Posted on 07/14/2019 5:24:42 PM PDT by Kaslin
Just yesterday we were discussing what I’m still holding out hope turns out to be one of the most widespread pranks in history. Nearly 400,000 people have signed on to a crackpot scheme on Facebook to “storm” Area 51, the top-secret military base located near Groom Lake in Nevada. The guy who actually started it is assuring the authorities it was a joke (and begging not to be arrested) but his followers don’t all seem to agree. The situation is being taken seriously enough that the Air Force actually responded to a question about it. While not coming out and specifically threating to burn all of these people to cinders if they cross the fence, they sure sounded like they were implying it. The following was offered up by Air Force spokeswoman Laura McAndrews. (The Hill)
Air Force spokeswoman Laura McAndrews declined to elaborate on specific details.
However, she did issue a warning to those who may be serious about a plan to infiltrate the Nevada Air Force base.
“[Area 51] is an open training range for the U.S. Air Force, and we would discourage anyone from trying to come into the area where we train American armed forces,” McAndrews told the paper.
“The U.S. Air Force always stands ready to protect America and its assets,” she added.
The Air Force stands ready to protect America and its assets. And you can rest assured they have plenty of assets out at Groom Lake. Whether it’s the next generation of stealth fighters being developed or an interstellar cell tower so ET can phone home, they don’t allow anyone in. The other assets they have on hand include both Apache choppers and fighter jets.
Depending on how you read the spokeswoman’s rather veiled comments, it’s not hard to imagine that she’s hinting at precisely what I was suggesting yesterday. If one or two people show up and try to sneak in, odds are some guys in an SUV will show up, tackle you, detain you for questioning for a few days and then let you go. But if more people than can be tackled all swarm the place at once from multiple entry points, particularly if it looks like some of them will make it to the airstrip, what do you think they’re going to do?
Do you really think they wouldn’t give the order to just start ripping the crowd up with weapons? That’s an awfully big assumption to literally bet your life on.
Our Air Force and other military officers take the same oath as most elected officials. They will protect against “all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Don’t become one of those domestic enemies. You won’t like how it ends.
For those who are really curious about what Area 51 looks like but don’t want to wind up as a grease stain in the middle of the desert, here’s one of the most recent videos anyone managed to take of the base. A guy and his son scaled their way up to the top of Tikaboo Peak, from which Area 51 can be seen at a great distance. You’re not supposed to climb that mountain, but they managed to not get caught. The guy dragged up a video camera with an extremely powerful zoom lens and start filming. Spoiler alert: He didn’t see any aliens.
AREA 51 FROM TIKABOO PEAK PART 1 (THE BASE IS VERY ACTIVE)
Wrap yourself in bacon too. It absorbed the heat. Bwaaahaaaaa!
I spent almost 35 years of my life working in areas posted with these signs:
Do people realize the optics and the backlash that would result should the government open fire on a large group of American citizens ... in any case and for any reason
Oh yeah! forgot about that.
And all that grease will help in wiggling out of the tinfoil wrap when it’s all over.
Time to enter the new paradigm. Military has been used for mob control to protect embassies and other sites including Brits in India. Many correctional people have military experience and extrapolated not to handle inmates inside.
Lastly, the US military should have been charged with this Jan 21, 2016 and we wouldn’t be leaking like we do.
Curtiss LeMay would do it in a heartbeat.
Curtiss LeMay would do it in a heartbeat.
Curtiss LeMay would do it in a heartbeat.
Curtiss LeMay would do it in a heartbeat.
It’s a good idea. If we can’t stop the storming of our border we can’t stop the storming of 51. It’s that simple.
(With apologies to Rod Serling):
Consider if you will an innocuous looking perimeter that is in public view. Behind it, picture two 12-foot electrified fences, topped with razor wire, 50 feet apart, with all manner of interesting sensors arrayed between the two fences.
The area between them is patrolled by teams of dogs, all trained to kill silently. With a single bite they can and will remove your sternum and your heart.
AFTER, they kill you, they emit a single bark to summon the guard force to fill out the paperwork, and the meat wagon to haul you away.
No weapons drawn, no shots fired.
You’ve just entered, and permanently checked out of, your personal Twilight Zone.
I did more than a few minutes in that service myself. I would not disregard that sign at a Minuteman III site, and I wouldn’t disregard it at area 51.
This whole thing is intended as a joke, but if anyone does show up, no lethal force is going to be used. Lots of ways to control crowds that don’t involve gunning people down, especially with advanced notice.
In addition to being a general deterrent to keep fools away, the “deadly force” part of the signage is really for those situations where some nut is going in at top speed in his car or something similar where it might be an attempted terrorist attack and a quick decision has to be made. Groom Lake has a long history of people walking a few too feet too close and people just get shooed away or at worst arrested by the local sheriff.
It is simple. ROEs only need to recognize this as an attack with declared hostiles and boom, that is it.
Actually, my friend, there are standing orders when lethal force is authorized. To prevent the access to a nuclear weapon or significant quantities of special nuclear material is one. While it is a good thing that the guards at Oak Ridge who did not shoot the nun who broke in, they were fired for failing to do their job.
Protecting certain categories of classified levels of information at the top secret compartmented level is another. Act like you are trying to break into a SCIF and you will be rapidly subdued by whatever means are required. In a rapidly escalating order, you will voluntarily submit - grinding your nose into the pavement with your obviously empty hands on your head, or you will be involuntarily subdued or incapacitated or you will be dead, but you will be subdued. We don't need to speculate on what kinds of information is kept under wraps at area 51 since we already know that the F117 and B2 were tested there when they were black programs.
Bite your tongue. Some of us want to be entertained with other people's stupidity and misery.
Here’s one way Trump can protect the border - move area 51 there.
Sweet. I’m loving it!
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