Border Bandits trailer

Trailer from the award-winning documentary, Border Bandits, the myth-busting film about the Texas Rangers in the early 20th century.

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• documentary
• Hispanic
• border
• story

[Pecos45]

@PanVet100 So let's be clear. You are saying that these killings never happened and that a typo on a date proves they never happened? No Rangers in 1915 ever killed innocent American citizens in the Rio Grande Valley and there was not a mass transfer of land from Hispanic to Anglo?

[Pecos45]

@PanVet100

The problem is that my film is too politically incorrect for all the Ranger fans. Most of them cannot take history that is unpleasant, and my film is.

The truth hurts.

[Pecos45]

@PanVet100

And you still cannot provide anything to refute this film, except to point out that I was one digit off on a date...a typo. It has nothing to do with who you are, but your lack of direct refutation of an eyewitness, at the scene in 1915, whose story is recorded and transcribed at the oldest university in Texas. If you need me to get more photos of bodies piled up, that's easy. There are hundreds more photos in the Museum of South Texas and Texas A&M Kingsville. I stand by my story!

[SouthTejas101]

this show is right the rinches rangers were nothing but killers an rapests. they should be disband.

[PanVet100]

@Pecos45 You can't let it go, can you? You've made audio/ book/ docudrama. What's next a big film w/ Brad Pitt? I know, I know as a Texan and ranger buff, I can't possibly know as much about South TX/ rangers as you. Being part Indian/ Jewish and a vet, I can't be as sympathetic to the oppressed either. None of the doc's misinformation matters and all of the pics of piled-up MX Rev. KIAs were really murdered by evil 1915 genocidal rangers. I'm a moron and havn't refuted you, so let it lay. Bye.

[Pecos45]

@PanVet100

So, to sum it up, you've pointed out some typos on some dates. (They were off by one digit, because they were mis-typed into the script.) That's an easy fix. But how does a typo on a date disprove the points of my film? Does a mistaken 7 for an 8 on the death of Ransom mean that the Rangers didn't kill Bazan and Longoria? Again, you have offered no direct refutation of an eyewitness account, so you have nothing. See you in Mission, Feb. 25.

[Pecos45]

@PanVet100

Why does when I shot that interview have any bearing on what he said? We shot it when he was head of PR for DPS, in his office in Austin. Call him up if you don't believe me.

But the fact remains, we have him on camera saying what he says. Relying on Ranger reports of the era are not good history, nor documentation because they left things (like killing someone.) Again, you don't refute his statement.

[Pecos45]

@PanVet100

Why is it so hard to admit that Rangers of that era were corrupt, or that the Adjutant General (Sterling) was corrupt, too?

[Pecos45]

@PanVet100

Hard to believe the interview was in the can for four years? Not if you are self funding your film. Obviously you've never produced one nor raised money for one. You shoot what you can afford, raise more money, then do what you can. Camera crews and editors don't work for free, unless you work for the government. Can't you tell that interview was shot in Mike's office at DPS headquarters? Or maybe you've never been there. I DO NOT depict all as monsters. Re-read my opening statement.

[PanVet100]

@Pecos45 Ugh! Two wounded cattlemen were actually arrested according to newspaper accounts. Good luck in Mission. I'm done.