This particular exercise is not intended to impose martial law at this point, but, much more subtly, to season everyone–civilian, federal agent, and soldier alike–to get used to the idea of using U.S. military on U.S. soil against U.S. citizens, in direct violation of over 100 years of U.S. history and the letter and spirit of the Posse Comitatus Law, which was created in the after-math of the Civil War.
There is nothing new about the U.S. government invading unruly States. 650,000 or so dead and countless ruined lives are testament to that. What is new in the modern era is trying to condition soldiers and Federal agents to effectively reject the notion that they joined up to protect justice and freedom–the American Way–and instead learn to trust those who whisper in their ears about sedition and treason, and “anti-Americanism”. They have been hearing since Obama took office about spies and saboteurs and traitors, radicals, wild-eyed loonies, and conspiracy nuts. Some may even be stupid enough to believe that opponents of Obama are racists.
Anything you do repeatedly you condition yourself to. I read the plan is to make this thing an annual event: http://www.globalresearch.ca/jade-helm-15-police-state-usa-the-end-of-posse-comitatus/5445821
Can you think of a better way to stay in practice to pull Texas back into the grasp of the Federal Government than to invade it annually? And they state openly the focus is Texas:
Texas is the main bulk of the activity. We are spread from east to west, north to south, throughout the state of Texas.
If I were Texas, I would tell them to go fuck themselves. I would get some good lawyers on it, and do everything within my power, within the limits of the law, to make the going as hard as possible. They may like that, but that is about all that can be done without firing a shot. And that day may come.
And the American military has never had mass defections, but I wonder how corrupt it has become? Will soldiers follow orders simply because they are given by a superior officer? The President is the Commander in Chief, because he has the PRIMARY responsibility for defending the Constitution, and needs access to force at times to do it. But to the extent he violates the Constitution, no order he gives is lawful, and no unlawful order can be followed by any professional soldier. Only legal orders are to be followed.
But what if he stays within the letter of the law, while being patently abusive? Well, we will likely not be free forever. We will only stay free if the people who need to do hard thinking have the commitment and integrity to actually do it.
And I would ask openly: what overseas mission set could this POSSIBLY be for? The practice exercises use the FBI, DEA, DHS (who he does not name explicitly, and who can be assumed to be the lead Federal agency involved), who do not exist overseas.
How could this be a plan to invade Iran? We have no chance at blending into the civilian population in large numbers over there. Ukraine? Are we planning a war with Russia?
The whole fucking thing does not add up, and the SpecOp folks involved in this need to do some serious soul searching and ask whose fucking side they are on. I’m not sure what the opposite of De Oppresso Liber is, but it seems it is becoming the de facto motto.
That is my two cents.