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| Floyd Brashears checks out his video statement on militia objectives |
PORTRAIT
OF A MODERN DAY FILIBUSTER
Let
me tell you about my border. There were two walls and a muddy mine
field running down the center of a DMZ. At least, it was one place I
could understand...” - Floyd Brashears
Carrizo
Springs, Texas – Riding through the oil fields along muddy clay and
sand haul roads, swampy, soupy rutted tracks traversed by giant rigs
hauling fracturing pressure pumping equipment, tanks of mud, water,
and acid, the closer you get to the border, the more prevalent become
the high wire fences designed to keep deer in and people out, and the
more frequent the appearance of corporate security gates manned by
private guards.
There is
no public access to miles upon miles of the rattlesnake and
scorpion-infested, wild hog and thorny cactus-choked brush country
that slopes down to the bed of the Rio Grande.
Looking
around in wonder as motor route after motor route of county roads and
Farm to Market roads to the river are blocked off by dead ends at
multiple security gates that give no right of way in any direction,
Floyd Brashears, the interim commander of coalition militias who is
walking point in the build-up of citizen soldiers hell bent on
guarding the border, says, “Border fence, nothin'. This IS the
border fence!”
He
gestures at the hostile landscape, gesticulating at the limp remains
of two very large rattlesnakes flung into the muddy road by the
driver of a spattered four-wheel drive pickup that passed in a hail
of light brown droplets of soupy clay and sand.
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