Posted on 05/07/2015 11:39:51 AM PDT by dontreadthis
Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) released the following statement on the ‘Jade Helm 15’ exercises scheduled to take place in Texas and various other states:
“Over the past few weeks, my office has been inundated with calls referring to the Jade Helm 15 military exercise scheduled to take place between July 15 and September 15, 2015. This military practice has some concerned that the U.S. Army is preparing for modern-day martial law.
Certainly, I can understand these concerns. When leaders within the current administration believe that major threats to the country include those who support the Constitution, are military veterans, or even ‘cling to guns or religion,’ patriotic Americans have reason to be concerned. We have seen people working in this administration use their government positions to persecute people with conservative beliefs in God, country, and notions such as honor and self-reliance. Because of the contempt and antipathy for the true patriots or even Christian saints persecuted for their Christian beliefs, it is no surprise that those who have experienced or noticed such persecution are legitimately suspicious.
Having served in the U.S. Army, I can understand why military officials have a goal to see if groups of Special Forces can move around a civilian population without being noticed and can handle various threat scenarios. In military science classes or in my years on active duty, I have participated in or observed military exercises; however, we never named an existing city or state as a “hostile.” We would use fictitious names before we would do such a thing.
Once I observed the map depicting ‘hostile,’ ‘permissive,’ and ‘uncertain’ states and locations, I was rather appalled that the hostile areas amazingly have a Republican majority, ‘cling to their guns and religion,’ and believe in the sanctity of the United States Constitution. When the federal government begins, even in practice, games or exercises, to consider any U.S. city or state in 'hostile' control and trying to retake it, the message becomes extremely calloused and suspicious.
Such labeling tends to make people who have grown leery of federal government overreach become suspicious of whether their big brother government anticipates certain states may start another civil war or be overtaken by foreign radical Islamist elements which have been reported to be just across our border. Such labeling by a government that is normally not allowed to use military force against its own citizens is an affront to the residents of that particular state considered as 'hostile,' as if the government is trying to provoke a fight with them. The map of the exercise needs to change, the names on the map need to change, and the tone of the exercise needs to be completely revamped so the federal government is not intentionally practicing war against its own states.”
Why isn’t this man our House Speaker?
BookMark
Good for Gohmert! Godspeed!
Excellent response! It crystalizes why people are legitimately concerned and upset.
I believe O=the Obama administration is doing this intentionally and deliberately as a mild form of psy-ops.
Sure, why not label American cities as “hostile” and then when people are upset and complain you can label them crazy extremists and the corrupt MSM can ridicule you all day long. See how that works.
So, they declare their political opponents “terrorists”.
Then they plan a military exercise in which they designate areas where their political enemies live as “hostiles”.
Then they declare people in those areas as “kooks” for expressing concern?
Many years ago a journalist received a telegram which read:
“Fatty is in for a big surprise”.
The raid on Entebbe followed hours latter.
Jade Helm may be followed by:
“Skinny is in for a big surprise”
Note that Texas is squarely targeted by hussein's White Mosque. Recall what he did last October to Texas? Since the corrupt regime marks Texas as "hostile", one can only imagine what lies ahead.
Uh...those labels refer to the attitude of the political leadership, NOT the population.
The concept of “voting with your feet” will never be more appropo....
The officials and leaders of this lark would do well to remember Yamamoto’s comments - and that it goes doubly for us here in Texas!
Wouldn’t mind seeing Louie Gohmert as Attorney General under President Cruz.
Thanks, it does show just where the US government considers the enemy to be located.
If the Garland ‘attack’ was any indication, there will be some tails between legs
Bkmrk.
Ha!
Here we go:
>http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1976/08/16/page/5/article/q-a<
Journalist William Stevenson.
The numbers simply don’t work.
The percentage who would follow orders are no match for the populace, even if comm is shut down.
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