Devin Pike of Dallas, Texas, known on Twitter as @justdevin found a new way to enjoy the Jade Helm (Non)-Invasion of Texas: he is live-tweeting his own internment in one of Emperor Obama's FEMA re-education camps - or possibly a Wal-Mart.
And so it begins . . . #JadeHelm15, the military operation that is making heads explode all over the Southwest. I believe the Military may be doing a psy-op on people like Alex Jones and his listeners to bring the real loonies out into the open. It's working!
According to one Facebook, Russia wants to save Texans from the Evil Obama Invasion, and they are working with China to mount their own invasion from the south. No, really! I saw it on the Internet!
More news folks- This is not disinformation.. A portion of the Black Sea fleet is in the Atlantic a couple miles from us waters..the rest is refueling and taking on drinking water near Spain and headed this way.. The Russian "carrier killer" loaded with nuclear weapons is leading the pack with 10 subs and a sub wreckage recovery vessel. And unknown to the main of US citizens, Russian aircraft have been doing recon on the West Coast and Alaska.
This is in direct response to the US/NATO occupation of the Black Sea during Russia's problems with Crimea. Russia is not 100% for the people but it has stated it will back and protect any states deciding to leave the US Obama regime... That is why the Armed Forces haven't been prepping 100% for overtaking US citizens for it's under the idea of Russian naval and China/Mexico coming up from the south to help Texas and move north..
As an American how do we know the people controlling this site are American, and have the best interest of Americans. Are you just Russians and Chinness playing war of the world's on Facebook? If we can't trust our own troops how can we trust a random Facebook page who has all this proof with no proof?
~ Hillbilly B. on Jade Helm 15 Information Facebook
There's also the scary "Doomsday Plane" flying around - that must mean it's Doomsday, right?
WTF is the Doomsday Plane doing flying over Edwards Airfare base? Is the United States preparing for Nuclear war?... http://t.co/VKWs5ZHpIp
New World Order! I try to educate people on this all the time but they think I'm crazy. Keep living in your bubbles people. The government tries to dumb us down by feeding the media with focus on racial wars, confederate flag drama, same sex marriage and the obvious technology, new cell phones and "pretty" new electronics you can have. If everyone focuses on all that nonsense, then they are not paying attention to the shady things the government is really up to!! WAKE UP AMERICA!
~ Angie on Jade Helm 15 Information Facebook
It could be the Anthrax spread by spread by evil (Bluebell) Ice Cream Trucks or something. Get dibs on a plastic coffin now!
The Lord gave me a vision of Jade Helm and I saw military vehicles blocking the streets in major cities so that no one can come in or go out. I was wondering why they were blocking the streets and it came in my spirit that it was a quarantine. And that would be caused by some sort of disease outbreak, then I heard the word "Anthrax". So I looked it up and found out it is the best choice for biological warfare because its easy to produce and the spores can survive just about anything. It can survive extreme cold, extreme heat. It can be spread through the air, like from an airplane, through the water and can grow in the dirt on land. Just a small amount can kill thousands of people. Then I thought about the plastic coffins they are stockpiling in which I heard would most likely be used in the case of disease and pestilence. It explains the ice cream trucks and the incinerator trucks and may even explain why there is no water in my dream and why so many people are saying the water will be poisoned because It will become contaminated. I have read that even boiling the water will not kill the spores. Jade Helm starts July 15th and runs through september 15th so it could be anytime when it is done, however there are some indications that the time for the rapture must be now.
Or it's just about putting Americans in Concentration Camps - haven't we been saying that for nearly 8 years? It has to come true someday or else . . . we might be . . . you know . . . CRAZY!
The ultimate goal of Jade Helm is to train troops to control American citizens: Rounding them up, putting them in camps, isolating troublemakers, etc.
In this exercise, Americans are the enemy.
Are there still folks who do not see this?
~ T-Bone Texan on Free Republic
It's sad when your called a nut or a conspiracy loony just for demanding transparency from the worst government this country has ever seen.
~ Joel G. on Jade Helm 15 Martial Law Facebook
I have absolutely no trust for our current government....I have wondered if all of this talk about flags, etc. (i.e. Confederate Flag, Confederate Monuments) is just a diversion to keep Jade Helm out of the news.
~ William M. on Operation Jade Helm and Beyond Facebook
Body bags, mobile morgues, concrete tombs, body disposal units, CDC warning of epidemic, mass supplies of ammuntion, missiles, missile launchers, military tanks, foreign soldiers. Nah nothing going on here go drink your koolaid.
~ Norma B. on Operation Jade Helm and Beyond Facebook
Above all, Keep Obama Off Mah Land!!!
My only real concern is that if they are traveling through, 'both public and private land,' are they going to do so by cutting the fence on my property? Yes, I realize this article only says public land, but what the govt. has said is both public and private... There just isn't THAT much public land in Texas. Is an Abrams going to roll through my ranch/let all of my exotics out? Who'll pay for the tens of thousands of dollars that they're worth? I know my ranch house gets used as a waypoint (or target maybe) for T-38 training jets, so it's 100% conceivable that it'd be included in this.
~ comment by JWP on the Houston Chronicle
If they maneuver through my private property, you will read about me in the papers the next day.
~ jy8z on Free Republic
Oh, it's just generally due to Obama. Just everything!
So much for the First Amendment under imam Barack Hussein Obama!
. . . cutting off the press seems to me to be a smoke screen for what is really going on behind the scenes. And make no mistake, Barack Hussein Obama knows exactly what he's doing, but like his birth certificate, Social Security number and Selective Service form, he will not allow the truth to come to light. He is, therefore, guilty of hypocrisy when he tells others, "The only people that don't want to disclose the truth, are people with something to hide."
~ Tim Brown on EagleRising.com
Under normal circumstances this would be just another summer military exercise, granted much larger than normal. But these are not normal times with the current occupant of the White House and with the current government we have in Washington D.C. Obama hates America and is doing everything in his power and many things illegally and outside his power to destroy her (see "fundamentally transform"). And unfortunately he is succeeding. So real Americans don't trust Obama any further than they can throw an Army tank. They have a right to be suspicious of this guy and his motives. So the lefties out their can make fun of real Americans all they want, makes no difference to me. But Americans better watch out for this guy. He's not done yet.
~ GrandpaTX on the Houston Chronicle
I am looking forward to the Jade Helm 15 invasion of the Southwest by the U.S. Military - the lights, the sounds, the smell of Tea Party sweat, the sounds of responsible gun owners shooting themselves in the feet, the twitter meltdowns and shrieks about impending doom and total batsh*t freakouts and Obama insults. I honestly cannot wait - I need more popcorn!
It's supposed to start July 15 in some of the southwestern states.
Lovers of the Confederate Flag are losing their minds over the recent push to rid our country of the symbol of hate.
In a conversation with black pundit Juan Williams, Bill O'Reilly insisted the flag represents "bravery" not hate. Transcript Via Media Matters
O'REILLY: That's a positive and I just -- got to go. You say the Confederate flag is a symbol of hate and you believe that.
JUAN WILLIAMS: That's the way I feel when I see it.
O'REILLY: Okay, okay. And absolutely 100 percent legitimate. For some other people who see it in a historical context --
WILLIAMS: What's the historical context?
O'REILLY: It represents bravery.
WILLIAMS: Oh get out of town.
O'REILLY: In war.
WILLIAMS: They put it up in anger when they were trying to mass resist the Civil Rights Movement in the 60's. O'REILLY: You know as well as I do that it represents, to some, bravery in the Civil War because the Confederates fought hard. But that's what it represents. You're right historically, but in their minds, that's what it represents. And in your mind it represents hate. So, and everybody should know what the two sides are believing.
Bill O'Reilly argued that racism is not an "epidemic" in America.
"I’m saying that the world is being told by anti-American haters that we are a rank, racist society, and that is a lie," O'Reilly told Powers during the segment.
After O'Reilly turned to another guest on his show, he accused Powers of "snorting" while the guest was making a point. Powers balked at the accusation, and the two quickly began debating racism again.
While arguing over whether everyone in the U.S. acknowledges the legacy of slavery in the U.S., Powers told O’Reilly, "There are actually a lot of people in this country who are racist."
The debate then took a turn for the worse.
"I have to wonder about why you can’t see what’s happening, because most Americans are not racist," O'Reilly said. "They’re not!" "Really? So how many black friends do you have?" Powers asked. "How many black friends do you have?" O'Reilly did not appear to be pleased with Powers' question and said, "If you think most Americans are racist, I’m ashamed of you."
Fox News Hatemonger Todd Starnes wrings his hands and worries if the politically correct flag-haters will become Confederate grave robbers.
I wonder if Confederate graveyards will be spared?
Conspiracy-Monger, Alex Jones says because some Democrats turned into "Dixiecrats" after the Civil Rights Movement, then we ought to ban the Democratic Party. Um, but the Dixiecrats turned into the Republicans who turned into the Tea Party, so . . . But he was echoed by Fox News Derp-Mistress Andrea Tantaros.
Conservative pundit Bill Kristol became so hyperbolic on Twitter that people wondered if his account was a parody. In a series of nearly hysterical tweets, he compared taking down the Confederate Flag to the French Revolution, as if the guillotines were being set up outside the SC Statehouse. And probably, he should be glad this isn't really a Revolution.
The Left's 21st century agenda: expunging every trace of respect, recognition or acknowledgment of Americans who fought for the Confederacy.
In the scary world of right-wing Obama-hating "alternative news" anything can become a conspiracy theory. But when there's a hint of the federal military being involved, then the Bizarro World of Alex Jones goes into full gimble-lock and they spin away into outer space like Apollo 13.
A bunch of loonies in Texas fear that Evil Emperor Obama has finally decided to "invade Texas" and start locking people into concentration camps so he can have a third term. Of course, they've been predicting this since 2008 when Obama was elected President, because what else would a Muslin Bolshevik Facist Socialist BLACK Kenyan Dictator do but herd white people around like a bunch of Cliven Bundy's cows? Git along little dogies!
“Jade Helm is a challenging eight-week joint military and Interagency (IA) Unconventional Warfare (UW) exercise conducted throughout Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado,” according to an unclassified military document announcing the training drill, which runs from July 15 through September 15.
Multiple branches of the US military, including Green Berets, Navy Seals, and the 82nd Airborne Division, will participate in the 8-week long exercise, which may result in “increased aircraft in the area at night.”
Troops will be tasked with honing advanced skills in “large areas of undeveloped land with low population densities,” and will work alongside “civilians to gain their trust and an understanding of the issues.”
The exercise, in which some participants will be “wearing civilian clothes and driving civilian vehicles,” lists Texas and Utah as “hostile” territory.
I have no problem with Utah and Texas being listed as "hostile." After all, the "Sovereign Citizens" in those states constantly threaten to secede or disobey the government. In fact, Jade Helm 15 could simply be an experiment to see just how much these nutjobs hate their country and want to shoot at our own military. What better way to teach Texas a lesson than to send in the troops for "exercises" with black helicopters just to drive them out of their minds and show them who is in control.
Now I sound like a conspiracy theorist, but seriously folks, the real pro is Greg Abbott, Governor and Top Clown of Texas. Now maybe he was just pandering to the Tea Party Libertarians, or maybe he is just crazy, but this looks really bad for Texas. Stop doing this stuff!
Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday directed the Texas State Guard to monitor Operation Jade Helm 15 to make sure that Texans’ “safety, constitutional rights, private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed.”
. . . it came amid concerns fueled by Texas talk radio host Alex Jones and his website, Infowars.com, that the military exercise might actually be a precursor to martial law.
“BREAKING! Texas Gov. To Send State Guard To Monitor #JadeHelm Exercise,” Jones tweeted on the governor’s announcement.
Concerns about Jade Helm 15 spilled over Monday night at packed special meeting of the Bastrop County Commissioners Court, where commissioners found themselves facing hostile questions for agreeing to let U.S. military forces train on private property in rural areas of the county this summer as part of the exercise.
After the Military calmly explained that is was just a military exercise, he rolled back the cray-cray:
"We are playing a pivotal role of government and that is to provide information for people who have questions,” Abbott said. “It is clear that people in Bastrop had questions, it’s clear from the questions I have received in my office that people have questions about it, and as governor and as government, I think we have an obligation to answer questions of citizens. And, by us working with the Special Operations Forces, we are able to provide information to citizens who were concerned about it.”
Rick Perry also put in his 2 cents worth, sounding less crazy than Abbott at least: "Trust the Military."
I think if you're one of these guys it’s okay to question your government — I do it on a pretty regular basis. The military's something else. "You know, I think our military is quite trustworthy. Civilian leadership – you can always question that, but not the men and women in uniform.
Then of course there is Louie Gohmert, another Texas Rodeo Clown. He just doesn't like that whole "hostile" label on Texas. Even if they sound hostile every day. And stupid. And hostile.
Once I observed the map depicting ‘hostile,' ‘permissive,' and ‘uncertain' states and locations, I was rather appalled that the hostile areas amazingly have a Republican majority, ‘cling to their guns and religion,' and believe in the sanctity of the United States Constitution. When the federal government begins, even in practice, games or exercises, to consider any U.S. city or state in 'hostile' control and trying to retake it, the message becomes extremely calloused and suspicious.
The Jade Helm operation could really "heat-up" the Southwest this summer as Alex Jones has meltdowns and Rick Perry probably goes back to the border and Greg Abbott hides in the Gov's mansion shaking in his boots and Gohmert remains Gohmert. So make some popcorn while you wait for the black helicopters:
OMG, Chinook Helicopters in Texas and Kansas!
(Well, guess what, I've seen these in TN also.
It's the National Guard having weekend maneuvers. Doh.)
The Tea Party keeps flirting with the dangerous Sovereign Citizen Movement, whose proponents believe that there is no Federal Government, and only local officials have jurisdiction over their lives. We saw this with Cliven Bundy, who said he would pay his back grazing fees to the local Sheriff but not to the Bureau of Land Management, and with two of Bundy's followers, the Millers, who killed two Las Vegas policemen in cold blood to "Start the Revolution."
And it's not just a Western or Southern movement - far from it! For the past year, the wingnut Governor of Maine, Paul LePage has had several meetings with the Sovereign Citizens in that state, and it is getting him into trouble. The problem is these groups never met a Conspiracy Theory they didn't like, and LePage seems to be a true believer.
In reality, these so-called "citizens" are a form of Anarchists who spread misinformation, fear, and distrust of Federal employees, police and elected officials. They love guns and want to be armed and dangerous - like Libertarians Gone Wild. To spread their philosophy, they are oh-so-happy to use gullible people like LePage who have managed to get into positions of power.
(In) Mike Tipping's new book.... he details how LePage engaged with members of the Constitutional Coalition, which is affiliated with the Sovereign Citizen movement. Members of the organization believe the government is planning an attack on Christian Americans by collecting firearms, that it runs mind-control operations and that it was behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Here he is appearing on All In with Chris Hayes @msnbc
As Tipping writes in his book, the first meeting LePage had with the Sovereign Citizens group "Aroostook Watchmen" in February 2013 was a doozy!
. . . the meeting that weekend covered a wide range of topics. The members of the Constitutional Coalition informed LePage that the United Nations and the Rockefellers were plotting to take over Maine’s North Woods. They discussed the illegitimacy of the U.S. Department of Education and argued that the state should refuse to accept federal education funding. (According to McCarthy, the governor “hung his head and said you’re right” in response.) They also informed LePage that U.S. paper currency is unlawful. (“He was mesmerized by that,” said McCarthy.)
Also at that meeting, there was apparently some talk of "hanging" a couple of Maine Democrats for "treason."
During the airing of a segment of the Aroostook Watchmen, a radio show broadcast on radio station WXME in February, an account of a meeting between Gov. Paul LePage and members of the Sovereign Citizens movement emerged in a conversation between show hosts Steve Martin and Jack McCarthy. . . . Among those topics ...was their belief that Democratic Maine Senate President Justin Alfond and House Speaker Mark Eves should both be tried for treason.
"And we also discussed this there, that as far as I know, the penalty for high treason hasn't changed in a hundred years, and I didn't say it, but the governor said it - I never opened my mouth and said the word - the governor looked at us and looked at his buddy and said, 'They're talking about hanging them,' " McCarthy said. "That's right," Martin responded. "I said, Praise the Lord - we'll hang a few and be done with this crap,' " McCarthy said.
LePage denies any talk of killing Democratic politicians:
“We did not discuss execution, arrest or hanging.” ~ Via Politico
After a few more meetings, according to Tipping, the Aroostook Watchmen became more demanding, so that by the end of May they were asking Governor LePage to do their bidding in a big way, and adding an ultimatum if he doesn't comply:
On May 29 the Constitutional Coalition members held a conference call with LePage and began to make some more specific requests of the governor. In a letter that Merletti sent to LePage before the meeting, the Sovereign Citizen leader asserted a constitutional right of Mainers to carry concealed weapons without a permit and asked that LePage stand up to the “anti-gun factions, supported by Socialist and Communist leaning defenders of the global left,” and bring an emergency bill to preserve this right. He also asked LePage to use the power of his office to “summon Sheriff Liberty” (Sheriff Randall Liberty serves Kennebec County, including Augusta, the state capital) to hear their complaints that the speaker of the house and president of the senate were committing treason. Sovereign Citizens believe that the only legitimate law enforcement officer is an elected sheriff.) Merletti warned in his letter to LePage that if his group continued to be ignored by the legislature, “we will be left with the 1776 or 1865 option. In the pursuit of liberty there is no extremism.”
Make no mistake, these kooks are really domestic terrorists. Like the Millers in Las Vegas, they wouldn't mind starting a chaotic "Revolution" and trying to overthrow the government. The fact that a Governor would give them the time of day is disturbing. Even worse, in a New England state that is basically left-leaning, they are trapped with a gullible Governor who seems to agree with the Sovereign Citizens.
Jerad Miller: "My call sign is Joker... If the government is going to label me a terrorist... Why not be call sign Joker."
— Melissa Chan (@melissakchan) June 10, 2014
On Sunday June 8th, 2014, two Las Vegas Metro policemen eating lunch at CiCi's Pizza and a bystander at Walmart were killed by a married couple, Amanda and Jerad Miller.
. . . the couple barged into CiCi's Pizza a few miles away, yelled “This is the start of a revolution!” and started firing, witnesses told police.
The officers, Alyn Beck, 42, and Igor Soldo, 32, were inside having lunch, and both were mortally wounded, Sheriff Doug Gillespie said.
Authorities said the suspects stripped the dead officers of their weapons and ammunition.
They covered one with a swastika and the Revolutionary War-era Gadsden flag, which depicts a coiled snake and the words “Don’t Tread On Me.” On the other officer was a note that said, "The revolution is beginning."
The Gadsden Revolutionary War Flag
Now Used by the Tea Party Against the Government
The shooters then headed to a Walmart, where Jerad Miller yelled, "Everyone get out!"
“They just said, ‘The revolution’s begun,’ they said that they shot some officers, and basically get out of the store if you don’t want to get hurt,” said Tyrone Ellis, who works at the store.
A shopper, Joseph Robert Wilcox, 31, of Las Vegas had a concealed weapon and decided to confront Jerad Miller, police said. As he walked toward the suspect, Amanda Miller came up behind him and shot him several times in the ribs, police said.
Why did they do it? Apparently they believed they believed every piece of anti-government propaganda spewed by Fox News, Alex Jones, and politicians like Rand/Ron Paul and Allen West. The Facebook page of the male shooter, Jarad Miller of Indiana, is full of your typical Tea Party anti-Obama stuff, which is perhaps what is most chilling about it - the familiarity. We see the same ideas over and over on message boards and Twitter, and no one takes it seriously, even the police. Well, hopefully this is a wake-up call.
According to Miller's Facebook, they were waiting for a "Revolution," and thought Bundy Ranch was the beginning. And while the couple went there and participated, they were eventually asked to leave. Miller got excited about Operation American Spring but that was a huge flop when no one showed up. Eventually, fueled by disgust at the government in general and angry at police who had arrested Jared for marijuana, the Millers decided they would be the ones to fire the first shots.
And even though this murder was committed by an obvious Libertarian Tea Party true believer, the intrepid Alex Jones immediately called it a "False Flag." I guess Obama must have really used some triple reverse psychology on Jerad and Amanda Miller to get them to do what Alex Jones is always saying the right wing should do - go and kill somebody for the cause of Liberty!
Alex Jones says "false flags" like in Las Vegas will bring about a Civil War & millions of deaths http://t.co/tHZJ504ZOF
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) June 9, 2014
A May 28, 2012, post on Jones’ InfoWars site appears to have been made by Jerad Miller, who expressed frustration with his arrest on drug charges and vowed he would rather die than be labeled a criminal. “I am like a wild coyote,” he wrote, using the user name “Jerad” and a Gadsden flag as his avatar. “You corner me, I will fight to the death.”
He goes on to say he’s “broken hearted” to see other Americans placated by materialism and celebrity worship as they submitted to tyranny. “So, do I kill cops and make a stand when they come to get me?” the post continues. “I would prefer to die than sit in their jail, when I have done nothing to hurt anyone.”
I feel sorry for any federal agents that want to come in here and try to push us around or anything like that. I really don’t want violence towards them, but if they’re gonna come bring violence to us, well, if that’s the language they want to speak, we’ll learn it.
~ Jerad Miller at Bundy Ranch
Harry Reid:
Bundy Ranch Folks are Domestic Terrorists
Jerad Miller Posted These On Facebook:
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Al-Jazeera News interviewed Jerad Miller:
Just realized I interviewed Vegas cop killer Jerad Miller outside Bundy Ranch in April: pic.twitter.com/wfLTIrUzT9
— Melissa Chan (@melissakchan) June 10, 2014
Impressions of Jerad Miller: talkative, friendly, with political views that were all over the map: extreme libertarian/pro-Second Amendment.
— Melissa Chan (@melissakchan) June 10, 2014
Jerad Miller said he wanted to talk to reporters so people "can see we’re not just inbred, gun happy, trigger-pulling people."
— Melissa Chan (@melissakchan) June 10, 2014
Our photo of Jerad Miller and his wife Amanda, also now dead, having breakfast outside Bundy Ranch in mid-April: pic.twitter.com/2M3kjSArqC
— Melissa Chan (@melissakchan) June 10, 2014
Here is Jerad Miller with Richard Mack, the guy who said on camera that they should use women and children as human shields against the Bureau of Land Management at Bundy Ranch!
Cliven Bundy’s son told the Associated Press that “Jerad and Amanda Miller were asked to leave his father’s ranch after being there for a few days this spring,” claiming that they were “very radical.” “Not very many people were asked to leave,” he said. “I think they may have been the only ones.”
.@nanoninero@cheyannebiancab These ppl have turned iconic Revolutionary War patriotic symbol into antithesis of what it stood for.
— Bill Wong (@ten24get) June 10, 2014
When you see a man Gadsen flag & a gun, just assume he's not a killer & hope for the best? pic.twitter.com/CoR2C6FZzG
— Buh Bye GOP (@BuhByeGOP) June 9, 2014
The Extreme Right going through the Mandatory Denials regarding the Las Vegas police officer assassinations. "Not us! Uh-uh." #GadsdenFlag
— Arizona Democrat (@LiterateLiberal) June 10, 2014
The Militia members who flocked to Bundy Ranch a month ago made a spectacle of brandishing their firearms and pointing them at law enforcement. There are countless hours of video from Alec Jones's "Info Wars" on YouTube, as well as video from Fox News, CNN, NBC and local Nevada TV. The militia crowd cheered when the Bureau of Land Management pulled back and let some of Bundy's cattle go free, but maybe their celebration was premature. Justice is often delayed, but usually it comes back to bite people who threaten the government. Just because the Bureau of Land Management high-tailed it out of there that day doesn't mean this is over.
Don't poke the wolverine with a sharp stick, Harry, unless you want your b*lls ripped off. ~ Mike Vanderboegh
Sorry, Posse Comitatus ~ you may have just shot yourself in the proverbial ass, or the b*lls or whatever body-part you are obsessing over today.
There was also the story that the Bundy Militia were stopping motorists near Bunkerville, Nevada, and asking people to see their official citizenship papers. Yeah, nothing wrong with that except ILLEGAL.
Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV), who represents the area, sent the letter Sunday to Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie, asking him to investigate.
"I am writing to bring your attention to the ongoing situation in northeastern Clark County which has caused many of my constituents to fear for their safety," Horsford wrote. Residents in the area "have expressed concern over the continual presence of multiple out-of-state, armed militia groups that have remained in the community" since Bundy's dispute with the Bureau of Land Management came to a boil.
The militia, as reported by Horsford's constituents, "have set up checkpoints where residents are required to prove they live in the area before being allowed to pass," the letter said.
Here is one of the snipers interviewed at Bundy Ranch:
Yeah, he's a brave foot-soldier in the fight against the government, and he has no problem using children as human shields. What a guy! But now the FBI is investigating, so good luck with that.
Clark County sheriff's officials say they've been interviewed by the FBI as part of an investigation into armed supporters of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.
Assistant Sheriff Joe Lombardo tells KLAS-TV that federal agents are looking into the conduct of people who reportedly pointed guns at officers during a standoff at Bundy's ranch April 12.
Last week, the I-Team talked with Metro officers who intervened to protect the lives of federal employees from the 400 or so Bundy supporters and armed militia members. Officers told the I-Team they feared for their lives that day because of the assembled firepower, and because many in the crowd had pointed weapons at officers, taunted them, told them they should be ready to die.
. . . FBI agents also spoke to an entire squad of Metro officers, who were on the scene to act as a buffer between the crowd and the BLM. Bundy supporters have insisted in emails and calls to 8 News NOW that no one in the crowd pointed weapons at BLM or Metro, but officers told the I-Team that is exactly what they saw, that many with guns set up behind women and children. "It is not a rumor. When we first got out there and made a left to divide I-15, that is all you saw. You saw kids and women and horses in the backdrop and then men with guns, laying on the ground, in the back of pickup trucks. We're going, 'wow, this would never happen in Las Vegas,' But it was there. That is not a rumor. It is reality and I saw it with my own eyes," Metro Police Sgt. Tom Jenkins said.
Sgt. Jenkins has been interviewed by the FBI. A second squad is expected to be interviewed by week's end. The bureau does not confirm or deny the existence of any investigation but the I-Team have confirmed from multiple sources that a criminal investigation is underway.
It is illegal to point loaded weapons at federal agents, and most people know what would happen, if a suspect pointed a gun at a Metro officer in the Las Vegas valley.
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Funny thing - as soon as it was announced the other day that the FBI was investigating these guys, the gun nuts on Twitter started chirping that THEY were the victims, that the BLM was scary and had pulled guns on THEM - "So shut up you Libtards, don't you know the Militia is in our desert saving our Liberty?" Also, they ain't skeered of no FBI!!! It was all someone else's fault - the BLM, Harry Reid, Barry Obummer, and Benghazi - don't ever forget Benghazi!!!!!
@M24Miles Time for the FBI to investigate Sen. Harry Reid and all of his corrupt associates for trying to steal the #BundyRanch .
— Montana Miles (@M24Miles) May 10, 2014
Note to FBI, BLM, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, et al. You are our employees, not our masters. Don't forget. It'll be on the test. #bundyranch
— Rob Jones (@robjones3030) May 10, 2014
"@Cap_Institute: BREAKING: FBI “Investigating” Bundy Ranch Supporters. Wouldn't it be great if they put as much energy into Benghazi
— Donald Cole (@ColeTous3495) May 10, 2014
Ryan Payne, a Montana resident who had been staying at the ranch for a month, said he drove eight hours to arrive in the eastern Utah town this morning. Three militia members from the ranch and a handful of people from a group called Citizens Action Network came to Utah, too, he said. "This is where it’s happening Saturday,” he said. They and others Saturday will be armed, he said, and ride ATVs into Recapture Canyon, an area the BLM declared off-limits to motorized vehicles in 2007. The ride is organized by San Juan County, Utah, Commissioner Phil Lyman.
Payne met Friday morning with the San Juan County, Utah, Sheriff Rick Eldridge. Afterward, he said he expects Saturday’s protest to be peaceful because Eldridge pledged to “protect us from the BLM.”
This Saturday, angry residents of San Juan County, Utah, plan to illegally ride their ATVs through Utah's Recapture Canyon—an 11 mile-long stretch of federal land that is home to Native American archeological sites—because they don't think that the federal Bureau of Land Management should have designated that land off-limits to motor vehicles. The protest was meant to be a local affair. But on Thursday, Bundy, the rancher who wouldn't pay the feds grazing fees and sparked a gun-drenched showdown in Nevada, called on his supporters to join the anti-government off-roading event, Phil Taylor reported. Bundy, whose crusade against the federal government became tainted by his racist comments, is looking to spread the cause from cattle to cross-country cruising.
"We don't expect any violence," San Juan County Sheriff Rick Eldredge told the Denver Post last week. Others aren't so sure, especially since the out-of-staters in attendance could help rile things up—which is what happened during the Bundy stand-off. "This may blow up to be significantly more than they thought," Bill Boyle, a resident of San Juan and publisher of the San Juan Record newspaper told the Post. "I think there are those who would like everyone with an AK-47 to be here."
"This is where it's happening Saturday," Bundy backer Ryan Payne of Montana told the Las Vegas Sun. "This is a continuation of the Bundy affair."
. . . A 14-mile section of trail in the canyon is closed to motorized vehicles, BLM officials said, but there are more than 2,800 miles of trails open to them on public lands around Blanding.
Environmentalists and Native Americans criticized the protest ride, saying the ban is needed to preserve fragile artifacts. Mark Maryboy, a former Navajo Nation Council delegate, called it disappointing that the group had no respect for Native American culture.
"The American tradition of civil disobedience doesn't change the fact that the rule of law needs to mean something," Josh Ewing of the conservation group Friends of Cedar Mesa told The Tribune. "I'll be very disappointed in my government if it doesn't follow through on upholding the law."
. . . Juan Palma, Utah's director of the BLM, issued a less conciliatory statement. "The BLM-Utah has not and will not authorize the proposed ride and will seek all appropriate civil and criminal penalties against anyone who uses a motorized vehicle within the closed area," Palma's statement read in part.
San Juan County, with more than 90 percent of its land public or belonging to the Navajo Nation, is a likely setting for another set-to.
It has long been a hotbed of far-right anger over federal intrusion into local affairs, especially after what were viewed locally as heavy-handed federal raids that rounded up dozens of longtime residents for artifact looting in the 1980s and in 2011.
San Juan County residents who support Saturday's protest ride identify themselves on their Facebook pages as fans of Bundy and guns-rights rocker Ted Nugent. They express hatred for President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat.
BLM employees in San Juan County have had windows shot out of their homes and their yards torn up by ATVs in the middle of the night.
Under the watch of several horse-mounted sheriff’s deputies, some 50 ATVs carrying multiple riders, including children without helmets and militia members with weapons at the ready, motored across an invisible line in the dust where the canyon was off limits.
"We are here to keep the peace and safeguard the constitutional rights of everybody," said San Juan County Sheriff Rick Eldredge. "We don’t want to see clashes between citizens and clashes between BLM and militia. This is not going to be Bunkerville."
The sheriff was referring to BLM’s recent stand-off with armed supporters of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who has long refused to pay grazing fees. Bundy’s son, Ryan, joined the protest ride into Recapture Canyon.
The Militia members want to make it sound as if everything is just a peaceful ride in the desert, but just the other day a Bureau of Land Management employee told police he was accosted by a group of "hooded" men on a lonely road in Utah. Is this group part of the Bundy Militia? Are they targeting BLM employees? If so, the FBI needs to make their own round-up of these thugs quickly.
At first, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) livestock wrangler driving on Tuesday along Interstate 15 in Utah, about 260 miles from the scene of the Bundy Ranch standoff in Nevada, thought he was experiencing fairly standard road rage. But then it quickly escalated into a freeway stalking with masks and guns, and ended with a law enforcement manhunt.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune, the wrangler was pulling a load of burros and horses northbound on the freeway when a dark blue extended-cab Dodge pickup pulled up alongside him and a man gestured at him with a one-fingered salute. The wrangler eased up and let the men drive past him, then he continued on. Just after passing the town of Nephi, the men caught up to him again.
This time, they were wearing hoods. And they showed him a sign that read: “You Need to Die.” Then one of them pointed what appeared to be a Glock handgun at the wrangler.
As the wrangler again dropped back, he tried to get a license plate number. But it had been covered with duct tape.
. . . In response, Utah BLM employees began removing the agency’s decals from their vehicles as a “precaution,” according to Eric Reid, the wrangler’s supervisor at the BLM field office in Fillmore. “We’re toning things down.”
