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TITFF'S FIGHT TO SAVE THE ALAMO CENOTAPH (#NotOneInch)

12/15/2019

This Is Texas Freedom Force (TITFF) has been out in the forefront of the battle to protect our Texas history, of course if you haven't been following TITFF on Facebook you probably wouldn't know that. We can discuss this later. This Is Texas Freedom Force (TITFF) engaged in the battle to save the Alamo Cenotaph in September of 2017. The only reason TITFF hadn't set our sites on the Reimagine The Alamo Master Plan before then is because the organization formed in the Summer of 2017. Not only that, but we had been extremely busy working on the Sam Houston Monument in Houston, Tx, the Travis Park Monument in San Antonio, Tx, the Robert E Lee w/Confederate Soldier Monument in Dallas, Tx, and 4 of our teams had just returned from working search and rescue/relief efforts after Hurricane Harvey. So it is an understatement to say we were extremely busy the first few months of operation. Never the less, in September of 2017, TITFF engaged in the battle to save the Alamo Cenotaph, dubbed the #NotOneInch movement. It is important to point out that we were asked to insert ourselves into the battle from another organization, they had held a few rallies at the cenotaph, but only a handful of people were showing up. In September of 2017 TITFF started posting information about the Cenotaph and in October of 2017 we held our first rally at the Alamo Cenotaph with about 150 Texans in attendance.

Right after the first #NotOneInch rally, TITFF understood that if we were going to make any progress in this battle, we were going to have to engage the City of San Antonio. So in November of 2017 TITFF Directors & Members started attending "Citizens To Be Heard" meetings at San Antonio City Hall (CTBH). CTBH Meetings are held every Wednesday except for the 3rd Wednesday of the month. When we first started attending the CTBH Meetings, only a handful of Texans attended the meetings with us. Our message was one of reason, concern and outrage at the meetings. We thought we could appeal to Council Members Texan side, at least get them to listen to reason. What we didn't realize, is the big names supporting the "Reimagine The Alamo Master Plan" were not Texans at all, they had dollar signs in their eyes and they sure weren't listening to reason. By December 2017 our numbers had grown at the CTBH Meetings, but the council wasn't listening, in fact the meetings were dubbed "Citizens To Be Ignored Meetings" (CTBI). We thought maybe they weren't listening because it was the same 20+ people showing up to the Citizens To Be Ignored Meetings (CTBI). So we put out a poll asking Texans if they supported the Reimagine The Alamo Master Plan, we also uploaded a post asking Texans to write a short message to the council, concerning the Cenotaph, and we would ensure that the City Council would get it. For the better part of 4 weeks TITFF Directors & Members, used our time, to read the comments of Texans to the entire City Council w/Mayor at the CTBI Meetings. We received over 5,000 comments. Our intentions were to show the City Council that although there was 20 people physically speaking in front of them, each speaker carried the voices of 1,000's of Texans. Some patriotic Texans attended these CTBI Meetings just to give up their speaking time to TITFF Directors or Members, so we could read more comments from Texans across the state.

HERE ARE A FEW COMMENTS, FROM TEXANS, READ TO CITY COUNCIL AT THE CTHI MEETINGS

Leave it where it is! Leave history as it was. You can't change history.

Mary Jackson C
May, Texas

Never would believe that we would have to defend the Alamo in modern day times. It will most likely be destroyed in any attempt to dismantle and move it, Not to mention the cost of such feat... I wish I could be there in person to tell you this... I cannot believe any true Texan would even think of such a un-Texan thing to do as messing with the treasure that is the Alamo. First our monuments and now the Alamo. DON'T MOVE IT!!!

Bo P
Kingsville, Texas

Please do not dishonor the Alamo defenders by moving the cenotaph. The history of our great state is sacred and paid for with blood.

JoAnn C
Whitesboro, Texas

All this crap is about is some money grubbing jackass wants the property that this memorial sets on for some freakin high rise apartment or expensive hotel to be put on and most likely some liberals are behind it all. I would raise hell about it all the way to Austin!

Ralph T
Austin, Texas

Don't mess with Texas historical monuments.

Mary B
Tomball, Texas

Please do not remove the Cenotaph. Remember the Alamo!

Andi K
Carrizo Springs, Texas

Please keep this beautiful monument to those brave men where it is. People need to know how brave these men were.

Cheryl Steffens L
Seguin, Texas

The Alamo is the most important relic in our important relic in our Texas history and should remain exactly as it is. Do not move the cenotaph, the Spirit of Sacrifice, and do not mess with Texas!!! This monument and the Alamo are the greatest representation of Texans' bravery and sacrifice which still lives in all true Texans today.

Debbie B
Dallas, Texas

January of 2018 we knew the majority of San Antonio City Councilmembers were not listening. At every one of the CTBI Meetings, the majority of City Councilmembers were playing games or texting on their phones. We even caught, and took pictures of, D5 San Antonio City Councilwoman Shirley Gonzales sleeping at 2 of the CTBI Meetings. We called her out on it, she denied it, but the photos/videos proved she was taking a "Santa Anna Siesta" during the CTBI Meetings. Other TITFF Members started bringing up the fact that Councilmembers were not listening to the people, they were more interested in their iPhones and iPads while constituents were addressing them. At this point TITFF Directors called a meeting to discuss a different tactic, because we weren't getting anywhere in the CTBI Meetings. We started scheduling meetings & meeting with Councilmembers one on one, to discuss the "Reimagine The Alamo Master Plan", but more importantly their plan to move the Alamo Cenotaph. It's important to note that D1 Councilman Roberto Trevino, D2 Councilman Cruz Shaw, D3 Councilwoman Rebecca J Viagran and D5 Councilwoman Shirley Gonzales refused to meet with members of TITFF . Other Councilmen were happy to meet with us, and 2 of the members of City Council (D9 John Courage, D10 Clayton Perry) told TITFF Directors/Members that we had won them over at the CTBI Meetings and they would vote "NO" on moving the Alamo Cenotaph. It was a small victory, but it gave us some encouragement to continue the fight. In 2018 TITFF Directors/Members attended a total of 89 Alamo Meetings (this includes CTBI Meetings, Alamo Trust Meetings, Alamo Endowment Board Meetings, Alamo Roadshow Meetings, Alamo Advisory Meetings, HDRC Meetings and others). It's important to point out that TITFF is the only organization that attending every single Alamo related meeting in 2018, other organizations attended some meetings, but TITFF never missed a single meeting. This is how important the Alamo and the Cenotaph is to us. TITFF Directors/Members have jobs, they have lives, but God bless every single one of them for showing up to represent the organization and our stance on the Alamo Cenotaph. #NotOneInch

Since D1 Councilman Roberto Trevino is the head of the Central Development Committee (which the Cenotaph sits in his district), and he heads up the Alamo Endowment Board, TITFF launched a recall effort in Jan 2018, to remove Trevino from office. We hoped that we could remove Trevino from office, which would give San Antonians an opportunity to elect someone who would stop the Alamo Cenotaph from being moved and most likely damaged. Not only that, but by recalling Trevino it would have sent a stern message to the rest of city council, possibly changing their minds to support the moving of the cenotaph. What we found, once we started the recall, was that the majority of citizens in Trevino's district were unhappy with the fact that Trevino had spent $68,000 tax payer dollars to paint a crosswalk rainbow, he spent $500,000 on a glorified port-o-potty in the Downtown area, he also used tax payer dollars to secure a location to build a monument to Salina (which looked like something from a junkyard), he spent all this money on these things yet many citizens in his district didn't have sidewalks or street lights in their neighborhoods. Another issue we found is there were pot holes knee deep in District 1, the citizens were tired of him misusing funds and they certainly were not happy to spend tax payer dollars moving the cenotaph while their neighborhood suffered and streets needed repairs. TITFF block walked and set up signing locations in D1, we got to talk to the people of D1 and they weren't happy with Trevino. The problem we ran into was man power. 4 TITFF Directors worked 60+ hours a week, about 8 members volunteered 2 or 3 hours a week, and that was all the help we received. Not one person from another organization came out to help with the recall effort. We had a chance to stop the Alamo Cenotaph from being moved, the people of D1 wanted Trevino gone for various reasons, but lack of volunteers hindered the effort and we lacked the desired amount of signatures to remove Trevino from office. Did we quit? Nope!

We started to see that we were getting nowhere with the San Antonio City Council, so we turned our attention to the State level. We still attended and spoke out at CTBI Meetings, but our focus was on the GLO race. In March 2018 TITFF hosted our annual "Remember The Alamo March", but this year we brought out every candidate for Texas General Land Office except for George P Bush. At the end of the march, we invited Davey Edwards, Andy Prior, Matt Pina, Rick Range and Jerry Patterson out to speak to Texans. Hundreds of Texans came out to pay their respects to our brave Alamo Defenders, who died for Texas, and to hear what each GLO candidate had to say about the "Reimagine The Alamo Plan". Every single GLO candidate said they would stop the Alamo Cenotaph from being moved, if they were elected. Unfortunately, not enough of Texans were paying attention. Between straight party ticket voting, Texans not paying attention, and the Bush name in the race, George P Bush won the primary. Later that year Matt Pina ran against George P Bush in the general election, yet again, Bush won the election and the Reimagine The Alamo Plan moved forward.

Unfortunately, not enough Texans were paying attention and this is what George P Bush, Mayor Ron Nirenberg and D1 Councilman Roberto Trevino were counting on. So throughout 2018 TITFF held an array of events/functions. In 2018 TITFF hosted numerous events at the Alamo Cenotaph, each with a minimum of 100 people in attendance. We participated in 3 parades across the state with our float themed "Protect Texas History". The Alamo was our float centerpiece, and at every parade we passed out literature about "Alamo Cenotaph". TITFF took home 1st place at one parade and 3rd place at another. TITFF hosted townhall style meetings in Amarillo, Houston, Waco, San Antonio, Dallas, Corpus Christi and El Paso, trying to educate Texans on what George P Bush and the City of San Antonio were going to do with the Alamo Cenotaph. TITFF worked at the Republican Convention, passing out information about the Reimagine The Alamo Plan, and helped pass plant 296 and 315( Plank 296 calls for the Alamo Cenotaph to not be moved & 315 had to do with protecting Texas Confederate Monuments)(2 of our TITFF Directors are Texas Delegates). George P Bush was booed at the convention, unfortunately not all politicians followed the plank passed by Texas Delegates. Last TITFF held our annual "Christmas At The Alamo" event, where we had Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus and elves hand out free toys and take free photos in front of the Alamo Christmas Tree. While parents & kids were waiting in line to get their pic with Santa & Mrs. Claus, TITFF Members were handing out pamphlets about the Reimagine The Alamo plan, the Alamo Cenotaph, and explaining to them that they most likely will never get to do this again if the Reimagine The Alamo plan is passed.

In 2018, TITFF attended the City of San Antonio's vote on the Alamo Cenotaph and the Reimagine The Alamo Plan. Before the vote took place Councilman Brockhouse walked up to TITFF Directors and informed them he was going to vote "YES" on the plan. During the vote Councilman Brockhouse looked towards TITFF, sitting in the audience, and told us, "You guys won, you stopped the city of San Antonio from moving the Cenotaph off of Market Street, we are only moving it 500 feet now, you guys won" (The first plan was to move the Alamo Cenotaph off of Market Street which is blocks away from the Alamo, kind of a dark quiet corner where the Alamo Defenders wouldn't be in the way of George P Bush's, D1 Councilman Roberto Trevino's, Alamo CEO Douglas McDonald's and Mayor Ron Nirenberg's new narrative for the Alamo). Not one person from TITFF took this as a victory. A full victory for us would be the Alamo Cenotaph repaired in place and left standing in the center of the Alamo Footprint. Although no one was aloud to speak at the meeting, TITFF's President Brandon B and TITFF's Research Director Keri stood up and spoke out on behalf of Texans, both were escorted out of city hall. The City Council voted 8-2 to pass the Reimagine The Alamo Plan and our fight to save the Alamo Cenotaph from being moved had stopped in San Antonio, we had lost a critical battle, but the war was far from over.

In 2019 TITFF camped out at the Capitol Building in Austin, Texas. We took our directors, members and on a few occasions supporters to the capitol to talk to Senators, House Members as well as Legislators, trying to garner support for our monument protection bill SB1663. This bill stated that any historical monument 40 years old or older COULD NOT BE REMOVED, and any monument 25 years old to 40 years old had to be voted on by the people of Texas in order to move or remove it. This was a great bill because it included and mentioned the Alamo Cenotaph in the bill as well as all Texas monuments, including Confederate monuments. TITFF had been working with a Senator since 2017 to get a Monument Protection Bill passed. In 2017 we were late getting to work on the bill, so when we started pushing for the bill, we were pushing to get the bill placed on the Special Session called by Governor Greg Abbott. Unfortunately our bill was not added to the Special Session, so we promised our members and supporters we would hit the ground running for the 2019 Legislative Session. TITFF spent months at the capitol, talking to Senators, House Members and even Legislators, trying to gather support for the bill. TITFF testified in 2 hearings, which our bill was passed, then we sat on the Senator Floor offering support to our Senator, who did a absolute great job on the Senate Floor pushing the bill. The bill passed the Senate and on we went to the House with only 1 week left in the 2019 Legislative Session. Texans from all over the state were emailing and calling their representatives asking them to support SB1663. Unfortunately, speaker Bonnen and Greg Abbott got to the leadership in the House and our bill was never allowed to be heard on the House Floor. This was sickening to TITFF, and like one of our Directors said, "This feels like a punch in the gut". At this point our options were very limited, but we did not give up.

At this point TITFF turned our attention to the 2019 Runoff Election for Mayor of San Antonio (between Ron Nirenberg and Greg Brockhouse), TITFF scheduled a sit down with Greg Brockhouse, in hopes we could convince him to stop the moving of the Alamo Cenotaph, if he was elected. You see the polls for the runoff election were close, we hoped if we could change Brockhouse's mind, it would give him enough support to win and give Texans fighting for the Alamo Cenotaph a win. At the meeting between TITFF and Councilman/Mayoral Candidate Brockhouse, he said, "If I become Mayor, I will disclose the location of the Travis Park Monument and will form a commission to put it back up. I support allowing the public to vote on the Alamo Cenotaph or any monument the city wants removed/moved, that is 40 years old or older". We asked Councilman Brockhouse if we could post the quote onto our Facebook page and he agreed. Unfortunately Candidate Greg Brockhouse didn't win the Runoff Election against Ron Nirenberg. It's important to point out that if Greg Brockhouse would have voted "NO" on the Reimagine The Alamo Plan, most likely he would have won the Runoff Election, and the Alamo Cenotaph would not be threatened to move.

In March 2019, TITFF was back at it again hosting our annual "Remember The Alamo March". At the event we brought out more Texans, like Dr. Alma Arredondo, George "El Conservador" Rodrigues, Lamar Henry, Bob Sanders, and many more, to speak to the crowd. Again Texans should up in large numbers, and our message could be heard all across Alamo Plaza. The march was a success, and even more Texans learned of the plan to move the Alamo Cenotaph.

In mid 2019, TITFF held another Town Hall meeting at the Waffle House in Amarillo, Tx. There we informed the public about the status of the Monument Protection Bill, the actions of some politicians, and our continued fight to save the Alamo Cenotaph. The meeting was standing room only and every Texan in attendance was angry. Most could not believe they had not heard about this plan to move the Alamo Cenotaph, others said they would be contacting their representative, and try to sway him to stop the Reimagine The Alamo Plan.

On Dec 4, 2019, TITFF attended the Historic Review and Design Commission meeting (HDRC) and spoke up on behalf of Texans, trying to get the HDRC to stop the plan to move the Alamo Cenotaph. Thankfully, the Tap Pilam Nation (Native American Coalition) had filed a Federal Lawsuit seeking for the site to be recognized an Official Cemetery. Because of this lawsuit, and this lawsuit alone, the HDRC tabled the plan to move the Alamo Cenotaph (voted 8-3) until they had time to be briefed on the merits of the lawsuit. This bought Texans some time to continue the fight to save the Alamo Cenotaph. The next HDRC meeting is scheduled on Dec 18, 2019 (tomorrow), 1pm, at 1901 South Alamo Street. TITFF has already made plans to attend the next meeting.

Our most recent battle to save the Alamo Cenotaph took place in Downtown San Antonio. TITFF was asked to join a "Save Our Texas History March" and speak at the end of the march. TITFF brought out about 40 supporters and TITFF Vice President Lamar Henry spoke at the event. At the last second TITFF President Brandon B was asked to speak too because 1 or 2 speakers did not show up. The idea of the march was educate Texans and tourist of the battle to save the Alamo Cenotaph. There were a lot of Texans that learned about this plan, to move the Alamo Cenotaph, that had no idea it was happening. Sadly, we are in the 11th hour, but the fight continues!

So as you can see, This Is Texas Freedom Force has been in the forefront of this battle to save the Alamo Cenotaph, but like we stated at the beginning of this article, you wouldn't know everything that TITFF has done if you hadn't been following us on our Facebook page. The media won't cover it because they don't want to show an organized resistance against the Reimagine The Alamo Master Plan, and others won't tell you that TITFF has been at the forefront of this battle all along.

Today TITFF has multiple social media pages, website, groups, etc., that you can follow to stay up to date on varies battles and issues. We invite everyone to join us in our battles, and participate in lots of different ways. During the TITFF #NotOneInch battle, we have only asked 2 times (since 2017) for Texans to help us financially in our battle to save the Alamo Cenotaph. The rest has been done on the dimes of TITFF Directors/Members or those who donate unsolicited (Which we cannot thank them enough). If you would like to follow us, there are several social media icons at the bottom of every page on this website, tap on them, it will send you straight to our Facebook, Twitter or Youtube pages. Reminder- hit follow or like on our pages to stay informed.

PS- Texans, join the fight, stay the course, continue the fight, we have to stop the city of San Antonio and George P Bush from moving the Alamo Cenotaph. #NeverSurrenderNorRetreat #NotOneInch #DontMoveTheAlamoCenotaph

God bless Texas,
"Protector Of All Things Texas"
This Is Texas Freedom Force
TxFreedomForce.org

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TEXANS CONCERNS ARE LEGIT (ALAMO CENOTAPH)

12/13/2019

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In 2017 This Is Texas Freedom Force engaged in the battle to stop the City of San Antonio and General Land Office's George P Bush from removing the Alamo Cenotaph. We say remove, instead of move, because there is plenty of speculation and concern that the Alamo Cenotaph could be damaged or even destroyed if they try to move it. There are many reasons why Texans believe this to be true and they have a valid argument.

The City of San Antonio doesn't have a good track record when it comes to moving monuments. In September of 2017 the City of San Antonio, under the leadership of Mayor Ron Nirenberg, moved forward on a proposal brought fourth by District 1 Councilman Roberto Trevino and District 2 Councilman Cruz Shaw, to remove the Travis Park Monument that had stood in Travis Park since 1899. During the process of removal, crews took a jackhammer to the base of the monument and damaged it. Not only that but the butt of the gun in the soldiers hand was broke as well as the barrel. To top it all off, when the UDC who filed a lawsuit against the city, went to inspect the monument and they saw that the time capsule, which contained several items, including letters from confederate figures, keepsakes carried by rebel soldiers in the war, and a prayer book which was carried by a Confederate soldier into captivity in a Union prisoner of war camp, had all been destroyed by water damage which most likely happened while moving it and/or storing it (Hurricane Harvey had just hit Texas and there was plenty of rain in San Antonio during that week). The Travis Park Monument is small compared to the Alamo Cenotaph, which stands 60ft high, 12 feet wide, and 40 feet long, and is much more complex. It is comprised of many irreplaceable and fragile carved marble slabs, each weighing many tons, permanently fixed to a steel infrastructure. It was built to stand for centuries, not be moved around so that George P Bush, Mayor Nirenberg, Roberto Trevino and Alamo CEO Douglas McDonald could "Reimagine The Alamo".

Texans are very concerned about the "Reimagine The Alamo Plan" because they fear the Alamo Cenotaph will end up in a cold dark basement. never to be seen again, just like the city did with the Travis Park Monument. Many fear that once the Cenotaph comes down the city will cough up some excuse why they can't put it back up. These concerns are warranted too. The City of San Antonio nor George P Bush has ever showed the public a plan on how they are going to move the Alamo Cenotaph, what contingencies are in place if anything goes wrong, and how much tax payers are going to fork over to move it. The only thing that the public has seen and heard are bogus claims and pictures showing the Cenotaph in front of the Menger Hotel. Why has the city not released detailed plans for the move/remove and relocation?

A serious plan would entail the hiring of a team of engineers to compile a risk, cost and detailed action plan on dismantling the Alamo Cenotaph and the move. We are not talking about your average run of the mill engineers either. It is extremely important that they hire engineers that have a proven track record and experience preserving and moving large, heavy marble sculptures. We must point out that if the City of San Antonio breaks one of the marble slabs in a "Uh-oh" or "Ooops" moment, it will be extremely hard, if not impossible, to match the marble slabs that make up the Alamo Cenotaph. After the engineers come up with a plan, this plan should be made public so the people of Texas could review and express any concerns with the plans.

Next, if a plan to move the monument is still pressed on Texans, despite their overwhelmingly objections, every panel on the monument would need to be rigorously measured and digitally scanned, and the cost made of each of the Coppini sculptures, so that in the event of a disaster, any destroyed or damaged panels could be attempted to recreate. Not only that but the city of San Antonio should have a few professional sculptors of equal talent as Coppini retained and ready to attempt to recreate the existing panels.

Funding for the move and disaster contingencies would need to be escrowed in advance, which may run into the millions of public tax payer dollars. To go a step further, since its George P Bush, Roberto Trevino, Ron Nirenberg and Douglas McDonald who seem to be the only ones wanting to move the Alamo Cenotaph, they should fork over the money instead of making the people of Texas have to cover the cost for their brainless and idiotic idea. We guarantee you that if they attempt to move this massive and beautiful monument, there will be a "Ooops" moment and the cost will go up from there (That is if the Cenotaph is even put back up, TITFF is still under the impression that they will warehouse it, after they damage or destroy it, because the Alamo Cenotaph honors those men who fought and died for liberty and they are considered heroes to Texans. You can't have that when you want to "Honor both sides and Reimagine The Alamo").

Last but not least a detailed timeline of events would need to be published to the public regarding every facet of the move, including start and completion dates. Council would have to make ironclad guarantees that once the process begins, the only result would be the Cenotaph is in better condition than it is today and that it will stand on the Alamo Footprint honoring the men who gave it all for Texas.

Since day 1 the City of San Antonio and George P Bush have ignored the public. Then Mayor Nirenberg and Roberto Trevino make comments suggesting "Honoring both sides". We all know Mayor Ron Nirenberg is in (political) bed with the Castro Brothers. Remember it was Rosie Castro, Julian and Joaquin Castro's mother that said.....

They used to take us there when we were schoolchildren. They told us how glorious that battle was. When I grew up I learned that "heroes" of the Alamo were a bunch of drunks and crooks and slaveholding imperialist who conquered land that didn't belong to them. But as a little girl I got the message - we were losers. I can truly say that I hate that place and everything that it stands for.
Rosie Castro

Rosie Castro hates the Alamo. So it is no surprise that a mayor who is buddied up with the Castro family would be the one to bring forth the "Reimagine the Alamo Plan". All of what we have mentioned above, along with action by the city council and several other comments from Trevino, Nirenberg, and George P Bush is why Texans do not trust them. How can any red blooded Texan trust them to honor our Alamo and Cenotaph when Roberto Trevino laughs in the face of Texans and says "Our lawyers will find a way around that" when he is presented the deed of the Alamo Cenotaph which says the space cannot be used for anything else but the Cenotaph? How can Texans trust them when Mayor Ron Nirenberg makes quotes about honoring both sides? The answer is you can't.

Make no mistake Texans, this isn't about honoring our Alamo Defenders, its all about money and rewriting history. The Alamo Cenotaph is exactly where Texans, and most importantly where Coppini want it, in the middle of the Alamo Footprint where the sun would rise on the Alamo Defenders in the East and set on them in the West. If Mayor Nirenberg truly meant the quote "honor both side", the Travis Park Monument would still be standing in Travis Park. Texans, it's time to put a stop to the rewriting and watering down of our Texas history. If you will not fight for the Spirit of Sacrfice now, you most likely will never fight at all.

I think everyone who shed blood in the defense of liberty and the things that they believe in, on both sides, ought to be honored, and that's exactly what the intent of this redevelopment plan is.
Mayor Ron Nirenberg

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IS THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO GOING TO PLACE A STATUE OF SANTA ANNA AT THE ALAMO?

12/11/2019

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Dec 11, 2019

   Texans won a temporary delay on Wednesday, December 4, when, at the San Antonio Historic Design and Review Commission meeting. The HDRC reversed themselves and voted 8 to 3 against granting the Building Permit for the removal of the Alamo Cenotaph. The temporary victory was won thanks to Tap Pilam Coahuiltecan Nation. Tap Pilam is seeking for the site to be considered as an official cemetery and to be formally recognized as descendants of Native Americans who lived at the former Spanish colonial mission before it played a key role in the Texas Revolution. This was the first time Texans have been able to get any city or state bureaucracy to side with the people in over two years. There is another HDRC meeting coming up next week Dec 18, 2019 and you can rest assure that D1 City Councilman Roberto Trevino, Mayor Nirenberg, George P Bush and others will be applying pressure on them. Just this past week, not even two days after the Dec 4, 2019 HDRC meeting, TITFF spotted 2 commissioners coming out of the Alamo CEO Douglas McDonald's office. We all know what that was.....pressure. Also last week TITFF spotted 3 contractors at the cenotaph looking at blueprints and examining the Alamo Cenotaph. They intend to move the cenotaph in the very near future, but that is another conversation we will have soon.

      The question that everyone is asking is "Will the city of San Antonio and the GLO erect a monument to Santa Anna on the Alamo"? Mayor Ron Nirenberg is quoted on the Trey Ware show, Sept 12, 2018. saying " I think everyone who shed blood in the defense of liberty and the things that they believe in, on both sides, ought to be honored, and that's exactly what the intent of this redevelopment plan is". Also back in early 2018 D1 Councilman Roberto Trevino talked about honoring both sides at one of the Alamo Meetings. Then to put the cherry on top the "Experts" at the Dec 4, 2019 HDRC meeting talked about placing a marker or something to that effect where the Mexican Army stood. So in light of everything we have heard, what are Texans suppose to think? Just today George P Bush tweeted about this issue saying...

" One must ask themselves, why am I being accused of honoring the murderous dictator Santa Anna? Is it because my mother (now a naturalized citizen) is from Mexico? I was born in Houston, my wife is from San Angelo, and my boys were born-you guessed it in Texas. As a United States Navy Veteran, who deployed to Afghanistan, I know exactly what it means to be loyal to the American Flag, this country and this great state. The idea that I would EVER place a statue of Santa Anna at the Alamo is patently false. Enough is enough. This is an outright lie, and quite frankly, flat out racist."

We are not sure why he brought the race card into his comment, unless he is getting desperate. TITFF has never said that George P Bush wanted to erect a statue of Santa Anna, but the City of San Antonio is quoted (Nirenberg's quote above) as saying some things that raise a lot of Texas eyebrows. The lack of communication on the reimagine the Alamo Plan from George P Bush, combined with the fact that the City of San Antonio & George P Bush have ignored all of Texan's concerns, is the reason many don't trust any of them.

This Is Texas Freedom Force has never advocated for the removal of a historical monument, because we believe in protecting all history, but if the City of San Antonio & George P Bush erect a monument to Santa Anna you can guarantee we will be the first to step up and remove it!

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Sept 12 Trey Ware Show