Jade Helm Is Harmless - Please Disregard All Contrary Evidence

by Kim D.

If you live in Texas, the words "Jade Helm" are quite familiar and have provoked much anxiety. All conspiracy theories aside, many rational Texans are raising eyebrows when Washington rhetoric doesn't match reality. When Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Senator and 2016 presidential hopeful Ted Cruz addressed the issue, as their constituents expected them to, the Pentagon replied with a "NO!" The military is not "messing" with Texas.

While I'm not ready to put my tinfoil hat on quite yet, it's hard to believe anything that comes out of Washington these days. Even the local news stations are reporting odd things, like the closing of a Wal Mart supercenter in Livingston, about an hour's drive north of Houston. The company claims the closure is simply due to plumbing issues and will reopen in approximately six months. Rhetoric like this doesn't match the reality of what folks are seeing, like military equipment entering rural portions of the state and spotted on or near these temporarily closed Wal Mart locations.

I keep coming back to the logical fact that it would take a crap ton load of soldiers to invade and "takeover" Texas in some form of martial law. And, if they did so here, more than two Wal Marts would be needed to put freedom loving crazies like us in some form of Fema-like camp/prison.

For now, I prefer to believe along the lines of Kurt Schlichter in his assessment of the Jade Helm controversy:

First, let me put your mind at ease about Jade Helm – unless I’m an unknowing pawn of a giant conspiracy, there’s absolutely nothing to be concerned about.

Jade Helm is part of the regular SOF (special operations forces) training cycle to hone our operators’ skills in executing missions in inhabited areas.

People have the notion that our snake-eaters are always out in some jungle or desert, but a huge portion of the world is urban. This exercise helps them learn to better work in populated environments.

Most of our military trains out of sight on massive bases, but the SOF has trained in civilian areas for decades – near Ft. Bragg, civilians in rural areas often participate as role-players.