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Texas governor tells State Guard to monitor Army training

Right wing paranoia:rolleyes:

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday asked the State Guard to monitor a U.S. military training exercise dubbed "Jade Helm 15" amid Internet-fueled suspicions that the war simulation is really a hostile military takeover.

The request comes a day after more than 200 people packed a meeting in rural Bastrop County and questioned a U.S. Army commander about whether the government was planning to confiscate guns or implement martial law. Bastrop County Judge Paul Pape said "conspiracy theorists" and "fear mongers" had been in a frenzy.

Some Texans are dumber than bag a hammers. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Tom Joad (Post 268833)

Right wing paranoia:rolleyes:

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This can't be serious.

What is this?

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Originally Posted by bobabode (Post 268834)

(Xxxx) Texans are dumber than bag a hammers. :rolleyes:

Fixed it for you.

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Originally Posted by noonereal (Post 268835)

This can't be serious.

Wanna bet?

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What is this?

Texas.

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Originally Posted by Boreas (Post 268843)

Wanna bet?

Texas.

I did a search and found no other story on this.

It's insane and to my mind, grounds to dismiss the governor either on a psychiatric or treason.

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.c...takeover.html/

What strange is this bag of hammers was Rick 'dumber than a box of rocks' Perry's AG. No offense to hammers or rocks.

Texas really should've elected the gal in the sneakers.

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Originally Posted by noonereal (Post 268846)

I did a search and found no other story on this.

I don't see how you missed it.

I doubt it's a hoax.

CBS is carrying it.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jade-hel...from-governor/

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Suspicions about Jade Helm intensified on some conservative websites and social media after a map labeled Texas, Utah and parts of California as "hostile" for the purposes of the three-month training exercise that begins in July. Such war simulations aren't unusual, though the Army has acknowledged that the size and scope of Jade Helm makes it unique.

Jade Helm launched across seven states in the Southwest, CBS affiliate KEYE reported. The states are hosting the exercises on public and private lands. The Army says the terrain and topography in the areas selected are ideal to replicate foreign combat zones.

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news...3342480.735716

"BASTROP —
On a map released by the U.S. Army Special Operations Command to show the fictitious battlefield of the Jade Helm 15 training exercise, Texas is labeled as “hostile” territory." ;)

Pandering. The monitoring will be fictitious.

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Originally Posted by noonereal (Post 268846)

I did a search and found no other story on this.

It's insane and to my mind, grounds to dismiss the governor either on a psychiatric or treason.

Beside the ones already linked to, there's this one. There are more besides.

It's real but, as DQ suggested, the "monitoring" is BS to mollify the morons, a.k.a. Texans

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/m...tion-in-texas/

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Originally Posted by Boreas (Post 268854)

It's real but, as DQ suggested, the "monitoring" is BS to mollify the morons, a.k.a. Texans

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/m...tion-in-texas/

That's the point I was trying to make.

How crazy these paranoid right wingers are.

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Originally Posted by Tom Joad (Post 268857)

That's the point I was trying to make.

How crazy these paranoid right wingers are.

But wait for all the Texas "Patriots" to come out to "assist" the Texas Guard. You know that's going to happen.

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Originally Posted by Boreas (Post 268860)

But wait for all the Texas "Patriots" to come out to "assist" the Texas Guard. You know that's going to happen.

Maybe they would feel better if all the military installations in Texas were closed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...tions_in_Texas

List of military installations in Texas
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base, Houston, Texas
Joint Base San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas
Randolph Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas
Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas
Brooks City-Base, San Antonio, Texas
Camp Bullis, San Antonio, Texas
Martindale Army Air Field, San Antonio, Texas
Dyess Air Force Base, Abilene, Texas
Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, Texas
Laughlin Air Force Base, Del Rio, Texas
Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls, Texas
Fort Hood, Killeen, Texas
Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas
Corpus Christi Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas
Naval Air Station Kingsville, Kingsville, Texas
Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth (Carswell AFB), Fort Worth, Texas
Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex, Grand Prairie, Texas
Hensley Field, Grand Prairie, Texas
Camp Mabry, Austin, Texas
Camp Swift, Bastrop, Texas
Coast Guard Air Station Houston, Houston, Texas
Coast Guard Station Aransas, Port Aransas, Texas
Coast Guard Station Freeport, Surfside Beach, Texas
USCGC Galveston Island (WPB-1349), Galveston, Texas
Coast Guard Station Port O'Connor, Port O'Connor, Texas
Coast Guard Station Sabine Pass, Port Arthur, Texas
Coast Guard Station Saluria, Matagorda Island, Texas
Coast Guard Station San Luis Pass, Galveston, Texas
Coast Guard Station South Padre Island, South Padre Island, Texas
Coast Guard Station Velasco, Velasco, Texas

Update, we now have a presidential candidate "looking into" this.....

Rand Paul is gonna protect TX and the world.....

http://uk.businessinsider.com/r-whit...r-right-2015-4

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In an open letter to the commander of the state guard on Tuesday, Abbott praised the members of the U.S. military, but directed the Texas State Guard to monitor the exercise to ensure that the military did not violate Texans' rights.

"During the training operation, it is important that Texans know their safety, constitutional rights, private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed," Abbott said

The governor's decision to deploy state troops comes after a series of bizarre conspiracy theories began circulating several weeks ago on conservative sites and right wing radio. A post on Teaparty.org claims that in more than 15 Texas cities special forces troops will try to blend in undetected among civilian populations to prepare for the imposition of martial law.

:rolleyes:

There were black helicopters in the air late last night. :eek: Thank God the Governor and Rand Paul are going to save us.

We should have let them secede in 1861 when we had the opportunity.