The Michael Berry Show

If you have an e-mail account, you get e-mails.

Some of them are true but you never know which ones are in which ones aren't and so you know you have the tendency to go, I'm not going to believe all that nonsense and something comes up and bites you and you go well, I did get an e-mail on that but I it sounded too crazy.

crazy. You can't fight every battle, you just can't. But there are certain things that I

noticed that bubble up from random listeners and people I know. And one of them is that America's

farmland is being purchased in massive amounts by Chinese interests that land around military

bases is being purchased. And we're not talking about a 5,000 square foot tract of land in a

subdivision. We're talking about types of numbers that begin to scare you. Because if you care

about your national security and you understand that Chinese interests or the interests of the

government, it starts making you very nervous. So I have wanted to bring this up for a while.

And then I was alerted of a situation that happened in Texas. And this seemed like a great

opportunity to take up this discussion. There was a long standing, I think 30 to 50 years,

maybe longer, state park. And in the state of Texas, we take our state parks very seriously.

Our parks and wildlife department is it's a gubernatorial appointment to serve on this board.

In addition to Secretary of State, it's as high an appointment as you can get. Everybody wants

to serve on it because the state parks and the hunting, all these sorts of things, a wildlife

is a big deal. Well, the parks and wildlife has taken umbrage to this situation of a state park

that for the first time in Texas history is no longer a state park. It was purchased by, you guessed it,

Chinese interests. It's in free stone county. And what's really odd about this deal is the county

commissioners there were against it until a steer was purchased at the county fair.

And money starts getting talked about. And then all of a sudden, boom, the county commissioners

are in favor of it. We have reached out to state Senator Lois co-course because she's been

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