I’m on very firm ground...no where near the edge...
200+ million Gun owners holding over 300 million firearms...
What is it you think the the entire federal govt of just over 2 million is going to do?
Carpet bomb or Nuke entire cities?
You do know that these jade helm CT nuts are the same people who claim 9/11 was an inside job...right?
Take Alex Jones seriously?
Dont make me laugh.
1200 troops spread over 7 states.....what are they going to take over?...a couple rest areas and parks?
They deployed 3000 NG troops in baltimore alone last week....barely one team per street corner in ONE part of the city...
I wasn't going to comment on this thread; too easy for it to slip in to loonery. This comment drug me out of the shadows, though. It smacks of the oh-so-oft muttered "army of hunters" phrase. Most, as in a vast majority of those 200+M gun owners will willingly hand over their guns when told to by the government. After the initial call for turn over, many more will reluctantly hand their guns over after some outlier is made an example of in some "incident". The number of those left will still be substantial, and the government, media, and eventually public will call them "terrorists". That number will be magnitudes smaller than the original 200+M. Of those left very few will actually be willing to take action, until their backs are against the wall. At that point it will be too late for them and the rest of the country that either hates, or fears them.
I'm not being alarmists, or such by saying this. I'm just using history as a reference point. Changes in our society, the rise of liberal media/corporate/government coordination, and the genral debasing of people's morals will be what brings it all about. Read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich". In that tome, you will see how a small group of fanatics can take over a system. Your mind will spin when you see in retrospect exactly how easy it was for the Nazi's to do so. It will spin even faster when you realize that doing so in today's America has been far easier, much more efficient and relatively bloodless for modern liberals. There are many more modern examples than 1930's Germany on the process; it just happens to be one of the best studied and documented.
I agree with Travis M's take on the whole Jade Helm issue. The boots on the ground aspect isn't what is alrming. It is the building of an infrastructure and the conditioning of the public that is scary.