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Title: Readiness Exercise 1984 - You will be caged - Watch the video
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Rex 84

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Rex 84, short for Readiness Exercise 1984, was a plan by the United States federal government to test their ability to detain large numbers of American citizens in case of massive civil unrest or national emergency. Exercises similar to Rex 84 happen periodically. From 1967 to 1971 the FBI kept a list of persons to be rounded up as subversive, dubbed the "ADEX" list. (Donner, Age p. 166.)

According to scholar Diana Reynolds:

The Rex-84 Alpha Explan (Readiness Exercise 1984, Exercise Plan), indicates that FEMA in association with 34 other federal civil departments and agencies conducted a civil readiness exercise during April 5-13, 1984. It was conducted in coordination and simultaneously with a Joint Chiefs exercise, Night Train 84, a worldwide military command post exercise (including Continental U.S. Forces or CONUS) based on multi-emergency scenarios operating both abroad and at home. In the combined exercise, Rex-84 Bravo, FEMA and DOD led the other federal agencies and departments, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Secret Service, the Treasury, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Veterans Administration through a gaming exercise to test military assistance in civil defense.

The exercise anticipated civil disturbances, major demonstrations and strikes that would affect continuity of government and/or resource mobilization. To fight subversive activities, there was authorization for the military to implement government ordered movements of civilian populations at state and regional levels, the arrest of certain unidentified segments of the population, and the imposition of martial rule. [1]

Existence of a master military contingency plan, "Garden Plot" and a similar earlier exercise, "Lantern Spike" were originally revealed by alternative journalist Ron Ridenhour, who summarized his findings in "Garden Plot and the New Action Army", (CounterSpy, 1975).

Rex 84 was mentioned during the Iran-Contra Hearings in 1987, and subsequently reported on by the Miami Herald on July 5th, 1987. As news of the exercise spread, it was amplified by networks of people pursuing more elaborate conspiracy theories.[2]. See for example the Miami Herald article reproduced on this conspiracy theory website.

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References

Donner, Frank. The Age of Surveillance: The Aims & Methods of America's Political Intelligence System. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1980.
Diana Reynolds, "The Rise of the National Security State: FEMA and the NSC," CovertAction Information Bulletin, issue #33 (Winter 1990).[3]

"in any other country, it would have been called a coup and they seemed to have gotten away with it."

The Rainbow Gathering has been thousands of peaceful people spending time together in the wildlands of America since 1972. They employ the right of assembly to peacefully celebrate brother and sisterhood with people from all ages and walks of life for around two weeks at the end of June and the first Part of July.

They are now declared by the Agricultural Department as "National Incidents." This year at the gathering in Colorado, law enforcement agents (LEAs) carrying the carbine version of the M16 A2 assault rifle harassed and bullied people who went to the gathering to the extreme.

One woman I know saw one of these LEAs pepper spray her dog when it greeted him in a friendly way and was sprayed herself when she protested. One ten year old boy was nearly removed as a "runaway" and was finally given a short time frame to find his parents who were there which he did. In the aftermath it was obviously a bullying of the lad and showed others witnessing this that if they were not afraid to reduce a child to tears and to use him as a foil for bullying, they would gladly do that or worse to an adult. Allot of very sophisticated psychological tactics and techniques were used by these LEOs in what they did in Colorado this year, and we should be all disturbed by this,

A friend of mine who is advanced party says these LEAs spoke of Rainbow Hippies are "terroristic" and "dangerous." Thousands of tickets were issued and a mobile courtroom was set up to handle the preliminary adjudication of these harassing actions of people peacefully enjoying the woods far from civilization. He tried to rent Ryder trucks but was informed by Ryder they were advised not to rent to perpetrators of a "National Incident."

When the first roadblocks tried to keep people from returning to there tents and equipment they peacefully surrounded the LEAs and these men freaked out to a long standing use of non-violent action to draw rifles on these people and scream that if people didn't move, they would first shoot the pets in the crowd.

They suppressed attendance, there is no doubt of this, and they are going for an eradication of these gatherings. How you can call people gathering in the middle of nowhere - many of who have homes, families and jobs "terrorists" and "dangerous" is incomprehensible.

I will be going to the next gathering and will be doing "cop watch." We have many photos of these LOAs assaulting and harassing people, and I will try to get many of them scanned and posted as a picture is worth a thousand words.

There are things happening that point to bigger and much worse things happening. My friend was most disturbed by an overheard conversation where LEAs spoke of the job of disrupting the gathering as "training" and "a great training" for something or the other.

The next gathering will be near Texas, and I am going to document these operations myself, or die trying.