100s Of Civilians Plan To Monitor Possible Military Takeover Of Texas

[DonViejo]

If President Barack Obama really is planning to implement martial law under the guise of a military training exercise beginning Wednesday, hundreds of civilian volunteers will be ahead of him.

The Houston Chronicle in a story published Friday spoke with a leader of the Texas branch of a civilian surveillance group calling itself "Counter Jade Helm." Eric Johnston, 51, told the newspaper that he's expected to coordinate 20 volunteers throughout the Lone Star state who will monitor incoming troops.

"If a team member sees two Humvees full of soldiers driving through town, they're going to follow them," Johnston told the newspaper. "And they're going to radio back their ultimate location."

The operation dubbed "Jade Helm 15" is expected to take place across seven states from July 15-Sept. 15. A map from the U.S. Army had labelled Texas as "hostile territory" for the purposes of the training exercise, generating suspicion among Texas residents and giving fuel to an Internet conspiracy theory machine that churned out hundreds of rumors about martial law and secret detention centers inside shuttered Wal-Marts.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/counter-jade-helm-citizen-surveillance

[HooptieWagon]

1. Poor teabaggers...

The sun has baked their brains.

[virtualobserver]

2. here we go

[Whiskeytide]

3. What's really great...

... about this (for them) is that these guys will be able to claim credit for preventing the takeover when it doesn't happen. They'll be militia heroes!

[jwirr]

17. Or they will be in jail for inferring with the whole thing. Idiots.

[tymorial]

4. lol

[gratuitous]

5. 20 guys to monitor Texas

Should be plenty. Let's hope none of these knuckledraggers gets himself shot. With his own piece.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Big hats, no brains.

[Vinca]

7. The amazing part is that the fools have no clue that they're fools.

For starters, why would the U.S. have to "take over" Texas? Unfortunately, they're already ours.

[Electric Monk]

9. The Dunning-Kruger effect

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude. Conversely, highly skilled individuals tend to underestimate their relative competence, erroneously assuming that tasks that are easy for them are also easy for others.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

[Vinca]

14. Thanks for the information. I'll have to read more about it.

[hifiguy]

15. Yep. You have to be at least a little bit sane to realize

you might be crazy, or at least a little bit smart to realize that you might be stupid.

An interesting paradox.

[11 Bravo]

8. For argument's sake let's suppose that the US military ...

actually did decide to "take over" Texas. Exactly what in the Billy Blue Fuck would twenty teabaggers do to thwart them?

[vinny9698]

10. They will then take credit for stopping the invasion

If it wasn't for their involvement there would have been an invasion.
Heros all

[procon]

11. Even though these moron are certainly mock-worthy, it makes me both mad/sad

that this level of ignorance has moved out of the dim basements of cloistered conspiracy theorists, to become a laughable comedy skit for public amusement and a stepping stone to further the careers (and future earning potential) for third string, charletan political characters.

[NuclearDem]

12. Once someone explains how federalism works...

these mouth breathers will shit themselves.

[-none]

13. Then they will spout 'States Rights' and claim sovereignty over the federal government.

[treestar]

16. these idiots really do not understand the concept of a military exercise