh abortion was largely looked at as an evil. Even when it was allowed to be done, it was looked at as a massive evil. Right? Before, you know, you looked at that at pornography. Well, pornography used to be viewed as a societal sin. But if even if anybody did it, it was it was shameful and it was hidden and it was it was perverted. Right? Same with immigration, it used to be looked at that immigration was very small scale and with a purpose driving it. And all of those things changed in a very short period of time. Right? Immigration policy used to be understood, at least in principle, uh, as something that existed for the benefit of the American people. That was the point. Right? Not for the benefit of the foreign nationals, not for the benefit of the corporate donors who wanted cheap labor that they could employ, right? It was not uh for the benefit of universities that were addicted to foreign tuition, none of those things. No, no, no. It was it was for the benefit of Americans, right? That should be the question. Does does bringing this particular individual in strengthen the United States? Does it protect the American worker? Uh does it also at the same time make sure that our culture and our heritage is preserved? Right? Does it does it work in our favor? Does it maintain the historic character and integrity of what our country was and who it belonged to? Does it make our community safer and more cohesive and more prosperous? And if the answer is no, then the answer should be no. And that's that's how a serious country thinks about things, right? That's how our country, which used to be serious, used to think about things. Uh, but our leaders, again, the political ruling class, inverted the whole thing. Immigration used to be, does this benefit Americans? And today is it supposedly begins with what we owe everybody else. Well, America is a shining beacon on a hill. Yeah. But to me, that means that we show others how they should be, not we attract every single person who's ever existed to try to get here by any means possible, and we let millions of them in. No, that's not what a beacon on a the thing that made us a beacon on a hill is going to be destroyed if we do that. We won't be a beacon on a hill for anybody anymore because we're serving everybody else and we we don't care about our own people. That's that's it's not only just gonna fail, it's evil. It's completely disordered. And and the reality is that that is a complete inversion of everything our founders believed. And not just our founders, that wasn't something the founders believed in the by the next generation was over. This is, again, this is nearly 200 years straight of American history. And really more than that, if you include the colonies, who also believe the same thing, at least in this regard, hundreds of years of history of this land for our people has just completely been changed in the last 60 years. 61 years, because Hart Seller was passed in 1965 that rewrote the playbook. Right? It used to be did this benefit Americans, and and now it's well, does this benefit everybody else? Does it look good to the United Nations? Does this look like does this look like positive global policy that makes us look like, you know, we're servants? Right? We actually owe stuff. We do actually have things that we owe, but it's not to other people, it's to our own people, right? We owe our own people safety. We owe our own workers fair wages. We owe our own children a country that still belongs to them. We owe our own communities law and order, and and we owe everybody else absolutely nothing, right? We th nothing. And and frankly, you know, again, uh going back to this particular case, the sentence says don't even match the damage, right? If you're helping move thousands of people illegally into this country and you're generating millions of dollars, um, that's not a that's not like a little paperwork mix-up. That's no no no. You participated in the organized subversion of American sovereignty, right? Three years a minimum, not even not even close to enough. Ten years is closer, but even then, that should be the floor. That should be the bare minimum, and it should ne that that's that's just because the law says so. It should be much higher than that.

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And and the whole business model in general needs to be completely untenable if we want this to change. That means seizing all the money and the property and the organizers being locked up. Every foreign national involved is deported, permanently bar them from any sort of re-entry. Go after the American side facilitators, too. That means the employers and the drivers and the fake document providers and the legal networks, right? The border crisis, as I've said over and over, is not an accident. It is the inevitable and predictable result of this political class that stopped believing that America has the right to exist as a distinct and sovereign nation. That's that's all this is. Um borders are mean. Well, what do you think happens? Well the cartels get rich off of that. Well, uh enforcement, it's cruel. And all of a sudden traffickers are building these empires on the backs of that, right? Well, diversity is actually our strength. Um, and then we found out that we have no idea who's coming in, and diversity is actually our downfall, not our strength. Right? And and now we're supposed to applaud uh after thousands smuggled in and tens of millions of dollars were made, and we got a guy to plead guilty and we're all supposed to be very happy. Well, good, prosecute him, sentence him. Uh, but don't pretend like that's a problem solvent. Right? The problem is the system. The problem is that America has spent the last sixty years um pretending like immigration policy is is written as if the world the whole world has a claim on our country and that we have the privilege of just letting whoever we want in no more. End it. Border sealed, mass deportations, no fly lists, end of of all of these things. And after that, if one day in the future, right, think back to the the flooding or the on the fiery home, one day when all that's put out and the house is rebuilt, we can decide what color we want the carpet to be. Right? If if we ever decide to reopen immigration, we can make it look a lot like it did before 1965, right? We can say, hey, where do we want people to come from? And if you want to call us racist for selecting countries of people that share a similar heritage, call us racist. Doesn't matter. We have a country to preserve. We have a country that we believe in, that we want to keep, actually, for our posterity. If it that needs to look like a certain number of people uh who provide tangible benefit to the American people, not just to the system and the big companies, to the people, right? Because we are not a bus station, we are not a charity hotel for the rest of the world, we're not a job program, we are a nation. And it is long past time that we started acting like one, like we used to. And the Fourth of July should be a should have been a great reminder of that when the fireworks going off, with the boom booms happening, and the we should have been reminded that the reality is we have a country to save. We are not a bus stop, we're not a charity, right? We are we are not we are not an open open area that anyone can just come play like a public park. We are a nation, a sovereign one, the best one that's ever existed, and if we want to keep that, it means stop saying, oh well, we just gotta let them in. It wouldn't be nice if we chose certain countries. Okay, I don't care. Then choose no countries. No countries would be better than this, actually. With that being said, we can get back from the break. We're gonna jump over. We got some stuff coming out of Liberty County, a couple different things actually coming out of Liberty County. Um, we have an ex-Liberty police officer who surrendered to jail on official oppressant and indecent assault charges. We also have a pastor out of Liberty County who's been arrested on child sex abuse charges. We'll cover both of those uh at least over the next two segments, but maybe we'll get it all done in one segment. In the meantime, if you would like to text into the show and let us know your thoughts on any of the stuff we're covering, any of the conversations we're having, or uh maybe you just want to let us know how your fourth of July went. Let us know at 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and the Lord willing to be right back with those stories after the break. So hang tight, and we'll talk soon.

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Liberty County Officer Under Indictment

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. You know, sometimes we get so harped up talking about big counties that we forget that there are uh relatively rural counties that also have their own problems that need to be addressed. You know, I don't want to spend so much time saying, well, Harris County is the big evil, and um forgetting that that you have other counties that have their own problems that we need to discuss everything from Fort Bend County. We know, we know they have their issues ongoing right now. Uh Brazoria County, we just had a Democrat mayor. I know they say nonpartisan, it's a Democrat mayor elected in Pearland. Gobson County has her own issues, Montgomery County, and of course Liberty County. Um so I want to go over a couple of these things. First of all, you have a former Liberty police department officer who's been indicted for official oppression and indecent assault, according to Liberty County jail records. Jason Grinstaff resigned while under investigation earlier this year, according to the City of Liberty's statement on a social media post over the weekend. Records show the alleged incident happened in late November of last year. The City of Liberty said the police chief received a complaint about Grindstaff on December 3rd of last year, which prompted investigation by the Texas Rangers. Grindstaff was on administrative leave from December 4th of 2025 until he resigned on February 27th this year, according to the city statement. Bond has not yet been set, according to jail records, and Grindstaff turned himself in on Friday morning. Charging records with additional details of the alleged incident were not available as of last check. Uh, though the City of Liberty statement read, quote, the city remains committed to maintaining public trust, accountability, and professionalism in all municipal operations. Any additional questions regarding the criminal case should be directed to the appropriate prosecutorial or law enforcement authorities. Now, I do wish that we had I wanted to talk about the story in advance because it's out and it's kind of breaking and it came out over the weekend. But I I I do wish there were more details, right? I I do want to know what is driving those charges, what the complaint actually contains. And I know, I know all the things that you're gonna hear when you ask for it. Well, this is an ongoing investigation, and we don't we can't we can't destroy the integrity of the investigation, and we'll let you know as soon as we can, all those sorts of things that they're gonna say. But I think I think the main highlight, the reason that I wanted to bring this up, despite some of the details, you know, being absent, is because again, we do get really hyped up saying, well, Harris County did this again, and Harris County did that again. And that's important. I'm not discounting that either. There is a balance, right? We do need to talk about Harris County. It is it is kind of the greater, you know, for better or for worse, we're known as the greater Houston area. That's how it works, right? Liberty County is part of the greater Houston area, and so Houston is sort of the driver of our economy. It's the driver of a lot of the way the policies are working. That's why you're watching not things spread into Houston. We're not watching the rural counties uh, you know, spread their ideology into Houston. We're watching it go the other way. Houston is spreading outward. We understand that. And so dealing with Houston, dealing with Harris County is very important. Trying to get Harris County back to a sense of normalcy to say, hey, you know, for many years we were a Republican area, we were we were Texas. This was part of Texas. We weren't one of the big, we weren't Austin, we're not Dallas, we're not San Antonio, we're Houston. We are we are Houston, right? That is what we are, and we have a chance of being a red community if we're willing to fight for it. And so I'm not denying that that's important, right? Obviously on the show we believe that, but we also understand that we do have to preserve the rural communities at the same time. We have to talk about them. Um you know, when stuff is going on in Fort Bend County, that's really important. When stuff is happening in Chambers County, that's important. When things are happening in Paraland or Manville or you know, all the way down to Lake Jackson, and you know, out out to Galveston, um League City, Kema, all these areas, very important. These more rural communities, these areas are crucial. They are uh the the bedrock of Republican values in the greater Houston area. And what we want is to invert things, right? Right now, Houston spreading out. We actually want these things to spread in, right? Rather than Houston grow bigger, we want to kind of force things back, push the line further until we can make Houston red. Now that differs a little bit from the next one we're gonna get into, and we don't have time to do it in this segment, so we'll do it after the break. And that is this pastor in Liberty County who has been arrested on child sex abuse charges. Uh, he's facing multiple felony charges after being accused of repeatedly sexually abusing a child. His name is George Finney, senior pastor, and I don't even know how to pronounce the name of the church, by the way. I looked at this and I was I was reading it and I said, I I came up with my best gander at how it's pronounced. It is the New Life Kennefech Church. It's K-E-N-E-F-I-C-K. If anybody knows how to pronounce that, let me know. Kennefech Church. Um, he was arrested. Um, and uh if when you look at the court documents, there's pretty, pretty disturbing details about the allegations, which we will talk about in the next segment. If you would like to text into the show, let us know your thoughts on any of the stuff we're talking about or something that you want to hear more about, uh that I haven't covered, feel free to do that. That's most of them when we cover national news because someone asked about my per my position on national news. So if you have questions about literally anything, feel free to text in and let us know what you want to hear more about. This show's for you guys. The number is 713-779-5978. One more time. That is 713-779-KYST. You are listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord Willing, I'll return with the rest of that story and its details after the break. So stick around.

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Pastor Arrest And Lost Standards

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The theme of this segment is standards, because we actually in this country used to have those. And along with all of the other cultural changes that we've experienced over the past 50 or so years has really been when most of this changed. I know we had this we've had the seeds for it, and you could make that argument. I've made that argument. I do understand. Like when I talk about, you know, even even O'Burgefell, the seeds for gay marriage started at the end of the Civil War with the ratification of the 14th Amendment. It was it was bound to get here because of the way that we transformed the language of the Constitution to mean new things. But I'm not talking about the seeds. I'm talking about when you really see this cultural shift. It's been the last 50 years or so. And one of the shifts that has accompanied all the other ones has been a severe lack of standards for our positions, right? This this guy named George Finney, uh Liberty County Sheriff's Office says the investigation began after the child made an outcry to an adult. According to court records, Finney is accused of repeatedly sexually abusing the child in 2024 when they were under the age of 14. He's also accused of exposing himself and assaulting the alleged victim by applying pressure to child's throat or neck. Videos of Finney preaching at New Life Kennefic Church remain online. According to the church's website, Finney took over a senior pastor in 2016 and is described as a very loving, fun, and energetic pastor, which are none of the descriptors. Loving is c is close to one of the descriptors. None of those are descriptors of the standards that you should have for a pastor. That's again the sort of cultural dynamic change. A lot of the the mega church prosperity gospel style preaching that does not build you up. It does not actually encourage you. It does not in any way, shape, or form benefit to your spiritual growth, those things are also relatively new, comparatively speaking. And of course, the church has always had issues with false doctrine and whatever. But these sorts of standard losses where, well, he's fun and energetic. Well, I'm glad that's great for a radio host. Hopefully people would describe me as fun and energetic. But but if that's it, if that's your standard for the position, there's a problem. And this is why you wind him in these positions, right? Andreal Curtis has Bonnet out of jail. Um, though I I will say they've declined any sort of comment. The church has since removed Finney from his role as pastor, of course, uh, given the nature of the allegations. But again, the standards are below the table. The standards we have for any position are below. I keep saying this, and we talked about it on on Friday because we were talking about the Fourth of July. We had a little special hour. That's up in podcast form, by the way. If you missed the first hour of Friday's show, I would highly encourage you to go back and listen to it. Um I don't want to say that it was incredible because that would be just building myself up, but we did a lot of historical in-depth talk about some of the founders and what they believed in, the things that they said and and their lives and their ministries. Um that's on the at the Lone Star Conservative on Apple and Spotify, if you check out the podcast there from Friday's episode. But the the bigger thing that I want to make sure we get to here is and the reason I bring up Friday, you know, we had numerous founders who believed that we, because of the nature of our new country, had this right and by extension actually a responsibility to elect Christian leaders. They didn't want to put a standard because again, their main context, as we've said over and over and over again, their main contextual concern was federal tyranny. So they didn't want laws erected as to who you could elect, because they were concerned, of course, that, well, if you do that, and I think they were wrong, actually, I think they they weren't they were imperfect men who, again, coming off of a context of of of England, were concerned about this tyranny. I think they were actually wrong on this. But because of that, they were afraid of certain standards. They said, Well, no, the people will do that anyway, and if we put it into law, then there will be, you know, potentially tyrannical violations that say, well, you have to be this kind of Christian, and you have to agree with this doctrine. And they didn't want that. They didn't want those sort of federal regulations. And so they said, We'll just we'll just say there's no laws, but you have an obligation to elect Christian leaders anyway. And we've we've dropped all of those standards. Look at this pastor who ended up being alleged to have sexually abused a child, but he's fun and energetic at least. Right? And we hear this sort of problem over and over and over again in our country. We we we've lowered our standards to the floor. And then wonder why the people in these positions aren't as good as they seem to have used to have been. We we we lower our standards to the point where there there are no real standards, and then we Ask, man, why are our leaders so bad in the church, in the public sphere, in our local government, in our state government, in our federal government, why are our leaders so awful? Well, because we don't have standards anymore. Right? If we had any standards at all, KB George should be said that he can never run for any office ever again. Ever. That that should be a bare minimum standard that we have. Are the people accused and convicted of campaign fraud violations aren't allowed to be in office? You threw away your privilege to be an elected person in the United States of America. We should have standards. We used to say, even if it wasn't a law, that we were expected to elect Christian leaders. That was a good standard that we should bring back. Actually, I do think that you should be a Christian if you want to ever win an office. And I think you shouldn't just be a Christian because you say you're one, but I should see it in your life. And those standards have been lowered to the floor all across the board. And it's sad because it does, as we exp as you do logically expect it to, it has resulted in, unfortunately, a wide array of problems. Where our leaders are really bad. Where they just don't do a good job. And they don't care about the interests of the people. And they don't they don't support you. They don't represent you. They don't care about you at all. They'll do anything to make their money and to earn their career and to stay in politics, whatever that takes, and they couldn't care less about you. And that's that's very sad, but it's the result of the low standards that our country has allowed to transpire. Now, with that being said, we get back from the break. Of course, it's the bottom of the first hour, which means we're going to have our weather report coming up, letting you know uh here we're here in a new week, what we expect to come out with the weather for today, the rest of this week. I'll let you know about that when we get back. As always, if you would like to text into the show, the number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord will be right back after this short break. So stick around with the weather report soon.

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Houston Heat And Storm Outlook

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Houston might be flirting with its first hundred-degree day of 2026 later this week. Daily thunderstorm chances are going to continue through tomorrow before a drier pattern allows temperatures to climb back up into the upper 90s by the middle of the week. If Z reaches the 100-degree mark, it would arrive close to the historical average. Even so, you know, record climate records show that Houston's first hundred degree day offers very limited clues about how long or how intense uh the rest of the summer will be. It's not like we had an early hundred degree day, and then we know the result is likely blank, right? Is what I'm saying. Even if we have a hundred degree day by Thursday, that doesn't actually have any bearing on what the rest of the summer will look like. It's not some good predictor. Nevertheless, scattered showers and thunderstorms are going to remain in the forecast today and tomorrow as a weak upper level trough drifts across Southeast Texas. The best chance for rain is going to come during the afternoon and evening hours when the sea breeze interacts with lingering outflow boundaries from earlier storms. Any storms that could develop could produce produce brief downpours, gusty winds, and frequent lightning. Though again, it's it's very limited. Uh the weak disturbance is expected that's why they're calling it a weak disturbance. Expected to move away by Wednesday, allowing rain chances to decrease for the middle of the week. Though that um also by next weekend, another weakness in the upper level pattern could uh you know allow more typical showers and thunderstorms by next weekend. Cloud cover and scattered storms should hold daytime highs down a degree or two today and tomorrow compared with recent days, uh though that's not gonna last very long at all. By Wednesday and Thursday, strengthening high pressure is expected to rebuild across the region, pushing adrone inhibitors back into the mid and upper 90s. Combined with humidity, conditions are gonna feel, of course, even hotter. Now, if we reach 100 degrees later this week, it would occur closer to these long-term average. First world of today of July 19th, and it'll be what, like July 9th? We're within 10 days. It's it's not very different. Uh, but we do have that expectation for later this week. In the meantime, that will do it for the weather report. We'll be back in the next hour with lots more local and statewide news that you will not want to miss that you're getting right here on the Lone Star Conservative. If you'd like to text in for some of that, the number is 713-779-5978. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You are listening to the Lone Star Conservative. And Lord willing me right back with the rest of the show in the next hour. So hang tight.

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Texas Comptroller Appointment Explained

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative, and I'm your morning host, Michael Wilson, here on Patriot Talk, 9 20 a.m. here on Monday, July 6th, and it is a phenomenal time to be with each and every one of you. But I we have a lot to talk about here at the second hour. We have everything from a new appointee for Texas Comptroller to this guy here in Houston who's been accused of assaulting homeless people with a powerful water gun. And yes, that story is as crazy as it sounds. We also have some unveiled legislation that would ban Sharia law in American courts, and we'll talk about how much more extensive we need to be. We also have a worker from Houston Methodist who is suing the Texas Medical Center, as well as our attorney general freezing this foreign pornography sites domain for ignoring our age verification law here in the state of Texas. So, like I said, we have a lot that I want to get into this morning. And we have a very short time to do it because we've already been through the first hour of the show. And so we we're gonna jump, we're gonna jump right into the start talking about this new appointee. Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Republican Comptroller nominee Don Huffines to serve as Texas Comptroller following active comptroller Kelly Hancock's resignation. I'm gonna switch the eights in the K. Helly Helly Hancock. No, it's Kelly Hancock, and he resigned. Huff Heinz, who is a former state senator from Dallas, also ran for governor, by the way. Uh, he's gonna take office on August 1st. And so Abbott came out with a statement as he appointed him and he said, Don Huffheins brings the right mix of business experience and conservative principles to this vital office. He is a fifth generation Texan, a successful businessman, and proven conservative leader who puts taxpayers first. His private sector experience and dedication to limited government make him exceptionally qualified to lead the state's finances and protect every taxpayer dollar with integrity and accountability. I find Gene Mile came back and said, I'm honored by the trust that Governor Abbott has placed in me. My commitment is simple run government lean, protect every tax dollar, and keep Texas the best place to live, raise a family, and run a business. Now, this all comes Hancock announced, I think it was last Wednesday, sometime middle of the week last week, um, that he would resign effective July 31st after serving for a year as acting controller. Of course, he ran um in in the the race, the Republican race for in the primary for the position of controller, but lost to Don Huff Heinz in the primary. He became acting controller last year after Glenn Hagar, who was the acting controller at the time, left office to become chancellor of the Texas AM University system. Before leaving, Hagar named Hancock chief clerk, allowing him to automatically assume the duties of acting comptroller under state law. At the same time, of course, Hancock launched his campaign. Uh, then Huff Heinz won the Republican nomination with 57% of the vote. And that also comes a memory. Remember, four years after Huff Heinz challenged Abbott in the 2022, I didn't realize it was it'd been four years already, but in the Republican gubernatorial primary. As Comptroller, Huff Heinz will oversee the collection of state taxes and fees, management of state funds, the state's unclaimed property program, and certification of the state budget. He is, of course, facing Democrat Sarah Eckhart in the November election. It's not sent in stone yet, uh, but he already has the position now, and I think the polling data is showing that he's fairly likely to win that that general election. Uh but this this is one of those offices that I I and I've said it before, it does not get the same sort of attention that it deserves because it's not super popular and exposed. In the sense that when you hear about a lot of races, right, everybody wants to talk about them. From uh, you know, everyone wants to talk about the governor and the lieutenant governor and the attorney general and the Congress and the president. Uh, but the comptroller is the person that guards the gate of the state of Texas' finances, right? This is the office that tells lawmakers what money is actually available, watches the flow of those dollars, and has the power to kind of shine light into parts of the government that most Texans will never get the opportunity to see in our spending. Um, which is exactly why every single person listening to the show should care a lot about who wins the controller election, right? Texas, as we've said over and over and over before in the show, whether we're talking about local or state or federal government, the issue is not that Texas has a revenue problem. That is not the issue. Texas has a government problem. We have agencies and programs and contracts and consultants and grants and all of these little taxpayer-funded kingdoms all over the state that grow and grow into this just pure bureaucracy while families are told to just deal with it. Right? Oh, that's that's what we're always told. Uh we don't get to to we don't get to run our homes that way, right? That's not how any other person's budget works. No small business owners get to run their books that way. Parents don't get to say, well, I wasted money last year, so I need more this year. But yet government does it all the time. And so the standard should be very simple, that we have no sacred cows. And what that means is that if a program is wasting money, that program should be exposed. If an agency is bloated, say so so we can fix it. If taxpayer dollars are being routed through activist organizations or ideological projects, right, that should that should be dragged into the daylight for every taxpayer in the state of Texas to be aware of. Right? If local governments and state agencies are treating taxpayers like an unlimited ATM, which they are, it's not an if they are, they are, and that should be stopped point blank. And that's what this office could be. That's what this office should be, though that's not what it's been. Not just an accountant, right? And now again, that's that's sort of what the the title lends itself to that you hear and you're like, oh, that's the accountant for Texas. No, and not just a bookkeeper of sorts who just certifies the numbers and keeps the machine moving forward and progressing and getting worse. Um, Texas needs a comptroller who believes that every single dollar government spends first had to be earned by somebody else. And if it came from the people, right, which it did, right again, that dollar, that single dollar was spent, came from a dad who was working for his family. It came from a mom trying to keep groceries on the table. It came from a business owner that's taking all of the risk for a startup. Think about my boss here at Patriot 920. While the government is showing up with his hand out saying, hey, pay up, right? Give us give us more. If it came from the people, then the burden is on government to justify why it took it, where it went after they took it, and whether it should have been taken in the first place. Right? Which is the mindset that we should demand from every statewide office holder, right? Cutting the waste, opening the books, returning power to the taxpayers, and not treating the government like they're the center of everything. And I'll say this very plainly Texas is not great because of Austin. Texas is great because Texans are great. I know that, again, there's been this mainstream push on unfortunately both the right and the left to decentralize the power. And by decentralized, I don't actually mean decentralized because that would sound good on the surface, but what I mean by that is take it away from the central place it's supposed to be. Not where it is, where it's supposed to be in the hands of the people.

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And they're not just power, uh, but the entirety of culture. They've tried to distance culture from the people who created that culture. Pretend like those are two unrelated concepts that people have no bearing. Right? This is the same justification for mass immigration as well. That, well, our country has nothing to do with the people who started it, it's uh has nothing to do with the culture of the people, it's nothing to do with the heritage that we all share. No, no, no. That would be a racist way to view the country. We're just a melting pot of every culture ever. No, actually, Texas is great because Texans are great. Families and churches and entrepreneurs and landowners and parents and communities and neighborhoods. We built the state. Right? Government's job is not to rule over them with an iron fist, government's job is to protect liberty and to steward taxpayer money. And so I think disappointment creates a sort of real test. Um, and that that brings the question will the controller's office simply keep the gears of government turning? Is that what the job's gonna be treated like? My only job here is to make sure the government is operating the way that it has been operating. Because that's how it's been. That's been the status quo for years. Let's just make sure they keep going. Make sure we keep giving them endless checks to do whatever they want. Nobody really gets to know how the money's spent, where it's spent, why it's spent, where it goes. None of that stuff is transparent. You don't deserve to know, even though it's your money. That's the way that our country's been run. Our state and our country, by the way, it's not different at the federal level, it's the same problem. Uh, but it's happening in the state all the time. Is that how it's gonna be? Or alternatively, is it going to become a place where waste is found, exposed, and challenged? Right? Which is why I'm very excited about Don Hoffein's not only being appointed, but potentially winning in November. And no offense to anybody who came before, uh, but the reality is that our combrollers have not been all that good. Comparatively to what we want. Right? Comparatively to someone like Sarah Eggart, of course, our our controllers have been phenomenal. Say the same thing about you know, it kind of reminds you of Mayor Whitmeyer. Is Mayor Whitmeyer a good mayor? Well, that's debatable. There's a lot, a lot of issues there that I would say disqualify for being good. But when you compare him to former mayors in Houston, when you compare him to other mayors of large cities, right, we're the fourth largest city in the country. Okay, let's look at the other ones. You look at New York, Chicago, you look at you know, Mom Donnie, you look at LA. Well, okay, so uh, you know, in the basis of comparativism, right, where we're comparing to other people, sure, great. But is he good? And that's sort of where Texas has been for a while. You know, compared to the alternative of the Democrats and other people, sure, our comforts have been fine. But I I don't want to settle for fine. I don't think that Texas should settle for fine. I think we should, we should not settle at all. We should demand someone good hold that office. But that comes with understanding how important that office is. It is, it is the f the the CEO of the state. That's that is, or the CO of the state. That's an incredibly important job. And it's one that has to be done with virtue and with good stewardship. You can't you can't separate those things. Right? That's actually crucial to our state functioning. And Don Huffines, I've talked to him on the show here more than once. Uh I talked to him off the show more than once. Great guy, very family-oriented, very and and most of the complaints that I hear about Don Huffein's are related to things that I could not care less about. Oh, did you know that he owns Zoro Ranch? That used to be Epstein's ranch. Yeah, the price was great. No one wanted to own Epstein Ranch. And Don Huffines said, Yeah, well, what's done is done. Might as well own the land. What else are we going to do with it? Right. Those are the real only complaints against Don Huffines. The guy's great. He's very good at what he does. He's very good at every position he's ever been in. And of course, as with anything, that doesn't mean that we don't have accountability moving forward. Right? We we we continue to demand, right? That's the same thing that I've said about any elected official, and I want to be very careful about this. Someone can be uh the best campaigner in the history of campaigns, right? Somebody can be um the epitome in on the campaign trail of what you want for a position, and we still have the obligation as the people to demand they be the best once they get into office. It happens, how many times have we seen it happen that we elected the the supposed best candidate for an office, and then they get in and they don't do what they said they were gonna do. They don't do what we elected them to do, we believe they should do when we voted for them. How many times has that happened? You can't name it number because it's happened countless times. That there was someone who was supposed to be the best for the job, that we elected, and they got in and they didn't do the job. Or they did something differently than they said they were gonna do, or they ended up bowing down to the whims of whatever the government structure was at the time. Right? If you think back, while an imperfect candidate, someone who, again, you know, we can hold accountable, the same sort of scenario of somebody who said, Hey, I don't actually care about what the system wants and what the system does right now, that's getting gutted, it's getting changed. That's Donald Trump in 2016. Less so in 2020, even less so in 2024. But in 2016, right, announcing his candidacy, that was what that was. Yeah, I'm outside the political machine. I'm not a career politician, I have no desire to be a career politician, but I'm looking at the country and things are not good. Things are very bad. Things are very bad. We need a wall, Mexico's gonna pay for it, right? Things that were just not talked about at the time. Right when he comes out, he does, yeah, you know, drug runners and rapists are pouring across our border. You know, everybody said that you had to left the mainstream media. That's so racist, but Trump didn't care. But that I think highlights it because Trump gets in and there happen really bad things that Trump has promoted. Really bad things that Trump has spoken in in favor of. And we the people need to hold Donald Trump accountable and say, no, that's not what your party wants. That's not what the base wants. We're not interested in this, that, or the other. We want you to do what we elected you to do. And no matter how good the candidate is, even if they're the best candidate ever, we still have to demand that. And so regardless of how things go with Don Upines, regardless of how the election goes, we must continue to demand better. And to say you must be held accountable to do what you told people you would do. Right. And again, that that's across the board with any

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You have to fight for the rights of the people to keep and bear arms, which shall not be infringed. And that means if God forbid a bad bill does get through that they're willing to sue to stop it from taking effect. And to get it stricken from the record through the court system. If you like to become a member, you can go to G-O-Ahouston.com. That is G-O-Ahouston.com. It is a twenty-five dollar annual membership, just twenty-five bucks per year, which all goes right back to the continued defense and support of your God-given constitutionally enshrined rights. Again, that is G-O-Ahouston.com. But this is the same point I'll make over and over and over again. Whether it's the Second Amendment, whether it's the First Amendment, whether it's an elected official, whether it's a pastor, this all goes right back to standards. Part of having standards is not just the application process. A good analogy of this is someone that you hire. I'll even talk about myself for a moment. You know, when I got hired on, there was an expectation when I started working. And I started working, by the way, before the radio station was launched officially as a conservative talk. I was creating social media content for the station before the station had had relaunched in January of 2024. I was working starting in October or November of 2023. So before the station had ever launched, I was already, I was already creating content for the station. And when I was hired on, there was an expectation. Well, I I've, you know, I've I've seen what you can do, I've listened to your podcast, I I know what you're good at. I want you to do this, this, and this. Now, if I had gone in and I'd been hired to create all that content, and then I got hired as the producer of a show, I'm a host of the show, I'm the Lone Star Conservative, all these things. If I had gone in and and somewhere in there, I just stopped producing a good show. I I just started talking about random stuff and I wasn't entertaining and I didn't seem to have any passion at all about what I was talking about. I didn't keep people informed. I didn't seem to care at all about the state of affairs in our state, in our local areas, in our country. If I wasn't dedicated to the pursuit of truth, if I just, you know, rattled off factoids and and read stuff and and didn't really have commentary, and it was boring and useless information that nobody cared about and produced no benefit, it would be not only within the right of my boss, but it would it would be the right thing to do, to say, hey, Michael, we need to have a very serious conversation. Either things need to change drastically, or you're you're going to lose your job. You're gonna get fired. That's that's how things are gonna go. And that would not only within his right, that's what he should do. And we the taxpayers are the same. We have to start pretending like the campaign season, the election is is the end all be all. It's very important, right? And again, that's the same balance I was talking about earlier. Yes, when we address Harris County, we need to talk about Harris County, but we can't let the other counties fall by the wayside and not talk about the issues in them. Yes, election season is very important. Don't don't mishear me and say you don't need to show up. What you vote for doesn't really matter. It's only after that. It's not true. We need to elect good candidates in the first place. That is that is inevitably the case. We have to make sure that the people that we're electing are fit for the job and are at least saying they'll do the right things, but it does not end there. It can't end there. We have to, going through their actual job in the position, demand accountability. We have to hold them accountable, we have to demand transparency. We have to go in and participate in what they do once they're in office. We can't just say, Well, we elected a good candidate, so let's hope he does okay, and then four years later say, All right, howdy-do. No, not howdy do. You should have known how he did every day. You should have been paying attention so that we could say things in the moment and demand better when bad things happen. And and celebrate when good things happen. Now, uh, with that being said, I want to beat a dead horse. So when we get back from the break, uh we're gonna jump over and talk about this guy here in Houston who has been accused of assaulting homeless people uh with a powerful water gun. And can I just say right off the bat that that the way that we tackle homelessness is important. And the way that government has historically tackled homelessness, I won't, I won't disagree in saying it has not been the best, right? The whole let's just build more shelters and hope that works, hope it sticks, is not the right strategy. It's not the best strategy, it's not the most successful strategy, it's not very efficient, it's not produced verifiably good metrics. But, but I also don't think that shooting homeless people with a water gun is also the way to go. I think there we can strike a balance of sorts, maybe somewhere in the middle. As always, if you would like to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. One more time. That is 713-779-KYST. You are listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord willing, we'll be right back to talk all about this guy who shot homeless people with a water gun after the break. So stick around. We'll talk soon.

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Water Gun Assault And Homelessness Reality

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We'll close your eyes. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Stark Conservative. This really is a wild, a wild turn of events. A Houston man who posted videos of himself on social media shooting homeless and disabled people with a water gun from his car has been arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault. Christopher Case is accused of using a high-powered motorized water gun to shoot people in his self-described drive-bys. According to a Facebook post by the Houston Police Department, Case was charged with two counts of misdemeanor assault causing bodily injury. The asults were alleged to have happened to two different people on June 4th. Harris County Court record said that Case was arrested on Thursday and released on a general order bond, which is a cash-free bond issued for most misdemeanor offenses. He is scheduled to appear in court this upcoming week. Now Case posted videos of himself, I mean, it's self-incrimination, on Facebook and YouTube for three years, including at least four videos of himself squirting unsuspecting people with spray water guns, which advertise themselves as the world's strongest water gun. The videos show a man driving around parts of Houston, shooting people with a water gun as they're walking down sidewalks, standing in medians, or in some cases lying down near the street. In some of his videos, Case offered people wads of money or food from his car and then spray them in the face as they approached. The charging documents don't describe the so-called injuries that people suffered in the alleged assault, though the uh company warns against shooting people in the face with their gun. In the videos posted after his arrest, Case wrote that he was being framed and claimed he was brought to jail over traffic tickets. He said it's just water. A lot of you might think it's bad, but to me, it wasn't bad. I mean, what a strong defense. People may think it's bad, but to me it wasn't. Man, if I could just use that claim and I got in trouble, you know, uh, you might you know, Mom, you might think it's bad, but to me it wasn't, and I just get out of it. Not how it works, pal. Assault causing bodily injury is a class A misdemeanor. If he's convicted of that, he could be sentenced. His maximum sentence could be up to a year in jail and fine up to $4,000. This is one of those stories where where two things can be true at the same time, right? No, this is not a crime of the century. A gr a guy driving around Houston, spraying me with a water gun, is is not some sort of, you know, out outspoken violence, right? It's not armed robbery, it's not the collapse of civilization, but it's still wrong. I think we should be able to say that. Uh, and the reason it's wrong is not just because somebody got wet, it's wrong because of who he was targeting and why he was doing it. According to police and court records, he was driving around Houston, shooting unsuspecting people with a high-powered water gun, specifically homeless and disabled people, um, and then posting the videos online, which is you can say it's just a prank and it's not that bad, uh, but it is humiliation for online entertainment. So you can get online internet points in the form of likes and views. And and there is something especially ugly about turning the most broken people in the city, whether it's their own fault or not, into props for your social media content. That's not cool, right? A homeless man lying near the street, uh disabled person who's walking along the sidewalk, someone desperate enough to approach a car because they think you're being offered food or money or whatever, uh, those are not probably the people to use for your little internet stunt. Right. And let's be honest about the other side, too, because the homelessness Christ in Houston is very real. It is very visible, right? If you've walked in Houston, you're well aware of this. It's very frustrating. And it is not compassionate at all to pretend that these tent cities and open drug use and public disorder and all the things that are coming, like theft and harassment and crazy tweakers walking down the side of the street, um, are just housing insecurity, right? That is that is the polished language of bureaucrats who just want to pretend like there's not a problem. And the left's answer to this crisis is always the same thing. It's spend more money, build more shelters, fund more nonprofits, create more programs that are bloated, um, and then pretend to be shocked, or at least act like you're shocked when it doesn't work and say, well, I guess we need more shelters and more nonprofit funding, and then it just gets bigger and bigger and bigger. And at some point, I think we have to admit the obvious, right? Chronic homelessness in major cities is not primarily a problem of how much housing is available. It is overwhelmingly, and it's not even close. And when I say overwhelmingly, I don't mean 55%. I mean 95 to 99% is it's it's an addiction problem. It is a mental illness problem, it is a family breakdown crime and drug trade problem, right? And you cannot solve that by just just handing out, you know, more services and then leaving the same destruction in place that caused it in the first place. If you're serious about homelessness, right, the answer is not more shelters and more nonprofit funding. It's also not shooting them in the face with a water gun. Neither of those things is going to have any good impacts. Um if we're gonna be serious about tackling the problem, then yes, we do need law and order. We need uh vagrancy and public tent, camping, whatever loitering laws enforced. We need people that are moved away from dangerous street conditions. We need real treatment options. That also means that you need families and churches in the community who are directly involved. But above all, we have to crush the main pipeline that is keeping so many of these people enslaved. And that that is inevitably the drug pipeline, right? And I said before, that means very serious consequences for drug dealers, serious consequences for distributors, and for the people that are that are producing the poison that's then moving into our communities, the manufacturers. And that includes going after the cartels and the the international supply chains, which includes from China, by the way, uh the manufacturers, and by the way, every political decision, you know, say no to drugs. Yeah, how well did that work? The war on drugs has produced zero fruits of actually being a war at all. Uh because when you have fentanyl and meth and everything else that we have, you don't just get overdose deaths. Though you do get those, and those are bad enough on their own, but you get destroyed families. And you get streets that are filled with people who are not really in control of any of their actions anymore, right? Which is businesses that are dealing with this sort of loitering disorder. And then we get we the people that are then flooded uh with m money requests to for for an endless cycle of emergency responses and cleanup and arrests and releases and then repeat offenses over and over and over, and that that continues on. And that's cruelty for everybody. It's cruelty for the taxpayers, it's cruelty for the for the for the community and for the businesses. It's also cruel to the people who are struggling. It is like a water gun to the face when you arrest them for this, and then they're released and captured and released and captured and released and well send you to the the shelter and then released and then this and that. And before you know it, it's been 20 years and they're still homeless, and nothing's better. That's also cruel, right? Though again, I want to be very clear, tying it back to the story, none of that justifies shooting them in the face with a water gun. That's not the response, right? A civilized society has to be able to draw distinctions. We should not tolerate street disorder and drug use and the collapse of basic standards here in Houston. Uh, we should also not tolerate people mocking and humiliating and humiliating and harassing the broken people, even if they're in sin, who are causing that disorder.

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This case is not a moral panic sort of case, uh, but it it it should be handled very seriously. Right? A misdemeanor charge I think makes sense. I if I were to say what I want the sentence to look like, I don't think time in jail is is is worth it for this particular crime. I think it should be community service and required apology, right? Maybe he should spend some time serving meals to the homeless, um, cleaning up encampments or working with people who are directly trying to get off the street. Not because the government needs to perform some grand act of vengeance on this guy, uh, but because he needs to be reminded these are human beings made in the image of God, not extras in his social media content pipeline. Right? He needs to be reminded, hey, these are the these are people. And regardless of what they're doing and how bad they're acting, probably not wise, certainly not kind to shoot them in the face with a water gun so that you can get likes. That's just it's it's just not good. Right. And again, that's that's where the Christian conservative view is very different from both sides of the modern debate. The left wants compassion without any sort of order. And the right, I think, is tempted to fall into the trap that they're that they that we often fall into, which is demanding order without any sort of compassion. Right? Biblically, you you you you cannot and you do not excuse lawlessness, right? You don't pretend that addiction is harmless, and you don't allow criminals to prey on the innocent. You don't you don't let the public spaces become these open-air drug dens. That's not good. But you also should not mock the poor. You don't torment the weak, and you shouldn't laugh at the suffering of people whose lives are already, you know, in ruins, whose lives have have have been, whether by themselves or whatever, have been destroyed. Right? And so the lesson here should be pretty simple. Just I want to sum it up pretty quickly. We do not need more performative cruelty in Houston, right? We also don't need more failed progressive homelessness policy. We need law and order, consequences, secure borders, drugs off the streets, addiction needs to be confronted, and we need families and churches and local communities stepping back into the gap to handle that. And in the meantime, maybe don't drive around the city shooting homeless people with a water gun and then posting it online. Uh, that should not be a hard standard to meet. That should not that should not be, oh man, my weekend plans are gone. Oh no. No, it should be easy. Let's let's actually fix the problem. With that being said, we can get back from the break. We're gonna jump over and talk about this uh this legislation that would ban Sharia law in American courts. It's proposed by the Sharia Free American Caucus, which admits that they're attempting to eliminate Sharia law inside the United States legal system. We'll talk about why that doesn't go nearly far enough. But you know, I won't complain about steps made in the pursuit of progress of the good, the true, and the beautiful. If you'd like to text into the show, the number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. And Lord willing, I'll return after this break with the rest of that story, so stick around and we'll talk about it right after the break. Be right back.

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Sharia Law Ban And Cultural Conflict

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Now, the Sharia Free American Caucus has proposed new legislation to ensure that Sharia law is not a consideration in American courts. U.S. Representative Keith South out of McKinney announced the Preserving Our Constitution Act uh last week. The bill is designed to ensure that federal courts cannot recognize any parallel foreign or religious legal system that is incompatible with the U.S. Constitution. The Act is based on the American Law for American Courts framework, already enacted in multiple states by the, including Texas. ALAC required, that's the American Law for American Courts, required the Texas Supreme Court to adopt rules banning the application of foreign law in the state. Self press release read the state laws were adopted to ensure fundamental liberties cannot be undermined through the application of parallel legal systems that conflict with the Constitution. Now it's time the federal government takes the same stance. The Preserving Our Constitution Act would prohibit federal courts from recognizing or enforcing foreign or religious legal systems and contracts governed by those systems. The Act also calls for the reinforcement of fundamental liberties and identification of practices that violate constitutional principles, including forced or underage marriage, polygamy, female genital mutilation, restrictions on speech, religion or religious conversion, discriminatory treatment based on sex, religion, ethnicity, or caste, and cruel or unusual punishments prohibited under the Eighth Amendment. Lastly, the bill would require federal courts to ensure constitutional protections in international litigation by preventing them from dismissing cases in favor of a foreign legal system, unless that system provides due process and equal protection. Self said, any legal or political doctrine that places itself above the Constitution threatens the stability and unity of the nation. Not true, but we'll talk about it in a minute. And that's exactly what Sharia law does. The rule of law requires a single standard that applies to everyone. The Constitution provides that standard, allowing any competing legal system would erode the authority of the courts, weaken the protection of individual rights, and fracture our community. The bill is being co-sponsored by lawmakers from Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, and North Carolina. The Sharia Free American Caucus was launched in December of last year by self and Chip Roy. It is currently among the fastest growing caucuses in the nation, touting 68 members from 25 states, which is devoted to protecting individual rights and liberties from foreign legal systems like Sharia law. Chip Roy said Sharia is a direct threat to our Constitution and Western values and seeks to replace our legal system and erode our basic freedoms, our immigration system must be prepared to confront this challenge and defend our Christian values. So that's I mean, that's that's pretty self-evident, right? One one complaint I have, just because we have the time to note it, any doctrine that places about the Constitution threatens the stability of the nation. Not true. And that is the doctrine that comes from the Word of God. The founders recognized this. I recognize this. Christians for centuries have recognized this. The colonists, before we had a United States of America, recognized this. That's a fundamental principle of America, is that the Constitution is great, it is a phenomenal document, but it is not perfect, and it is certainly not the highest of all goods in the country. It reminds you of what Thomas Jefferson said. That ultimately, yes, subservience to the written law of America is very important, but it is not the highest good. There are higher ones. And devotion to the virtues espoused in scripture are higher. If if the the Constitution is twisted and misinterpreted and amended to mean things that I don't subscribe to, and would force me to abandon my beliefs, then the Constitution fails. That test. The Constitution will always be second to the Bible. It will always be second to what God has spoken and to what God has said. And while again, it is a phenomenal document, and we should defend it with our lives, it is not the highest good. It is not on par with scripture. They're not equal. And the problem is that that's not a bad thing. No, no, the founders actually believed the same thing, right? They needed a legal document that functioned for a nation, but they believed wholeheartedly in the Bible and in the principles of even the ones who weren't Christian, by the way. Mentioned Thomas Jefferson. Guy was not a Christian, he was a deist. He believed in some sort of creator of the universe because he wasn't an idiot. He believed that somebody created things, that there is something out there, uh, but he didn't necessarily believe that the God of the Bible was that creator. That that was inherently the truth. But what he did believe is that the values and the law, which was found in the Bible, was a moral good. Was the the highest moral good. That it was it was of good benefit, it was virtuous, it was ethical. And we c we should believe the same thing, right? The reality is that Sharia law is not just bad by nature of being bad, it's not just bad because we say it is, and it's not just bad because it conflicts with the constitution, it's bad because it conflicts with Western values. And Western values are synonymous with Christian values. This is not just Sharia versus the Constitution in a pit match. This is Islam versus Christianity at the global and national scales. And that's why just banning Sharia from your courts isn't going to ultimately fix the issue. Because that's just a law that can be changed tomorrow. The issue is that you're mass immigrating Muslims. That's the problem. That you're allowing religious liberty, which was intended to allow for denominational Christianity, right? Whether you're a Baptist or a Presbyterian or a Quaker or a Puritan, whatever, whatever you are, that you're allowed to believe those things and and follow your conscience in regards to the Bible and in regards to Christianity. But that's of course been twisted to mean religious liberty in the sense of if you're a Satanist or an atheist or a Muslim, feel free. Which was never the intent of the founders. It was never the intent of the Constitution, and it was never expected to happen. So they didn't need laws specifically detailing how to stop it because they never expected it to come. But we're here now, and that requires that we're honest, and it requires that we're not, you know, bashful and kind of shy. Uh no, Sharia law is not the main driver of the problem here. The problem is the people who create Sharia law, the problem is Islam. It is the it is the radical ideology of a Muslim. It is the radical ideology of the Prophet Muhammad that comes out of the Middle East and the whole thing is rotted down to the very core of the religion. And the religion should be ended in America. There should be there should be no Islam at all. There should be no sharia. Oh, religious liberty. I don't care. No, there should be no Islam in the United States of America. Point blank, period. There should be no Buddhism either. There should be no there should be no any of it, right? We don't want Hinduism either, or any of these, any of these things. It should be Christianity. That that's what we should be promoting. With that being said, when we get back to wrap up the show, we're gonna talk about the attorney general. Uh that would be Paxton, who has now frozen this foreign porn sites domain for ignoring our Texas age verification. We'll talk all about that when we get back. If you'd like to text in, this is your final opportunity 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 willing, I'll be right back to wrap up the morning show with this story when we get back. So hang tight, and we'll wrap it up soon. Don't go anywhere. I'll see you soon.

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Texas Age Verification And Freezing Porn Domains

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The bill was passed with bipartisan support back in 2023 and was subsequently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2025. Kick Entertainment Online, owner of the domain motherless.com, neglected to implement the age verifications and was subsequently sued by Paxson in April of 2024. Kick never responded or appeared in court, resulting in a default win for Paxon and a court order requiring the company to implement age verification requirements. With KIC silly northern judgment, Paxson filed a writ of attachment to freeze the domain name. With the order approved, KIC does now pay almost $10 million and implement the required age verifications if they want to get their domain name back. Paxon said this court order establishes a huge precedent web since that websites can be stripped of their domain if they ignore the law and harm children with pornographic content. Here's my main claim now with this with the wrap-up coming of the show. If we have the power to do this, if we have the technological power to just freeze domains, can we just freeze every porn domain? That's something we could do. Can we just pass a law that that just bans porn? Because we had those, by the way, before. It wasn't until 1973 that we uh did away with obscenity laws, which allowed the mass propagation of pornography all over the internet, right, uh over the next 30 years. Uh it was it was relatively recently that we we did away with those. If we bring obscenity laws back, then we can just freeze all the porn domains and no one can ever access them again. I think that's the move. I think that's how we win. Just ban porn and freeze all the sites and we win. That'd be over the show today. I want to thank everyone for tuning in, being a part of the show. You've been listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. Lord willing, I'll be back bright and early tomorrow at 6 a.m. In the meantime, I would highly encourage you to enjoy the rest of your Monday. It's gonna get hotter later this week, so get outside, enjoy it, and Godspeed.