Posted on 05/02/2015 6:04:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Depending on whom you ask, “Jade Helm 15” is either a domestic military training exercise or a covert operation for the federal government to take over the state of Texas – and 2016 presidential candidate Ted Cruz just became the latest Republican to fan the flames of the latter theory.
Speaking at the South Carolina Republican Party’s annual convention Saturday, the Texas senator told Bloomberg’s David Weigel that his office had contacted the Pentagon about the exercise, which officially consists of a series of training drills throughout the Southwest for about 1,200 special operations personnel, including Green Berets and Navy SEALs. Conspiracy theorists operating on the fringes of the conservative blogosphere, however, have other ideas about what the exercise, known as Jade Helm 15, is intended to do – such as implement martial law, seize Americans’ guns, and imprison political dissidents.
Rather than squash those theories outright, Cruz apparently decided it was better to be safe than sorry.
“My office has reached out to the Pentagon to inquire about this exercise,” he said. “We are assured it is a military training exercise. I have no reason to doubt those assurances, but I understand the reason for concern and uncertainty, because when the federal government has not demonstrated itself to be trustworthy in this administration, the natural consequence is that many citizens don’t trust what it is saying.”(continued)
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Exactly! This is not common or normal on any level.
many thanks for the info, unixfox!
whoever thought up that scenario & location for the jade helm ops oughta have their heads examined...
dark + skulking around + in Texas = potential disaster...
if anyone is caught on someone’s land, after dark, and without permission.... lets just say there’s a rule about that, and it ain’t favorable to the trespasser...
I would say at least one class every 13 weeks at a minimum. The idiots, fools, parasites, and traitors have no idea of what they unleashed upon themselves [and us] on November , 2008.
That turned a lot of potentially valuable people away from the entire patriot movement, whether their connection was political involvement or schlepping around the boonies on maneuvers.
I honestly believe a lot of potentially valuable people were isolated from each other because of the media pushed perceptions.
When I heard of Alinsky, I knew I had seen this used before. Even people who had followed the Randy Weaver events at Ruby Ridge, Gordon Kahl at Medina, ND, or the Waco Massacre were wont to speak out because of the entire 'wacko nutjob Militia' meme the press put out, and even more so because the association the Media fostered in people's minds put them in league with the OK City bombers. We're talking good and decent people who didn't take well to being made out to be child murderers (the single preeminent photo from the bombing was of a firefighter holding a bloodied child's body).
For the 24 states without State Guards, that doesn't work out to be a plus, it only ensures that coordinated efforts will be haphazard at best. That virtually guarantees loose canons.
The land in use is being provided free of charge by the landowners. Maybe they have tax problems.
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