In this episode, I talk about the destruction of the Alamo, the removal of the oldest house in the city of Austin, Texas, and the murder of a woman who was the sole survivor of the Battle of San Antonio.
00:01:59.000Welcome to a corrupt corporate slave state, a third-world country.
00:02:07.000I'm sure in school, they don't teach us anymore, but older folks will remember that they taught us that one lady and her baby survived the Alamo, Suzanne Dickinson.
00:02:17.000And her husband, Algernon Dickinson, was actually killed there.
00:02:21.000Well, she had the oldest home in Austin that was still remaining, right down here where the city has started its giant corporate takeover, building all the big corporate city buildings.
00:02:34.000Projects and then trying to restrict growth in other areas, cramming us into the compact system.
00:02:40.000Her little house was actually a restaurant, and it was very historical.
00:02:47.000Plus, she's the sole survivor of the Alamo.
00:02:50.000But a lot of people in the city council don't like America, don't like Texas.
00:02:54.000And we've talked to folks inside the city that have...
00:02:57.000told us this in confidence, and so they quietly, with almost no fanfare, there's been a few stories in the Statesman, one in the Chronicle, tore it out and have hidden it behind the O'Henry House, right down in historic downtown Austin.
00:03:12.000And history is history, and they shouldn't have done this, especially to build this giant city-owned hotel monstrosity.
00:03:21.000So the corruption just continues to intensify.
00:03:25.000Under the cover of darkness, they tore the house up at night, damaging it, wrecking balls, you name it, and drug it over here and hit it.
00:03:32.000The city and the county is hoping everybody just forgets about it.
00:03:35.000The oldest house in Austin, the sole survivor of the Alamo, Mrs. Dickinson.
00:03:46.000Because people hate America and hate Texas that run this city.
00:03:53.000Well, I tell you, if the sole survivor of the Alamo, Susanna Dickinson's house, is evil and needs to be torn up in the middle of the night and spirited away here to a back parking lot, then maybe this Sam Houston star should be removed and torn up out of the ground.
00:04:10.000I guess we're part of Oslon, a greater world government.
00:04:13.000Of course, you all know that Susanna Dickinson was the sole survivor of the Alamo with her young child.
00:04:25.000And the reason Santa Ana spared her life was to go back and take the news to Gonzales, where the whole thing started, you know, come and take it, come take our guns, come take our cannon.
00:04:34.000and let them know the defeat and the massacre of the prisoners.
00:04:40.000Now, of course, you know Texas has changed hands five separate times.
00:04:44.000That is, five different empires or countries had it.
00:04:47.000Not just France or Spain or Mexico or Texas or even the U.S., but first it was owned by the American Indians.
00:04:53.000So any claims by Mexico that they own Texas and the Southwest is asinine.
00:04:59.000Any more than saying that original ownership belongs to the French.
00:05:04.000This area was fought over quite a bit, and many Hispanics actually fought on the side of Texas for independence because they could own property, they could own guns, they could be free human beings, which you couldn't be in Mexico under Santa Ana or before that under Maximilian and Spain.
00:05:20.000But destroying history, destroying history is what it's all about.
00:05:26.000They have to erase history to create a new system.
00:05:29.000And when you see the cover of Time magazine, In red, white, and green saying, Mexico, the end of the United States, that is establishment New York wanting to destroy Texas in American history.
00:05:41.000Because they want to put us under a system like France or Germany or Mexico or Russia would have, where you're all slaves.
00:06:03.000Barbara Stockland, historic preservation officer with the city, was intrigued by the house's historical value before the demolition.
00:06:18.000But since visiting the site last month, she was championed its architectural value as well.
00:06:24.000And then she said of all the historical houses that she's dealt with over the past couple years working in Austin, this is the most important property of all.
00:06:31.000It's the oldest residential structure that I know of in downtown Austin still remaining, and it was the home of a famous figure, a famous woman, not just of Austin history, but also of the history of Texas.
00:06:41.000And then, of course, the O'Henry House is right next door.
00:06:44.000They tore it up when it was down in the...
00:06:47.000You know, where this pit is for this big city boondoggle, which they'll own, going into business with our money.
00:06:53.000They're all getting kickbacks, that's guaranteed.
00:06:55.000And then now they've drugged her home, the Dickinson home, over here.
00:07:00.000We already showed that to you earlier.
00:07:02.000The Landmark Association is the City of Austin and Hilton Hotels.
00:07:14.000It's going to be the biggest building in Austin with your tax money, a giant boondoggle, a huge scam with the bonds, and then in 30 years, the city owns it outright.
00:10:38.000Welcome to a corrupt corporate slave state, a third world country.
00:10:47.000I'm sure in school, they don't teach us anymore, but older folks will remember that they taught us that one lady and her baby survived the Alamo, Suzanne Dickinson.
00:10:56.000And her husband, Algernon Dickinson, was actually killed there.
00:11:00.000Well, she had the oldest home in Austin that was still remaining, right down here where the city has started its giant corporate takeover, building all the big corporate city projects and then trying to restrict growth in other areas, cramming us into the compact system.
00:11:20.000Her little house was actually a restaurant.
00:11:27.000Plus, she's the sole survivor of the Alamo.
00:11:30.000But a lot of people in the city council don't like America, don't like Texas.
00:11:34.000And we've talked to folks inside the city that have told us this in confidence.
00:11:38.000And so they quietly, with almost no fanfare, there's been a few stories in the Statesman, one in the Chronicle, tore it out and have hidden it behind the O'Henry House.
00:11:49.000Right down in historic downtown Austin.
00:12:26.000Because people hate America and hate Texas that run this city.
00:12:32.000Well, I tell you, if the sole survivor of the Alamo, Susanna Dickinson's house, is evil and needs to be torn up in the middle of the night and spirited away here to a back parking lot, then maybe this Sam Houston star should be removed and torn up out of the ground.
00:12:48.000Because Texas is evil, I guess we're part of Oslon, greater world government.
00:12:58.000Of course, you all know that Susanna Dickinson was the sole survivor of the Alamo with her young child.
00:13:05.000And the reason Santa Ana spread her life was to go back and take the news to Gonzalez where the whole thing started.
00:13:14.000And let them know the defeat and the massacre of the prisoners.
00:13:20.000Now, of course, you know Texas has changed hands five separate times.
00:13:24.000That is, five different empires or countries had it.
00:13:26.000Not just France or Spain or Mexico or Texas or even the U.S., but first it was owned by the American Indians.
00:13:33.000So any claims by Mexico that they owned Texas and the Southwest is asinine.
00:13:39.000Any more than saying that original ownership belongs to the French.
00:13:43.000This area was fought over quite a bit, and many Hispanics actually fought on the side of Texas for independence because they could own property, they could own guns, they could be free human beings, which you couldn't be in Mexico under Santa Ana or before that under Maximilian and Spain.
00:14:00.000But destroying history, destroying history is what it's all about.
00:14:06.000They have to erase history to create a new system.
00:14:09.000And when you see the cover of Time magazine...
00:14:11.000In red, white, and green, saying Mexico, the end of the United States, that is establishment New York wanting to destroy Texas in American history.
00:14:21.000Because they want to put us under a system like France, or Germany, or Mexico, or Russia would have, where you're all slaves.
00:14:43.000Barbara Stockland, historic preservation officer with the city, was intrigued by the house's historical value before the demolition.
00:14:58.000But since visiting the site last month, she was championed its architectural value as well.
00:15:04.000And then she said of all the historical houses that she's dealt with over the past couple years working in Austin, this is the most important property of all.
00:15:10.000It's the oldest residential structure that I know of in downtown Austin still remaining, and it was the home of a famous figure, a famous woman, not just of Austin history, but also of the history of Texas.
00:15:21.000And then, of course, the O'Henry House is right next door.
00:15:23.000They tore it up when it was down in the, you know...
00:15:27.000Where this pit is for this big city boondoggle, which they'll own, going into business with our money.
00:15:32.000They're all getting kickbacks, that's guaranteed.
00:15:35.000And then now they've drug her home, the Dickinson home, over here.
00:15:40.000We already showed that to you earlier.
00:15:42.000The Landmark Association is the City of Austin and Hilton Hotels.
00:15:54.000It's going to be the biggest building in Austin.
00:15:56.000With your tax money, a giant boondoggle, a huge scam with the bonds, and then in 30 years, the city owns it outright.
00:16:05.000It's not just enough to take your tax money.
00:16:07.000And right in the middle of that thing would have been the oldest house in Austin and, of course, the sole survivor of the Alamo, Mrs. Dickinson.
00:16:18.000But you notice the media didn't say a word about it.
00:16:20.000They moved it in the dead of night over there.
00:16:23.000They could have kept the building inside as a slash, you know, house Alamo remembrance.
00:16:29.000But see, Texas is evil, so you can't have that.
00:16:33.000Texas has to be gotten rid of in the greater global scheme.
00:16:38.000So, number one, I'm against this whole project.
00:18:00.000the times, and the "you find that kind of person flocking to Texas "in search of opportunity." There were all sorts of cultural differences between Mexicans and Americans.
00:18:21.000One of the most significant, I think, there was a quote from a Mexican general who said that one of the things that annoyed him most about these Americans was that they carried their Constitution in their pockets.
00:18:31.000They came to Texas, many of them sincerely believing that they were going to...
00:18:37.000Become Mexican citizens, but also with the expectation that their way of life was going to continue in this place.
00:18:47.000Fearing growing American dominance in the region, the Mexican government bans further immigration to Texas in the law of April 6, 1830. The law of April 6, 1830 puts Anglos on notice that the Mexican government is not going to allow them to recreate American society on Texas soil.
00:19:09.000That they are going to have to, sooner or later, become Mexican.
00:19:13.000And that begins to really create friction between Anglo settlers and the Mexican government.
00:19:20.000When told of this law, Stephen F. Austin chuckled and said, you might as well try to damn the Mississippi.
00:19:31.000In point of fact, the law did not keep Americans out.
00:19:36.000All it did was make lawful aliens suddenly illegal aliens.
00:19:44.000Tightening his control over Texas, Santa Ana sends his brother-in-law, Martin Perfecto de Cas, with a small army to disarm and arrest American and Tejano rebels.
00:19:57.000I make it known to every one of the inhabitants of Texas that any attempt to disturb the public order, that the inevitable consequences of war will bear upon them and their property.
00:20:12.000On October 2nd, 1835, a mob of Texian volunteers in the town of Gonzales Attacks a Mexican cavalry squadron who have come to reclaim a cannon.
00:20:29.000The rebels unfurl a banner, challenging them to come and take it.
00:20:34.000A cannon blast thunders across the prairie.
00:21:03.000A consultation of delegates meets to form a provisional government.
00:21:07.000It issues a declaration of causes stating the reasons for taking up arms against Sana'ana.
00:21:14.000First on the list is the nullification of the Constitution of 1824. On December 5th, the Texians attacked Behar and the Alamo, where General Kass is headquartered.
00:21:32.000On December 10th, the Texians forced General Kass to surrender.
00:21:37.000The terms given to him by the Texians are generous.
00:21:41.000He is allowed to leave Texas with the stipulation that he never again take up arms against the Federalist Constitution of 18. A pledge which he makes and almost instantly repudiates the moment he gets south of the Rio Grande and reunites with his brother-in-law, the president, who's marching north.
00:22:10.000When San Ana learns of Casa's surrender, he vows to drive out those perfidious foreigners.
00:22:16.000The defeat turns a military imperative into a personal vendetta.
00:22:20.000A humiliation to national pride is now a stain on family honor.
00:22:26.000At 26, William Barrett Travis takes sole command of the Alamo.
00:22:31.000His chief task is to get reinforcements as soon as possible.
00:22:35.000He communicates this urgent need in letters delivered by couriers braving the Mexican siege lines.
00:22:43.000William Barrett Travis's letters from the Alamo are the core documents that hold together the story of the Alamo.
00:22:51.000The letter of February 24th is generally considered one of the grand documents of American history.
00:22:57.000One of the most compelling pieces of writing ever put forth by an American.
00:23:03.000To the people of Texas and all Americans in the world.
00:23:09.000The fact that he was addressing his letter to all Americans in the world reinforces the idea that America had this tremendous psychic stake in Texas.
00:23:23.000It was a heady moment, and you can feel the energy and the excitement in that letter.
00:23:29.000I am besieged by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Ana.
00:23:34.000I have sustained a continual bombardment and cannonade for 24 hours and have lost not a man.
00:23:43.000The enemy has demanded surrender at discretion.
00:23:46.000Otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword if the fort is taken.
00:23:51.000I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls.
00:24:13.000If they found it stilted, they would have found it inspiring.
00:24:17.000That aside, this is the substance of the letter.
00:24:23.000Then I call on you in the name of liberty, of patriotism, and everything that is dear in the American character to come to our aid with all dispatch.
00:24:47.000If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due his own honor and that of his country.
00:25:31.000This is the last letter Travis writes.
00:25:38.000When you read Travis's letters from the Alamo, which taken together constitute a kind of abbreviated autobiography of a man in crisis, you feel you're in the presence of somebody who is going through a very significant change.
00:25:54.000It starts out, victory or death, and ends up, take care of my little boy.
00:26:05.000Later, Travis gives his ring as a keepsake to Angelina Dickinson, the daughter of Alamo defender Almiron Dickinson, and his wife Susanna.
00:26:15.000That's Travis's moment of signing off his connection to the human world in preparation for his moment of glory to come.
00:26:28.000Viewing the chaos from a safe distance, Santa Ana calls in his reserves.
00:26:42.000The advantage has now turned to the attacker.
00:26:45.000The Texans have to expose themselves to get a shot at the masked enemy.
00:26:50.000Once the Texans put their heads over the walls, they're a fair target to those Baker rifles and brown vests.
00:26:57.000Defenders start dropping from the walls, the Mexicans start getting a foothold, and over they go.
00:27:27.000Almiron Dickinson to his wife Susanna.
00:27:34.000Enrique's father Gregorio would be the only Alamo defender given a proper burial.
00:27:44.000For Susanna Dickinson, there will be another role in the drama.
00:27:49.000She is going to be Santa Ana's messenger to the rest of Texas to say, this is what happens to those who will oppose the will of the dictator.
00:28:33.000For whatever his reasons were, Houston retreated that army from the Guadalupe to the Colorado to the Brazos to the San Jacinto.
00:28:44.000For 46 days, the Alamo became a lingering, oozing wound to the Texas populace, compounded by the Goliad Massacre.
00:28:57.000And whether Houston wanted to fight or not when he got to the San Jacinto is really a rebel.
00:29:02.000What is important is that army was fighting men.
00:29:10.000With vengeful battle cries of Remember the Alamo, Houston's outnumbered army slaughtered Santa Ana's troops at San Jacinto on April 21st.
00:29:22.000If Jesus Christ were to come down here from heaven and order me to quit shooting yellow-bellies, I wouldn't do it.
00:29:30.000J.H.T. Dixon, Texian soldier at the Battle of San Jacinto.
00:29:34.000Santana's surrender at San Jacinto secured Texas independence.
00:29:44.000It was now time to remember the Alamo not with vengeance, but with veneration.
00:30:01.000This is the first known photograph taken in Texas.
00:30:05.000Made in 1849, its subject is the Alamo Church, just 13 years after the battle.
00:30:14.000That people are posed in front of it illustrates that even then the Alamo was an important landmark.
00:30:22.000The transformation of the Alamo into a shrine and its defenders into legends demonstrates that while history informs, Myth inspires.
00:30:33.000The Alamo very quickly, in fact almost instantly, almost as those bodies were consumed by the flames of the funeral pyres, lost its factual content and transcended into myth.
00:30:48.000Spirits of the mighty, though fallen, the spark of immortality which animated your forms shall brighten into a flame.
00:30:57.000And Texas, the whole world, shall hail ye like demigods of old, as founders of new actions and as patterns of imitation.
00:31:09.000Telegraph and Texas Register, March 26th, 1836. While the Texans who fought there were elevated to instant icons, the Alamo itself lay in ruins.
00:31:28.000The Alamo is a mere wreck of its former grandeur.
00:31:32.000The church door is meagerly decorated by stucco moldings, all hacked and battered in the battles it has seen.
00:31:39.000Since the heroic defense of Travis and his handful of men in 36, it has been a monument, not so much to faith as it is to courage.
00:31:50.000Frederick Law Olmsted, traveler and writer, 1854. Until the Alamo was officially memorialized at the turn of the century, it changed hands many times and served various functions.
00:32:09.000In 1847, the U.S. government leased the site from the Catholic Church as a quartermaster's depot.
00:32:17.000The army made several repairs to the buildings, including the capping of the facade with a hump-shaped parapet.
00:32:26.000Nothing epitomizes Alamo mythology greater than the Alamo facade, the famous hump that goes across the top.
00:32:33.000It is one of the great iconographic figures in American architecture.
00:32:37.000It wasn't there at the time of the battle.
00:32:40.000But now, if you want to make a painting about the Battle of the Alamo, you dare not leave it off, because that is the Alamo.
00:32:51.000When the U.S. Army vacated in 1877, the long barrack was sold by the Catholic Church to Honore Grenet, a local merchant.
00:33:01.000He festooned the building with ornate porticos and leased the Alamo Church as a warehouse.
00:33:09.000You cannot imagine my disgust upon this, my first visit to the Alamo and finding it filled with sacks of salt and stinking potatoes.
00:33:20.000It's a strange, very strange mingling of fame and sauerkraut.
00:33:26.000And still stranger, the fact that the state of Texas should permit a historic building like the Alamo to become a grocery warehouse.
00:33:37.000Letter to a Galveston, Texas newspaper, 1881. Comments like that led the state of Texas in 1883 to purchase the Alamo Church from Catholic officials for $20,000.
00:33:55.000The long barrack, however, was sold by Grenet to the general merchandise firm of Hugo and Schmelzer.
00:34:00.000In 1903, the company was about to sell the property to a hotel syndicate When Adina de Zavala, a member of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, a patriotic organization seeking to preserve the site, organized a drive to save the long barrack.
00:34:22.000A major donation of $75,000 from fellow DRT member Clara Driscoll saved the structure from further commercial development.
00:34:33.000The state of Texas tardily came in and reimbursed this heroic young woman.
00:34:37.000At the same time, they guaranteed the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, the management of the Alamo.
00:34:43.000The DRT, now in control of the building, began a great struggle over how to interpret the Alamo's past.
00:34:54.000This great struggle would become known as the Second Battle of the Alamo, pitting former allies de Zavala and Driscoll against each other in a bitter conflict.
00:35:05.000De Zavala accurately described the long barrack as the scene of the greater part of that memorable martyrdom.
00:35:37.000When De Zavala heard of Driscoll's plans to demolish the long barrack to make way for a park, she barricaded herself inside it for three days.
00:35:45.000Her siege ended only when the governor assured her that the building would be preserved.
00:35:51.000But no sooner had the governor left the state when Clara Driscoll received approval from the lieutenant governor to have the top floor of the building removed.
00:36:03.000Driscoll and her followers were triumphant.
00:36:05.000The chapel became the focal point of the Alamo, became what is recognized today everywhere as the Alamo.
00:36:13.000The DRT now lovingly turned the Alamo into a shrine, not a historic site, a shrine, a place where you go to worship fallen heroes, a place where you go to worship your ancestors.
00:36:29.000It still remains very much to this day a shrine to the heroes of Texas liberty, a shrine to those men who gave their lives so that Texas might be free.
00:36:40.000The veneration of the defenders reached a new height with the dedication in 1939 of the Alamo Cenotaph.
00:36:53.000Towering 60 feet above the Alamo, the monument's theme is the spirit of sacrifice.
00:36:58.000It features statues of the principal defenders and the names of all the Texians who died at the Alamo carved into its granite foundation.
00:37:06.000The first battles with wars are fought over territory.
00:37:49.000It changes to accommodate the needs of new generations.
00:37:52.000We're seeing throughout America today a great struggle over...
00:37:57.000Our past, a great struggle over how we define ourselves as a people.
00:38:01.000Powerfully symbolic events from the past, like the Alamo, become the lightning rods for these kinds of culture wars.
00:38:10.000The way that people argue over the meaning of the Alamo says a lot about how our culture thinks about the meaning of heroism, the meaning of martial sacrifice, the importance of historical preservation in the United States.
00:38:24.000A place like the Alamo is a dynamic living place.
00:38:33.000The Daughters of the Republic of Texas wish the Alamo to be remembered as a symbol of freedom and sacrifice and what a small group of men did facing an outstandingly large force.
00:38:53.000Of opponents and how they withstood and were strong and courageous.
00:39:08.000If you look at the concerns that some of the people of Mexican heritage express regarding the way the Alamo is portrayed, it doesn't have to do so much with the battle itself.
00:39:23.000It has more to do with the way the Alamo was used to portray racial division, that it was Anglos against Mexicans, and that the Anglos were good and that the Mexicans were bad.
00:39:39.000So it's certainly understandable when they say that what the Alamo represents is racism.
00:39:44.000If we understood the Alamo as a place that has a history, that bridges cultures...
00:42:18.000Welcome to a corrupt corporate slave state, a third-world country.
00:42:26.000I'm sure in school, they don't teach us anymore, but older folks will remember that they taught us that one lady and her baby survived the Alamo, Suzanne Dickinson.
00:42:36.000And her husband, Algernon Dickinson, was actually killed there.
00:42:39.000Well, she had the oldest home in Austin that was still remaining, right down here where the city has started its giant corporate takeover, building all the big corporate city projects and then trying to restrict growth in other areas, cramming us into the compact system.
00:42:59.000Her little house was actually a restaurant, and it was very historical.
00:43:06.000Plus, she's the sole survivor of the Alamo.
00:43:09.000But a lot of people in the city council don't like America, don't like Texas.
00:43:13.000And we've talked to folks inside the city that have told us this in confidence.
00:43:18.000And so they quietly, with almost no fanfare, there's been a few stories in the Statesman, one in the Chronicle, tore it out and have hidden it behind the O'Henry house.
00:43:28.000Right down in historic downtown Austin.
00:43:31.000And history is history, and they shouldn't have done this, especially to build this giant city-owned hotel monstrosity.
00:43:39.000So the corruption just continues to intensify.
00:43:44.000Under the cover of darkness, they tore the house up at night, damaging it, breaking balls, you name it, and drug it over here and hit it.
00:43:51.000The city and the county is hoping everybody just forgets about it.
00:43:57.000The sole survivor of the Alamo, Mrs. Dickinson.
00:44:03.000And they could care less because people hate America and hate Texas that run this city.
00:44:11.000Well, I tell you, if the sole survivor of the Alamo, Susanna Dickinson's house, is evil and needs to be torn up in the middle of the night and spirited away here to a back parking lot, then maybe this Sam Houston star should be removed and torn up out of the ground.
00:44:27.000If Texas is evil, I guess we're part of Oslon, greater world government.
00:44:37.000Of course, you all know that Susanna Dickinson was the sole survivor of the Alamo with her young child.
00:44:44.000And the reason Santa Ana spread her life was to go back and take the news to Gonzalez where the whole thing started, you know, come and take it, come take our guns.
00:44:53.000And let them know the defeat and the massacre of the prisoners.
00:44:59.000Now, of course, you know Texas has changed hands five separate times.
00:45:03.000That is, five different empires or countries had it.
00:45:06.000Not just France or Spain or Mexico or Texas or even the U.S., but first it was owned by the American Indians.
00:45:12.000So any claims by Mexico that they owned Texas and the Southwest is asinine.
00:45:18.000Any more than saying that original ownership belongs to the French.
00:45:22.000This area was fought over quite a bit, and many Hispanics actually fought on the side of Texas for independence because they could own property, they could own guns, they could be free human beings, which you couldn't be in Mexico under Santa Ana or before that under Maximilian and Spain.
00:45:39.000But destroying history, destroying history is what it's all about.
00:45:45.000They have to erase history to create a new system.
00:45:48.000And when you see the cover of Time magazine...
00:45:50.000In red, white, and green, saying Mexico, the end of the United States, that is establishment New York wanting to destroy Texas in American history.
00:46:00.000Because they want to put us under a system like France, or Germany, or Mexico, or Russia would have, where you're all slaves.
00:46:06.000So I'm proud to be a Texan, as I know most Texans are, regardless of race, color, or creed.
00:46:11.000So let's not let the racist in the city council.
00:46:14.000And the race manipulators, like Daryl Slusher and others, control the situation.
00:46:19.000Let's remember Texas history for what it is.
00:46:22.000Barbara Stockland, historic preservation officer with the city, was intrigued by the house's historical value before the demolition.
00:46:37.000But since visiting the site last month, she was championed its architectural value as well.
00:46:43.000And then she said of all the historical houses that she's dealt with over the past couple years working in Austin, this is the most important property of all.
00:46:50.000It's the oldest residential structure that I know of in downtown Austin still remaining, and it was the home of a famous figure, a famous woman, not just of Austin history, but also of the history of Texas.
00:47:00.000And then, of course, the O'Henry House is right next door.
00:47:03.000They tore it up when it was down in the...
00:47:05.000You know, where this pit is for this big city boondoggle, which they'll own, going into business with our money.
00:47:11.000They're all getting kickbacks, that's guaranteed.
00:47:14.000And then now they've drug her home, the Dickinson home, over here.
00:47:19.000We already showed that to you earlier.
00:47:21.000The Landmark Association is the City of Austin and Hilton Hotels.
00:47:33.000It's going to be the biggest building in Austin.
00:47:35.000With your tax money, a giant boondoggle, a huge scam with the bonds, and then in 30 years, the city owns it outright.
00:47:44.000It's not just enough to take your tax money.
00:47:46.000And right in the middle of that thing would have been the oldest house in Austin and, of course, the sole survivor of the Alamo, Mrs. Dickinson.
00:47:57.000But you notice the media didn't say a word about it.
00:48:00.000They moved it in the dead of night over there.
00:48:02.000And they could have kept the building inside.
00:48:05.000As a slash, you know, House Alamo remembrance.
00:48:09.000But see, Texas is evil, so you can't have that.
00:48:12.000Texas has to be gotten rid of in the greater global scheme.
00:48:17.000So, number one, I'm against this whole project.