Posted on 06/10/2015 7:51:56 AM PDT by HomerBohn
When the American flag is flown upside down, if you were not aware, it is a signal of dire distress.
Can you imagine what it is like to suddenly have low-flying military helicopters, explosions, and gunfire rocking your home in the middle of the night?
This message went out on Facebook around midnight last night from the official Lapeer County Police, EMS, and Fire Facebook page:
"ATTENTION VIEWERS: PER FLINT POLICE OPERATIONS (FPO) THE US ARMY IS DOING TRAINING IN FLINT THIS WEEKEND AND YOU MAY HEAR HELCOPTERS, GUNFIRE, & EXPLOSIONS. PLEASE DO NOT BE ALARMED."
That message was sent out last night around midnight.
Over the next few hours, some concerned and even downright scared citizens responded to what was taking place over and around their homes.
Many were asking if this was part of Jade Helm. While several others in the thread responded said it was, the Lapeer County Police, EMS, and Fire Facebook page never officially confirmed or denied this.
Although some people were essentially congratulating the authorities for this last-minute martial law training in their neighborhood streets, others were more afraid of the attitudes of their fellow Americans.
Around 8 p.m. Saturday night, M Live reported that police were coordinating safety measures for military exercises that were being announced for three areas in Flint:
Police warn that helicopters and small explosions are expected to be part of the exercise. The exercise is controlled and contained, and police said there is no reason to be alarmed.
The training exercises will conclude later Saturday night.
Police announced Friday the exercises would take place over the weekend, and residents in the areas where training was taking place would be notified.
Explosions rocked Flint's East Side Tuesday, June 2, as the city warned residents to prepare for simulated ammunition fire and helicopters as U.S. Army soldiers begin 10 days of training.
On Saturday afternoon, members of the U.S. Army National Guard 1776 MP Company went to Mounds RV Park in Mt. Morris to train in armored security vehicles. Some 60 to 70 soldiers were on site, ready to train to receive their licenses to operate the vehicles.
Noting that the training would take place Saturday night kinda misleads one to believe it will be at a reasonable hour, doesn't it?
Flint, Michigan only has 100,000 people. It's not a huge city. Why should people expect a small-scale war to suddenly break out on their streets?
No explanation was ever given as to why this training could not have been conducted on a military base instead of on the residential streets of Flint, Michigan.
This isn't just one evening. This is ten days of hardcore military training. Ten days of low-flying chinooks in the middle of the night. Ten days of random gunfire and explosions breaking out. Ten days of armored military vehicles cruising the roads. Ten days of increased military presence in the streets of yet another American city.
Imagine explaining this to your terrified children who are awakened in the middle of the night by what sounds like war breaking out in their Flint, Michigan backyard.
Of course, if Flint residents happened to not be watching their TVs or checking up on law enforcement's social media pages like the Lapeer County Police, EMS, and Fire Facebook page, they wouldn't have known, would they?
Unannounced or barely announced military drills complete with realistic-sounding explosions, military hardware and even the detainment of mock dissidents have become a much more frequent occurrence on Main Street U.S.A. in recent months. In the lead up to this July's Jade Helm drill, during which local, state, and federal law enforcement and military agencies will be teaming up and training together all across the Southwest for what we are told are international battlefields far, far away, it has been happening more and more. We have no Posse Comitatus, quite obviously.
Martial law desensitization is in full swing.
Disruptive and alarming drills continue to break out in sporadic locations across the country. As unannounced and unnerving as they are to local residents, a bigger and much uglier picture is being painted here.
Did you know that after the American Revolutionary War, most people in this country considered a standing army to be one of the most dangerous threats to liberty imaginable?
Skip ahead a couple hundred years. Now look at where we are.
This is America now. This is what our nation has become.
Look around. Are we really a free country?
We should not allow ourselves to be conditioned to accept and expect warfare in our backyards. There is every reason not to want the military to get used to training in our streets with our militarized police forces, much less carrying out raids on the citizens, and patrolling us. There is every reason not to want our neighbors, friends, and family to become acclimated to it either. There is every reason to question and speak out against this.
Has anyone even sufficiently justified why this is really necessary?
"For your safety" just isn't cutting it anymore.
Despite what the NDAA says, America is not a battlefield. The fact that officials see it as otherwise is deeply alarming and signals nothing less than tyranny.
Notice they are not pulling this stuff down in the South. Everybody here is locked and loaded. It would not go over well at all. :-)
They did it in texas a few weeks back. Just sayin’.
CC
Mr GG2 and I are not going to any steenking camp. :-)
Yeh I guess I consider Texas the West. Its puzzling that Texans are not up in arms. Or bearing arms about it. :-)
Now that the Gay Mafia has taken over the army, they’ll bomb American churches and Christians with relish.
To anyone familiar with World War 2 history, that notice is similar to the ones posted by the Germans where they held Jews awaiting deportation to the Eastern death Camps. we are going to re-settle you in the East. They are in need od carpenters, bricklayers, doctors, and all types of tradesmen. Do not fear.
Oh we are, we just aint shootin, yet.... :)
I CAN FIND NOTHING OFFICIAL ABOUT THIS SUBJECT / STATEMENT / THREAD
We are!
I agree. They know ISIS is here but are keeping us in the dark.
” weak-kneed response to ISIS overseas,”
Weak kneed? Hardly. He created ISIS to try and overthrow Syria in an Arab Spring operation. He has just delivered to ISIS 2400 armored Humvees and dozens of our front line Tanks, and thousands of small arms complete with warehouses of ammunition.
Occam's Razor
The military has more than enough room to do this training in complete seclusion just as they have been doing for decades. This is being used to set up a diversion so that any resistance will be caught off guard.
I'm thinking this is a long term plan to do exactly as others have stated. To get the American people used to seeing military maneuvers so they will not realize exactly when it's no longer a drill.
This shit is getting scary folks. If you are not paranoid now, you should be.
Wise move. You have to determine which side they'll be on, whether they will be allies or targets. But most important, learn WHO WILL BE GIVING THE ORDERS. Find out where they live and work, their travel habits, their receation. When we have been forced to rebellion in self-defense, they are primary targets. They should have "accidents" or just disappear.
Cut off the head, the snake is dead.
What benefit is martial law to the ‘rats?
I know they have a control agenda, but I don’t think country-wide martial law is going to get them anywhere.
There are just too many people and too much space to control.
I am still trying to find out just where the “Constitutional Sheriff’s Movement” stands WRT fed over reach.
Ditto...I agree.
They run a "training exercise" that sounds like all out combat so citizens are frightened then later the news stories all confirm it was just "training". Repeat this process in selected areas across the US and when the real event comes everyone will just think they are "training" again and any resistance will be caught off guard.
This is completely unacceptable folks. We must demand answers and accountability. Don't tell me this is normal and has happened before. I wasn't born yesterday and have NEVER witnessed anything like this going on in an American city.
http://www.abc12.com/home/headlines/Flint-Police-announce-military-training-exercises-planned-for-Saturday-306386481.html
Apologies for the understatement.
The poster to whom I responded was assuming Hussein actually wants to fight ISIS.
ISIS is our fraud president’s best friends. They stand for all he does, including the destruction of Israel and subjugation of Christianity.
No apology needed, just agreeing and reinforcing what you said with past actions.
We need to state the whole truth often, less it gets swept under the rug like Benghazi was.
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