You don't understand: Texas has its own private army that dates back to 1823, before there was even a Republic of Texas. They've acted as a border patrol from the beginning, but they've also been involved in a lot of other murderous shit. Mexicans call them Los Diablos Tejanos (for good reason.) The Texas Rangers have done some less-evil…
You don't understand: Texas has its own private army that dates back to 1823, before there was even a Republic of Texas. They've acted as a border patrol from the beginning, but they've also been involved in a lot of other murderous shit. Mexicans call them Los Diablos Tejanos (for good reason.) The Texas Rangers have done some less-evil things over the years, like stopping the assassination of President Taft and the president of Mexico at the time, or taking out the Republic of Texas dipshits in the 1990s (without killing them all), but throughout their history, they've committed atrocities that far outweigh the good, like wiping out an entire border town whose citizens were Mexican, killing every male resident within, including the young and the old.
In the '30s, when the Dept of Public Safety was created, they became an elite force within DPS, which gives them some cover -- the Rangers are now law enforcement and investigate crimes, and who the regular Highway Patrol aspires to be. Their very existence as a unit is protected by law -- they can't be legally disbanded. The Rangers need to be seen for what they are: a well-trained, well-armed militia under the command of the governor.
You don't understand: Texas has its own private army that dates back to 1823, before there was even a Republic of Texas. They've acted as a border patrol from the beginning, but they've also been involved in a lot of other murderous shit. Mexicans call them Los Diablos Tejanos (for good reason.) The Texas Rangers have done some less-evil things over the years, like stopping the assassination of President Taft and the president of Mexico at the time, or taking out the Republic of Texas dipshits in the 1990s (without killing them all), but throughout their history, they've committed atrocities that far outweigh the good, like wiping out an entire border town whose citizens were Mexican, killing every male resident within, including the young and the old.
In the '30s, when the Dept of Public Safety was created, they became an elite force within DPS, which gives them some cover -- the Rangers are now law enforcement and investigate crimes, and who the regular Highway Patrol aspires to be. Their very existence as a unit is protected by law -- they can't be legally disbanded. The Rangers need to be seen for what they are: a well-trained, well-armed militia under the command of the governor.