Posted on 05/05/2015 5:12:23 PM PDT by robowombat
By Colleen Conley
A covert training operation by U.S. military special operations personnel, Jade Helm 15, is taking place in a several states this summer, spreading panic and conspiracy theories as to the true purpose of the mission.
The two-month simulation spans much of the Southwest, requiring special forces from four branches of the military to carry out covert operations amid “hostile” territory in Texas, Utah and part of California.
In at least one of those states, hostility toward the operation has begun a few months early. Online and at in-person meetings, many Texans have expressed suspicion and outright opposition to the project. Some are understandably worried about how it’ll affect their daily lives, while conspiracy theorists claim it’s an attempt to institute martial law.
The military says that they are merely preforming training exercises to help hone soldiers’ skills in the event they face a foreign threat, but some citizens are worried that planners have something more domestic in mind.
Events for the exercise are outlined in a map among unclassified documents posted online last month. Army sources have verified to The Washington Post that the map is legitimate.
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Many have speculated that the American government isn’t far from declaring martial law, an idea only bolstered by these training exercises.
In an anonymous email sent to Dave Hodges at The Common Sense Show, a self-described Texas Ranger said that train cars outfitted with prison-type shackles have been moving about Texas. While he added that the Department of Homeland Security claimed the train cars were for transporting captured terrorists, he was apparently reluctant to believe them. He wrote:
“We have been told by Homeland that these trains are slated for transporting captured terrorists, non-domestic. We are not sure we can trust this explanation because Homeland is keeping a lot from us and we are growing increasingly uncomfortable with their presence in Texas.”
The paranoia about Jade Helm, which started on websites like Alex Jones’s InfoWars, had started with familiar fulmination about a mass seizure of firearms or a cover-up for American “death squads.”
This week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott asked the Texas state guard to monitor the exercise for any violations of freedom. “It is important that Texans know their safety, constitutional rights, private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed,” said the governor.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said Saturday that he’d been hearing concerns about Jade Helm 15, and reached out to the Pentagon for answers.
“My office has reached out to the Pentagon to inquire about this exercise. 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.”
The Texas Senator, speaking at the South Carolina Republican Convention went on to say:
“I understand a lot of the concerns raised by a lot of citizens about Jade Helm. And I think part of the reason is we have seen, for six years, a federal government disrespecting the liberty of the citizens. That produces fear, when you see a government that is attacking our free speech rights, or Second Amendment rights, or religious liberty rights. That produces distrust.”
“Just because you’re paranoid,” said Cruz, “doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.”
Well said, Senator. Well said.
This sort of outright disinformation ought not be believed and should be known for what it is a scam to make money by conspiracy theorist con artists.
When President Cruz is sworn in we are gonna need those trains to round up all the 0bama supporters for deportation...
“Jade Helm 15. Jade is blue. Helm is German for helmet. Blue Helmet? UN blue helmets?”
I hope you are being satirical.
“want something more than hearsay from “self described Texas Ranger”
Just send your credit card and subscribe to their newsletter and buy their products and you’ll get a lot more info.
A never ending stream.
It’s an old scam.
Ayers probably knows what his life expectancy is if things go bottom up..............
Yeah any article that references Alex Jones and death squads in the same sentence should be a red flag.
I hope you are being satirical.
You don't by chance have an office in the basement of the White House, do you???
Me no believe-ee.
Just doing what the FBI does to prisoners....but wholesale....
Diesel Therapy: Torturing Prisoners Legally Takes The Bus
« on: May 31, 2011, 07:31:07 am » Diesel Therapy: Torturing Prisoners Legally Takes The Bus
Transit, better known as "diesel therapy" to the feds, is maybe the worst part of being incarcerated. Imagine being handcuffed with a chain around your waist securing the handcuffs to your stomach area. You can't move your arms up and down or side to side. Your feet are shackled, (often prisoners are fitted with boots 2 or 3 sizes too small....and for many days...)limiting you to baby steps. Now get on a bus. And then be stuck on the bus with similarly shackled convicts forever.
(It starts at three or four in the morning, and 1216--hour days are the norm.) You can try and guess where you're going, but you never will. After five institutions and nine years in the feds, I've learned to dread transit more than anything.
The Bureau of Prisons can never do anything easily. Like take you from point A to point B. Instead, they drag you through a spiraling maze of transitional moves with zero logic. What's the method to the madness? Is it intentional chaos-pure torture to keep us beat down, controlled, docile? Only the BOP knows for certain.
Recently I was transferred from FCI Fort Dix to FCI Fairton on a closer supervision request. While my journey was not a diesel therapy nightmare, it was definitely a mini-diesel. I packed my stuff on December 31st. On the 2nd of January I was called up at 8:00 a.m. I got processed and placed in the bullpen with 10 other prisoners. I proceeded to sit there until 2:00 p.m., when we were sent back to the compound. Oops-we were leaving tomorrow. We had spent the whole day in a tiny holding cell for no reason.
We were sent back to the compound with no sheets, no blankets, no toothpaste, no soap, no toilet paper, and no change of clothes. And we had no property-that was already boxed up.
The next morning, we were called up again. The whole processing procedure was completed for the second time, and finally, in the late afternoon, we heard the clank of chains. Salvation had come in the form of the Lewisburg BOP bus crew.
More here:....http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=209577.0
So first question is, has this exercise ever happened before? Next question is, what is going on at the AF Bases? Finally, what other domestic services are involved? Since ammunition was purchased for various agencies, has anyone looked at what their role will be in all of this?
We are looking at what’s directly in front of us. What hasn’t been answered or asked is, what is going on behind the curtain? If I was a betting man, I am going with this exercise is going to be used in coordination with a major domestic event. The collapse of the monetary system? If it is racial, look for this to begin in a place like Houston.
Don’t look at the obvious. If this is in fact something more, look at what’s going on at the periphery. That’s where our answers will be found.
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>> “While he added that the Department of Homeland Security claimed the train cars were for transporting captured terrorists, he was apparently reluctant to believe them.” <<
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I wonder why!
Christians are now “terrorists” if they carry an assault Bible (Non-NIV)
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I remember there was a big conspiracy about "secret codes" written on the back side of highway signs that were supposedly to be used by the NWO and foreign troops.
Bump to the top
I have seen a blue one the size of a semi,
Seems a bit forced, but I agree that outside help would be required in any large scale martial law / "pacification" scenario. I guess we'll find out soon enough
OK, technical score... but given the rarity of the blue and recent discovery, I’m going to stick with it NOT being the color alluded to in “Jade Helm”... ;-)
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