Ok folks, this is how it went down in Texas. Out of the dozens that said they were coming, only 10 showed up. 1 of them got scared and left town, and this Woman was literally shaking when she realized that the 3 young men that was sitting beside them at a table were against us. Then she saw the number of adversaries and freaked! Bless her heart. At least she showed and realized that she wasn't willing to take the risk and left. I can't remember what the story was with the other 2 Women. They told me, but I was in the middle of the briefing (with our protestors present) so all I remember is that they were going back to Houston. We had protestors against us at the whataburger that were asking us questions and were against us,so we had to loose them. So we started and arrived late at the Protest site. There were about 150-200 AGAINST us, and about a dozen cops. Only 6 of us were there with signs and the extra person hid with our protestors and videotaped. It was a rush and very dangerous because we were seriously outnumbered!!! But I 'had my boots on', and I was on a mission so we did what we set out to do without a 'hitch'.

There were ALOT of Media there, typical for any Immigration event, many of them were from Telemundo and Univision and Mexican/Hispanic Newspapers. Also 2 or 3 of our main Dallas TV stations were there, along with the Denton, Dallas and Ft. Worth newspapers. I gave more interviews today than I have on all 4 Border Watches the past year, as I usually try to stay away from them best I can but since I was the organizer and there wasn't that many of us to talk to, I had to take my turn.

Our main objective was realized, and it was to:
* Bring attention to the issue and the City of Denton's participation to what we consider criminal activity. (aiding and abeiting)!

* Participate in the National Day of Protest across the Nation and represent Texas.

* Slow down the employers from hiring the suspected illegals, and that we did. We saw several vehicles look like they wanted to stop but with all the people, signs and cops, they reconsidered. (Although we did film 4 or 5 picking up workers), you will soon find their pictures and their cars as they picked up workers, on the usual websites!

* Show the workers that are illegal, that we're here and we're watching.

*Network and start to work cohesively with other Minutemen groups in our State to achieve the eventual goal.

Pictures and video will be available soon!
*** I will also have a flyer that the Police department passed out, that was written in both English and Spanish telling the participants that no poles or steaks would be allowed and any violent behavior wouldn't be tolerated.
(That's great right!, however they didn't give us a copy, only the ones that were against us, and possibly since we arrived late with already approx. 150 people there, maybe they ran out before they got to us? Who knows!) But our 'infiltrator' got a copy from our adversaries!

**Something that I did find interesting, was that when we first arrived, the Police moved us close to the street facing traffic (they said "so the cars can read your signs") but we later realized that they probably had the motive to move us AWAY from the Employers so we couldn't approach them or photograph their cars. We were still able to photograph most of the ones that stopped, although several times cops quickly moved towards the front of the cars to block my view. This happened several times, so I know from the pattern, this was NOT an accident. Because right after I took the picture, I returned to my previous position around the corner, street side and the cop followed me. (And I don't think he was particularly interested in my 'girlish figure'!)
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Interesting events to bring up:

*One of the Officers also interviewed with the local newspaper reporter and told her what City I lived in, from the information on the protest permit application. When she approached me and asked me about it I asked that my exact City/Location not be printed in the Media due to Safety concerns with Family.

**** Promptly at 09:30am, the Officer in charge approached me and told me the time on my permit had expired, and he "wanted to be able to leave" to go to his Daughters cheerleading camp (I think!). We were then 'escorted to our cars', some 2-3 blocks away as soon as the protest permit time was over at 09:30am. BUT OUR ADVERSARIES were allowed to remain on the property and continue their racist ranting.... Interesting!

So, LEGAL Citizens are held to written contracts of time on permits (even though the permit wasn't really necessary due to the 'Day Labor Center' being considered by the City of Denton) a "Public Park."
And suspected illegals can hang out there as long as they like, solicit jobs (another crime) and are provided a working water fountain, toilets and a covered area with picnic tables, AT TAX PAYERS EXPENSE.

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Kudos' to the Texas Minutemen that joined us, and to the Denton Police Department that made sure no one got hurt. There were approx. 12 cops in the area and surrounding areas, and we even got a drive by or two by the Police Chief!

I hope everyone else's Rally had a better turnout, and actually went as well as this did with no injuries or arrests at least while we were there!

Again, I want to thank the Denton Police Department for their participation in keeping us all safe and helping us with our objectives!

~Cindy Lou' LoneStar MinuteMen