Posted on 07/20/2015 10:32:14 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
On Wednesday, the Army is scheduled to begin two months of training exercises across the American Southwest. If the past is a reasonable guide, some on the outer reaches of the far right are bound to recycle warnings that martial law is at hand. Conspiracy theorists were singularly imaginative after these war games, code-named Jade Helm 15, were announced.
Among the dire predictions: Citizens’ guns will be confiscated. Political opponents of President Obama will be rounded up and herded into detention centers. Mr. Obama will suspend the Constitution and cling to office indefinitely. All this is part of a plan to establish a “new world order.”
While not endorsing those prophecies, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas did little to tamp them down when he ordered the Texas State Guard to “continuously monitor” Jade Helm to reassure Texans that “their safety, constitutional rights, private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed.”
As the conspiracy theories bubbled, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter was asked point blank at a news conference in May if a military takeover of Texas was in the works. “No,” Mr. Carter replied. Laughter accompanied both the question and the response, underscoring how frivolous the very idea seemed to those in the room.
Still, that such an exchange even took place was testament to the deep mistrust of government harbored by some Americans, more than a few of whom come to any dispute heavily armed. Hostility toward the federal government is hardly new. It can be traced at least as far back as the anti-tax Whiskey Rebellion of the 1790s. But its modern roots may be summed up in a single word: Waco.
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That is not something I would bet against.
Just spoke to friend, Democrat, and he believes the same things we do about those murderers.
In fact, he called the agents murderers and said something surprising: “The government couldn’t prove they had any illegal weapons, as the premise for the siege and eventual murders, so they conjured up a narrative that the kids were being raped”.
Weird....
Even went on to discuss Randy Weaver, with no prompting.
Odd how many people see it the same way.
Jade Helm 15 isn’t exactly comforting either.
When the real clampdown comes it will not be telegraphed beforehand.
Budget negotiations and any given armed Federal agency looking for a big increase isn’t the most pleasant of times for US citizens.
That was pure bullshit.
Correct in all aspects.
Amen Bro. FReeper.
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