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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: Texans organize 'Operation Counter Jade Helm' to keep an eye on the federal troops The U.S. Military will bring over a thousand troops as well as aircraft and heavy vehicles to Texas and six other southwestern states for Operation Jade Helm--an unprecedented special operations training exercise. A civilian group has organized to monitor the training, including companies in Texas that plan to post up at each drill site in the Lone Star State. Photo: Master Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock, HOPD When someone saw a handful of Blue Bell Ice Cream trucks traveling a Colorado Interstate next to a convoy of military Humvees, they knew what they were seeing: mobile refrigerated morgues, “hidden in plain sight,” meant to discretely cart away the civilian casualties of Jade Helm. The author for the All News Pipeline even notes the deep ties between Blue Bell, the Bush family, the Department of Defense, and the Military-Industrial Complex, and raises suspicion over why the company’s unprecedented product recall came in the very months leading up to Jade Helm. Perhaps Texans without ice cream in their bellies will lose the will to fight. Photo: Smiley N. Pool, Associated Press Perhaps the military knows that a giant meteor will bring froth humanity’s final days this September, and has planned Jade Helm accordingly to roll out a fascist authoritarian police state ahead of the impending anarchy. Because you wouldn’t want anyone looting in the Armageddon. Various websites reported predictions of an asteroid strike between September 22 and 28 as common knowledge, without citing sources, and noted that Jade Helm is going down just before they marked doomsday on their calendars. The asteroid theory became inexplicably popular with British media. Unlike most Jade Helm conspiracies, which take a true fact and run wild with it, this one is based on a total fabrication. The usual suspect “alternative news” websites report that a full Russian armada with nuclear-capable missile ships is on its way to Texas to defend the Lone Star State from Obama when Jade Helm kicks in. One poster in the DEFCON Warning System Message Board alleged the Russian move was a "liberation exercise." While the tale doesn’t appear to be based on any actual report, it does come a week after Politico reported that Vladimir Putin was a supporter of efforts for Texas secession. Who would have thought Texas would turn to the Russians in its more dire hour. Photo: Ivan Sekretarev, Associated Press Not long after the public learned of Jade Helm, news broke that six Walmarts across the country were simultaneously closed with short notice. But some folks knew what was happening—the Walmarts, linked by massive, secret underground tunnels, would be converted to civilian prisons, processing facilities and field officers for military leaders as soldiers swept through the state rounding up the Texans and taking them away. Video bloggers laid hand-drawn diagrams of the alleged tunnel system (dated 1974) over Google Maps plots of each freshly closed Walmart in the country, noting that they kind of lined up a little bit maybe. Other citizens reporters fixed their camera phones on the shuttered Walmarts to expose how construction crews were building death camps before our very eyes. Photo: Joe Raedle, Staff The U.S Air Force and NORAD operate a secret Alaskan facility that studies the highest levels of the atmosphere. Some folks claim the military is trying to weaponize the weather. That’s old news. But some claimed the military already had weaponized the weather, and that it threw everything it had at the Lone Star State when severe storms swamped Texas in May and early June. The heavy flooding, some websites wrote, was an attempt by the federal government to soften Texans’ spirits and infrastructure ahead of the Jade Helm invasion. Among the most prominent Jade Helm theories is that the troops are coming to instate martial law. However, it’s important to note that many parties sounding the martial law alarm have been doing so for many years. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, operates emergency relocation camps where massive numbers of civilians could be sheltered if an entire population were to become displaced, say by flooding. Some fear they're meant for internment of Americans if the government ever gets tired of having a populace. Early on in the Jade Helm discussion, prominent alternative news voices announced that Texans would have their firearms confiscated, be rounded up at gunpoint and herded into FEMA concentration camps. Photo: Charles Dharapak, STF Since news of Jade Helm broke, some folks have cried wolf each time a sizable collection of military vehicles was spotted. At least a dozen video bloggers hooped on the MRAP wagon and posted video evidence of the presence of military weaponry in Texas (outside of the 25 bases the federal armed forces operate in the state). Someone posted video of about a dozen heavy vehicles, which Intellihub alleged were empty M270 rocket launchers while acknowledging they weren’t 100 percent sure. Others posted video of dozens of military vehicles traveling by train east out of California. Many users believed the feds are stockpiling weapons in Texas ahead of Jade Helm. Photo: PAUL J. RICHARDS, AFP/GETTY IMAGES Texas are notorious for their spunk. So when a U.S. Military map leaked in April, detailing Jade Helm with Texas labeled as “hostile” territory, many figured the troops were coming to break the subversive Lone Star spirit and reassert federal control. They're going to take our guns and put us down. The major with this theory is that the U.S. Military operates 25 bases in Texas, and the state relies on federal funding, making it unlikely the armed forces would resort to an armed invasion. Photo: Musadeq Sadeq, STF Texas are... Who's said what on US military operation Jade Helm? Photo: Jay Janner, Associated Press Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas Photo: Melissa Phillip, Houston Chronicle Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry Photo: Win McNamee, Staff Chuck Norris, TV actor Photo: BEN WEAVER, CBS Pentagon (Spokesman Col. Steve Warren) WalMart (Spokesman Lorenzo Lopez) Photo: Tim Fischer, Midland Reporter-Telegram Jon Stewart, Comedian Photo: Madlin Mekelburg/Houston Chronicle Gov. Greg Abbott Photo: Cody Duty, Houston Chronicle Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler Former Lt. Gov David Dewhurst Photo: Pat Sullivan, STF Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Clarendon Former Rep. Todd Smith Photo: J.W. PLUNKETT, AP var ndnID = "ndn-video-player-1";possiblyHideInlineZone(ndnID); .perfectPixel {display: block !important} When the troops land in Texas for Operation Jade Helm next week, someone will be waiting for them. Hundreds of people have organized a "Counter Jade Helm" surveillance operation across the Southwestern states and in an effort to keep an eye on the contentious military drill that's sparked many suspicious of Uncle Sam's intentions. RELATED: Covert warfare coming to Texas sparks some fears of federal takeover Eric Johnston, a 51-year-old retired firefighter and sheriff's deputy who lives in Kerrville, is a surveillance team leader in Texas. He'll coordinate three groups of volunteers, about 20 folks in total, who hope to monitor the SEALs, Green Berets and Air Force Special Ops in Bastrop, Big Spring and Junction when Jade Helm kicks off on July 15. With media prohibited at the drills, the volunteers could be a main source of information for the highly-anticipate seven-state exercise. But locations more precise than the towns around which troops will drill remain unknown. For the citizens' surveillance operation, therein lies the first challenge. "If a team member sees two Humvees full of soldiers driving through town, they're going to follow them," Johnston said. "And they're going to radio back their ultimate location." RELATED: Texas governor orders troops to 'monitor' Jade Helm They aren't worried about martial law, he said, but feel like they can't trust the government, and want to make sure the Military isn't under orders to pull anything funny. The Texas volunteers are just one regiment of a national effort, organized by 44-year-old former Marine Pete Lanteri, a New Yorker living in Arizona with plenty of experience on civilian border patrols. He founded the Counter Jade Helm Facebook page, with six thousand members, and he made the webpage and forum to which field reports will be uploaded. "We're going to be watching what they do in the public," he said. "Obviously on a military base they can do whatever they want. But if they're going to train on public land we have a right as American citizens to watch what they're doing." He said the volunteer force includes about 200 people, with the largest group in Arizona. Many former military and law enforcement, as well as lifelong civilians have joined the cause. Lanteri will coordinate the whole seven-state operation from his home in Phoenix, Ariz., where each field report will be received. Other individuals, like Johnston, will lead the efforts in each state, and others still will oversee the operations in each town where Jade Helm will take place. There, volunteers will locate the drill sites and observe. Johnston said there's a strict no-camouflage policy to avoid the appearance of a more radical group, and they'll all be unarmed. With binoculars and spotting scopes, they'll record troop numbers, uniforms and activities. One of Johnston's men, a licensed pilot, even plans on making surveillance flights with his personal aircraft. They'll relay all reports to the headquarters in Arizona. There, Lateri said an intelligence staff, some whom are former Army intelligence workers, will review and verify information before posting it publicly on their website. "We just want to see what they're doing and make that information public," Johnston said. That work seems similar to the task Texas Gov. Greg Abbott gave the Texas State Guard—one of three branches of the state-owned Texas Military—in April when he ordered them to "monitor" the federal troops in Jade Helm. However the Texas Military won't share the details of their orders. In response to a query, a spokesperson said "we are unable to speak about ongoing operations." RELATED: Almost half of U.S. voters are concerned with Jade Helm Abbott called up the guard after Texans flooded his office with fearful questions and comments about the impending exercise. Most thought Jade Helm was a front for a federal invasion and institution of martial law. Those comments mirrored theories about the drill that circulated online, some of which incorporated suspicions of shuttered Walmarts-turned-death camps, giant underground tunnels and century-old global conspiracies. Those notions drew chuckles from across the country, and eventually landed Jade Helm in the national headlines. But the organizers insist the radically conspiracy-minded have been filtered from the surveillance volunteers, and no one among their group fears the imminent opening of concentration camps. Lanteri said he struggles to keep that bloc off his Facebook page. "Once I saw the freaking nut-jobs coming out of the woodwork I was spending half my day discrediting what they were posting," he said. "No nut-jobs will be put in the field." RELATED: Top 8 Jade Helm conspiracy theories But that's not to say they aren't suspicious. Both Johnston and Lanteri think the military is up to something. As far back as November, Johnston heard rumblings of an unprecedented multi-state military drill on web forums he visits for law enforcement training and former military. That was months before the public learned of Jade Helm in March through a military slideshow document with a map that labeled Texas as a "hostile" territory. The uproar that followed pushed the U.S. Army Special Operations Command to send a spokesperson to Bastrop to address the fears of concerned citizens. The crowded town hall meeting did little to ease tensions. Johnston was there. He said it made him suspicious, though he doesn't think Jade Helm is a front for martial law. "If the government wants to put troops in place for a takeover, they aren't going to put them in Bastrop," he said. But he said he doesn't know what is up, he's "got a gut feeling." So he'll return to Bastrop, 130 miles from his home, next week to personally oversee the start of Operation Counter Jade Helm. With an unknown number of federal troops moving between vaguely-specified Texas locations for two months, volunteer staffing will be tight, but they'll try to have someone on call at each location at all times. The first crew is heading out to Bastrop this weekend. Two volunteers took their summer vacations next week, and will take their trailer homes to the piney town and wait for the Humvees to roll by. Army Special Operations didn't address questions about the civilian surveillance operation, but said in a statement, "This training exercise will go mostly unnoticed; not interfere with private citizens and not violate their privacy and rights. It will not disrupt their economies or livelihoods. State and local officials will receive updates as the exercise progresses and they are equally committed to ensuring the training occurs smoothly." Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
Promises, promises...... I like the way they put that -- "humanity and the military." More apt than they may realize!
LOL Yeah, no shit.
... and PS, please Lord, have it hit DC when all the swine are in town.
======================================== A miracle, small one though, and something we can all agree upon. God will do it in His time. No turning back for this nation. U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
You're bad, and that's good :-)
There is no turning back. I'm just wondering what my fate is going to be.
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