Operation Jade Helm

[David Guyatt]

Mmm.

Operation Jade Helm: Special Forces Realistic Military Training' In Seven Southwestern States Prompts Martial Law Fears

Operation Jade Helm involves 1,2000 special forces team members being dropped into seven southwestern states as a part of realistic military training exercises. The domestic special ops training has become highly controversial. The special ops soldiers, some of the most elite fighting men in the world, will be ordered to "operate undetected" among the American civilian population.

Beginning in July and lasting for eight weeks, Operation Jade Helm will take place in cities and small towns in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado. For the purpose of training, residents in the entire states of Utah and Texas will be deemed "hostiles." Some of the Army Special Forces teams will reportedly drop to the ground from airplanes while carrying traditional military weapons which will be loaded with blanks, for the realistic military training exercise.
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Operation Jade Helm realistic military training' scheduled to take place in seven southwestern states in July.

But with residents of the entire states of Texas and Utah dubbed "hostile" for the purposes of the exercises, Jade Helm has some concerned the drills are too realistic. Some Americans and Second Amendment activist groups have expressed concerns that the realistic military training exercises designed for Operation Jade Helm are merely thinly veiled drills to practice for future martial law orders.
According to a report in the Houston Chronicle Operation Jade Helm includes plans for the Army Special Forces teams to mingle with citizens unidentified as the residents are asked to report "suspicious activity." The effectiveness of the special ops soldiers involved in the realist military training exercises will reportedly be gauged by how masterfully they engage in such activity without attracting the attention of citizens.
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Operation Jade Helm Master the Human Domain' logo.

The U.S. Military has reportedly been granted permission to engage in the Operation Jade Helm realistic military exercises by state and local officials in the seven southwestern states slated to be involved in the special forces exercises.
Brazos County, Texas Sheriff's Office representative Jim Stewart stated that such military training is nothing new. "Special ops for years have trained off-post for years, where they go out and have folks that are role players out on the economy," Stewart, who is an Army intelligence veteran, said. "They'll have a scenario they'll be following and they'll interact with these role players as if they're in another country."
A U.S. Army Special Operations Command does note that nature the training which will take place in seven southwestern states is vastly more significant that similar realistic military training exercises undertaken in the past.

"The size and scope of Jade Helm sets this one apart. To stay ahead of the environmental challenges faced overseas, Jade Helm will take place across seven states. The diverse terrain in these states replicates areas Special Operations Soldiers regularly find themselves operating in overseas. This exercise is routine training to maintain a high level of readiness for Army Special Operations Forces because they must be ready to support potential missions anywhere in the world on a moment's notice."

Special forces teams which will be a part of the Operation Jade Helm realistic military training include the Navy SEALS, Green Berets, Marine Special Operations Command, Marine Expeditionary Units, Air Force Special Operations Command, the 82nd Airborne Division, and "interagency partners.

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[R.K. Locke]

Well, this isn't at all ominous...

[Dawn Meredith]

Well, this isn't at all ominous...

Ya right...those FEMA camps are just sitting there waiting for some of us. ::

[R.K. Locke]

New from James Tracy:

http://memoryholeblog.com/2015/04/27/whi...e-helm-15/


Whither Posse Comitatus? Special Forces Officer Explains Jade Helm 15 37

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JadeHelmBy James F. Tracy

Earlier this year US Retired Non-Commissioned Special Forces Officer Tom Mead addressed the Howard County Texas Board of Supervisors on the Jade Helm 15 military and law enforcement exercises that will be taking place in across the southern United States in Summer 2015.

"What is Jade Helm?" Mead asks those in attendance.


Jade Helm is a challenging eight week exercise. Truly, in the Martin and Howard County area we're only going to be here for about five-to-five and half weeks. The eight weeks comes in where there is the preparation and planning that happens back in Florida and in the Mississippi area. The exercise is a joint military and inter-agency activity. What this means is that we have units from every military service participating in the exercise with us. And we also have some of our inter-agency partners, such as the FBI and the DEA, and some of the other agencies assisting us and working with us in the exercise. (Emphasis added)

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"The exercise is going to be throughout seven states," Mead continues. "Texas is the main bulk of the activity. We are spread from east to west, north to south, throughout the state of Texas. It is a Special Operations Command, General [Joseph L.] Votel-sponsored exercise to improve Special Operations forces' ability to conduct unconventional warfare as part of the national security" (emphasis added).

In the question and answer portion of the presentation, Mead further explains to board members how Jade Helm, a new exercise he describes as also being developed by US Special Operations General Charles T. Cleveland, will now be conducted within the United States annually.

Further, Mead points out that the FBI and DEA will be involved in "questioning" individuals. It is unclear whether the individuals being interrogated are part of the exercise, or what they will be questioned about. "They will actually do some questioning for us at one of the airports in Arizona." A military or civilian airport? He doesn't elaborate.

Mead also provides a conflicted response when asked by the county officials if only US military and law enforcement personnel will be involved in the exercise. "Do you use any personnel from NATO, the UN or DHS?" one board member asks (at 12:56 in the above video). "Currently for Jade Helm it is US only. We, ah, that has been one of the discussions that, uhm, I'm not sure if it has occurred yet."

A sober observer might conclude (as a portion of the public already has) that Jade Helm is likely a means to acclimate America for eventual martial law. Since September 11, 2001 US citizens have experienced a steady erosion of their civil liberties associated with the dubious rationale of the "war on terror." The increased militarization of law enforcement and now operations like Jade Helm being carried out on domestic soil further indicate how the Posse Comitatus Act, introduced in 1878 and intended to prevent the federal government from using the military for domestic law enforcement, is being steadily eviscerated, though it is important to note that as recently as 2002 the US Congress reaffirmed the significance of the law.

Even the Rand Corporation has suggested that the US military has no clear criteria concerning when and how Posse Comitatus applies to exercises such as Jade Helm. "t is critical," Rand researchers observe in one study, "that the Army develop doctrine, leadership, and training programs that can provide clear and specific guidance on when and how the Posse Comitatus Actas well as any other laws that proscribe Army activities in the domestic arenaapplies and when it does not."

The US military also wants to revisit Posse Comitatus, although it appears to regard it as a quaint formality, particulaly in light of its cavalier insistence that Jade Helm go forward unhindered and on an annual basis. "The Posse Comitatus Act is an artifact of a different conflict-between freedom and slavery or between North and South," one military official argues. "Today's conflict is also in a sense between freedom and slavery, but this time it is between civilization and terrorism. New problems often need new solutions, and a new set of rules is needed for this issue" (emphasis added). Given Jade Helm's active collaboration between military and law enforcement such a remark is especially chilling.

Indeed, elected leaders and the federal law enforcement agencies involved in "partnering" with the military in Jade Helm routinely regard the civilian population as if it were a prolific spawning ground for "terrorists" (e.g. here, here, here, here and here).

The confusion over what should be a clear firewall between civil society and military exploits does not bode well for the US citizenry, who will soon be getting a glimpse in the "homeland" of what NATO and its military do on a routine basis to would be terrorists and their loved ones throughout the world.

[Albert Doyle]

They are doing Jade Helm right now. The obvious final move of the police state.



http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articl...m-15-fears

[Tracy Riddle]

You don't have to be a right-wing kook to be disturbed by this, though the mainstream media and liberal bloggers (and Jon Stewart, who I usually like), are ROFLOL over those crazy conspiracy theorists. The increasing militarization of the "homeland" since 9/11 has gone so far that even "liberals" now think it's just fine. It is gradually becoming the new normal.