Sunday, March 10, 2013

Army Special Forces training cancelled in Utah amid fears it was part of a secret government plan to impose martial law on the citizens.

Courtesy of StratRisks:

Army Special Forces soldiers will not “infiltrate” Utah communities this summer — a plan that had riled residents suspicious of the government’s motives. 

Green Berets had planned to parachute into several central Utah counties, cross mountains and work with Utahns who would be playing roles as resisters to an enemy regime. 

The Defense Department wants the soldiers to have fresh training in skills at the heart of Special Forces’ mission, such as covertly cultivating relationships with regular citizens and training resistance forces trying to liberate themselves from oppressive governments, said Col. Robert Dunton, a special projects officer for the Utah National Guard who was helping organize the exercise. 

The Special Operations Command has designated Utah, with its desert and mountain geography as well as a culture dominated by a religious faith, as a good place for such training.

Sounds reasonable right? After all the military has been conducting special forces training in Alaska, due to its harsh weather conditions, for years.  However that training started before Barack Obama became our President.

But budget tightening and other factors have put the kibosh on the training. Paul Weddle, a retired Green Beret contracted to help the Army set up the exercise in Sanpete, Sevier, Emery and Carbon counties, said he got news late Thursday it has been canceled. 

The news was welcomed by some who had resisted the exercise. 

“I’m relieved,” said Alan Braithwaite of Manti. “I like to see them get trained; I just didn’t want them coming here and scaring people and that’s what it was doing.” 

Braithwaite was the leader of a sizable group that protested Manti’s welcoming of the Special Forces exercise last fall. Fifteen people spoke at a Manti City Council meeting the day after President Obama was re-elected, urging the council to rescind the welcome. 

They said they feared the exercise was part of a government plan to impose martial law, that military spies were already in the community and that mentally unstable soldiers would hurt residents.

You know these types of exercises have gone on for years, and accelerated quite significantly after 9-11.  I don't remember ANYBODY expressing concern that the military was about to impose martial law on them during these kinds of exercises while George W. Bush was still president. Anybody else have a different memory?

However THAT is the kind of paranoia that Right Wing news outlets and Fox News have managed to create with their constant attacks on the President. So now the purchase of ammunition for training purposes by the government has become "stockpiling bullets for potential civil unrest in case the country defaults on its loans." and training exercises are feared to be attempts to surreptitiously implement martial law on our citizens.

But that is how you keep people voting Republican. You keep them scared to death.

Before, it was fear of terrorists attacking us on our soil, and now it has been replaced by fear of our government attacking us on our soil. 

Great job!

31 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:10 AM

    Total bullshit in doing this - stopping the training, I mean!

    I'm sick and tired of FOX, etc. spreading the crap they do. I feel for President Obama and VP Biden. Thank God, we have them in office for the second term, but the obstruction to everything they do is truly getting ridiculous.

    Fuck the obstructionists!!!! (Those in the U.S. Congress too!)

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    1. Utah. That says it all. Sorry folks, my relatives are from Utah and are Mormans. Biggest hypocrites I have ever met. What's the first place they head to when the leave the state? The bar.

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    2. Anonymous11:32 AM

      Mormons are also the most paranoid people, just SURE someone's gonna come take something from them. Warren Jeffs and other leaders keep the paranoia going.

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  2. Anonymous8:18 AM

    "I don't remember ANYBODY expressing concern that the military was about to impose martial law on them during these kinds of exercises while George W. Bush was still president. Anybody else have a different memory?"

    Sort of. I received an email in March 2008 and another in Oct 2008 quoting the fear-mongering of Chuck Baldwin, Constitution Party presidential candidate and featuring the conspiracy theories of birther Jerome Corsi:

    "Ladies and gentlemen, the Continuity of Government (COG) act is not television make-believe: it is the real deal."

    "Writing for World Net Daily, Dr. Jerry Corsi reports that President Bush has just signed a Presidential Directive that would give the President dictatorial powers should he decide to declare a "national emergency.""

    http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2007/cbarchive_20070112.html

    "Remember, it is the job of the armed forces to kill people and blow up things, not to do police work. Then again, Presidential administrations from both major parties have been using the U.S. military as U.N. "peacekeepers" for decades now. So, was all of this preparation for what is yet to take place in the United States?

    "God forbid that any of the above should actually take place in our beloved land, but I believe it would be naïve to not see that the actions and attitudes of the federal government over the past several years do nothing to assuage such fears."

    http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2008/cbarchive_20081001.html

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    1. Anonymous3:08 PM

      Naomi Wolf predicted the same thing then..that Bush would declare a national emergency and retain the Presidency.

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  3. Anonymous8:39 AM

    Funny thing is that these people had far more reason to fear this scenario with Cheney holding a position of power (along with the puppet president Bush) than President Obama

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    1. Anonymous1:58 PM

      Cheney wasn't a "Black Muslim"

      Certainly don't bother with facts, especially since he was a white conservative VP. What's to worry about, eh?

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  4. Beldar SLC Conehead8:45 AM

    Gryphen, don't try to make this a "right wing nut job" kind of thing!! This is a uniquely Utahsian phenomenon based on the local tradition of weekly 'fear councils'.

    That's where all the citizens of mostly small, conservative, religious, rural communities gather together and share their deepest fears of threats both seen and unseen.

    Remember, fear is just our loving god's way of saying "GOTCHA!"

    You may have seen the documentary film "I'M SO SCARED!" which filmed several of these fear councils in progress. A group of very solemn people sits in a large room on uncomfortable wooden benches, dressed in their Saturday and Sunday go-to-meeting nightgowns and pajamas. Many carry their childhood binkies or battered stuffed animals for comfort. The womenfolk are even worse.

    The council customarily lasts for 48 hours with no breaks for food, water or bathroom use, but those not too frightened to nap can do so for 20 minutes at the 24 hour mark.

    Anyway, as they pass the intricately carved "fear stick" from person to person, each gets a chance to air their most deeply seated fears - ranging from razor-sharp barbed urethra worms in their bath water, to quicksand, to sinkholes, to monsters under the bed, to monsters in the closet, to monsters in the basement, to alien abductions with exhaustive anal probing, to public speaking, to being paralyzed without the ability to communicate and being prepared for burial and being molested by the mortician and then being buried alive, to having a negro usurp the presidency thru some sinister librul plot of evil jooz and destroying the country with a single stroke of the pen.

    As the documentary shows, by the end of the meeting the entire crowd is reduced to terrified wailing, uncontrollable sobbing, incontinence, obsessive adult-onset thumb sucking and often extended periods of catatonia.

    On the positive side, they do serve a nice potluck dinner at the end of the fear council and it does give people a chance to socialize.

    As we like to say in Utah, "Support our troops, but, by gum, fear them, also too. FEAR THEM!".

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    1. Anita Winecooler5:46 PM

      Ouch, those razor barbed urethra critters sound painful!

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    2. Anonymous12:22 AM

      What the hell are you talking about? You drunk?

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  5. hedgewytch9:14 AM

    Bet the service industry small business owners in those counties aren't so happy about the cancellation of those exercises. Wonder how many $'s the military would have brought those communities this summer. But heck, who needs to make money right?

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  6. hedgewytch9:15 AM

    And another thought - The conservatives always spout "support the troops!" but I guess that doesn't mean giving them training, equipment or proper care when they return home. Kinda like how they treat pregnant woman.

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  7. Anonymous9:17 AM

    Way to go, dumbasses.

    The military is a booster shot for local economies.

    Shit lightening, the city of London is the result of a Roman military base.

    The hard religious right fear is a thing of beauty. Embrace it!

    Cry, you wussies, cry!

    (Relax, level-headed ones, we got this. These idiots have been spade and neutered. Doubt me? Consider this: Sarah is one of their ¨leaders.¨)

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  8. They were afraid of the UN and they were wary of Clinton (Ruby Ridge and Waco), but not this bad. Mostly, they blamed Janet Reno (a large, imposing female). They felt Clinton was too busy chasing skirts to do much.

    Even with the oddities of 911, they never feared bumbling Bush much, but the RW wasn’t stirring them up, either. President Obama is black AND smart, so they fear him deeply. He’s not chasing skirts, so they think he and Michelle (everything Janet Reno was and more) are plotting against them.

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  9. Gryph, she's drunk tweeting again. And Baked Alaska, while named in honor of the new American territory, originated in NYC.

    https://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/statuses/310788966498574336

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  10. Oh, FFS.

    Geez you cretins, if the government decides to secretly start taking out "enemies", they are probably going to start way higher on the power and evolution (intelligence) scale than that evidenced by a pack of paunchy, under-educated, unintelligent, moronic, mouth-breathing Fox watchers.

    Feel better now, dumbasses?

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  11. Anonymous10:19 AM

    My dad "captured and held" a bridge in a small NY upstate town in 1940 (or early '41) during a training exercise. Townspeople stopped by to talk and brought him and his buddies coffee. Not much fear of federal government then, I guess.

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  12. The black helicopter crowd is but a subset of the conspiracy theory demographic, that spans both parties.

    These type of exercises are invaluable to the units who conduct them. You simply cannot replicate the scope of infrastructure and population in a military training area.

    As has been mentioned, the monetary influx into these communities are quite helpful. They shouldn't be stopped by people who have irrational fear of firearms.

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  13. Anonymous11:06 AM

    Holy shit! That is probably the most asinine thing I have heard today. And you are spot on Gryph!!

    Thanks Sarah Palin and you other Republican douchebags!!! Keep farking that chicken!!!

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  14. Anonymous11:55 AM

    With all due respect, many people get concerned over these drills because of the many many many drills that took place on 9/11 and interfered with rescue efforts and confused people. This makes people anxious that a real attack can be scheduled during a drill.

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    1. Anonymous1:01 PM

      with all due respect these exercises go on all over the country and most have no clue that they are even going on. The use of terrain training has been used since WWII.

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    2. Anonymous1:54 PM

      I live in a fairly urbanized area near a base, and we have them all the time. The ones that get most people's goats are the bombing missions, it sounds like I live in a war zone sometimes. But yes, it has been going on as long as I can remember, and I'm pretty old!

      This is only under suspicion now because the idiots think the Black President is going to enslave all the whites and take revenge on the country. I know they think this because I've read their crazy-ass comments at their sites. They truly are paranoid.

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    3. Anita Winecooler5:36 PM

      That was sarcasm, right?

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  15. "They said they feared ...that military spies were already in the community and that mentally unstable soldiers would hurt residents."

    "They said they feared ...that military spies were already in the community and that soldiers would hurt the mentally unstable residents."

    There, fixed it for you, dumbasses.

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  16. Anonymous12:59 PM

    come on Gryphen, you know those loony conservatives only use their fear based brain tissue to function. And that is a fact from a recent study, though I have said it for decades.

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  17. Anonymous1:11 PM

    I thought I spotted a DRONE flying overhead, in this shot, until I realized it was an expended bullet casing flying out of the closest guy's rifle.

    Conspiracy theorists will, however, make much more of that, I'm sure.

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  18. Anonymous1:18 PM

    Somebody call Toad and have him wake up the Quitter Queen(gently), and tell her that once again, HER country calls upon her for her services. No, we Chas & David Koch don't need a blowjob at this moment, and Rushbo is making it fine with his Oxy so doesn't need any meth at this moment. If either of those were the casePTSD need only talk tto Todd to set it up rather than have the Bald Creature get involved and screw it up . It's easier on all the Palin-Heath bottom-dwelling scum-sucking hangers-on if Sarah continue to just lie there in the floor in the fetal position, wearing her splendid Creepy Chucky Sr 's favorite proverbial pee-drenched panties plus all the other clothes she's been wearing since Jan 21st when she started her most recent binge after seeing Obama take the oath of POTUS---A-gain!!!

    Only Sarah Palin has the postage budget to help the good Mercuns in our times of need. We are a nation of TeaBaggers and virtuous women, just like Todd and Sarah. At this important moment in our nations history, we desperately need for our dependable quitter leader to send off a tweet to all her high ranking executive high school friends and politically powerful fellow Twits and Facebook fans: It's past noon in Alaska, Arizona and Hollywood, so Sarah should be close to waking up anyhow, that is unless she REALLY tied one on for those occasional 3-day drunks.

    SARAH----> The message we need you to spread across the land is:

    "The British are coming! Ring your bells and blow your horns shoot a moose if you see one, but most importantly, send your generous donationtoday to Sarah PAC.

    Sarah should know better than any Mercun that the British need to hurry up and get started on supper for the Other British folks who are on the way. Why didn't they call before they headed this-a-way? Them damn Brits are as bad as Greta VanShowUpNoInvite.

    Now, I bet the British will have to scramble and borrow some moose meat from somebody else's freezer to make some chili. See, these hasing around Paul Revere all the time to shut him up from yelling to the British that the British are coming really works up an appetite for real patriots trying to shut up crazy folks that just like to hear themselves scream and holler and screech. As Sarah always reminds us, it's a good thing that the British won that Civil War. Otherwise, we'd all be speaking Australian or whatnot.

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  19. Anonymous2:49 PM

    Here we go again...

    The RWNJs (and their friends in the NRA) are stirring up the unjustified fears of the low-information Faux watchers.

    Be afraid!! Be afraid!!! That Kenyan-soshalist-Muzzlim usurper in the White House is sending them crazy soldiers to get ya, so ya better go out and buy yerself some new guns! Don't forget to stock up on lots and lots of ammo while you're at it!

    And the next time you have a chance to vote, don't forget to vote for that nice rich old white man who really LOVES you (even though he'll give every dime he can wrest from your desperately clenched fist to his rich friends and leave you homeless, unemployed and destitute).

    Lather, rinse, repeat.

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  20. Anita Winecooler5:32 PM

    They do have a point! Some places aren't "soldier friendly", and for those places, the best tool the Government can train for is the super top secret unmannned armed drone forces.

    Sleep tight, Utah folks, and keep an ear open for that humming sound.....

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  21. Anonymous12:28 AM

    What in the hell is this? I am from Utah and part of the army special forces. This never happened. Where in the hell are people creating this stuff. Seriously, I am curious to know how someone "discovered" this when it never happened?

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