Obama Regime Threatens to Cut Off Texas Air Traffic

Remember when moonbats promised us that Barack Obama would unite the country? Instead, he has virtually declared war on any part of it unlikely to support his collectivist agenda, siding with a hostile foreign power against Arizona, preventing Boeing from building planes in South Carolina, giving wildfire aid to Mexico while denying it to Texas, and now threatening to turn Texas into a no fly zone:

Lobbying against pending legislation in the Texas legislature which would criminalize any searches conducted without probable cause, U.S. Attorney John E. Murphy sent a letter to a few high-ranking members of Texas’ government warning against promoting the bill and threatening a complete closure of all flights to and from the state.

“If HR [sic] 1937 were enacted, the federal government would likely seek an emergency stay of the statute,” Murphy wrote. “Unless or until such a stay were granted, TSA would likely be required to cancel any flight or series of flights for which it could not ensure the safety of passengers and crew.”

No doubt written with the threatening intent one reads into it, Murphy added: “We urge that you consider the ramifications of this bill before casting your vote.”

Previous to the federal government’s threat, the Texas legislature had considered the ramifications of the bill. More importantly, they were responding to a clear need to uphold the Fourth Amendment and ensure that each person enjoys the right “to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures” — a right which the U.S. Constitution mandates “shall not be violated.”

Behind the happy-face facade propped up by the media that installed it in power, the Obama Regime has been taking its Chicago-style single-party politics to extremes of treacherous thuggery that real Americans are unlikely to tolerate indefinitely. People in “Flyover Country” are catching on that the federal leviathan is not our friend. When Texans are asked to bail out insolvent blue states like California and Illinois, which clearly have no intention of getting their profligate spending under control, we’re going to get less united still.

On a tip from TaterSalad. Hat tip: The Real Revo. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.

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