Posted on 07/14/2019 5:24:42 PM PDT by Kaslin
Just yesterday we were discussing what I’m still holding out hope turns out to be one of the most widespread pranks in history. Nearly 400,000 people have signed on to a crackpot scheme on Facebook to “storm” Area 51, the top-secret military base located near Groom Lake in Nevada. The guy who actually started it is assuring the authorities it was a joke (and begging not to be arrested) but his followers don’t all seem to agree. The situation is being taken seriously enough that the Air Force actually responded to a question about it. While not coming out and specifically threating to burn all of these people to cinders if they cross the fence, they sure sounded like they were implying it. The following was offered up by Air Force spokeswoman Laura McAndrews. (The Hill)
Air Force spokeswoman Laura McAndrews declined to elaborate on specific details.
However, she did issue a warning to those who may be serious about a plan to infiltrate the Nevada Air Force base.
“[Area 51] is an open training range for the U.S. Air Force, and we would discourage anyone from trying to come into the area where we train American armed forces,” McAndrews told the paper.
“The U.S. Air Force always stands ready to protect America and its assets,” she added.
The Air Force stands ready to protect America and its assets. And you can rest assured they have plenty of assets out at Groom Lake. Whether it’s the next generation of stealth fighters being developed or an interstellar cell tower so ET can phone home, they don’t allow anyone in. The other assets they have on hand include both Apache choppers and fighter jets.
Depending on how you read the spokeswoman’s rather veiled comments, it’s not hard to imagine that she’s hinting at precisely what I was suggesting yesterday. If one or two people show up and try to sneak in, odds are some guys in an SUV will show up, tackle you, detain you for questioning for a few days and then let you go. But if more people than can be tackled all swarm the place at once from multiple entry points, particularly if it looks like some of them will make it to the airstrip, what do you think they’re going to do?
Do you really think they wouldn’t give the order to just start ripping the crowd up with weapons? That’s an awfully big assumption to literally bet your life on.
Our Air Force and other military officers take the same oath as most elected officials. They will protect against “all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Don’t become one of those domestic enemies. You won’t like how it ends.
For those who are really curious about what Area 51 looks like but don’t want to wind up as a grease stain in the middle of the desert, here’s one of the most recent videos anyone managed to take of the base. A guy and his son scaled their way up to the top of Tikaboo Peak, from which Area 51 can be seen at a great distance. You’re not supposed to climb that mountain, but they managed to not get caught. The guy dragged up a video camera with an extremely powerful zoom lens and start filming. Spoiler alert: He didn’t see any aliens.
AREA 51 FROM TIKABOO PEAK PART 1 (THE BASE IS VERY ACTIVE)
“But they will not shrink from their duty to protect the US.”
They have for decades.
True.
What if they figure they will be treated the same.
That’s why allowing sanctuary cities and openly defiant Dems who tell people to resist ICE was a bad idea as an example for impressionable lawbreakers. It’s why we used to have laws until around 1965 or so.
Now it’s the Wild West. Now we endure Pelosi telling people how to avoid following the laws she swore to uphold.
Exactly
That’s the same story I was told. I don’t mean to say they shoot random people who got lost but purposeful trespassers do get shot.
Did he look like Andy Devine, Dom DeLuise or Slim Pickens?
Patton said: “No. Leave him alone. He’s the one man I’ve seen this entire morning at this base who has a good idea of what he wants to do and is busy doing it.
UNARMED trespassers. Not gonna happen.
Between that and the coup, where is the rule of law and who does it apply to???
Maybe all the alien hunters better wear antifa outfits or democrat jerseys and fly Mexican flags. It will help if they’re “POC” too. Could dress in drag also.
Eh, I agree they aren’t going to “machine gun a flash mob”, but for different reasons.
Some people are unaware of technological advances in the past ten years for controlling mobs/crowds. Also, some people people have a difficult time separating the fact that deadly force can be used from what is most likely given the amount of advanced notice that exists here, the distances involved, and that new tech.
Yes, if anyone was actually going to get close to anything sensitive, deadly force would be used. No one doubts that. But that’s not going to happen because you can literally stop a small-to-medium sized mob of fools (and at worst, that’s all it would be; this is an Internet joke, remember) these days without shooting a single one.
let me see if I understand your point. people trying to sneak in illegally to live here are “foreign enemies” and subject to being killed by there US military and i assume border patrol? That makes the punishment for illegal immigration death.
Hope not. With this much notice they might be prepared to detain a crowd.
Yeah shoot em all and sort them out later. Maybe the aliens will abduct them in groups so wed don’t have to kill them.
Exactly right. No one’s going to try storming the base, anyways, but even if they did, the Air Force isn’t going to kill anyone. Some basic riot dispersion will do it.
We were more interested in eyeballing the top-secret airplane than the snoring moron.
I decided to drive there one day from Reno. Gave up after what seemed like forever. Didn’t look that far on the map.
Shouldn’t that sign be in 10 to 20 other languages?
I was on an eastern Montana Highway years ago and topped a hill looking at what I call an M-100 with a MaDuce or worse
tracking me! They were guarding a missile silo with the
doors open. I gave a friendly wave and moved on!
The military has a job to do; if a citizen is in the way, the military is authorized and should do what is necessary to disable that threat. Their first choice will prob not be killing but that would be justified, esp. at a base as secret as Groom Lake.
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