General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLiberals invade Texas
Last edited Wed Jul 15, 2015, 08:35 PM - Edit history (1)
The US Army, known to be a bunch of gay liberal immigrant atheists, is invading Texas. Here is something I found. I think it's from the AP, but I don't know. Anyway, it's nice we have some diversity of thought and opinion in our country. I'm just not sure dissent has to be accompanied by weapons. I don't think this violates the "no conspiracy theory" prohibition. These guys seem to think there's a conspiracy, alright, but they need some extra time to come up with a theory. Edit: I guessed correctly. Some further digging reveals it's by Paul Webber of the Associated Press. And I snipped it to avoid copyright infringement problems.
BASTROP, Texas No citizens were rounded up and imprisoned at Wal-Mart. Tanks didn't rumble down city streets in a declaration of martial law.
Eric Johnston wore his handgun on his hip Wednesday, but didn't really believe soldiers participating in one of the largest U.S. military training exercises in history were coming to confiscate it.
Still, he was ready if Jade Helm 15 came to the worst.
"I would like to think that if the situation were to turn afoul, many more of our people would stand up and come to assist," said Johnston, a retired Arizona sheriff's deputy and the Texas organizer of a national group called Counter Jade Helm.
(snip)
Bastrop Mayor Ken Kesselus has spent weeks trying to dampen impressions that his city of 8,000 people is a hive of "wackos and conspiracy theorists."
"The last few weeks I've had 22 calls. One was from a guy in South Texas who thinks (President Barack) Obama is a communist, a Muslim and evil person and wanted me to warn everybody to hold onto their guns," Kesselus said. "The other 21 calls were from press."
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)And they should include a link.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)DU is certainly not a commercial media outlet. Is it because they allow ads to appear in the margins?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)The law is imprecise, but it allows use only of a an unspecified fraction of original content. For our purposes, DU admins have limited it to 4 paragraphs.
lindysalsagal
(20,592 posts)Hey- Now that we own it, we can do what we want with it, right?
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)But they might be comforted to have us.