Posted on 05/05/2015 5:03:51 PM PDT by robowombat
May 4, 2015 By Staff Writer
Abbott Cruz
‘Operation Jade Helm 15’ involves special operations units of the U.S. military working in conjunction with government and law enforcement agencies in several southwestern states.
The operation has raised eyebrows across the country. Is it a test run for implementing ‘martial law’ in selected cities identified as “hostile” by the government?
Conspiracy theorists think so.
Or is it simply a run-of-the-mill training mission?
Nobody seems to have access to enough detailed knowledge about the exercise one way or the other. Therefore, speculation has run wild.
Many claim the exercise will be a trial rollout of martial law; others believe it will be a training mission for snatch-and-grab operations to round up and “disappear” dissidents.
Few claim or demonstrate trust, faith or confidence that the government-directed exercise is intended to expand individual liberties. Rather, they perceive another flexing of government’s iron fist squeezing liberty out of the individual’s life.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has directed the Texas State Guard to monitor operations as they unfold.
Abbott wrote a letter to Maj. Gen. Gerald ‘Jake’ Betty, Commander of the Texas State Guard, “During the training operation, it is important that Texans know their safety, constitutional rights, private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed.”
“By monitoring the operation on a continual basis, the state guard will facilitate communications between my office and the commanders of the operation to ensure adequate measures are in place to protect Texans.”
In typical fashion, the White House has tried to assure the White House Press Corps there is nothing to worry about. Press Secretary Josh Earnest smoothed concerns over with, “The thing that I can say without having a lot of detailed knowledge about the particular exercise is that in no way will the constitutional rights or civil liberties of any American citizen by infringed upon while this exercise is being conducted.”
Without being in control of ‘a lot of detailed knowledge,’ it would seem a stretch for anyone to offer much in the way of assurances.
What can be expected when trust is virtually non-existent?
Yes one of the closed Walmarts does sit on near one of the sites of these old military factories that most likely was interconnected on that tunnel system.
Now one that in Pico Rivera on the old B2 site could be a coincidence.
But if any of the other Walmart sites that are closed across the country just happen to be on locations where former military factories or facilities were located????...... that would be very interesting...and I hate tin foil hat bs but that would be just extremely incidentally interesting....
Besides all the 6 closed at the same time because they all have sudden plumbing sewer system problems?
That's a pretty good cover for heavy equipment and digging (reactivate closed tunnel systems?)..
For those Beltway inhabitants who may see themselves as political overlords, `The Hunger Games’ was a work of fiction. The District of Columbia isn’t the omnipotent `Capitol City’ and the states aren’t provincial districts.
The feds are the creatures of the states, not vice versa, and their home is a small, triangular shaped parcel between Maryland and Virginia and very small federal enclaves, buildings and military installations in the states.
And again, they are guests in the states where we live and not the other way around. The founders of this country accepted these things as unspoken verities.
I would say more than likely the Obama WH is hoping for a confrontation between military and civilians.
Taking a cue from B Clinton in the 1990s, military would drop into a town in the middle of the night and no one, not even local law enforcement, had been told about the training operation.
Someone will make the dems favorite excuse “an honest mistake” and not tell anyone on the ground the military is going to be doing a training exercise.
Military dropping in wont have a clue no one on the ground knows they are coming.
Civilian law enforcement on the ground will hear gunfire and go to it.
The military will be firing blanks, law enforcement/civilians on the ground wont.
“I suspect the USMC would be kept pretty much out of any real national ‘anti-terrorism’ operation.”
Attack USMC families and see what happens. We’ve dealt with black radicals in the military before. They were neutralized.
I did contract work for the Israelis in 2011 when Qaddhafi ordered his army to shoot civilians. About 75% deserted, returned to their homes and joined up with the provincial militias.
The slaughter of Qaddhafi’s southern mercenary army, his bureaucrats and the cadets (boots), along with his loyal commanders, was incredible. They were buried in mass graves by the thousands.
Your contention that the US Army will blindly slaughter Americans is full of crap.
I’ve got a map drawn by a local man (now deceased) who claimed that the Russians had a tunnel from the gulf of Mexico up into an underground lake in NW Arkansas and they were unloading supplies from submarines there to take over the USA from the inside.
This map was made about 45 years ago.
Now that I think of it, Walmart is in NW Arkansas!
“This is no drill” I am reminded of the message from Pearl Harbor on December 7. I believe that this is an actual stealth attack in the making, a Reconquista, a plan to retake Texas and give it back to Mexico.
I remember that.
First off no slaughter would be necessary just ‘friendly’ intimidation. Simply suspend Habeus Corpus and Posse Comitatus due to eminent threat (the GOP in Congress would mostly go along) and arrest a few thousand trouble makers. Every President of both parties is familiar with the Abe Lincoln playbook and this operation would be a very big version of the US government's takeover of Maryland in ‘61. Americans are not going to risk their lives and property in a situation where they will be confused by misdirection and mis information and manipulated optics on a grand scale. Active measures will be employed. Little shooting but much propaganda some of it armed propaganda.
Most of the Army mid level personnel I met where either middle class careerists focused on paying the mortgage, getting their pension and figuring out post retirement employment or uniformed bureaucrats. The warrior ethos has about expired in much of the Army other than the ever smaller slice that are true combat arms types.
You have a good point there. The two are symbiotic, insofar as both Communism and Islamic law are utterly contrary to our founding principles in terms of self-governance. Well, his time is about up. He and his sycophants are about to find out what it means to live by the rule of law as established under our Constitution.
While the exercise is being conducted.
Well there was underground construction under the West Wing for several years at the end of the GWB Administration.
>>Many claim the exercise will be a trial rollout of martial law; others believe it will be a training mission for snatch-and-grab operations to round up and “disappear” dissidents<<
Good grief! Disappear folks?
Pico Rivera, CaliforniaSocial media users have theorized that the WalMart “plumbing problems” are somehow connected to the “Jade Helm 15” conspiracy theory or are a ruse for constructing tunnels and “repurposing WalMart properties as “FEMA camps.
Valrico/Brandon, Florida
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Livingston, Texas
Midland, Texas
Okay, I get it. We’re playing comicbook scenarios.
Let’s do it: How will the DC politicians deal with the 2ndMarDiv coming up I-95? Remember, now, that the 2nd Marine Airwing will be dropping napalm to soften up the heroic DC politicians.
Do you realize how silly this sounds?
Folks are letting their imaginations run freakin wild.
That's the point , its not. Any such event would have the narrative set by the media. Remember Bill Clinton committing serial acts of perjury and a laundry list of other offenses and it suddenly be turned into ‘It's just about sex and everyone lies about that.”
Some sort of set of events will be either created or sporadic reaction by militia types to these events will be turned into a ‘terrorist threat’. Whatever the Reich stag moment will be exploited. In a flash ‘enabling acts’ will be passed and there will be zero in the way of mass resistance.The left understands how to frame an issue and use selected facts, half -truths, and pure lies to create the appearance of reality. The media are and for the foreseeable future will be the allies of the left and will run the ball in whatever direction is desired.
‘2nd Marine Airwing will be dropping napalm to soften up the heroic DC politicians.’ I do have to question your bona fides after a remark such as this. Napalm has been out of the inventory for several decades and will not likely ever be used again by the US military due to very bad ‘perceptual optics’.
You may believe that but I assure you those who reside inside the Beltway don't and they firmly believe that the alliance of national government muscle and dollars and Wall Street and the media/Hollywood complex can control and overmaster just about anything that the ‘provincials’ can throw their way.
Not really, it's plain as day in the preamble to the Bill of Rights:
THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.
RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.
ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.
You would think that there would be training mission on how to line up our troops along the white part in the south of all these states. no?
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