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In this batshit insane world it is hard to tell truth from fiction - except that Americans (and people all around the globe) are being asked to surrender their freedoms to the all-powerful state.
It seems we not only have the "liberal" fascist state but the spectre of the American Taliban.
I don't pretend, for a single moment, to understand any of it.
It seems we not only have the "liberal" fascist state but the spectre of the American Taliban.
I don't pretend, for a single moment, to understand any of it.
Are
We Being Psychologically Conditioned To Accept Martial Law In
America?
Have
you noticed that we are starting to be bombarded with images of
troops in the streets? Have
you noticed that the term “martial law” is coming up a lot in
movies, news broadcasts and even in television commercials? In
recent years, it seems like the solution to almost every major crisis
involves bringing in troops. In fact, it has already gotten to
the point where when something really bad happens a lot of Americans
immediately cry out for troops to be brought in. And
we are seeing the same patterns over and over again.
Just
remember what happened in Ferguson – protesters were whipped up to
a frenzy, when the riots began the police were ordered to stand down
and not intervene, and finally National Guard troops were brought in
as the “solution” to a crisis that had escalated wildly out of
control. This is the exact same pattern that we are witnessing
in Baltimore, and as you will see below, National Guard troops all
over the nation have been training for this exact type of
scenario. A
couple of decades ago, many Americans would have regarded the notion
of “martial law in America” as absolutely unthinkable, but these
days the threat of civil unrest is causing an increasing number of
Americans to embrace the idea of troops patrolling our city streets.
The
anger toward the police that we see in the city of Baltimore is very
real, but there also seem to be a lot of signs that the events of the
past several days have been orchestrated and manipulated. This
is something that I covered in my previous article entitled “12
Unanswered Questions About The Baltimore Riots That They Don’t Want
Us To Ask“.
But what we have found out since then is that high school kids appear
to have been “herded” by the police into the Mondawmin
neighborhood in Baltimore when
school was let out on Monday…
When school let out that afternoon, police were in the area equipped with full riot gear. According to eyewitnesses in the Mondawmin neighborhood, the police were stopping busses and forcing riders, including many students who were trying to get home, to disembark. Cops shut down the local subway stop. They also blockaded roads near the Mondawmin Mall and Frederick Douglass High School, which is across the street from the mall, and essentially corralled young people in the area. That is, they did not allow the after-school crowd to disperse.
Even though most of the kids did not seem to have any interest in participating in the much-hyped “purge”, it looks like authorities were determined to get their “purge” one way or another. The following was posted to Facebook by a Baltimore teacher named Meghann Harris…
Police were forcing busses to stop and unload all their passengers. Then, [Frederick Douglass High School] students, in huge herds, were trying to leave on various busses but couldn’t catch any because they were all shut down. No kids were yet around except about 20, who looked like they were waiting for police to do something. The cops, on the other hand, were in full riot gear, marching toward any small social clique of students…It looked as if there were hundreds of cops.
A teacher at Douglass High School, who asked not to be identified, tells a similar story: “When school was winding down, many students were leaving early with their parents or of their own accord.” Those who didn’t depart early, she says, were stranded. Many of the students still at school at that point, she notes, wanted to get out of the area and avoid any Purge-like violence. Some were requesting rides home from teachers. But by now, it was difficult to leave the neighborhood.
“I rode with another teacher home,” this teacher recalls, “and we had to route our travel around the police in riot gear blocking the road…The majority of my students thought what was going to happen was stupid or were frightened at the idea. Very few seemed to want to participate in ‘the purge.’“
This paints a very different picture than we are getting from the media.
But
once the violence and rioting did start, the police were nowhere to
be found. In fact, it is being reported that the mayor of
Baltimore actually
ordered the police to “stand down” and
allow the chaos to spiral out of control…
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake ordered the police to stand down as riots and looting broke out across they city, a new report claims.
According to a senior law enforcement source, the embattled mayor effectively told her officers to do nothing as the city began to burn – raising questions as to whether the rioting could have been stopped.
Finally, after several hours of madness, the order was given and the National Guard was brought in to quell the rioting.
And
it just so happens to turn out that National Guard troops all over
the nation have recently been engaged in something called “civil
unrest training”…
Many of the Guardsmen are trained for a situation just like the one in Maryland.
It’s called “civil unrest training,” and it was recently completed in Tennessee with a local police department.
Troops have also trained in Maryland and Colorado.
“It really helped put it into perspective the person we are going to be up against – the rioter, the unruly person,” said one National Guard official.
The training includes gas mask training and practice with shields and batons.
Isn’t that convenient?
There
are so many instances in which “training” seems to eerily
correspond with actual events. That is one of the reasons why
so many people are concerned about Jade Helm and all of the other
very elaborate military exercises that
are being held around the country in 2015.
In fact, there has been so much concern about Jade Helm that the
governor of Texas has
ordered the Texas Guard to monitor Jade Helm…
Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Texas Guard to monitor federal military exercises in Texas after some citizens have lit up the Internet saying the maneuvers are actually the prelude to martial law.
The operation causing rampant suspicions is a new kind of exercise involving elite teams such as the SEALs and Green Berets from four military branches training over several states from July 15 to Sept. 15
Called Jade Helm 15, the exercise is one of the largest training operations done by the military in response to what it calls the evolving nature of warfare. About 1,200 special operations personnel will be involved and move covertly among the public. They will use military equipment to travel between seven Southwestern states from Texas to California.
The following is a map from Jade Helm materials, and it designates Utah and Texas as “hostile territory”. Yes, I know that this is supposed to be an “exercise”, but even so this is highly inappropriate to say the least…
Lastly, I want to share with you an AARP commercial that appears to have a subliminal message in the background about martial law.
Why
in the world would a television commercial aimed at senior citizens
talk about martial law?
I
have no idea.
If
you listen very carefully to the video
posted below,
you will hear the
following message in
the background…
Riots nationwide have prompted local governments to declare martial law.
The President is asking that citizens find safety and remain calm.
Authorities are working to contain the outbreak.
…
So
what in the world are we supposed to make of all this?
......
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Thousands
of people across the country hit the streets on Wednesday to
support #FreddieGray and
the#BaltimoreUprising.
Unfortunately, the peaceful march in NYC was savagely and repeatedly
attacked by NYPD only seconds after it started. Officers snatched and
arrested nearly 300 random people simply for exercising their rights.
Our brothers and sisters are still in jail and need your help right
now, please donate to the bail fund---->http://bit.ly/actbail and
SHARE to spread the word. We never ask for money, our folks need your
support. Thank you.
Tom DeLay: People keep forgetting that God ‘wrote the Constitution’
The following comes from "progressives" - propaganda against the insane world Far Right extremism in the US
Eyewitnesses: The Baltimore
Riots Didn't Start the Way
You Think
Baltimore
teachers and parents tell a different story from the one you've been
reading in the media.
—By
Sam Brodey and Jenna McLaughlin
28
April, 2015
After
Baltimore police and a crowd of teens clashed near the Mondawmin Mall
in northwest Baltimore on Monday afternoon, news reports described
the violence as a riot triggered by kids who had been itching for a
fight all day. But in interviews with Mother Jones and other media
outlets, teachers and parents maintain that police actions inflamed a
tense-but-stable situation.
The
funeral of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died in police
custody this month, had ended hours earlier at a nearby church.
According to the Baltimore Sun, a call to "purge"—a
reference to the 2013 dystopian film in which all crime is made legal
for one night—circulated on social media among school-aged
Baltimoreans that morning. The rumored plan—which was not traced to
any specific person or group—was to assemble at the Mondawmin Mall
at 3 p.m. and proceed down Pennsylvania Avenue toward downtown
Baltimore. The Baltimore Police Department, which was aware of the
"purge" call, prepared for the worst. Shortly before noon,
the department issued a statement saying it had "received
credible information that members of various gangs…have entered
into a partnership to 'take-out' law enforcement officers."
When
school let out that afternoon, police were in the area equipped with
full riot gear. According to eyewitnesses in the Mondawmin
neighborhood, the police were stopping buses and forcing riders,
including many students who were trying to get home, to disembark.
Cops shut down the local subway stop. They also blockaded roads near
the Mondawmin Mall and Frederick Douglass High School, which is
across the street from the mall, and essentially corralled young
people in the area. That is, they did not allow the after-school
crowd to disperse.
Meghann
Harris, a teacher at a nearby school, described on Facebook what
happened:
Police
were forcing buses to stop and unload all their passengers. Then,
[Frederick Douglass High School] students, in huge herds, were trying
to leave on various buses but couldn't catch any because they were
all shut down. No kids were yet around except about 20, who looked
like they were waiting for police to do something. The cops, on the
other hand, were in full riot gear, marching toward any small social
clique of students…It looked as if there were hundreds of cops.
The
kids were "standing around in groups of 3-4," Harris said
in a Facebook message to Mother Jones. "They weren't doing
anything. No rock throwing, nothing…The cops started marching
toward groups of kids who were just milling about."
A
teacher at Douglass High School, who asked not to be identified,
tells a similar story: "When school was winding down, many
students were leaving early with their parents or of their own
accord." Those who didn't depart early, she says, were stranded.
Many of the students still at school at that point, she notes, wanted
to get out of the area and avoid any Purge-like violence. Some were
requesting rides home from teachers. But by now, it was difficult to
leave the neighborhood. "I rode with another teacher home,"
this teacher recalls, "and we had to route our travel around the
police in riot gear blocking the road…The majority of my students
thought what was going to happen was stupid or were frightened at the
idea. Very few seemed to want to participate in 'the purge.'"
A
parent who picked up his children from a nearby elementary school,
says via Twitter, "The kids stood across from the police and
looked like they were asking them 'why can't we get on the buses' but
the police were just gazing…Majority of those kids aren't from
around that neighborhood. They NEED those buses and trains in order
to get home." He continued: "If they would've let them
children go home, yesterday wouldn't have even turned out like that."
Meg
Gibson, another Baltimore teacher, described a similar scene to
Gawker: "The riot police were already at the bus stop on the
other side of the mall, turning buses that transport the students
away, not allowing students to board. They were waiting for the
kids…Those kids were set up, they were treated like criminals
before the first brick was thrown." With police unloading
busses, and with the nearby metro station shut down, there were few
ways for students to clear out.
Several
eyewitnesses in the area that afternoon say that police seemed to
arrive at Mondawmin anticipating mobs and violence—prior to any
looting. At 3:01 p.m., the Baltimore Police Department posted on its
Facebook page: "There is a group of juveniles in the area of
Mondawmin Mall. Expect traffic delays in the area." But many of
the kids, according to eyewitnesses, were stuck there because of
police actions.
The
Baltimore Police Department did not respond to requests for comment.
Around
3:30, the police reported that juveniles had begun to throw bottles
and bricks. Fifteen minutes later, the police department noted that
one of its officers had been injured. After that the violence
escalated, and rioters started looting the Mondawmin Mall, and
Baltimore was in for a long night of trouble and violence. But as the
event is reviewed and investigated, an important question warrants
attention: What might have happened had the police not prevented
students from leaving the area? Did the department's own actions
increase the chances of conflict?
As
Meghann Harris put it, "if I were a Douglas student that just
got trapped in the middle of a minefield BY cops without any way to
get home and completely in harm's way, I'd be ready to pop off, too."
On
social media, eyewitnesses chronicled the dramatic police presence
before the rioting began:
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