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The quiet, uneventful end of ‘Jade Helm 15’
09/15/15 09:20 AM
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By Steve Benen
Congratulations, America, you managed to avoid a military takeover of the United States and the dictatorial imposition of martial law.
The military exercise Jade Helm 15 generated enough conspiracy theories this year that it garnered mockery on late-night television, commentary from presidential candidates and reaction from the Texas governor. The basic thrust of the concerns: The military was laying the groundwork for martial law – if not now, then sometime in the future.
The exercise will end quietly Tuesday, however. Carried out in parts of Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida, it will conclude after two months of operations, said Suzanne Nagl, a spokeswoman for Army Special Operations Command, which oversaw it.
The Washington Post’s report added that Nagl does not yet have details on the lessons of the training exercise, but she added that officials at the Army Special Operations Command “believe the exercise overall was a success.”
Remarkably, “success” in this case did not mean the confiscation of Americans’ guns, as part of some kind of military takeover.
If you were away over the summer, you may not know what I’m talking about, so let’s recap. From July 15 to today, the military organized some training exercises for about 1,200 people in areas spanning from Texas to California. Somehow, right-wing activists got it in their heads that the exercises, labeled “Jade Helm 15,” were part of an elaborate conspiracy theory involving the Obama administration, the U.S. military, Walmart, and some “secret underground tunnels.”
It sounded ridiculous because it was ridiculous.
Nevertheless, as far-right hysteria grew louder, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) felt the need to order the Texas Guard to “monitor” the military exercises – just in case. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) stoked the same fires, and even Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) arranged a meeting with Pentagon officials and a three-star Air Force general, just to make sure American officials weren’t planning a takeover of America, or something.
As recently as mid-May – just four months ago – Public Policy Polling found that one-third of Republicans believed the conspiracy theory that “the government is trying to take over Texas.”
I suppose technically, the Jade Helm 15 exercises won’t end until later today, so far-right activists still have a few more hours to worry about the end of American freedom as we know it, but I’m reasonably optimistic that their hysteria was misplaced.
Postscript: As we talked about in July, it’s tempting to think the conspiracy theorists are going to look pretty foolish now that Jade Helm is wrapping up without incident, but right-wing politics usually doesn’t work this way. On the contrary, we’re likely to hear that Obama administration would have hatched its dastardly scheme, but conservatives prevented the crisis by raising a fuss.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-quiet-uneventful-end-jade-helm-15?cid=sm_fb_maddow
Way to go, Lucy. Drink deeply from that cup of Kool Aid. Jade Helm was an incredible success, not because of whatever nonsense is being "reported" by the Corporate News Writers. No, it was an incredible success because we have been overtaken by the military, without even knowing it. It was such an incredible success, that you can't even find one sign that the military has taken over.
Is it any surprise there is a "National Guard" base in every US State, the District of Columbia, and 3 US territories? I think not. This has been the plan all along.
She is right, the conspiracy theory therories were junk. No massive right wing protests, no demonstrations, no right wing nuts attacking the military people for no reason. People just sat back and watched it. Another left wing conspiracy up in smoke.
How you like to ignore reality there, BamaD....
Over on the OTHER....JH15....thread, you stated some really....juicy....stuff. In light of me stating to you, that nothing would happen that was evil, mean, or unconstitutional; how do you plead?
I plead the 1st, you are distorting what I said again.
I never said that JH15 was a plot.
I defended peoples right to speak, you know that they have that right.
The "juciest" thing I said was to ask you how you would like it if a Republican administration labeled PROM as hosilte territory and was going to run a anti insurection exercise there.
You always assume I made the radical statements that you expect rather than the reasonable ones I actually make.
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