Posted on 06/03/2015 3:48:06 AM PDT by HomerBohn
(INTELLIHUB) — A ten-day US Army urban military training exercise has begun in Flint, Michigan with explosions rocking neighborhoods and scaring residents who had no idea what was actually happening.
With less than three hours between a city press release and the beginning of the exercise, residents were left in the dark about the urban military training until the last possible moment. Most had no idea what was happening as their homes shook from the force of the simulated explosions.
“It was like a big huge explosion, it shook my whole house, it shook the ground.”
(Watch video at link)
“I mean it was loud, it blew up the whole sky or whatever, it was like four or five big bangs,” local resident Annette Humphrey told WNEM News.
According to mlive.com, a city press release on the training said, “Elements of the U.S. Army are conducting training June 1-12 in designated parts of southeast Michigan, including the Flint area.”
The urban training, conducted at a closed junior high school and complete with sounds you would normally only hear in a warzone, will include the use of helicopters and simulated ammunition on top of detonations like the ones already felt by residents.
A statement from the military confirmed, without a doubt, that the training is to prepare soldiers for deployment in an urban setting which in military PR doublespeak means to prepare them for use in an American city near you.
The training, “will give personal the upper hand when they go into urban combat.”
Why all the urban military training?
The training in Michigan is merely the latest example in a long line of urban military training that has either been conducted or announced within the last 3 months.
From military training with local police for domestic house to house raids to Marines openly practicing for the internment of American citizens, training to take on the American people has hit previously unseen levels.
With so much news being released by the alternative media in regards to the plans for martial law one has to wonder why are we all of a sudden seeing this publicly happen now?
While there has absolutely been plans for martial law after some sort of massive civil disturbance dating back at least 60 years, in the past the military would either train away from the public or put huge effort into insuring that any training the public did see was clearly training for overseas deployment.
Now, day after day, month after month, we see dozens and dozens of reports from mainly local mainstream news outlets that detail some sort of urban training going on in their area without ever mentioning that similar training is happening throughout the country.
Simply put, if there wasnt something big planned for the near future why would all this training be clustered in a few month period rather than spread out as they have done over the years? (every summer there is an increase in domestic military training but nothing in the recent past like what we are seeing now)
Officials WITHIN Pentagon fear Obama martial law plans
Millions of people read the independent (some say conspiracy theory orientated) alternative media and while not all of those readers believe everything they read, the sheer amount of evidence brought forth so far indicates that there are tens of thousands of people who are, in varying degrees, worried about the military being used against the civilian population.
If this is true, then one would imagine that there are at least a small minority of people who work within different government agencies that are also worried about this now public plan.
There have been various whistleblowers throughout the years who have shared their worry and now, after a stunning report by a mainstream news outlet, we have confirmation that at least some of the people who work in the Pentagon are worried about what they see as Obama’s plan to use the military against the people.
In the viral Washington Times report, an anonymous Department of Defense official revealed their belief that a DoD Directive outlining military support to civilian authorities was literally the latest step towards the President using military force against the American people.
Read Directive No. 3025.18 – “Defense Support of Civil Authorities” here
“This appears to be the latest step in the administration’s decision to use force within the United States against its citizens,” said the defense official.
According to the report, another anonymous US Official also claimed that President Obama considered using the military during the Bundy Ranch standoff but eventually decided against it.
This revelation destroyed the outright lies put out in over 200 mainstream news articles in the last 2 months that have claimed that only far right “conspiracy theorists” are worried about things like Jade Helm and martial law when in reality officials within the Pentagon (and most likely every single government agency) are themselves stressed over what they see as an undeniable buildup to using military force on America streets.
The major questions that remain include what will cause the initial call for troops on the streets and when/if this will actually happen. Unless we have a major whistleblower those questions will likely remain unanswered until it is too late.
Conclusion
To end on a more optimistic note, it is a good sign to see a defense official risk it all and give the above quote to a mainstream news outlet.
Hopefully, there are many more like he or she and they will come together and stop this from happening before it gets so out of control that there is no turning back.
Residents expressing their frustration over urban training is also noteworthy as it shows that when these plans for martial law start to directly affect the people, the people will respond.
Remember what the future heroes of WW2 did in Washington,D.C. those many years ago.Or Waco?
The military WILL follow orders. There might be a few objectors,and just like in the 1940s Wehrmacht they will be punished or executed.People don;t throw off years of conditioning in a moment. The evil leaders know this. That is why Americans have been trained for generations to call 911 and let the “trained professionals handle it”.A free and independent people are hard to control.
Cripplecreek, Thanks for that info!
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If a JDAM goes off in Flint, is there anybody around to hear it?
They're not "practicing on us." They're running urban combat drills in an abandoned school. So, the military could either a) spend huge amounts of money and time to build a similar structure on post, or b) utilize an existing structure. No question the communication with the local folks of what's about to happen needs work, but ya'll are going apeshit over some blanks, a few flashbangs, and an idiot reporter.
Seems to be a lot of people out there that think, somehow, the military and local LEO will side with the American people. To that I say, Waco & Ruby Ridge - all levels of LEO were involved in highly criminal activities directed against American citizens in both cases. Think LEO & military will side with us? Think again.
Jade Helm moved to Flint?
All Righty Then.
I wouldn't bet on it.
I’m not so sure.
In the 1980s as a member of a Marine Corps Reserve unit, I participated in an amphibious assault on a state beach in Illinois and we also assaulted an area in downtown Chicago on the river. Nothing untoward.
“Us”?
You equate Waco and Ruby Ridge with “us” as American Citizens?
Granted I understand the “First they came for the...” mentality, but if looters, rioters, Branch Davidians, and biker gangs want to step up and volunteer to be the first to be taken out, then fine. But they do not represent “us”.
Whether it is imminent or not I do not want the military practicing on us.
I stand by that. I don’t want it. These things always begin as just a small item and before you know it someone jackass decides to take it to the next level and so on. Metal dectectors become full body scans at airports and patrolling gangs of “VIPR” units pulling over automobiles at random. How about if they decide to see how effective “free fire zones” work in an urban or open suburbian environment too. That OK also??
“According to the report, another anonymous US Official also claimed that President Obama considered using the military during the Bundy Ranch standoff but eventually decided against it.”
One of the generals at the Pentagon must have explained to Barry what CWII means. :-)
My father used to tell us how, during WWII, he heard some noise and saw the light from a fire near our farm one night and went out to see what was going on. What he found was Army men on “maneuvers” so he approached the group to see what he could find out and his youngest brother was one of the privates there. He sat around the campfire with his brother and the others for some time and then went home to tell my mother what he had learned. I hope this is all just the same sort of training but I don’t blame you for being concerned.
Michael Moore is actually from Davison, a very nice middle-class suburb about 15 miles from Flint. I used to live there. Despite his public persona he is NOT from the ‘hood.
Apparently, you don't.
but if looters, rioters, Branch Davidians, and biker gangs
Well, that's fascinating. What, pray tell, do looters, rioters and bikers have in common with Branch Davidians and Ruby Ridge?
So you know, I don't agree or identify with the Branch Davidians. I do, however, (as should any real American) believe that what was done and how it was done was entirely against any sort of American ideals. Same with Bundy Ranch. The Bundy family is not the poster children for the freedom movement, but what the BLM did was worse.
If you did actually understand the "First they came for the..." mentality, you'd be singing a different tune. When they come for you, don't be surprised if there are those that just sit back and watch.
So now they're one step away from locking and loading live ammo and laying waste to entire subdivisions for training purposes? You obviously have been in different briefings than I have.
That is very much my concern. For all the talk of “libs hate the MIL”, the tables will turn if they can manipulate them.
And MIL people essentially think they should follow orders of the authority - not simply go by what they think or feel.
Frankly I think conservatives spend far too much effort venerating the MIL. They can be used for anything, and that should be remembered from the fears (overdone) of the anti-Federalists as well as some Federalists from our Founding days.
OTOH, I do not think necessarily that any of these training sessions is a portent of ill-intention by the gov or MIL. It is very possibly exactly just that - training in a more realistic(?) setting. It’s not as if the only settings will be dessert or jungle.
I am not overly paranoid about MIL or even LEO, yet, but I do remain skeptical as to just how much special treatment they should get. (Shutting down the Baltimore beltway for every damn LEO that dies for his official gigantic funeral is absolutely beyond the pale, IMO.)
If you did actually understand the “First they came for the...” mentality, you’d be singing a different tune. When they come for you, don’t be surprised if there are those that just sit back and watch.
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Sure. Whatever. I’ll pay attention to you when you start moaning and groaning over the police brutality extended to the Michael Browns and Freddie Grays of this country.
Millions believe the State has targeted blacks and so their rioting and looting is a natural response. Just as if the State came for you and me, we would bunker down and return fire as necessary.
So, they came for the hoodrats in Baltimore. When are you going to start whining over them as you do for the Branch Davidians or even now the biker gangs in Waco?
A different time. Like I said I want to be wrong on this.
How close is it to Dearborn?
keep the military on military bases.... WE HAVE PLENTY OF THEM...USE EM
again....exactly what are the repubs doing about this blatant obama domestic militarization bs..??
and to address the marine comment above
NO THE MILITARY WONT FIRE ON US CITS AND THOSE GENERALS WHO MIGHT HAD BETTER RETHINK THE CONSEQUENCES AND READ THE CONSTITUTION AS IT RELATES TO THEIR OATHS.......
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