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.
They are readying for a total financial collapse and the disorder it would bring.
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Correct as per the SPLC list.
Rest assured that they do. Chief among these is the current occupier of the white house.
Why not just call the show, tell’em your name and go with it.
Hell, if he’z truly a Texas Ranger, Greg Abbott is his boss and his boss would be behind him.
I dunno....just smells.
I remember - Klinton has lots of people expecting the worse.
However you have to admit, things have gotten a lot more insane in this country, and conditions do align to make domestic collapse more likely:
Natl debt has tripled since slick Willy
Population on EBT cards has risen to record 49 Million
90+ Million work age citizens are out of work, majority of these discouraged workers are not counted in labor stats.
Amount of citizens on social security disablity has tripled since 1992.
Quantative easing has hollowed out our dollar’s value, like no time before, ie: 100 Billion printed every month for the last four+ years.
Police militarized like never before.
Obama signed the Natl Defense Auth Act which permits US Citizens to be indefinitely detained for the offense of desent against the state.
Numerous Dept of Justice and DoD documents define domestic terrorists as individuals who are: Constitutionalists, Evangelicals, Tea party, Veterans, Sovereign citizens.
Obola and his henchmen has shown absolute disregard for abiding by the constitution and law.
Obola has allegiances with the Muslim Brotherhood, has allowed them to infiltrate his cabinet and our agencies.
There is no strong opposition party leadership unlike 1994 with Gingrich, Barr, Helms, etc.
Yeah, I’d say in light of very bad state of domestic affairs, a highly disruptive domestic event has never been more likely to trigger federal police peacekeeping within the “US Homeland”.
BTW my take: Jade = China valuable gem, Helm = Where you steer / direct course. China directed / lead event?
Guess we’ll wait and see...
I don’t know what is happening, but a lot of little things indicate that giving one’s name like you think he should have might not be the wisest thing.
Just the times we are in.
My Dad told me a story of when he was a kid on the way to school in the 1940s on the bus all the kids would wait for a nice sharp turn and say "1 2 3 LEAN!" and everyone would lean outwards at once on the corner and make the bus run into the ditch.
I wonder if a train could be made to derail by everyone inside a car shifting weight together repeatedly?
Wow. In TX, our bus drivers would have chucked us overboard for doing that. They chucked us out for throwing up after *they* drove the hill country like bats out of hell (buses were standard-shift back then) as an example to not up-chuck.
Green is the color of islam...
Unless the train is not for prisoners, but to bring combatants safely IN to the US interior?
Green helmets...that's even worse!
Armed tree huggers, militant environmentalist whackos.
To impose true martial law on the entire USA would require an Army of millions. Our current standing Army would have a hard time imposing martial law on New Jersey. Do the math.
But still. I understand where you’re coming from, but stories with no verifiable source just fuels flames of conspiracy and or fear.
Think about it...you don’t know me, but if I were to say, “A well placed source in the Texas house told me last evening over dinner....”
That would be just as credible...right? or wrong?
FROM REFORGER TO REFORUSA. Times have changed.
>>Jade is green...
Green is the color of islam...<<
Ewww...good point.
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