The Killing Fields, the Holocaust,
the tragedies of Chechnya, Hue, Sooriyakanda, Duraiappa stadium, these are just
some names associated with mass graves over the past century. Now we can add
another name to that list: Texas.
As discovered in 2012, Texas’ border patrol, operated by the Department of Public Safety for several years, has been engaging in a systematic burial of
bodies across the state and the burials have not stopped.
As reported in a
documentary released by The Weather Channel and Telemundo late last year, the
state border patrol has been finding bodies of people suspected of crossing the border
illegally and systematically dumping them into these pit graves.
And, it turns out, Texas lacks any statute against such body dumping. The border
patrol agents show up, put the bodies into trash bags and systematically dump
the bodies in unmarked graves. Even more disturbing come the reports that these
refugees call for help beforehand, but are ignored by the patrol agents until
enough time has passed to let them die in the desert.
If mass graves were discovered in a
foreign country and the government says that there was nothing to see there,
we’d all be skeptical. But, when a state government right here in the United
States claims that the dumping of countless bodies into unmarked graves was
legal, we’re all supposed to put that smile on our face and just go along with
it, right?
Who are these people? How many have
been killed by a heartless system and dumped in these unmarked graves? And the
authorities expect us all to roll over and take them at their word that it is
all fine and on the up and up? We must keep in mind, many massacres, many
slaughters, many mass graves were all done while being told it was “perfectly
legal.”
Texas has a sizable number
of missing people. It is not far-fetched to imagine a corrupt
politician, official, even the governor himself, abusing such a lax system for
body disposal to eliminate rivals, the unwanted, vagrants, anyone so desired;
and to do so legally.
While no indication of such abuse has so far appeared,
when the opportunity is there, it is near certainty that with such a wide
window available, eventually someone will succumb to the temptation.
Author Nathaniel Downes is the a native of New Hampshire, now living in
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