Martial law in Texas

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Turboooooo: Mar 3, 2010

Totally kidding. But, at least they are prepared for when it eventually does happen.
Soon all the western states shall be under Marshmallow law. Giant Stay-Puf men will rule the earth.

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.

Pape thanked Abbott for the letter to the Texas State Guard, which he believed helped emphasize the benefit of the military training rather than further fuel theorists.

"It's a sad when people's greatest fear is their own government," Pape said. "Think about the ramification of that. If Americans go to sleep at night worrying whether their own government is going to sell them out before morning, it'd be hard to sleep."

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.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-governor-abbott-orders-national-guard-military-takeover

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Iseeyouseemeseeyou: Jan 3, 2011

marshallah, brother!

# ? Apr 30, 2015 05:08

I. M. Gei: Jun 26, 2005; CHIEFS

BITCH

Marshall Law in Texas

I. M. Gei fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Apr 30, 2015

# ? Apr 30, 2015 05:18

Trochanter: Sep 14, 2007; It ain't no sin
to take off your skin, And dance around in your bones!

Turboooooo posted:

"It's a sad when people's greatest fear is their own government," Pape said. "Think about the ramification of that. If Americans go to sleep at night worrying whether their own government is going to sell them out before morning, it'd be hard to sleep."

Then these people can sleep soundly; the government sold them out years ago.

# ? Apr 30, 2015 05:20

Pulp Can Move: Oct 4, 2012

Sell Texas to Mexico while everyone is asleep.

# ? Apr 30, 2015 05:24

Turboooooo: Mar 3, 2010

I'm now wishing I made this a Photoshop thread all about "marshmallow law" And how this will effect all the cities, towns, and Stay-puft

# ? Apr 30, 2015 05:32

Segata Sanshiro: Sep 10, 2011; we can live for nothing
baby i don't care

lose me like the ocean
feel the motion

i'd be ok with a hostile military takeover of texas + the south

whatever happened to supporting the troops you dumb rednecks? lmao

# ? Apr 30, 2015 05:39

glowstick party tonight: Oct 4, 2003; by zen death robot

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# ? Apr 30, 2015 05:42

Edgar: Sep 9, 2005; Oh my heck!
Oh heavens!
Oh my lord!
OH Sweet meats!; Wedge Regret

WITH the chaos in BALTIMORE lizard pawn Obama is seizing TEXAN lands and guns. Make sure you BUY fluoride filters.

# ? Apr 30, 2015 05:46

Ronwayne: Nov 20, 2007; That warm and fuzzy feeling.

mdm posted:

FEMA DEATH CAMPS AGENDA 21 MARTIAL LAW CHEMTRAILS ILLUMINATI LIZARD PEOPLE

But not bodily fluids, the feminist spermjackers took over that years ago.

# ? Apr 30, 2015 05:47

Pinche Rudo: Feb 8, 2005

I welcome our new military overlords

# ? Apr 30, 2015 05:47

Zeroisanumber: Oct 23, 2010; Nap Ghost

The riot in Baltimore is making old white people from the country edgy about the idea of Obama taking over and suspending the Constitution so Abbott sent a bunch of half-trained, heavily-armed, up-jumped civilians out to watch the US Army run around the desert for a while.

So, yeah. It all boils down to sheltered old fucks being scared that the black fella in Washington DC is gonna send the Army to deprive them of their whiskey & incest porn.

# ? Apr 30, 2015 05:50

FrankenVader: Sep 12, 2004; Polymer Records

Texas would be the WORST place to try that poo poo. This is one heavily armed state.

# ? Apr 30, 2015 06:09

reignonyourparade: Nov 15, 2012

Turboooooo posted:

I'm now wishing I made this a Photoshop thread all about "marshmallow law" And how this will effect all the cities, towns, and Stay-puft

that wouldve been a nice thread imo

# ? Apr 30, 2015 06:12

poverty goat: Feb 15, 2004

under martian law doctors and other wizards are forbidden

# ? Apr 30, 2015 06:12

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Pulp Can Move posted:

Sell Texas to Mexico while everyone is asleep.

# ? Apr 30, 2015 06:16

Zeroisanumber: Oct 23, 2010; Nap Ghost

FrankenVader posted:

Texas would be the WORST place to try that poo poo. This is one heavily armed state.

Your daddy's .308 wouldn't do poo poo to an MRAP. But that aside, it's nothing but your idiot governor playing to the idiots who got him elected.

# ? Apr 30, 2015 06:29

Yivgev: May 19, 2004; i brought my +1 ak-47

Zeroisanumber posted:

Your daddy's .308 wouldn't do poo poo to an MRAP. But that aside, it's nothing but your idiot governor playing to the idiots who got him elected.

unrelated but it would be cool to see large-scale maneuver warfare in texas on the plains

# ? Apr 30, 2015 06:36

Young Freud: Nov 26, 2006

Raw Story has an article on a Q&A session citizens had with an Army rep

Some of the choice quotes from that presser...

quote:

Most of the Jade 15 operations will take place on private property with the expressed approval of the landowner, although one participant asked why residents weren�t permitted to vote on it.

�I don�t understand why you would vote on private land use,� Lastoria said.

He said these private landowners were notified of the operation by word of mouth, which prompted chuckles from the crowd, and he said many of them were connected to the military or were veterans.

quote:

One man stood up to ask a series of increasingly specific questions about what would happen to protesters who disrupted Jade Helm exercises and whether the operations would be suspended.

�I would find it bizarre that someone would violate someone�s private property to make a personal statement,� Lastoria said.

The operations are taking place on private land, which the owners, former military or politically connected themselves, who have either donated or being compensated for access to the land. I find the comment about "voting to use private land" particularly funny since most of these bozos are libertardians and the community voting to use or restrict a private individual's land to whom they grant access to, even if it's the government, is pretty tantamount to socialism.

quote:

Most of the role players are also service members or somehow connected to the military, he said, adding that troops should be able to spot them because their clothing might stand out in Texas.

�I said it before and people didn�t believe me,� Lastoria said. �They dress differently in Fort Hill, North Carolina. They just do � it�s bizarre.�

There's speculation that this multi-state exercise is a simulated Mid-East intervention, so it's probably stands to reason that the roleplayers are going to be dressed in clothing that most Americans probably wouldn't normally wear.

Essentially, Texas and Utah are cosplaying as the "hostile states" of Iran and Syria respectively, while New Mexico is standing in for "neutral but sympathetic to hostile" Iraq, the rest playing Jordan, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia, and California is Israel with it's "insurgent pocket" near San Diego roleplaying Gaza.

Also, how can anyone take seriously a logo with a glass slipper in the middle of it...

Yivgev posted:

unrelated but it would be cool to see large-scale maneuver warfare in texas on the plains

You'll be in luck, since Jade Helm is supposed to have a Joint Operational Access Exercise in the middle of it, supposedly a paratrooper drop, I guess to represent seizing oil fields or, more likely, nuclear facilities in Iran.

Young Freud fucked around with this message at 07:08 on Apr 30, 2015

# ? Apr 30, 2015 06:54

Jesus Christ: Jun 1, 2000; mods if you can make this my avatar I will gladly pay 10bux to the coffers

Young Freud posted:

Also, how can anyone take seriously a logo with a glass slipper in the middle of it...

I refused to believe that clip art logo from '94 was the logo of a rather large military training program but then I googled it and... welp.

# ? Apr 30, 2015 07:20

Young Freud: Nov 26, 2006

Jesus Christ posted:

I refused to believe that clip art logo from '94 was the logo of a rather large military training program but then I googled it and... welp.

Internal military documents tend to be rather bland. No one really goes into the military to get a liberal arts degree.

# ? Apr 30, 2015 07:25

Segata Sanshiro: Sep 10, 2011; we can live for nothing
baby i don't care

lose me like the ocean
feel the motion

for the cost of one f-35 the pentagon could hire like, a dozen graphic designers to work for them until retirement

ISIS has slicker looking poo poo than that ffs

# ? Apr 30, 2015 07:30

Iseeyouseemeseeyou: Jan 3, 2011

Feranon posted:

for the cost of one f-35 the pentagon could hire like, a dozen graphic designers to work for them until retirement

ISIS has slicker looking poo poo than that ffs

as it should be mashallah

# ? Apr 30, 2015 07:32