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Related: About this forumTwo men kicked out of Camp Swift say everything looks normal (Jade Helm 15 related)
Photo: Jay Janner
A convoy of National Guard troops moves Wednesday on Camp Swift, which is also hosting the Operation Jade Helm 15 military exercise in Bastrop. The National Guards exercises are separate from the Jade Helm operation, which is not expected to involve tanks.
BASTROP 1:45 p.m. update: Two men who said they are in Bastrop to document Jade Helm 15 drove through Camp Swift on Wednesday and were escorted out.
The two, Derrick Broze of Houston and Mark Jankins of Round Rock, said they saw nothing that seemed out of the ordinary for a National Guard post. More generally, Jankins said, standing in the parking lot across from a post entrance, We just thought we would came out and see whats going on, as opposed to having people tell us whats going on, and tell us the United Nations is coming in or something like that.
Broze, who has a blog and a book titled The Conscious Resistance, said he does not believe the conspiracy theories about Jade Helm. But he said he thinks civilian documentation is important to quell fears founded in what he considers excess militarization of law enforcement and surveillance of the civilian population.
Theres a perfectly legitimate reason for people to fear their government will see them as the enemy, he said.
Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/aside-from-a-few-spottings-jade-helm-15-off-to-qui/nmzHd/
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Two men kicked out of Camp Swift say everything looks normal (Jade Helm 15 related) (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Jul 2015
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kentauros
(29,414 posts)1. Yeah, but do those two men look normal?
procon
(15,805 posts)2. All Your Base Are Belong to Us!
Resistance is futile. We are Jade Helm.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)3. Any relation to Matt?
TexasProgresive
(12,165 posts)4. Does the person who wrote the photo caption think those APCs are tanks?
Is it too much to ask that journalists know something about what they are reporting. I don't mean to hijack the thread so
Back to the topic, what a couple of buffoons. If the military wanted to take over Texas it would not be advertized as an exercise.