Posted on 06/25/2012 2:37:32 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Late last week and through the weekend, citizens of St. Louis, Mo., were told not to be alarmed should they see military tanks roll by their home. Even with this warning, though, some wondered why the U.S. Army was taking the vehicles off the base and to the streets in the first place.
According to KSDK-TV, Army specialists from Fort Meade came into town for a training exercise for members of the 354 NP company. As the reporter states, this “drivers’ ed.” for tanks will take place on city streets and the highway.
Watch the KSDK report:
As noted in the video, the military is warning onlookers to steer clear of the tanks should they be seen on the road. Still, this caused Brandon Smith from Alt-Market in a guest post for Zero Hedge to wonder why the military is really conducting this training in public at all, saying it “makes very little sense to me.” He poses these questions:
U.S. Army troops all the way from Maryland running open exercises in armored personnel carriers on the busy streets of St. Louis? I know Maryland is a small state, but is there really not enough room at Ft. Detrick to accommodate a tank column and some troops? Are there not entire fake neighborhood and town complexes built with taxpayer dollars on military bases across the country meant to facilitate a realistic urban environment for troops to train in? And why travel hundreds of miles to Missouri?
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MP units do have the M1117 ASV, which these appear to be. I would not characterize them “tanks.”
Do you happen to have a link?
Or the other way around...
There's suppose to be a whistle blower named "Drake" who claims the military is going to engage in mass arrests of globalist politicians and friendly bankers who have been working against the Constitution and the American people for years.
That would be nice if true.
(BING "Drake" and there's a lot of links to the rumor if you're interested.)
Martial law coming to this country just before election time.
ST. LOUIS • Those armored Army trucks you might see cruising down St. Louis highways over the next eight days are no cause for alarm, St. Louis police say.
Army reservists from the 354th military police company will be racking up highway miles around St. Louis in armored security vehicles through June 29, Lt. Col. Nathan Bond, an Army spokesman, said Thursday. The reservists will be getting classroom instruction as well as behind-the-wheel road training in how to drive the armored trucks.
About 10 trainers from the 200th military police company from Fort Meade, Md., are in St. Louis providing training to reservists based at the Army Reserve Center at 4300 Goodfellow Boulevard, Bond said. The purpose is to give reservists practice and experience driving.
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If the cops and military are going to protect the upper class, then they must be fighting off the lower class, as in Obomas private civilian army? (I wondered where all the stimulus and green tax money went. Maybe those Fast and Furious weapons stayed in the U.S. instead)
The funny thing would be that if that turned out to be the case that I'd have to accept him as being Constitutionally qualified (NBC).
Now that's not to say that I think he deserves to be in office, or that he shouldn't be impeached and prosecuted for his crimes, but rather that such would deny me the ability to simply say everything he's done in office has been illegitimate.
A St Louis cop called into Alex Jones Sunday show and then today another ST Louis cop and a firefighter called in. What they had to say was not reassuring.
The cops are being told that in Oct some horrendous thing is going to happen and they will be fighting the militias etc. and protecting the upper class neighborhoods. Its pretty bizarre.
Some people on this forum are mad at Issa because he doesn’t just go storm the White Hut & DOJ with his Mac-10’s spraying bullets. Well, this is DC politics and not a Chuck Norris movie. I think Issa’s maneuvering and timing are masterful. He is playing a chess game with two hacks who can’t play Candyland. Chess requires lots of patience, but I can see this playing out to the final checkmate. Sometime around September or October, and that would suit me fine.
Perhaps Obama is going to be impeached, and then refuse to comply? Someone also mentioned that Obamacare has things in it that should start coming in around October; another mentioned something with taxes rising steeply Aug/Sep. Can't find those though.
Thoughts?
France finally realized the made a mistake in 1803?
Well if Issa already has that email proving Obama knew about Fast and Furious they could probably impeach him. But even if they don’t the scandal will hurt Barry’s re-election campaign so its all good. I say vote Holder in contempt and just keep chipping away at the administration.
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