Texas AG Abbott Warns BLM On Disputed Land: 'Come & Take It'

by JASmius

The Great Obamunist-Western Range War is rapidly moving up the ol' food chain:

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has a message for the Bureau of Land Management about disputed land along the Oklahoma-Texas border: "Come and take it."

Abbott was referring to a potential land grab of 90,000 acres that belong to Texas residents. According to Breitbart Texas, the federal government is considering taking the land, which stretches 116 miles along the Red River.

"I am about ready to go to the Red River and raise a 'Come and Take It' flag to tell the feds to stay out of Texas," Abbott said.

Oh my goodness.  It sounds like the next step is for A-G Abbott - did you know he's the Republican frontrunner to succeed Rick Perry as governor of Texas? - to ask Governor Perry to deploy the Texas National Guard against the Bureau of Land Management if they invade the Lone Star State, or at least pledge to do so next year when he's running the show in Austin.

Or....maybe not:

Abbott wrote a letter to BLM Director Neil Kornze about the matter, expressing his concerns about the government's interest in taking the land from Texans, who have owned it for decades.

That's it?  He wrote a letter?  Sheesh, what a pussy.  I guess we have to relegate Greg Abbott to the RINO preserve right alongside Glenn Beck, right "Patriots"?

But you really should hear him out, because you ought to like what he had to say:

"I am deeply concerned about the notion that the Bureau of Land Management believes the federal government has the authority to swoop in and take land that has been owned and cultivated by Texas landowners for generations," Abbott wrote in the letter.

"The BLM's newly asserted claims to land along the Red River threaten to upset long-settled private property rights and undermine fundamental principles — including the rule of law — that form the foundation of our democracy. Yet, the BLM has failed to disclose either its full intentions or the legal justification for its proposed actions. Decisions of this magnitude must not be made inside a bureaucratic black box."

Abbott expanded on the subject in an interview with Breitbart.

"What Barack Obama's BLM is doing is so out of bounds and so offensive that we should have quick and successful legal action if they dare attempt to tread on Texas land and take it from private property owners in this state," Abbott said....

"This is the latest line of attack by the Obama administration, where it seems like they have a complete disregard for the rule of law in this country," Abbott told Breitbart. "And now they've crossed the line quite literally by coming into the state of Texas and trying to claim Texas land as federal land. And, as the attorney general of Texas, I am not going to allow this."

A-G Abbott didn't say how he's going to stop the BLM invasion, although I'm going to guess that he won't be riding in a tank, Patton style, on the Oklahoma frontier.  I suspect what he is going to do is utilize the legal means the Constitution provides.  Who knows, maybe it'll lead to Texas's second secession from the United States.  It is "like a whole other country," after all.