did it look like this??? 
Posted on 06/23/2012 12:38:08 PM PDT by JohnKinAK
Submitted by Brandon Smith from Alt-Market
Military Rolls Tanks Onto St. Louis Streets...But Why?
I have to say that this event, which is being labeled a "training exercise", makes very little sense to me. U.S. Army troops all the way from Maryland running open exercises in armored personnel carriers on the busy streets of St. Louis? I know Maryland is a small state, but is there really not enough room at Ft. Detrick to accommodate a tank column and some troops? Are there not entire fake neighborhood and town complexes built with taxpayer dollars on military bases across the country meant to facilitate a realistic urban environment for troops to train in? And why travel hundreds of miles to Missouri? At the very least, this is a massive waste of funds.
On the other hand, such an action on the part of the Department of Defense makes perfect sense if the goal is to acclimate citizens to the idea of seeing tanks and armed military acting in a policing capacity. Just check out the two random idiots the local news affiliate picked to interview in St. Louis on the subject. Both state that they think the exercise is a "great idea", because having the military on the streets would help to "reduce crime":
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/06/us-military-to-run-urban-exercises-in-north-st-louis-residents-hope-it-will-cut-down-on-crime/
I suspect that the news affiliate did not go out of its way to get any counter-opinions, even though they admitted to being contacted by those voicing concerns over martial law.
Even so, it's sad and simultaneously terrifying that there are plenty of mindless dupes out there who do not understand the dangers of the Army crossing the Rubicon and acting in a civil law enforcement capacity, never mind that they are completely ignorant of the fact that it violates the Posse Comitatus Act. One of the interviewees even points out that in some countries they don't use police at all; only military. This is true. We call those countries "tyrannies"...
Add to the mix the reality that the DOD refuses to respond to any further inquiries by the press concerning details of the training, and you get yet another suspicious instance of behavior on the part of the establishment that seems preparatory for domestic action. I believe that the high frequency at which these activity reports have been coming in over the past year is certainly cause for alarm...
I saw one a few weeks ago flying at less then 300 feet here in Connecticut. I couldn’t believe how low it was flying. It was a light blue color.
Maybe they can clean up the North side of the city and then roll in to IL and clean up East St. Louis. But my guess is that Obummer will have them roaming the streets of Clayton, Ladue, Frontonac and Town & Country where the really bad citizens of the St. Louis area live. If he would just clean out these people, their homes and bank accounts there would be no problems in the US.
Your assessment of what Guv Blanko (spelling intentional) in Looziana is perhaps the worst read of events I’ve seen this side of the Ed Schultz Show.
did it look like this???
This is to intimidate Missouri voters to vote for Air Claire McCaskill and the Choosen one.
I'm not departed. I'm still here!
Oh, that Rodney...
If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.
Or you can get raw with these strings.
How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).
Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
Are they preparing for the imposition of “Martial Law”?
It was a baby blue color and it didn’t have any writing on the sides. I never saw such a big plane flying so low in this part of the state. I could feel the ground vibrate as it flew over me.
St. Louis should send two batallions of gang bangers to Annapolis.
it was just a thought, i don't know if there are any private C130's out there or i'd say maybe it was company owned
Suffering from the noise of APCs rumbling down the streets, or being consumed by hordes of unemployed political regulator zombies jonesin’ for their recreational drugs after the bond collapse?
Choices, choices. Enjoy the slide. ;-)
I’ve been reading this paranoic bullsh*t since Clinton in 1994:
*The ChiComms have a million troops in Texas.
*The army has a secret guillotine that can chop off 500 patroit’s head per hour.
* The Russians have 50 tank battalions hiding in Montana.
And now we have an army tank battalion in St. Louis.
So what? I heard that the US Air Force is planning a sortie to drop napalm on your army. Now what will your army do?
A jerk, a realist or both.
Sadly this place is a pale semblance of the America I was born in. Even the Flag is different.
Not to panic. The photo is Russian tanks invading Czechoslovakia.
Nothing like that here, yet.
Say it isn't so!
i second that. she let all those people suffer cause she did not want pres bush to look good.
i will never forget watching the sheep go to slaughter aka as “the dome”.
Whe was that picture taken?
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