The Walmarts closed for "plumbing problems" will be used for military staging sites.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

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Has anyone else heard that?

[Sheldon Cooper]

1. Sounds preposterous.

Kinda like your governor thinking that the military was planning a hostile takeover of Texas.

[yeoman6987]

12. I can't imagine that would be true.

The money lost for closing the store is too much to do something like that. I am sure it is plumbing. Walmart is all about money and nothing else.

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. It's not.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/conspiracy/walmartclosures.asp

[ellie]

2. Yes, I have heard it.

Alternately, I heard they closed them because employees at these stores wanted to join a union.

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. That is a conspiracy theory. I see you are in Houston with me.

The crazies are out in full force over this, but it isn't true.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/29/jade-helm-15-a-military-simulation-draws-scrutiny-and-wild-speculation-in-texas/

That would be outside of the point of the exercise. These "war game players" are supposed to "blend in."

[LiberalElite]

16. Hmmm - makes me wonder about those "open carry laws"

Who's the war game players? The right wing or the military?

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. Here is some info about the war games

The exercise will be for 2 months starting in July, across six states.
However, Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) will only train in [four] states: Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.

As for Wal-Mart, there are 2 of the closed stores in Texas.

Interestingly, this came in from Denver:

Colorado will not be involved in the upcoming Jade Helm 15 military exercise planned in six other states.

Mark Lastoria, Director of Public Affairs, US Army Special Operations Command, told 7NEWS Tuesday that the military unit that was going to participate is no longer available, therefore no troops will be operating in Colorado.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/colorado-1-or-7-states-in-jade-helm-military-exercise

Leaves a burning question..how does a military unit "become unavailable"?
Sounds as if somebody pulled it out of the exercise, but who, and why?

As for the rumor of martial law and all that, it seems to have from Gov. Abbott of Texas, as I noted here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026598619

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

4. So is this just Walmart's way of unloading unprofitable stores?

[pinboy3niner]

5. That's why we picked stores close to our FEMA camps

Obama '16!

[TBF]

21. ...

[sufrommich]

6. Well, a quick google search shows that Alex Jones

has heard the same thing.

[okaawhatever]

7. I don't believe that they closed them for that reason, but I could see them allowing the military

to use them since they're closed. It would help reinforce their "story" about closing for plumbing problems. Also, at least one store isn't in the Jade Helm AO, the one in FL.

[B2G]

8. Are they putting up inward facing barbed wire?

Or do we have enough of those kind of facilities?

LMAO.

[LiberalElite]

9. That sounds like a rw conspiracy theory nt

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. It is. A big one. And half of my state has gone bananas over it.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

11. I heard about this in the check out line at Costco

which is why I'm asking about it here. I was told there were five stores in Texas closed for plumbing.

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. They were not all in TX. California, Oklahoma, Florida

There was only 2 in Texas. I would delete this post because it is Super Woo.

[sufrommich]

14. Texas thinks Obama is about to stage an attack.

Do you?

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. That's not so. Some of us think Walmart AND Obama are colluding

[Beaverhausen]

18. I also heard Freddie Gray had recent neck surgery

And he had a switchblade. Both wrong.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

19. So has Walmart closed stored for plumbing problems and, if so, what is the real reason?

I don't doubt the military thing is crazy, but so is Walmart closing stores for plumbing problems. Is that also part of the crazy?

[pinboy3niner]

20. Walmart workers believe it's retaliation for labor activism

I know workers at the store that closed in Pico Rivera, CA were very active. When I went to one WM Black Friday protest there were a bunch of workers from the Pico Rivera store there.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

24. That would be cutting your nose to spite your face.

[Runningdawg]

23. I don't put much stock in the rumors

but a lot of people in OK do. A few days ago there was an article in the paper asking people to stay away from the store. It seems every nut job within 200 miles needed to go check it out for themselves.
The rumor here isn't about military staging, it about a processing center for the 9 million illegal immigrants (???LOL) from the ME and SA that Obama is about to force on the US. Jade Helm is the military force that will be in charge of the operation.
Rumor also has it that each center will have its own mosque. I'm not kidding, you can't make this shit up, that's the word on the streets of Tulsa.

[hedgehog]

25. I heard they were using the large lots to attract flying saucers

[etherealtruth]

26. LOCKING

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