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Not a bad idea
Our Texas governor is catering to the cray cray crowd. Watch it backfire, and make them more nutty.
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Texas governor tells State Guard to monitor Army training
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 su ions 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."
Su ions 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.
Texas and six other 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.
No other governor had so publicly addressed the training exercise.
"It is important that Texans know their safety, cons utional rights, private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed," Abbott wrote. "By monitoring the Operation on a continual basis, the State Guard will facilitate communications between my office and the commanders of the Operation to ensure that adequate measures are in place to protect Texans."
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria told the crowd in Bastrop on Monday that the exercise will involve 1,200 soldiers and all four branches of the military, according to the Austin American-Statesman. He said people with a "personal agenda" about the exercise had been spreading misinformation.
Lastoria spoke for two hours, but some left the meeting still unconvinced.
Pape told The Associated Press that some came from as far as Houston and Dallas to attend the meeting. He said the county could reap as much as $150,000 in economic activity from the exercise, which in Bastrop is set to include 60 soldiers, two Humvees and a helicopter.
Bastrop County is home to Camp Swift, the largest base for the Texas National Guard, and Pape said most people likely won't even notice.
"There's been a lot of dust thrown in the air, a lot of haze," Pape said. "Those who wanted to raise concerns on the one hand succeeded. They've raised a lot of attention about this. But the fact is the message is clear: Jade Helm is a well-designed and a well-constructed training operation."
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Associated Press Writer Eva Ruth Moravec contributed to this report.
http://news.yahoo.com/texas-governor...210305780.html
Not a bad idea
This isn't real is it? It's an onion article lampooning the right in general and the governor of Texas, specifically... Right? RIGHT?
^no it's called a real patriot investigating a thread. Go yourself with a sawed off and pull the trigger
Thanks for the suggestion, but I have not cultivated the ability to shove long black (or any other color) tubes up my ass as it seems that you have. No, I get my sex a different way, from my wife.
Don't worry though, no judgment here. Continue doing what's right for you, even if it means shoving random men, or objects up your corn hole.
Nothing wrong with keeping the government honest. Maybe they aren't up to anything but I sure don't trust everything they say at face value.
Nothing crazy about being skeptical of the U.S. government.
but you trust BigCorp?
Nope. But their interests are closer aligned with mine. At least for the short term.but you trust BigCorp?
Lol changing the subject.but you trust BigCorp?
nope, ctoa brought up skepticism, the other side of which is trust
You cut off half my post. But yeah...having a job and being rewarded proportionately for my skills and work is way more desirable to me than me working to support food stamp pontiffs such as yourself.
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."
So we use the government of Texas to monitor the U.S. Government exercises...
Did he clarify which government we are supposed to be afraid of? Who will the Bastrop Police Dept. monitor? Can the neighborhood associations align and try to watch everyone?
Fkn country nutcase...
pontiffs?
Texas GOP lawmaker: ‘What is going on in Baltimore’ is because of too many gay marriages
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/texa...e+Raw+Story%29
TX Repugs, what a Klown Kar! and who let the Hispanic/Mexican in?
Bend over, I'll show you weird.pontiffs?
try to stay on topic. I suggest you not introduce your cornholing sexuality.
boutons can't believe that anyone believes in anything besides being born, walking in meek servitude of the man, misery and death. occasionally he does so in grammatical English.
#cornhole
while hole is really butthurt, nearly as bad as TB
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^^^right on cue with the semi-grammatical comeback
http://www.texastribune.org/2015/04/...ational-stage/The latest high-profile response to Abbott's letter came Thursday, when former state Rep. Todd Smith, R-Euless, sent a scathing missive to Abbott accusing him of "pandering to idiots." Smith, who served in the Legislature for 16 years, told Abbott he was "horrified that I have to choose between the possibility that my Governor actually believes this stuff and the possibility that my Governor doesn't have the backbone to stand up to those who do."
"I am appalled that you would give credence to the nonsense mouthed by those who instead make decisions based on Internet or radio shock jock driven hysteria," Smith wrote in the letter, which he also sent to the House and Senate. "Is there ANYBODY who is going to stand up to this radical nonsense that is cancer on our State and Party?"
grammar smack!
couldn't happen to a more deserving poster
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