I do not buy into the Jade Helm conspiracy as a direct threat to us today. My Question is what will Jade Helm be in the future and what is the purpose of this exercise today.
This is obviously an exercise to possibly contain enemies within the borders of the United States which by definition is not the function of the military. I ask two questions, who is the enemy, and why are we training for this?
If you do not know what Posse Comitas means, please find out. It is important.
My dictionary has an old engraving of some woman named Jan,,,or Janet Reno right next to the definition of Posse Comitas?
Jade Helm should be the military practicing to eliminate the sedition of all of the mosques in the US.
The term is "posse comitatus", straight Medieval Latin, and like most Medieval Latin a little screwy, with some explanation required, which I now attempt.
Posse is literally "to be able" (~"to have ability, power"), somewhat bent from its classical meaning. Here it's used as a collective noun for a group of men imbued with the power of the "county".
Comitatus originally meant "accompaniment, company, group", but in the Middle Ages was bent to mean the fiefdom of a count, or Latin comes, comitis (originally, "companion", in the Later Empire a kind of imperial general). We now call such a fief a "county" in the original English sense ("county", "earldom", "principality", "barony", and so on).
So a "posse comitatus" means "the power of the county" as reposed in the "posse" which assisted the sheriff ("shire riever") in administering the count's county.
The point of the argument being that the U.S. military is not imbued with posse comitatus under the Consitution, which reserves the enforcement of the laws of a State to the officers thereof, and to those of the municipalities (counties, cities) of which the State is made up.
And just to be annoying to liberals .... it was the practice, in the 19th century, for state and municipal officers to enforce federal law as well, a fact which bore critically on the task of keeping the size and expense of the federal government well short of outrageousness.
LOL, the federal government has been taking over Texas and the other 49 states for 100 years.
They don't need the military to do it just a compliant congress and media. The process is already 90% complete.